Author: Priya Sharma
Priya Sharma
Priya tests gadgets for a living and still finds herself surprised. She writes about technology that earns its place in daily life.
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano told a Toronto audience an AI accident is their most likely cause of death. He defined “AI takeover” as humans losing control of goal-pursuing systems.
James Gunn and Peter Safran exit DC Studios post-merger. Jeremy Latcham, Marvel veteran, takes over with Superman: Man of Tomorrow still in post-production.
Great Zimbabwe’s iron furnaces used passive chimney drafts instead of bellows, hitting 2,100°F without human-powered air. The engineering logic is still being studied.
California accepted $1.42B in BEAD broadband funding but refused Trump admin’s demand to drop its net neutrality law, setting up a multi-party legal fight.
A Science study finds Manx shearwaters jet-lag themselves over the Atlantic, skewing their sun-based compass and producing measurable navigational errors.
ULA’s Vulcan rocket returns to flight November 13, carrying 40 Amazon Kuiper satellites after a nine-month standdown following booster nozzle failures.
A 1,000-mile Martian cloud near Arsia Mons has been modeled for the first time, revealing atmospheric physics previously considered theoretical and never observed in any planet’s atmosphere.
PHP maintainers announced two critical patches rated 9.2/10, dropping within 12 hours. All PHP users urged to prepare for immediate upgrade.
Anthropic has embedded METR, an AI safety nonprofit, inside its offices with hardware-level access to evaluate Claude model risks.
A coordinated hack of refrigeration controllers at 700 French supermarkets caused mass spoilage and fires. The flaw? Publicly documented, unpatched hardware with predictable passwords.