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What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate

It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the country.  At first, she couldn’t find...

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps in first grade,” she says. “But I remember we weren’t allowed to turn our sprinklers on. And everyone in the neighborhood was given disinfectant...

Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change

The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still.  Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out...

What even is the AI bubble?

What even is the AI bubble?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. In July, a widely cited MIT study claimed that 95% of organizations that invested in generative AI were getting “zero...

Linux : Rust est dans le noyau et... pour y rester

Linux : Rust est dans le noyau et... pour y rester

 C'est une étape important pour le langage Rust dans le noyau Linux. Malgré les oppositions, les débats, et les problèmes d'intégration, Rust n'est plus une simple expérimentation dans le noyau Linux. Plus de 65 000 lignes de code qui font la différence. Le langage est maintenant intégré...

HTTP Breakout Proxy - Le reverse engineering sans prise de tête

HTTP Breakout Proxy - Le reverse engineering sans prise de tête

Pendant que Burp Suite avale 500 Mo de RAM au démarrage, HTTP Breakout Proxy lui, tient dans un binaire de quelques Mo qui disparaît dès que vous fermez le terminal. Alors HTTP Breakout Proxy c’est quoi ? Hé bien les amis, c’est un proxy HTTP/HTTPS écrit en Go qui intercepte le trafic...

The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin

The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin

In January 2024, the phone rang in homes all around New Hampshire. On the other end was Joe Biden’s voice, urging Democrats to “save your vote” by skipping the primary. It sounded authentic, but it wasn’t. The call was a fake, generated by artificial intelligence. Today, the technology behind that...

The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made

The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made

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. OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to an MIT...

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the...