Tech
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Associated Press starts offering buyouts to newspaper journalists amid wider AI transformation
The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. The News Media Guild, the union…
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‘No one’s raising their hand’: Japan’s labor crisis is making the case for robots taking the jobs that you don’t want
Japan is running out of workers. Its population declined for a 14th straight year in 2024, its working-age population is projected to shrink by nearly 15 million over the next two decades, and a 2024 Reuters/Nikkei survey found that labor shortages are the primary force pushing Japanese firms toward automation and AI adoption. Last month,…
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Supermicro soared because of $4 trillion Nvidia—but Jensen Huang can walk away any time he wants
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got onstage at an event in his native Taiwan in 2024 to talk about the future of AI and supercomputers with Supermicro CEO and co-founder Charles Liang, the familiarity between the two was obvious. “When we’re together, sometimes we speak Taiwanese, sometimes we speak Mandarin, and then when we disagree,…
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Artemis II’s toilet is on the blink again, forcing astronauts to use more backup collection bags as odor fills capsule
Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar far…
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AI angst mutates into ‘FOBO’ as Fear of Becoming Obsolete takes over American workforces
There’s a new acronym reshaping how workers think about their careers: FOBO — the Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Unlike traditional job insecurity, FOBO isn’t about getting fired. It’s about becoming irrelevant. Four in 10 workers now name AI-driven job loss as one of their primary fears — a share that has nearly doubled in a…
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Your neighbor just got a home security system, but should you be worried? ‘It’s inherently a little creepy’ says surveillance expert
Picture this: your neighbor installs a new doorbell camera, maybe two. One faces their driveway, and the other has a pretty clear view of your front yard. They didn’t ask, not that they have to. And depending on who made that camera and what that company does with the footage, you may be in someone’s…