Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
MIT Technology Review

Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...
Morningstar

Structure details positive trial data for a weight-loss pill, and the stock rockets

Structure Therapeutics is developing a daily GLP-1 receptor pill called aleniglipron. Structure Therapeutics' stock soared toward an 18-month high in early Monday trading, after mid-stage data for its ...
Ars Technica

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Amazon Says Berkshire Utility Failing to Power Data Centers

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...
Morning Call PA

Data centers are coming, hungry for space and resources. Is the Lehigh Valley ready?

For an exercise in irony, take a moment to ask ChatGPT why large data centers — noisy and voracious consumers of energy and water — are necessary. The answer it gives is long and complicated, but what ...
Wall Street Journal

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...
Business Insider

Tea's data breach shows why you should be wary of new apps — especially in the AI era

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...
Architectural Record

Interactive ‘Data Structure’ Anchors the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science

In his 1960 book Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, the critic and historian Reyner Banham presciently noted a growing chasm between technological change and the capacity of designers to ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
The New York Times

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby. In the race to develop artificial ...
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Rebuild Collective and EXTENTS design workshop and game to support building reuse in Cincinnati

A multimedia board game was developed from over a year of research and conversations with local organizations involved in vacant building reuse. (Ayoub Adil) Founded in 1788, Cincinnati is known for ...