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Sunday September 28, 2025. 09:37 PM
'Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK,' reports the BBC: The company said it would start notifying users in the coming weeks to let them choose whether to subscribe to its platforms if they wish...
IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers 'are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions,...
'Today's AIs are book smart,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart.' And that requires 'world models,' which are 'gaining momentum in frontier research ...
The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species 'began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.' It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species,...
Six months ago California had 48% more public and 'shared' private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports...
Paris-based AI giant Mistral 'is pushing to improve its models,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'by looking inside legacy enterprises that hold some of the world's last untapped data reserves....' Mistral's approach will be to form partnerships with enterprises to further...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering 'Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data': 'A provided data model may include a tree...
'We've decided to support image-based search,' announced the product manager for Firefox Search. Powered by the AI-driven Google Lens search technology, they promise the new feature offers 'a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) 'search...
Cristian Fleming paid around $70,000 for one of Fisker Ocean's electric mid-size crossover SUVs. Seven months later the company filed for bankruptcy in June of 2024, reports the Verge, 'having only delivered 11,000 vehicles.' 'Early adopters were left with cars plagued by...
It's the world's largest companies by revenue. But Walmart's executives have a blunt message, reports the Wall Street Journal: 'Artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and reshape its workforce.' 'It's very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,' Chief...
'Researchers have modified a standard glue gun to 3D print a bone-like material directly onto fractures,' reports LiveScience, 'paving the way for its use in operating rooms.' The device, which has so far been tested in rabbits, would be particularly useful for fixing...
Saturday September 27, 2025. 10:58 PM
Friday the security researchers at Arctic Wolf Labs wrote: In late July 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs began observing a surge of intrusions involving suspicious SonicWall SSL VPN activity. Malicious logins were followed within minutes by port scanning, Impacket SMB activity, and...
After the nonprofit Ruby Central removed all RubyGems' maintainers from its GitHub repository, André Arko — who helped build Bundler — wrote a new blog post on Thursday 'detailing Bundler's relationship with Ruby Central,' according to this update from The New Stack. 'In the ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Computer Weekly: Policing data hosted in Microsoft's hyperscale cloud infrastructure could be processed in more than 100 countries, but the tech giant is obfuscating this information from its customers, Computer Weekly can reveal....
'Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos is far worse than we previously thought,' writes Futurism: As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face...
Electric powertrains allow for 'crazy fast acceleration figures,' reports Car and Driver, as well as 'huge power numbers.' And now a Chinese luxury electric car brand owned by BYD Auto 'just hit a top speed of 308.4 mph, making it not only the fastest electric car on the...
The heliosphere 'plays a major role in why life is possible on our planet,' reports CNN, 'and how it perhaps once existed on others such as Mars.' (Basically solar winds create 'a constant flow of charged particles' that form 'an enormous bubble that protects the planets in...
YouTube's new 'Labs' program plans to 'offer a glimpse of the AI features it's developing for YouTube Music,' reports Ars Technica. But Ars Technica adds that this future 'starts with AI 'hosts' that will chime in while you're listening to music. Yes, really.' (YouTube says...
DJI has lost its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, failing to remove its designation as a Chinese Military Company. US District Court Judge Paul Friedman ruled the Pentagon has broad discretion to make such designations, finding sufficient evidence that DJI...
Meta is making humanoid robots its next massive 'AR-sized bet,' investing billions into a project led by top roboticists. The focus will be less on hardware and more on software dexterity, aiming to license its robotics platform to manufacturers much like Google licenses...
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