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Your information to speaking about local weather tech over Thanksgiving
Ah, the vacations. Time for good meals, high quality moments with household, and onerous questions on local weather change … or is that simply us?
Our local weather reporter Casey Crownhart has been in the course of loads of heated conversations across the dinner desk. And though you could be tempted to sneak away or change the topic, it could be price sticking round and serving to individuals to chop via the complicated issues they’ve heard on TV, or the web, or from their mates.
If you resolve to do this, we’ve bought you lined. Let’s dig into a couple of questions on local weather change, and particularly local weather expertise, that may come up over the course of the vacations. Read the total story.
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you in the present day’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 Sam Altman’s previous hints at why OpenAI’s board tried to fireside him
The very qualities some admire deeply rankle others. (WP $)
+ Who is in and who’s out on OpenAI’s board. (NYT $)
+ Behind the scenes of the OpenAI showdown. (WSJ $)
+ Who received? The cash males. (NYT $)
+ Some OpenAI prospects have been contemplating switching to rival corporations. (CNBC)
+ But the event of AI is now managed by a tiny cadre of corporations. (NBC)
+ You can now voice chat with ChatGPT. (Engadget)
2 Binance customers have withdrawn no less than $1 billion within the final 24 hours
With the CEO pleading responsible to numerous legal costs, can you actually blame them? (CNBC)
+ One of the perks Binance provided VIP prospects was a heads-up in the event that they had been being investigated by legislation enforcement. (CNBC)
+ But does all this drama imply crypto could be about to grow to be… boring? (Wired $)
+ What’s subsequent for crypto. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Gazans are desperately attempting to remain on-line
Even earlier than the siege, web connectivity was poor. Now the state of affairs is dire. (Vice)
4 Digital hate has a protracted, darkish historical past in India
And we are able to anticipate issues to get a lot worse with an election looming early subsequent 12 months. (Wired $)
5 AI-generated images are proliferating on inventory picture websites
It’s more durable than ever earlier than to inform truth from fiction. (WP $)
+ Text-to-image AI fashions will be tricked into producing disturbing pictures. (MIT Technology Review)
6 A decide dominated that Elon Musk ignored Tesla Autopilot’s deadly flaws
Between this and the mess at Cruise, it’s a reasonably unhealthy week for the autonomous automobile sector. (Ars Technica)
+ Cruise claims it’s more likely to relaunch quickly in Texas or Arizona. (Axios)
+ A race for autopilot dominance is giving China the sting in autonomous driving. (MIT Technology Review)
7 TikTokers are posting movies of strangers gossiping about individuals
While, uh, doubtlessly harming everybody concerned within the course of. (The Guardian)
8 We’re getting higher at utilizing tech to odor stuff 
But ‘e-noses’ are complicated to calibrate, and very costly. (BBC)
+ New analysis goals to carry odors into digital worlds. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Just go forward and use your smartphone this Thanksgiving
Sure, you don’t wish to be glued to it, however it could be a helpful piece of distraction. (WSJ $)
10 Paris Hilton’s firm joined a protracted record of advertisers abandoning X
It’s changing into an ‘X-odus’ (sorry.) (CNN)
Quote of the day
“You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he’d be the king.”
—Paul Graham on his fellow Y Combinator co-founder Sam Altman in a weblog publish from 2008.
The huge story
The FBI accused him of spying for China. It ruined his life.
June 2021
In April 2018, Anming Hu, a Chinese-Canadian affiliate professor on the University of Tennessee, acquired an sudden go to from the FBI. The brokers needed to know whether or not he’d been concerned in a Chinese authorities “talent program,” providing abroad researchers incentives to carry their work again to Chinese universities.
Not too way back, American universities inspired their teachers to construct ties with Chinese establishments, however the US authorities is now suspicious of those applications, seeing them as a spy recruitment instrument. Despite Hu’s denial he was concerned in such applications, rather less than two years later, they confirmed up once more—this time to arrest him. Read the total story.
—Karen Hao & Eileen Guo
We can nonetheless have good issues
A spot for consolation, enjoyable and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any concepts? Drop me a line or tweet ’em at me.)
+ These hip horses are rockin’ everywhere in the world 
+ Having a child and have to decide on a reputation that works in two languages? MixedName is right here to assist.
+ Aww, the very shy Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has been caught on digicam for the primary time.
+ What’s extra acceptable for Thanksgiving than an espresso martini? Nothing, that’s what.
+ Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving slasher film is a field workplace hit for a cause.