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#JohnNaughton

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When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed

>>At international academic conferences recently, one sees an interesting trend. Some American participants are travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else. In other words, they are equipped with the same kind of kit that security-conscious people used to bring 15 years ago when travelling to China.<<

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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changedBy John Naughton
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Strypey

2022: #JohnNaughton lays out the well-known propertarian and Hayekian side of crypto evangelism, then this intriguing observation;

"Lots of people will point out that the Satoshi memo, which released the idea for blockchain, more or less coincides with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and... [that] being a token for the corrupt, uncontrollable nature of financial capitalism and it's untrustworthiness."
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shows.acast.com The Next Big Thing | TALKING POLITICSAI, the metaverse and quantum computing: what's next?
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Kristoffer Lawson

#JohnNaughton asks, in The #Guardian, if #Tesla is doing to the car industry what #Apple did to #Nokia. There are several errors in the article (the Tesla Roadster was based on a #Lotus #Elise, not Elite, and the #Toyota #bZ4x is *not* cheaper than a Tesla. Which is precisely the problem traditional car manufacturers are facing. They can’t build #EVs cheap enough. Even worse, some (like #Ford and @VWGroup) are actually cutting back investment!

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The GuardianWhat Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industryBy John Naughton
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Well, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agents

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Researchers for a pharmaceutical company stumbled upon a nightmarish realisation, proving there’s nothing intrinsically good about machine learning

The GuardianWell, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agentsBy John Naughton
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Strypey

"All of which is interesting but has little to do with what the tech industry calls AI, which is its name for machine learning, an arcane and carbon-intensive technology that is sometimes good at solving complex but very well-defined problems."

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The GuardianMachine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’By John Naughton
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