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Economy
HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors
Enlarge / The HP Envy 6020e is one of the printers available for rent. (credit: HP) HP launched a subscription…
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Economy
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
Enlarge (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images) Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET’s reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding…
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Economy
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame…
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Economy
Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day
Enlarge / A gas station displays an out-of-order sign on February 29, 2024 in New Zealand. (credit: Mark Coote/Bloomberg via…
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Investing
Biden and Surveillance: Hypocrisy and End-Runs
Patrick G. Eddington Two actions this week highlight the Biden administration’s approach to surveillance issues implicating the constitutional rights of…
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Investing
New Emergency Spending Would Cost $28-$41 Billion More Than Incomplete Budget Score Suggests
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Legislators and the public tend to underestimate the fiscal costs of emergency spending. Emergency supplemental…
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Economy
GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code…
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Investing
The Political Economy of EPA’s Updated Social Cost of Carbon
Travis Fisher The social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC): Who needs it? As it turns out, anyone who cares about…
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Economy
Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to offer AI models from Mistral through its Azure cloud computing…
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Investing
Should the Federal Government Subsidize Student Loans?
Jeffrey Miron Recent debates over student loan cancellation ignore a fundamental question: should the federal government be subsidizing such loans in…
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