Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot…
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Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial
Retraction Watch reports: A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the…
Read at source →Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues On RGB Lighting Devices
BleepingComputer reports: Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the…
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Join siguimi.com →Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK £1bn a Year
Wrongly discarded lithium batteries, such as those in vapes, are causing more than 10 fires a week at U.K. recycling…
Read at source →How Will AI Change the Field of Mathematics?
"AI went from being very terrible to seemingly genuinely quite good at a professional level in a very short space of…
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Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails
Remember that rush rescue mission for NASA's $500M space telescope? It failed, reports CNN, and the LINK satellite…
Read at source →Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police
Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this article from Wired: [Flock] has told the public for years that its technology "cannot…
Read at source →Low Emission Zone Led To Better Lung Size, Function Among London Children
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: Children's lungs grew bigger and stronger after…
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Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope
Reuters reports "a major success in a new field of cancer treatment this week, as Moderna and Merck announced a…
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Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say
47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, according to an April survey from…
Read at source →Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support
Firefox 154 "brings a number of usability improvements," writes PC World: The free built-in VPN, introduced with…
Read at source →New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market
fjo3 shares a report from SFGATE: The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to…
Read at source →Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button
According to a post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on LinkedIn's new…
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'Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began
A rapidly developing El Nino is already reaching record-setting levels for this time of year and is expected to…
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China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China's Ministry of…
Read at source →Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, has imposed a six-month moratorium on "major electric utility infrastructure" in its…
Read at source →Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams
Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs as it shifts resources toward a rebuilt, AI-powered Siri and other future products.…
Read at source →American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges
Federal prosecutors have charged activist Samuel Tunick with obstruction after he gave Customs and Border Protection…
Read at source →AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Economist: Students and school children are increasingly using artificial…
Read at source →Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council
A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the…
Read at source →Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise
Micron says it will spend $10 billion over the next decade on a new research lab in Boise focused on advanced memory…
Read at source →Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI
Linus Torvalds says AI "enormously helped" him track down a stubborn Intel Xe graphics driver bug that took 24…
Read at source →Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay
After years of refusing to adopt tap-to-pay technology in its stores, retail giant Walmart announced today that it is…
Read at source →Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses
Google is giving publishers a new way to fight declining referral traffic from AI-powered search by letting them embed…
Read at source →Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads
Microsoft is expanding Windows Task Manager to show per-process NPU and GPU neural-engine usage, giving users more…
Read at source →China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet
China's Chang'e 7 mission is set to launch for the moon's south pole, where it will attempt the first-ever landing…
Read at source →Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized…
Read at source →China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global
Bilibili, often described as China's answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an…
Read at source →Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every…
Read at source →Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books
Russian attacks on Ukrainian publishing infrastructure in July and August destroyed roughly 10 million books, which…
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Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
A growing backlash against AI data centers is spilling into local politics, with residents in more than a dozen…
Read at source →Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Read at source →YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix
Bloomberg reports that YouTube is offering major creators millions of dollars to keep some content exclusive to its…
Read at source →Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files…
Read at source →FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the…
Read at source →Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data
Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies, including foreign…
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