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OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the artificial intelligence company’s philanthropy as it attempts to shift itself into a for-profit business. Huerta, who turned 95 last week, formed the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez in the early 1960s and will now have a say on the direction of philanthropic initiatives that OpenAI says will consider “both the promise and risks of AI.” The group will have just 90 days to make their suggestions. “She recognizes the significance of AI in today’s world and anybody who’s been paying attention for the last 50 years knows she will be a force in this conversation,” said Daniel Zingale, the convener of OpenAI’s new nonprofit commission and a former adviser to three California governors. Huerta’s advice won’t be binding but the presence of a social activist icon could be influential as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attempts a costly restructuring of the San Francisco company’s corporate governance, which requires the approval of California’s attorney general and others. Another coalition of labor leaders and nonprofits recently petitioned state Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, to investigate OpenAI, halt the proposed conversion and “protect billions of dollars that are under threat as profit-driven hunger for power yields conflicts of interest.” OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, started out in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory dedicated to safely building better-than-human AI that benefits humanity. It later formed a for-profit arm and shifted most of its staff there, but is still controlled by a nonprofit board of directors. It is now trying to convert itself more fully into a for-profit corporation but faces a number of hurdles, including getting the approval of California and Delaware attorneys general, potentially buying out the nonprofit’s pricy assets and fighting a lawsuit from co-founder and early investor Elon Musk. Backed by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, OpenAI last month said it’s working to raise $40 billion in funding, putting its value at $300 billion. Huerta will be joined on the new advisory commission by former Spanish-language media executive Monica Lozano; Robert Ross, the recently retired president of The California Endowment; and Jack Oliver, an attorney and longtime Republican campaign fundraiser. Zingale, the group’s convener, is a former aide to California governors including Democrat Gavin Newsom and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We’re interested in how you put the power of AI in the hands of everyday people and the community organizations that serve them,” Zingale said in an interview Wednesday. “Because, if AI is going to bring a renaissance, or a dark age, these are the people you want to tip the scale in favor of humanity.” The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives. —Matt O’Brien, AP technology writer

A lattice of wooden joinery, inspired by the rafters of a boat, defines the Bahrain Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh for Expo 2025 Osaka. Called Connecting Seas, the 17-meter-tall structure references Bahrain’s coastal heritage, echoing the forms of traditional dhow boats once used for transporting heavy cargo. The result is a pavilion that blends context, craft, and clarity in a minimal, purposeful form. “The Bahrain Pavilion is conceived as an anatomy of a dhow, a contemporary evocation of the traditional Bahraini dhow – a vessel deeply embedded in the kingdom’s maritime heritage,” said Ghotmeh. “Rather than directly replicating the vessel, the architecture captures its essence – its rhythm, timber construction, and sense of voyage,” she added. Designer: Lina Ghotmeh Lina Ghotmeh, founder of the Paris-based studio Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, designed the pavilion with a distinctively curved roof, dipping gracefully at its center and rising towards both ends. Covering 995 square meters, the structure is assembled from 3,000 pieces of Japanese cedar. The wooden framework extends in a rhythmic pattern along the side elevations, suggesting the dynamic movement of rafters across the water. Balancing the warmth of the timber, a translucent membrane wraps the front façade, referencing the sails of traditional dhow boats and adding a light, airy contrast to the overall form. Behind its geometric facade, the pavilion reveals an atrium that spans all four floors, topped by an open roof. This central space functions as the main exhibition area, separated from surrounding zones by large membrane walls. These translucent partitions were selected to introduce an ethereal quality to the pavilion’s interior. “These materials give the structure a soft, sail-like appearance, evoking the fabric of a traditional dhow and gently filtering daylight into the space,” Ghotmeh said. “The choice of membrane not only enhances the pavilion’s lightness and permeability but also supports passive climate control.” Adjacent to the atrium, a café and a gift shop sit on opposite sides, with openings designed to bring in natural light and ventilation. A broad central staircase connects all levels. The first and second floors feature exhibition spaces that circulate the atrium, focusing on trade, crafts, manufacturing, pearling, and ecology in Bahrain. The third floor is dedicated to business, offering seating and meeting rooms. Essential services, including an elevator and a secondary staircase, are located at the rear of the pavilion. “The Bahrain Pavilion integrates sustainability holistically through its design, materials, and construction methods,” Ghotmeh said. “These strategies aim at making the Bahrain Pavilion a model of circular, low-impact architecture.” Multiple sustainable strategies were incorporated into the building, such as the utilization of reusable materials, minimal foundations, and passive cooling techniques. The post Boat-Inspired Bahrain Pavilion At Expo 2025 Osaka Showcases Timber Craft, Passive Cooling, & Coastal Legacy first appeared on Yanko Design.

With the Global Engagement Center shut down, the State Department is now set to investigate whether past US efforts against foreign propaganda amounted to censorship of Americans.

President Trump has threatened tariffs on Taiwan and the chip industry. China has signaled it will not let the trade war keep it from the technology it needs.

Macworld At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Friendly interface, good performance Removes leftover file systems and unwanted extensions Easy to find what you’re hunting for Cons Mediocre update utility Remaining Files module needs to be custom-configured Search and removal function impacts core file systems and functionality Our Verdict Despite everything App Cleaner & Uninstaller does well through its friendly interface and ability to dig deep under macOS’ hood to find files, extensions, and application remnants you don’t need, there are some flaws in the Remaining Files and Updates modules that can’t be ignored. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today There are times when an application has all the potential in the world but still can’t execute what its developers set out to do. This is the case with Nektony’s App Cleaner & Uninstaller, the company’s general cleanup utility and the core of Nektony’s larger MacCleaner suite (reviewed here: MacCleaner Pro review). App Cleaner & Uninstaller, which requires macOS 10.13 (High Sierra or later) to download and install, is available as a two-day free download. The software is easy to download, install, and assign full disk permissions to, and is centered around the Applications, Startup Programs, Extensions, Remaining Files, and Updates modules. Where the Applications module is concerned, this chunk of App Cleaner & Uninstaller shines as the centerpiece of the application. Once this is launched and the Applications have been indexed, it’s easy to hunt down random applications, including the remains of software wherein only the remnants have been left behind, and remove them with a click. The Startup Programs excels as well, offering a convenient list of anything that qualifies as a startup application and grouping them into three categories (All Programs, Active, and Disabled), then allowing you to pick and choose what to remove as needed. The Extensions module features useful categorization of your Mac’s extensions (Installation Files, Web Browser Extensions, Screen Savers, Settings Panes, Internet Plugins, and Widgets), and location and removal of a specific extension is pretty much a cinch. Foundry These are the better points as App Cleaner & Uninstaller begins to fall apart with its Remaining Files and Updater elements. The Remaining Files module, albeit incredibly useful, makes the mistake of offering a generalized “Remove” feature, which offers the ability to locate and remove orphaned files and clear up gigabytes of space in the process. While this is handy, it’s also akin to trying to kill a housefly with a flamethrower, as the module chooses critical system elements such as the App Store to go after, which can affect your Mac’s overall functionality once these system files have been torn out. During my tests, the module also targeted assorted Adobe Creative Cloud applications and files, removing underlying file systems and requiring the reinstallation of several Adobe applications. Yes, you can run a generalized cleanup, but the Remaining Files module is one where you should slow down and pick and choose exactly what you’re looking to remove, lest you strip out something critical to your Mac or your day-to-day workflow. Foundry Unfortunately, the Updates module is that much worse, and though convenient and capable of finding an update to the Transmission peer-to-peer file-sharing application that I hadn’t known about, missed major updates such as ff-Works, Slack, Microsoft Office, and others that competing applications tend to find without missing a beat. This module seems to be a mediocre afterthought, adding no real value to the App Cleaner & Uninstaller application, and Nektony arguably needs to gauge how effective it is at locating updates, then talk to the developers of the application updates they’re missing and see why so many pertinent updates are being glossed over. It’s with the Remaining Files and Updates modules that the application falls short, and as handy as the other three modules may be, three out of five won’t cut it in the big leagues. Yes, the Remaining Files module can be precisely aimed and configured at exactly what you don’t need. The “Remove” button and the somewhat destructive system sweep this leads to seems to beg for trouble. Finally, an Updates module that misses some of the most pertinent software updates in the Mac ecosystem feels like this was lazily tacked on, and it’ll take the developers making some coffee, sitting down, and genuinely refining this to make it what it could be. Foundry Nektony’s App Cleaner & Uninstaller could be great with some work, but for now, there are better catch-all utilities in this vein that do the job better and are worthier your attention and consideration. Should you buy Nektony’s App Cleaner & Uninstaller So where does this put the potential buyer? Well, Nektony offers a free two-day trial with which to test the software, and while not a generous period, it’s still better than nothing. If you’re curious, this is worth the download, but the Remaining Files and Updates modules feel like missed opportunities. There are better utilities for this that are more deserving of your time and attention, and until Nektony goes back and fixes these errors, these are better utilities to trust your Mac to in the meantime. A quick weekend of work and a devoted bug hunt could fix these issues, which a starving developer/CS student would weed out without question. And until Nektony gets that fire in its belly and fixes these issues, there are better places to spend your time and money where your Mac is concerned. MacCleaner and App Cleaner are both included in our round up of the Best Mac Cleaners, see how they compare to other Mac cleaning software.

When Microsoft was founded 50 years ago this month, it wasn’t clear the company would last 50 weeks, much less 50 years. Since then, it’s grown from a three-person company with barely any revenue to one worth approximately $1 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price, with 228,000 employees in 190 countries. These seven game-changers paved the way for the company’s success. (In my next column, I’ll look at Microsoft biggest bombs over the years.) Gates declares war on share-and-share alike In the earliest days of the PC revolution during the early-to-mid 1970s, 1960s-style idealism reigned. Many of the earliest techies believed technology could usher in a more equitable world, and as a model for that, they shared knowledge and work with each other freely. Nowhere was this more true than in the influential Homebrew Computer Club, in which people traded tips and advice on how to use the earliest PC, the Altair 8800 (which had to be assembled by hand). Microsoft’s first product was a version of the BASIC programming language for the machine. Much to Gates’ chagrin, though, people weren’t paying for it. Instead, they shared copies of it with each other for free. So in February 1976 he wrote an open letter to the Homebrew Computer Club titled “An Open Letter to Hobbyists.” It was a declaration of war on those he saw as thieves, and laid the operating principles that would later grow his company (then called Micro-Soft) into a behemoth.  Gates wrote, in part: “The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour. “As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software…. Who cares if the people who work on it get paid? “Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3 man- years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?…Most directly, the thing you do is theft.” So much for the share-and-share-alike ethos of the 1960s. The letter worked. After it, Microsoft had a solid cash flow. Microsoft hits big with MS-DOS For its first few years, Microsoft continued to write and sell programming languages for personal computers. It was a profitable niche. But that’s all it was…a niche, and a small one at that. Gates had bigger things in mind. The company’s first big breakthrough came in 1981 when he convinced IBM to pay Microsoft $430,000 to develop an operating system and provide other services for its still-secret, yet-to-be released new PC. IBM thought it was getting a great deal — it had expected to pay even more. But Gates outsmarted Big Blue. He negotiated terms that allowed Microsoft to sell the same operating system to other personal computer makers. (Microsoft called IBM’s operating system DOS and its own compatible operating system MS-DOS.)  So-called “clones” of the IBM PC flooded the market, and Microsoft got a royalty for every one of them sold because they all needed an operating system compatible with IBM’s PC. The company soon was rolling in money. Microsoft didn’t have to spend much time or money developing DOS and MS-DOS. It paid $50,000 to a company for an existing operating system called QDOS (short for “quick-and-dirty operating system”) and tweaked it to run on IBM’s PC and clones. Windows 3.0 and 3.1 rule the world To run MS-DOS and DOS you had to use a command line, which was no one’s idea of a good time and not particularly easy to do. While IBM PCs and clones were stuck in the old world, Apple was creating a new one with its graphically based operating system for the Lisa computer in 1983, and then the groundbreaking Macintosh operating system in 1984. It became clear graphical OSes were the future, and Microsoft eventually released its first version of one, Windows, in 1985. But it didn’t run as an operating system; instead, it ran as an application inside DOS. The same was true for Windows 2.0.  Neither version of Windows went anywhere fast. Then, in 1990 Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and two years later, the improved version called Windows 3.1. The operating systems were far easier to use than MS-DOS. But they were also inelegant and awkward, kludgy, crashed far too often and at times were head-scratchingly confusing to use. But they were good enough to replace MS-DOS as the standard for PCs, and they cemented Microsoft’s worldwide monopoly over operating systems.  They might not have been pretty, easy-to-use or reliable, but they accomplished their primary purpose: printing cash by the billions for Microsoft. Microsoft aims for its next target, businesses By the late 1980s, it was clear the PC revolution that had begun in the 1970s for hobbyists had gone big-time in the business world. Microsoft went after the market with a vengeance, launching Office in 1990. It included not just a software suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), but server software as well. Gates swept away the competition with shark-like tactics, some of which were found to violate antitrust laws.   Microsoft followed suit with countless other business services and software, including SQL Server, Power BI, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and many more. Microsoft soon owned the enterprise market. Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as CEO In 2000, Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO. Under his hard-charging, sometimes clownish leadership that focused obsessively on Windows to the detriment of other products and technologies, Microsoft slowly drifted into irrelevance. It missed out on the mobile revolution and became an also-ran in the internet and social media. Ballmer tried to solve most problems with the bluster and business tactics that did well in the 1970s through 2000, but failed miserably in the 21st century. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during a meeting in the ’90s.Microsoft He lasted until 2014, when Satya Nadella took over. Many people’s first reaction to the choice was “Who?” Nadella didn’t brag and shout like Ballmer or swagger and resort to illegal tactics like Gates. Instead, with a calm demeanor, he dragged the company into the new century, killing flailing multi-billion-dollar projects like Windows Mobile, turning the company into a smooth operation rather than a series of warring fiefdoms, and pouring billions into new technologies that would eventually make Microsoft a tech leader again. Nadella turns to the cloud  Microsoft launched Azure, its cloud platform, under Ballmer in 2010. But it took Nadella to see its importance. He refocused the company away from Windows and towards the cloud. By 2024, its Intelligent Cloud division tallied $100 billion in sales. But that vastly understates how much cloud-related revenue the company brings in, because software and services like Office (now called Microsoft 365) have become cloud services as well. Satya Nadella addresses the Microsoft Build event in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Dan DeLong / Microsoft In essence, Microsoft became a cloud company. Microsoft bets big on AI Six years ago, Microsoft made what was at the time something of an under-the-radar investment: $1 billion into the startup OpenAI. Few people took notice. Three years later, in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm — thanks in part to $12 billion more in Microsoft investments. A year after that, Microsoft released its own version of ChatGPT, called Copilot, for enterprises.  Now, Copilot is integrated into virtually every part of the company, and Microsoft is building its own AI team and products separate from OpenAI. It’s become the world leader in AI, with no end in sight — a solid starting point for the company’s next 50 years.

The Moment SuperCage is the pro filming rig the iPhone needs, with endless customization and premium build quality.Moment SuperCage review: A new tool for filmmakersUSB-C on the iPhone hasn't exactly changed everything, but regardless of which model you have, wired connectivity is faster. Between that and support for external SSDs, there's a whole new category of photography and filmography equipment that we've been testing.There are a lot of great items out there, but there hasn't been much like the Moment SuperCage. After playing with it for a few weeks, we're certain there will be soon. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

A BLDUS-designed residential project in Washington, D.C. has gotten our attention for its highly selective materials palette and unique response to site challenges that would imperil similar designs.  Completed on an alley site in Capitol Hill, Brown House is a timely demonstration of the ingenuity required to add density wherever possible as a means to alleviate the housing production shortage that has overtaken the city. Photo: Ty ColeThe house makes use of an almost entirely natural cellulose-based material palette, including:  Hempwool Insulation from HempitectureExterior-Grade Cork Cladding from AmorimCork Floor Finishes and Cork Spray Wall & Ceiling Treatment from the Jelinek Cork GroupSuberra ultra high-density cork for countertops from EcosupplyBlack Locust and White Oak lumber from Martin's Native Lumber for facade and exterior structural membersStructural Bamboo Prime Wall from BamcorePhoto: Ty ColePhoto: Ty Cole"Where wood finishes were applied, we sourced a product calle...

Bungie has unveiled the minimum PC specifications for the closed alpha test of Marathon, set to begin on April 23rd. Players will need at least a Windows 10 64-bit system with the latest service pack, an Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a graphics card equivalent to a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB), Radeon RX 5500 XT (4 GB), or Intel Arc A580 (8 GB). The system must also support DirectX 12 with Feature Level 12_1, and approximately 6 GB of storage space is required for the alpha build. While Bungie has not yet released the recommended system requirements, the full game could likely demand higher specifications. Marathon launches on September 23rd for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. It will feature three maps and six playable Runners, with a fourth map planned for release shortly after. Proximity chat will not be available at launch due to concerns over potential player toxicity. Game director Joe Ziegler stated that the team is prioritizing player safety and currently lacks a reliable method for preventing abusive behavior in such open audio channels.​ Whether that could change in the future is unknown, so stay tuned for updates. ‼️Here are the minimum PC specs required for the Marathon Closed Alpha Test. pic.twitter.com/dJqzB84tzu— Marathon Bulletin (@TauCetiGG) April 15, 2025