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Friday July 25, 2025. 12:29 AM
Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational in the US despite national security concerns. But then, he put Vice President JD Vance in charge of...
Thursday July 24, 2025. 11:40 PM
We're all businesspeople here, right? Elon Musk could use a win after Tesla's weak second-quarter earnings, and he sort of got it when President Donald Trump proclaimed he wasn't going to use the power of the presidency to destroy his businesses. …
Google Labs has announced the public beta of Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps by chaining together prompts, tools, and models, using natural language and visual editing. Currently available in the United States only, Opal was introduced July 24. The tool...
Google Labs has announced the public beta of Opal, an experimental tool for building AI mini apps by chaining together prompts, tools, and models, using natural language and visual editing. Currently available in the United States only, Opal was introduced July 24. The tool...
New submitter davecotter writes: So Google's staring at its old goo.gl links and thinking, 'Why is this perfectly functioning service still even a thing?' After many businesses and users adopted it like it was the second coming of the way-too-long hyperlink, Google's now...
French president Emmanuel Macron announced today that it would recognize Palestinian statehood. It would be the 148th of the United Nation's 193 member states to do so and the eleventh in the European Union. Sweden, Spain and Ireland recognized the Palestinian state last...
Magic mushrooms might be the next breakthrough in anti-aging medicine, according to new research that shows the psychedelic compound psilocybin not only extended mice's lives but made them look younger too. The Emory University study, published in Nature Partner Journals'...
Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.…
TL;DR: Protect all your files with an Internxt 50TB Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription on sale for $800 (reg. $7,900). We've all got files we don't want to lose or share with the internet at large. Whether it's old vacation photos, client work, that unfinished screenplay,...
Research shows that when Google adds an AI-generated answer at the top of search results, people stop clicking through to actual websites. Next up: Studies confirm that the rich tip waiters ten percent. According to Pew Research Center, roughly 20% of searches now come with...
Apple has released the first public betas of its upcoming operating systems with its new design language called Liquid Glass. The list of new betas includes iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. The Verge's Jay Peters reports: The design language is...
Component origin isn't tracked, says GAO, meaning the circuits in equipment could be from anywhere The Pentagon doesn't know where components of its critical systems come from, and it's doing a poor job of finding out, say government auditors. …
Joseph 'Yellow Kid' Weil (1875-1976) was a notorious conman with an 'uncanny knowledge of human nature.' One of his classic cons was tricking greedy Chicago barkeeps into buying worthless dogs. He'd waltz into the bar, dressed in finery, and hand the barkeep ten dollars and ...
Longtime Slashdot reader gbkersey shares a report from The Mirror: Elon Musk's satellite internet Starlink has been hit with a global outage preventing thousands of users from accessing the internet. According to DownDetector, reports of issues began to surge around 8pm GMT, ...
They can only enforce consistency based on their training The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Beyond AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google is working on 'Web Guide' to better organize Search results into categories with additional context and insights. Simply, 'Web Guide groups web links in helpful ways.' There are...
Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT instead of Google’s search engine is becoming more common in the US, according to a new survey of 1,000 people by Adobe Express. More than three-quarters (77%) of respondents say they use ChatGPT for searches — and 25% have it as their first...
Researchers have discovered an unexpected element of distillation, an AI training technique that transfers knowledge from a larger, more complex model to a smaller, fine-tuned one, that poses a major pitfall for the distill-and-filter strategy. They found that, when trained ...
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, you could save yourself a lot of typing hands on It happens every day. There's something interesting on your screen that you want to share with others. Perhaps it's an error message you want to send to support. Or maybe you're writing...
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