AI helped expose critical flaws in PHP, which runs much of the web. Plus a 61 m bamboo tower in St. Louis and how much processing is too much.
Where do the percentages in AI risk headlines come from? Plus Google's data-centre sites in Finnish forests, Indonesia's rice estate in Papua, AI versions of the king's new portrait, and the audience map: a view-only public map shared by link or QR code.
Can returning ash to the forest make up for what whole-tree chipping takes out? Plus an AI that read a 1941 Enigma message, Starship's first trip to orbit, and why changing GIS systems in forestry is more about leadership than technology.
What happens if we simply leave farmland to become forest instead of planting it? We look at a striking 21-year comparison, a wooden floor system designed to compete with concrete and steel, and robots already outrunning human world records. Along the way, we ask whether AI is making us less capable — or simply changing which skills matter.
In the first episode of George@Office, we explore map projections and geopolitics, Europe’s wildfires, AI taking on the Navier–Stokes problem, and George’s new Quick Notes feature. Four stories about maps, nature, technology and the questions hiding behind the headlines.
