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ILOVEYOU - La première pandémie informatique mondiale

ILOVEYOU - La première pandémie informatique mondiale

Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Connaissez-vous l’histoire du premier véritable virus mondial de l’ère Internet ? En fait c’est pas juste une histoire de code à la base, mais plutôt celle d’un étudiant philippin de 24 ans...

How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance

How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance

On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, isolating eyes, noses, and mouths before passing...

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II.  Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to make...

Losing GPT-4o sent some people into mourning. That was predictable.

Losing GPT-4o sent some people into mourning. That was predictable.

June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It was like a robot.” June, who asked that we use...

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

One winter afternoon in a conference room in Taipei, a pair of twentysomething women dragged their friend across the floor. Lying on the ground in checkered pants and a brown sweatshirt, she was pretending to be either injured or dead. One friend picked her up by her arms, the other grabbed hold of...

Sam Altman and the whale

Sam Altman and the whale

My colleague Grace Huckins has a great story on OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, its long-awaited new flagship model. One of the takeaways, however, is that while GPT-5 may make for a better experience than the previous versions, it isn’t something revolutionary. “GPT-5 is, above all else,” Grace...

The Download: a quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

The Download: a quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This quantum radar could image buried objects Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud...

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson - Les vrais héros d'Unix

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson - Les vrais héros d'Unix

Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous savez qu’Unix n’aurait jamais dû exister ? Hé oui, tout a commencé parce que Ken Thompson voulait jouer à Space Travel, son petit jeu vidéo. Sauf que sur le mainframe de Bell Labs, chaque partie lui...

Brian Krebs - Le journaliste que les cybercriminels adorent détester

Brian Krebs - Le journaliste que les cybercriminels adorent détester

Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon cet aprem, je vais vous raconter l’histoire d’un mec qui a littéralement réinventé le journalisme d’investigation en cybersécurité. Car Brian Krebs, c’est un peu le Woodward et Bernstein...

GPT-5 is here. Now what?

GPT-5 is here. Now what?

At long last, OpenAI has released GPT-5. The new system abandons the distinction between OpenAI’s flagship models and its o series of reasoning models, automatically routing user queries to a fast nonreasoning model or a slower reasoning version. It is now available to everyone through the ChatGPT...

The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have...