A new scientific breakthrough has reignited one of the biggest debates in modern computing after researchers announced results suggesting that a quantum computer outperformed a classical supercomputer on a highly specialized task. The findings have fueled discussions about whether the era of \.
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AI isn’t a dual-use technology, it is inherently violent
When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “a liar with a god complex” over fears that his company’s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boundary between civilian and military technology no longer exists. The same systems that power translation, logistics, and digital assistants can just as easily identify targets or manipulate populations. Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis argue that today’s AI is not simply “dual use” — it is inherently violent in design. Adaptive, autonomous, and globally networked, these machines fuse daily life with geopolitics, making peace itself a fading abstraction.
Drones have become an uncanny threat—not least in the wake of the cost of human life and the degrees of suffering and destruction they have inflicted in Russia’s war on Ukraine. In many European countries they have been sighted near critical infrastructure or military sites, either used for reconnaissance or sabotage, at times causing major disruptions in civilian air travel. Drones unsettle a population that is fearful and weary of the brutality of war at their doorstep. They have become a major element to what is labelled hybrid warfare, fought beyond the conventional ways of violence.
But this is not the whole picture. For years, drones have also been envisioned as a technology that bears the potential of bringing about major changes for the better: more efficient disaster relief, medical supply chains reaching even the remotest areas, optimized logistics or transportation. Drones also introduced a new visual – bird’s-eye-aesthetic of how to see the world.
We may have finally solved cosmology’s chicken-or-the-egg problem
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane
By Leah Crane
Singularity Summer 2026: 8 Live Lectures on AI and Story
The technological singularity is usually sold to you as a prediction. A date. A curve. A moment when the machines wake up, and everything changes.
I have conducted more than 300 interviews since 2009, listening to the people who tell that story. The futurists. The engineers. The believers.
Here is what I have come to believe.
The singularity is not a forecast. It is a story. And whoever gets to write that story gets to shape what it means to be human.
This July and August, I am joining machine learning expert Thomas Hamelryck at Philosophy Portal for Singularity Summer. Eight live lectures across two months. Thomas takes the first month to open up the machine. What machine learning actually is, what it is not, and where it breaks.
Then I take August for the part that the engineering never answers. The human story inside the #AI machine, and how we might write a better one.
This is not a course about #MachineLearning as destiny. It is about #technology as the How, never the Why or the What. It is about who holds the pen writing our story.
12 Critical Technologies Reshaping the Industrial Era: A Resource/Framework for Understanding Convergence, Risk, and Resilience
Exploring 12 critical technologies reshaping the industrial era: a resource for understanding convergence, risk, and resilience.
This framework outlines 12 critical technologies, their applications, and their impact across 13 essential infrastructure sectors, along with data-driven imperatives for action. It is designed to be a living resource, regularly updated, and is primarily based on my published writings in various outlets, including Forbes, Skytop Media Group, GovCon Wire, Homeland Security Today Magazine, Security Information Watch, and my book “Inside Cyber.”
The findings are that these emerging technologies that will shape our future do not operate in isolation. Convergence acts as the catalyst.
“Aging, goal-directedness, and bioelectricity” by Michael Levin
This is ~23 minute talk overviewing our recent results and the way we think about aging and longevity. It was for a conference with quite short speaking slots so I had to talk fast… Longer talk coming with more data but this outlines some ideas and overviews our published recent work on aging.
Designing a Generational Ship (Proxima Centauri b)
To build a Proxima Centauri b generational ship; designed to protect the life aboard during the 100 year journey from Earth; designed to build the first structures of the settlement on the surface of the new planet.
✧ Find me on Substack where I write sci-fi story essays: J.Barry / Between Worlds.
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Book recommendations on artificial intelligence, future technology and innovations, and sci-fi stories (affiliate links):
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://amzn.to/3j28WkP
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://amzn.to/3790bU1
• The Expanse: https://amzn.to/3Q0mG61
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://amzn.to/3kNFSyW
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