This is todays edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology.Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraines drone defenseDrones have come to define the brutal conflict in Ukraine that has now dragged on for more than two and a half years. And most rely on radio communicationsa technology that Serhii Flash Beskrestnov has obsessed over since childhood.While Flash is now a civilian, the former officer has still taken it upon himself to inform his countrys defense in all matters related to radio. Once a month, he studies the skies for Russian radio transmissions and tries to learn about the problems facing troops in the fields and in the trenches.In this race for survivalas each side constantly tries to best the other, only to start all over again when the other inevitably catches upUkrainian soldiers need to develop creative solutions, and fast. As Ukraines wartime radio guru, Flash may just be one of their best hopes for doing that. Read the full story.Charlie MetcalfeMeet 2024s climate innovators under 35One way to know where a field is going? Take a look at what the sharpest new innovators are working on.Good news for all of us: MIT Technology Reviews list of 35 Innovators Under 35 just dropped. A decent number of the people who made the list are working in fields that touch climate and energy in one way or another. And our senior climate reporter Casey Crownhart noticed a few trends that might provide some hints about the future. Read the full story.This years list is available exclusively to MIT Technology Review subscribers. If youre not a subscriber already, you sign up here with a 25% discount on the usual price.This story is from The Spark, our weekly climate and energy newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.The must-readsIve combed the internet to find you todays most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.1 The first commercial spacewalk by private citizens is underwayAnd, thus far, its been a success. (CNN)+ Take a look at the long and illustrious history of spacewalks. (BBC)2 Silicon Valley is divided over Californias AI safety billBig Tech is waiting anxiously for the states governor to make a decision. (FT $)+ Whats next for AI regulation? (MIT Technology Review)3 Wildfires are raging across southern CaliforniaThe state has weathered nearly three times as much acreage burn this year so far compared to the whole of 2023. (The Guardian)+ Canadas 2023 wildfires produced more emissions than fossil fuels in most countries. (MIT Technology Review)4 Broken wind turbines have major repercussionsMultiple offshore wind projects have run into serious trouble. (NYT $)5 The percentage of women in tech has hardly changed in 20 yearWomen and people of color face an uphill battle to get hired. (WP $)+ Why cant tech fix its gender problem? (MIT Technology Review)6 Googles new app can turn your research into an AI podcastPlease dont do this, though. (The Verge)7 Human drivers keep crashing into Waymo robotaxisThe company has launched a new website to put the incidents into perspective.(Ars Technica)+ Whats next for robotaxis in 2024. (MIT Technology Review)8 This tiny SpaceX rival is poised to launch its first satellitesAST SpaceMobiles star appears to be on the risebut for how long?(Bloomberg $)9 Youve got a fax Pagers, fax machines and dumbphones are all the rage these days. (WSJ $)10 Have we reached peak emoji? The little pictograms are an illustrative language, not an ideographic one. (The Atlantic $)Quote of the dayA beautiful world.Billionaire businessman Jared Isaacmans reaction as he saw Earth from space during the first privately funded spacewalk today, the BBC reports.The big storyWhat does GPT-3 know about me?August 2022One of the biggest stories in tech is the rise of large language models that produce text that reads like a human might have written it.These models power comes from being trained on troves of publicly available human-created text hoovered up from the internet. If youve posted anything even remotely personal in English on the internet, chances are your data might be part of some of the worlds most popular LLMs.Melissa Heikkil, MIT Technology Reviews senior AI reporter, wondered what data these models might have on herand how it could be misused. So she put OpenAIs GPT-3 to the test. Read about what she found.In this section yesterday we stated that Amazon had acquired iRobot. This was incorrectthe acquisition never completed. We apologize for the error.We can still have nice thingsA place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet em at me.)+ These photos of London taken on a Casio camera watch are a snapshot of bygone times.+ If youve noticed elaborate painted nails making their way into your cookbooks, its part of a wider trend. + Painting Paint, now thats meta.+ Wow, enthusiastic skeletons are already limbering up for next month!