Scroll.in:: An overview of the Svamitva program of India, which digitally mapped land properties using drones in 300K + villages in January 2025, while concerns are on the mistakes- The Svamitva program seeks to use drones to map land properties in inhabited rural areas. But so far, the work has been opaque and riddled with errors.
Author: Stacey D. Walls
Evan Ratliff / Cable:: A deep look at “The Zizians”, a cult group of young technologies exiled from the rationalist community of Silicon Valley and allegedly linked to a series of murders- A handful of young gifted technicians have decided to save the world. For years, Wired has been following each twist …
Financial time:: Researchers believe that air pollution linked to Google, Microsoft and Meta data centers resulted in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023- Research suggests that the price of processing diseases related to the construction of computer infrastructure in the United States is increasing
Andrew deck / Nieman Lab:: Some journalists occupy independent jobs with AI training data companies such as Scale IA, which recruit them for tasks such as the verification of the facts and the fast writing- The aberrant value of work on concerts is one of the many companies that court journalists to train models of large languages (LLM).
Eugene Kim / Initiate of Business:: Deposit: Amazon estimated the fair value of its participation in Anthropic at $ 14 billion at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $ 8 billion in Anthropic so far- – The value of Amazon’s investments in Anthropic has skyrocketed. – Amazon has agreed to invest 8 billion dollars in anthropogens so far.
Francisco Rodrigues / Pear:: Defillama: Bybit experienced a “banking” of more than $ 4 billion after the hacking of ~ $ 1.5 billion, which led to a total outing of ~ $ 5.5 billion; The CEO says that “around 50%” of the funds have been withdrawn- The main exchange of cryptocurrency experienced total outings of more than $ 5.5 billion after suffering…
Brian Krebs / Krebs on safety:: A survey details how Chinese cybercrime groups transform sentences of the payment card in new Apple or Google portfolios for online and in store use- Carding – The underground sector to steal, sell and slide stolen payment card data – has long been dominating the Russian pirates.
Sigal Samuel / Vox:: A look at the debate on the question of whether the models of AI can really reason, because some researchers describe the current model of reasoning as a “serrated intelligence”- The world of AI moves so quickly that it is easy to get lost in the middle of the burst of new bright products.
Erin Griffith / New York Times:: Many SV startups use AI to stimulate productivity in research, coding, etc., reducing dependence on VC money for hiring, fueling the “small team” success stories- Technological start-ups have generally increased huge sums to hire workers’ armies and develop rapidly.
Davide Castelvecchi / American scientist:: Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft’s claims to carry out a quantum calculation breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence- With its “topological” quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies