Tension inside Google over a fired AI researcher’s conduct

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 05.31.22   CRITICAL UPDATE | 4-MINUTE READ You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP BY KATE O'FLAHERTY Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two "serious" flaws.   IT'S A METATHOR | 18-MINUTE READ The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi BY JENNIFER KAHN He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradictions.   WANING MOONS | 5-MINUTE READ As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash BY GIAN M. VOLPICELLI Electricity costs more, Bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong?   CHIP SHOTS | 6-MINUTE READ Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher's Conduct BY TOM SIMONITE Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or even falsified. GET WIRED Memorial Day Sale. Give yourself the gift of information. Get the print edition of WIRED and Gideon Lichfield's exclusive subscriber-only column for just $29.99 $5. Subscribe now.   BRB | 6-MINUTE READ It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message BY LAUREN GOODE The live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries.   PEW PEW PEW | 3-MINUTE READ How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers BY MATT SIMON Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.   PRODUCT REVIEW | 3-MINUTE READ This Wireless Surround System Is the Future of Home Audio BY PARKER HALL Platin's tiny, wireless surround sound system effortlessly outperforms your basic soundbar setup, without making you drill into your walls.   IDEAS | 5-MINUTE READ 'Thinkwashing' Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis BY ELEANOR CUMMINS When it comes to issues like climate change, too many let the perfect become the enemy of the good, while the world burns.   LISTENING PARTY | 6-MINUTE READ Apple's Conversation Boost Works, but It Makes Things Awkward BY JOE RAY While the feature makes spoken exchanges more clear, having to keep your AirPods in your ears during in-person chats sends the wrong social message.     Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.