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Wednesday April 30, 2025. 12:10 AM
In a blog post yesterday, Master I-ranked human GeoGuessr player Sam Patterson said that OpenAI's o3 model outscored him in a head-to-head match, 'correctly identifying all five countries and twice landing within a few hundred meters.' Geoguessing is a game -- most popularly ...
Tuesday April 29, 2025. 11:47 PM
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with improvements for programming languages ranging from Rust to C to Cobol. GCC 15.1 also brings improvements for vectorization and for compiling very large input files. Announced April 25 as the first release in the GCC 15...
Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it Meta is scrambling to grab some of that ChatGPT and Grok buzz with the launch of its own standalone AI app. Built on its Llama 4 LLM, the assistant touts personalization and smoother voice chats, but the most visible ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Today, open-source software powers the world. It didn't have to be that way. The Open Invention Network's (OIN) origins are rooted in a turbulent era for open source. In the mid-2000s, Linux faced existential threats from...
TL;DR: Grab Microsoft Office 2024 Home for Mac or PC for $129.97 (reg. $149.99)—a one-time payment, forever access, and no subscription drama. There's generally a lot going on these days—in life, on your desk, and rattling around in your brain. If you're tired of...
Mastercard is working with Microsoft and other leading AI companies to give AI agents the ability to shop online and make payments on behalf of consumers. From a report: Under the new program, a shopper could prompt an AI agent -- Microsoft's Copilot, for example -- to...
Twenty badge-wearing, heavily-armed federal agents kicked down the wrong door in Oklahoma City on Thursday. Inside, they found a mother and three daughters who'd moved to Oklahoma just two weeks earlier. The names on the warrant? Previous occupants whose only connection to...
Electronic Arts (EA) has laid off around 300 employees across multiple departments, including about 100 at Respawn Entertainment. IGN reports: IGN understands that these wider cuts largely impacted EA's Experiences team, which includes groups such as EA's Fan Care team and...
Prompt engineering tools are becoming increasingly important as more users look for ways to improve how they interact with AI models. Prompt engineering is the process of crafting, refining, and optimizing the inputs — or prompts — you give to an AI system to elicit more ...
Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do' Federal legislation that would protect people from having explicit images of themselves posted and shared online without their consent is set to become law in...
Firefox has launched its long-awaited tab groups feature, responding to the most upvoted request in Mozilla Connect's three-year history. The feature allows users to organize tabs by name or color through a drag-and-drop interface. Mozilla is now developing an AI-powered...
The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new source.
A new study [PDF] reveals AI-generated code frequently references non-existent third-party libraries, creating opportunities for supply-chain attacks. Researchers analyzed 576,000 code samples from 16 popular large language models and found 19.7% of package dependencies --...
Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring 'blind spot' in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…
South Korean telecom network SK Telecom is providing free SIM card replacements to all 25 million mobile subscribers following an April 19 security breach where malware compromised Universal Subscriber Identity Module data. Despite the company's announcement, only 6 million...
Back when the nightly version of AdGuard for Linux first surfaced, I reported on its potential and how it aimed to bring proper ad-blocking to the command line. Now, with version 1.0 officially released today, AdGuard for Linux is no longer experimental -- it’s a complete...
Carbon removal technologies, potentially a $250 billion market, are failing to gain traction as buyers remain scarce. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a need for 10 billion metric tons of carbon removals annually by 2050, yet only 175 million tons have...
Fish will give you mercury poisoning, beef and pork clogs your arteries, bacon is an instant heart attack, tofu is an endocrine disruptor, and beans will make you a flatulent persona non grata. That pretty much leaves chicken as your only protein option. — Read the rest The...
A newly moved family to Oklahoma City from Maryland had their home invaded, possessions confiscated, and were subject to improper abuse at the hands of ICE. Around twenty armed ICE agents burst into a woman's new home in Oklahoma City, brandishing a warrant for prior...
The tree at Sycamore Gap is one of England's most famous, a frequent star of movies (including Prince of Thieves) and one of the tourist attractions along Hadrian's Wall. It was illegally felled in 2023, allegedly by two men in an act of vandalism that prompted nationwide...
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