AI Financial Crises
Yes, Virginia, AI, like older forms of automated trading, has a nasty propensity to cause crises.
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The Global Semiconductor Talent Crunch: How Protectionism Backfired
Oopsie! US semiconductor protectionism looks to have reduced the size of the pool of needed workers and experts.
Read more...Crying Wolf: Why Negotiating Lower Drug Prices Will Not Harm Pharmaceutical Innovation
More evidence that US drug price curbs are unlikely to be harming pharmaceutical innovation
Read more...Will Burying Biomass Underground Curb Climate Change?
Some climate experts say biomass start-ups will limit global warming, but major questions remain.
Read more...IT Staffing Agency Smoothstack Traps Tech Workers in “Modern Day Indentured Servitude”, Federal Suit Alleges
Smoothstack, with some Fortune 500 clients, demanded its employees stay at the company for about two years or face fines up to $30,000.
Read more...The Future May Not Be As Electric as We Think
Is there a ceiling to electric vehicle uptake? And even worse, is that lower than many assume?
Read more...‘How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We Are Everywhere’
How Israel uses inhumane, experimental surveillance technology against Palestinians. Will this become that new normal?
Read more...The Anxious Generation: A View of Where We Are and What Should Come Next
Jonathan Haidt contends that changes in childrearing practices have produced adults who on average are more anxious and fragile
Read more...Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech in Murthy v. Missouri Ruling
A very bad day for what passed for free speech in the US.
Read more...Experts: US Hospitals Prone to Cyberattacks Like One That Hurt Patient Care at Ascension
Hospitals in the US and UK have been hit hard by cyber attacks, leaving practitioners struggling to offer care.
Read more...Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...Michael Hudson: US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
Yet another cryptocurrency scheme, here for its major use case, tax evasion. But for a good cause, the US dollar!
Read more...Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
Key question for consequentialists: If “non-traditional” vaccines are in fact treatments as under the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, what happens to the liability of Pfizer et al. for vaccine injury?
Read more...When It Comes to the Environment, There Really Is No Such Thing as a “Good” Car
The problem with the EV as a climate change remedy is that it is still a car.
Read more...Data Centers Set to Consume 9% of U.S. Electricity by 2030
Electricity demand is set to increase markedly thanks to uses like AI and cryptocurrencies.
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