Author: Vidya Saras

In a Monday morning meeting, Thomas Shedd, the recently appointed Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told General Services Administration workers that the agency’s new administrator is pursuing an “AI-first strategy,” sources tell WIRED.Throughout the meeting, Shedd shared his vision for a GSA that operates like a “startup software company,” automating different internal tasks and centralizing data from across the federal government.The Monday meeting, held in-person and on Google Meet, comes days after WIRED reported that many of Musk’s associates have migrated to jobs at the highest levels of the GSA and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…

Prioritizing your family’s and your nation’s physical, economic, and emotional health before trying to fix the world is just common sense.

Senior Audrey Lorvo is researching AI safety, which seeks to ensure increasingly intelligent AI models are reliable and can benefit humanity. The growing field focuses on technical challenges like robustness and AI alignment with human values, as well as societal concerns like transparency and accountability. Practitioners are also concerned with the potential existential risks associated with increasingly powerful AI tools.“Ensuring AI isn’t misused or acts contrary to our intentions is increasingly important as we approach artificial general intelligence (AGI),” says Lorvo, a computer science, economics, and data science major. AGI describes the potential of artificial intelligence to match or surpass human…

A DOGE spokesperson contends, “No classified material was accessed without proper security clearances.” Musk posted on X calling for USAID “to die” and accusing the independent agency, without  evidence, of being a “criminal organization.” Later, he said that he and Trump were shutting down USAID and instructed agency employees not to show up for work. In addition, over the past week, workers at the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), housed within the General Services Administration (GSA), were summoned into meetings to discuss their code and projects with Musk’s team members. TTS helps develop the platforms and tools that underpin many government…

Bold and the Beautiful two-week spoilers find Carter Walton falling head-first into a seductive trap during the two weeks of February 3-14, 2025. Meanwhile, someone takes a big risk while another struggles to hold it together on B&B. Check out the latest spoilers for the CBS daytime drama. Bold and the Beautiful Two-Week Spoilers: Carter Walton Walks Right Into Steffy Forrester’s Trap Bold and the Beautiful two-week spoilers put Carter Walton exactly where Steffy Forrester and Daphne Rose want him. Steffy wants Daphne to pull Carter away from Hope Logan and Forrester Creations. And this week, her plan works when Daphne…

A new report suggests that a third of the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are relying on research and development (R&D) to power their growth plans for 2025. Despite difficult economic conditions, the “Geared for Growth 2025” study by alternative finance provider Growth Lending indicates that strategic investments in technology, talent and innovation could help many firms stay competitive. According to the findings, 33% of SMEs see R&D as central to innovation and long-term success, while 40% anticipate revenue growth of between 5% and 10% over the coming year. Investment in advanced digital tools and processes is also a…

I just sat down and watched this debate between Jimmy Song and Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin ossification. I don’t even know where to start as far as the absurdity and broken “logic” in every argument Jimmy made in this debate. So I won’t try, I will focus on one specific line of argumentation he made. “Money shouldn’t change, it should be predictable.” He specifically spoke along these lines in regards to “letting things mature” in this space from a technical point of view, and implicitly stating that upgrades to Bitcoin “pulls the rug out from under” existing developers building things.…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand looks set to introduce a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based trading platform for securities firms. The initiative aims to leverage extensive investor networks to facilitate digital token transactions. In the process, Thailand’s SEC decision achieves several key breakthroughs for the local market, which could have an impact on the broader crypto economy: Regulatory Support for Digital Tokens Comprehensive Digitalization of Bond Trading Tokenized and Electronic Securities Categories Approved Digital Token Projects Thailand’s decision is, of course, limited to Thailand. And it notably doesn’t cross existing crypto regulations (which currently forbid crypto payments). But…

BBCVladimir Syromiatnikov’s bold attempts to light up Siberia with a space mirror captured global attention. The BBC’s Tomorrow’s World reported on an ambitious experiment that was launched on 4 February 1993.It sounds like a scheme a James Bond villain might hatch: launching a giant mirror into orbit to harness the Sun’s rays, then redirecting them to beam down on a target on Earth. Yet this was exactly what the Russian space agency Roscosmos attempted to do on 4 February 1993.But the aim of the Znamya (meaning banner in Russian) project was not a dastardly plot to hold the world to…

It seems like with each year and generation new trends come rolling around. Often they’re just a rehash of old trends (nothing new under the sun…). In today’s post, I’m covering which health trends I’m predicting for 2025, if they’re worth following, and how you might want to adopt some. Many of these are really a return back to the basics of health! I’m not always one to follow the latest trends, but I’m encouraged by what I’m seeing so far this year. More people are trying to make friends with their bodies and support them in a sustainable way.…