GeekPress

iPhone Security

2026-07-13T07:12:00.000-07:00

NYT: "The 4 iPhone Security Settings You Should Turn On Right Now"

Medical Literature Reliability

2026-07-13T00:01:00.000-07:00

Dr. F. Perry Wilson: "Can We Trust the Medical Literature?"

Catching AI Cheaters

2026-07-10T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat"

Pigeon Radiologists

2026-07-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Pigeons excel at spotting abnormalities on CT scans"

Tough Times In SF

2026-07-07T00:01:00.000-07:00

The New York Times reports that a salary of $180,000 is not a living wage in San Francisco.

Synthetic "Cell"

2026-07-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

"World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering"

AI Vs. Medieval Ciphers

2026-07-03T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Plots, love letters and remedies: The medieval secrets being revealed by AI"

Hsieh Forbes Column: "Midjourney's Whole Body Ultrasound System—A Radiologist's Thoughts"

2026-07-02T00:02:00.000-07:00

My latest Forbes is out: "Midjourney's Whole Body Ultrasound System -- A Radiologist's Thoughts"

Starfall

2026-07-02T00:01:00.000-07:00

"With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit". (Via H.R.)

Quantum Computing Progress

2026-07-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Aram Harrow, quantum researcher: 'These computers won't take 10 years; they'll arrive sooner'"

Ford's AI Flop

2026-06-30T00:02:00.000-07:00

"Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks"

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product." -- Charles Poon, vice president of vehicle hardware engineering

AI Recursive Self-Improvement

2026-06-30T00:01:00.000-07:00

Anthropic: "When AI builds itself".

DNA Of Plague

2026-06-22T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Ancient DNA is rewriting the history of plague"

AI Won't Replace Software Engineers

2026-06-19T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

Romeo And Juliet And Kitty

2026-06-18T00:01:00.000-07:00

That time a cat interrupted a stage performance of "Romeo and Juliet" during the pivotal death scene. (Click through to see video.)

Intelligent Bandages

2026-06-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Scientists Create 'Intelligent' Bandage That Targets Harmful Bacteria". (Via H.R.)

Tao On AI

2026-06-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

"How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math"

Wolfram On Rules And Games

2026-06-12T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition"

Apple Device Charging

2026-06-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

Lots of good info here: "The Apple Charging Situation".

Of note, the 80% charging limit really does make a difference in battery life: "This is the math behind Optimized Battery Charging. Every 10% Apple holds back roughly doubles battery lifespan."

Functional Analysis Primer

2026-06-10T00:01:00.000-07:00

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering"

This is a tutorial introduction to the functional analysis mathematics needed in many physical problems, such as in waves in continuous media. Functional analysis takes us beyond finite matrices, allowing us to work with infinite sets of continuous functions. It resolves important issues, such as whether, why and how we can practically reduce such problems to finite matrix approximations. It is, however, difficult to find a readable introduction that is efficient and comprehensible for scientists and engineers. Here, I have selected only the topics necessary for the most important results, but the argument is mathematically complete and self-contained.
The article starts from sets and sequences of real numbers. It then develops spaces of vectors or functions, introducing the concepts of norms and metrics that allow us to consider how these can converge. Adding the inner product, it introduces Hilbert spaces, and the key forms of operators that map within or between such spaces. This leads to the concept of compact operators, which allows us to resolve many difficulties of working with infinite sets of vectors or functions. We then introduce Hilbert-Schmidt operators, which are compact operators encountered extensively in physical problems, such as those involving waves.
Finally, it introduces the eigenfunctions for major classes of operators, and their powerful properties, and ends with singular-value decomposition of operators. This article is written in a style that is complementary to that of standard mathematical treatments; by relegating longer proofs to a separate section,
I have attempted to retain a clear narrative flow and motivation in developing the mathematical structure. Hopefully, the result is useful to a broader readership who need to understand this mathematics, especially in physical science and engineering.

AI Bootstrapping

2026-06-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

"SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says AI is already designing OpenAI's next model"

New Octopus

2026-06-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

"A Tiny Bright-Blue Octopus Found in the Galápagos Is Completely New to Science". (Via H.R.)

Your Own AI Stock Trader

2026-06-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

"Robinhood launched agentic trading and an agentic credit card today that will allow AI agents to trade equities and make credit card purchases on customers' behalf."

Costco Theory Of The Internet

2026-06-04T00:01:00.000-07:00

"The Costco theory of the internet"

Using AI To Sell Your House

2026-06-03T00:01:00.000-07:00

NYT: "I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot"

In the end, using A.I. netted me more than $90,000. That includes the premium over the asking price, plus the roughly $36,000 in fees I didn’t pay. I'm not sure how replicable my experience would be for anyone less versed than me in technology.