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…
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Join siguimi.com →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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New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids
bryanandaimee shares a report from ScienceDaily: A Finnish study has found an unexpected association between screen use…
Read at source →Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope
NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space's Link…
Read at source →Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user…
Read at source →PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages
BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce…
Read at source →Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter as it pushes beyond payments into the infrastructure behind AI…
Read at source →Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns
Amazon says its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand sixfold to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of…
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Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic
Independent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for allegedly using hundreds of copyrighted songs…
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CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs
CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has breached more than 500 U.S. critical infrastructure organizations since…
Read at source →Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine significantly reduced both cancer recurrence and spread…
Read at source →X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it,…
Read at source →Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive
A U.S. Army battalion at Fort Stewart is offering soldiers a four-day pass timed to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI…
Read at source →Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut
Chinese robotics giant Unitree surged more than 600% in its Shanghai stock market debut, marking the first mainland…
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