Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired joins Lily Jamali for Bytes: Week in Review to discuss the next chapter for co-working startup WeWork, AI-generated political ads and YouTube’s war on ad blockers.
The World Series just ended, and the Oakland A’s are considering a move to Las Vegas. Keith Law, senior writer for The Athletic, recounts how the embedding of data analysis in the game created a lasting legacy for the team.
Five years after a wildfire devastated the town of Paradise, people are working together to make homes safer. New means of gathering data can play a role.
Unlike a physical SIM card in our phones, an eSIM can be acquired and transferred digitally. Thousands of donors are sending them to journalist Mirna El Helbawi, who provides them to people in the strife-torn area for internet access.
New research shows that U.S.-based data brokers are selling sensitive information on active-duty service members and their families with minimal constraints. Justin Sherman of Duke University says the information could be easily acquired by foreign actors.
Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Lily Jamali for Bytes: Week in Review to discuss the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit, the dip in EV sales and whether Netflix’s ad-tier subscription model will pay off.
According to the FBI, email phishing attacks accounted for nearly $51 billion in losses over the past 10 years — and the number is only expected to grow with the introduction of artificial intelligence.
There’s been no moratorium on artificial intelligence development, despite the warnings of many tech leaders. Jonas Schuett of the Centre for the Governance of AI has a different approach to the question of a pause.
Marketplace’s Matt Levin explains why users’ fear of changing default settings on tech devices, especially smartphones, is at the heart of the government’s antitrust case against Google.
