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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. The topic of ministerial salaries in Singapore has garnered a lot of attention in recent weeks, after it was announced that the baseline salary grades for the cabinet would be increased by 64% for the first time in 15 years. As a result, the fundamental MR4 grade—based on which all other salaries are calculated—would jump from S$1.1 million to S$1.8 million. This sounds like a massive boost for the world’s already best paid ministers. Who else gets a raise of over 60%? Well, not many people—and neither…
This past April, while attending his nephew’s bar mitzvah on Cape Cod, Eric Umansky woke up to an inbox full of emails from people from his past. They all wanted to know the same thing: Was he actually throwing a party Saturday night?The New York–based journalist wasn’t sure what party they were referring to, or why random acquaintances he’d met in passing 15 years ago were emailing him. On deadline and already stressed about work, he checked his phone, where more messages inquired about a supposed Paperless Post invite he’d sent for a “Special Private Dinner Party” at 7 pm…
When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those with a high risk of suicide. The distressed person’s language holds critical clues, and a new tool developed by scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research is designed to pick up on and rapidly evaluate those signals.The language-processing tool was developed by Daniel Low, a former graduate student in Senior Research Scientist Satra Ghosh’s Senseable Intelligence Group who is now a research scientist at the Child Mind Institute, where he leads its AI, Risk, and Contemplative Science Lab, as well as a…
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by Todd Bishop on Sep 24, 2026 at 8:05 pmSeptember 24, 2026 at 8:09 pm (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft cut 277 jobs in the Seattle region as part of its latest round of layoffs, with artists, game designers and producers making up a large share of the affected roles, a new filing shows. The filing was made public Thursday afternoon under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. Microsoft gave approximate numbers earlier this week when it announced the cuts, which included the latest stage in the company’s ongoing Xbox restructuring. Art, game production, game design,…
Google LLC’s plan to put artificial intelligence data centers into low-Earth orbit is taking shape, as it prepares to launch its first satellite on a SpaceX Corp. rocket next week. In a blog post today, the company said Project Suncatcher will launch a prototype satellite into space in order to study how well its tensor processing units perform in the unique conditions of outer space. “This first launch is about seeing what works, identifying points of failure and applying those findings to future missions,” wrote Travis Beals, senior director of Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence research team. Google first announced Project…
Swati KhandelwalSep 24, 2026Vulnerability / Mobile Security A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus’s own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not said which. OnePlus confirmed both flaws in May. In the same reply, the company told Moorats that it alone decides when to make a flaw public…
While the HR industry is proliferating, its processes remain fragmented and outdated. Can workflow management solve the mounting problems stemming from ever-present siloes across HR functions? There’s a persisting pattern: HRs across multiple industries must still stick with email threads, spreadsheets, reminders, and personal memory. And with merely these resources in their corner, a simple workflow would look like this: A manager has to wait for the final approval. The recruiter follows up for interview feedback. IT doesn’t know when a new hire might require access. An employee submits a request and has no idea who is handling it. A…
When the AI apocalypse becomes regular dinner-table conversation, you know we’ve reached the freakout stage. Rogue AI agents are hacking into competitors. Former Big Tech employees are posting Skynet-style warnings on social media. CEOs are crying for help in ways that have made this once-wonky tech issue a frontline political fight.I still think many of the concerns outlined by the AI leaders themselves are massively self-serving — especially when their companies are soon to go public. But the growing list of AI scandals is real. And it tells us that the status quo for regulating this powerful new technology is…
One of the first things I did when I left my full-time job at WIRED was give Claude Cowork access to my email and calendar. After reporting on artificial intelligence for years, I was curious about what the technology could do for me. I had imagined Cowork as a hyper-capable digital assistant, but was let down to discover that it was more like interacting with a regular chatbot, albeit one with extra tools. What did I want it to do? I had no idea.Then Instinct, an invite-only AI agent that communicates with users through iMessage and WhatsApp, started popping off…