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Her Code Got Humans On the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
The programmer and working mother who led work on the Apollo module’s flight computers pioneered core concepts of the software industry and was central to the mission’s success.

Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data
The White House says it won’t require companies that make mobile devices and software to give law enforcement and intelligence agencies a way to bypass encryption. The Obama administration had previously said it wanted that power, despite objections from major tech companies (see “Google and Facebook Execs Question Government Desire for Encryption Backdoors”).

The Cyber Activists Who Want to Shut Down ISIS
A band of online vigilantes are running a well-organized campaign to shut down social media accounts and websites linked to the Islamic State, or ISIS. The organization has made social media into a powerful publicity and recruiting tool (see “Fighting ISIS Online”).

Hewlett-Packard, SanDisk Join Forces on New-Breed Memory
Memory chips a thousand times faster than those that store data in smartphones and thumb drives are promised by new collaborators HP and memory chip maker SanDisk. Details of the technology they’re using are minimal, but HP is to contribute know-how from the memristor technology that it has so far struggled to get to market (see “HP Puts the Future of Computing On Hold” and “Machine Dreams”).

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The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it

Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.

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New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death

Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out.

GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why

We got a first look at the much-anticipated big new language model from OpenAI. But this time how it works is even more deeply under wraps.

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