Sunday 12th May 2024

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Key to Winning 7 Mr. Olympia Titles

Schwarzenegger and Columbu didn't just train together as bodybuilders, they started a successful bricklaying business and advertised it as "European bricklayers and masonry experts." They starred together in movies such as The Terminator. And they remained best friends for 50-plus years... till the day Columbu died. 

I would never have gotten anywhere without my mother helping me with my homework and smacking me when I wasn't ready to study, without my father telling me to "be useful," without teachers who explained how to sell, or without coaches who taught me the fundamentals of weight-lifting.


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Calm Your Racing Mind and Fall Asleep in Minutes With This Simple Technique

If you're tired of tossing and turning for hours, rehashing tomorrow's to-do list and stressing over incomplete action items, you're not alone. Racing thoughts are a common culprit that keeps many entrepreneurs from getting the restful sleep they crave. 

A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that jotting down a quick to-do list before bed can help you fall asleep significantly faster than writing about completed tasks. That's right -- embracing your plans for tomorrow (or the next few days) in the form of a short, specific list may be the secret to calming your buzzing mind and slipping into slumber more easily.


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What to Expect at Google I/O 2024, and How to Watch It

The annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Search, and Assistant, plus a whole lot of AI news.


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In Defense of Parasitic Worms

When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island.

“I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then release them,” Wood said. “And I knew that species really well.”


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Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies

Law enforcement in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia this week named a Russian national as the person behind LockBitSupp, the pseudonym of the leader of the LockBit ransomware gang that the US says is responsible for extracting $500 million from its victims. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev has been sanctioned and charged with 26 criminal counts in the US, which combined could result in a prison sentence of 185 years. That is, if he’s ever arrested and successfully prosecuted—an extremely rare event for suspects who live in Russia.

Elsewhere in the world of cybercrime, WIRED’s Andy Greenberg interviewed a representative of Cyber Army of Russia, a group of hackers who have targeted water utilities in the US and Europe and are said to have ties to the notorious Russian military hacking unit known as Sandworm. The responses from Cyber Army of Russia were littered with pro-Kremlin talking points—and some curious admissions.


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Many People Do Not Like the New Sonos App

Sonos launched a new version of its app this week, altering the software experience that tens of millions of users rely on to control the company’s premium home wireless home speaker systems.

Turns out, people really hate it! The response from users on Reddit, on audio forums, and on social media has been almost total condemnation since the app experience switched over on May 7. Users on the dedicated r/sonos subreddit are particularly peeved about it, expressing frustration at all manner of problems. The quickest way to see the scores of complaints is to visit the megathread the users in the community started to catalog all the problems they’re experiencing.


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Logitech Aurora Collection Review: Heart and Cloud-Shaped Boxes

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Everywhere I look, I see an ad for Logitech's Aurora Collection of accessories. At least, it feels that way. Often it's the distinctive, cloud-shaped palm rest, or the beautiful all-white headphones. They follow me across social media platforms. You got me, Logitech: I'm interested.


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16 Best Laptops (2024): MacBooks, Windows, Chromebooks

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Buying any laptop is a big decision. Most of us go years between making purchases of this magnitude, and there are many makes, models, and chip configurations to choose from. Lucky for you, we’ve tested many of the new releases in the past year. These are our top picks for the best laptops you can buy right now.


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Beats Solo 4 Review: Minimal Features, Maximized Sound

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There’s not much to the new Beats Solo 4 headphones at first glance. Starkly missing in this $200 package is any form of noise canceling or transparency mode. There’s no auto pause feature or water-resistance rating—something you might expect from headphones shown as jogging companions in marketing videos.


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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal

On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow's technical content with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant. The deal has sparked controversy among Stack Overflow's user community, with many expressing anger and protest over the use of their contributed content to support and train AI models.

"I hate this. I'm just going to delete/deface my answers one by one," wrote one user on sister site Stack Exchange. “I don't care if this is against your silly policies, because as this announcement shows, your policies can change at a whim without prior consultation of your stakeholders. You don't care about your users, I don't care about you.”


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