The 2034 Butlerian Jihad Will Be The End of AI Ballade

Joe Rogan is ten years older than me. So, when I say that I totally dig his tech-time-travelling vibe, I mean it. A time leap from cord phones to the newest iPhones can only be compared to Kubrick’s from bone to satellite scene in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” https://youtu.be/avjdKTqiVvQ?si=utAq8sni-PGK3-MN&embedable=true I still remember when my baby … Read more

Rivian’s software boss is ‘super excited’ about third-party apps

Rivian’s chief software officer Wassym Bensaid opened up at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week about his thoughts on physical buttons (“an anomaly“) and how his company will help power VW offshoot Scout’s EVs. But there’s one other item on his to-do list that he’s “super excited” about: making Rivian’s vehicles work with third-party app developers. … Read more

Reddit sleuths track down the band behind the internet’s most mysterious song

Image: The Verge Members of Reddit’s r/ThatMysteriousSong community have finally identified what they call “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet,” a new wave tune that a teenager recorded to cassette sometime around 1984, as reported yesterday by 404 Media. The mysterious song’s digital trail goes back to 2004, when Darius S., the teenager who … Read more

Symbiotic Security helps developers find bugs as they code

Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs … Read more