German designer Simon Weckert has created a deliberately ugly Hawaiian shirt designed to evade AI-powered surveillance cameras, using clashing colors and patterns to break the body's outline so detect…
Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the AI boom will end in a science-fiction-style catastrophe rather than a familiar financial crisis, citing Iain M. Banks's Culture novels as the best guide. Fergu…
PrismML's 1-bit quantized Bonsai 27B model, weighing 3.9 GB, runs on a consumer GPU with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, achieving 10-20 tokens per second on average, but slower than smaller models like Q…
Apple TV's 'Neuromancer' series, based on William Gibson's 1984 novel, will premiere on January 22, 2027, with showrunner Graham Rowland noting the story's themes of AI and cyberspace are now part of …
A Saturday 11 Jul 2026 post on an unspecified blog explores examples from science fiction of voice interfaces with limited, single-purpose domains, citing ATMs, toll doors, and clocks from works by Wi…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and scienc…
Author Cory Doctorow argues that generative AI should be viewed as a vernacular tool for amateur creators, not a replacement for professional work. Drawing on his own history as a programmer and digit…
Society is living in a "pre-cyberpunk" reality where corporate-government fusion is already occurring, despite people believing they are resisting it. It claims that modern "resistance" has shifted fr…