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Sunday June 1, 2025. 09:34 AM
'How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?' asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales 'One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe....
With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians 'to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,' according to RestOfWorld.org — 'the first such nationwide initiative in...
Earlier this month the 'Create New Issue' page on GitHub got a new option. 'Save time by creating issues with Copilot' (next to a link labeled 'Get started.') Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. 'With Copilot, creating...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. A new stable release of PorteuX, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that means to be fast, small, portable, modular and immutable, is now available. PorteuX 2.1 introduces the brand-new 6.15 Linux kernel and...
The managerials running Target made a show of ditching its diversity and inclusion programs to please Donald Trump. Unfortunately for the company, Target has a distinctive customer base at odds with those politics: foot traffic is down sharply in an ongoing boycott and the...
Venerable vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson's latest collection on Flashbak is a wunderkammer of weird vintage snapshots. Of course, what makes this set so wonderful is that each square frame is odd on its own but scrolling through them one after another...
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current 'advanced' LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with...
Saturday May 31, 2025. 11:43 PM
Boing Boing contributor Dustin 'UPSO' Hostetler has just published the 18th issue of his magnificent long-running print 'zine Faesthetic, a visual wunderkammer of art, illustration, and design!. Printed in an edition of 100, each with hand-signed cover art by Tristan...
Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. 'Data, including building plans, diagrams,...
TL;DR: Give your PC a tune-up with a lifetime license to Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27, now just $9.99 (reg. $50). Want to make an old PC feel like new again? You don't have to spend a fortune on a new device — just give it a tune-up with Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27. — Read the...
A U.S. federal judge has decided that free-speech protections in the First Amendment 'don't shield an AI company from a lawsuit,' reports Legal Newsline. The suit is against Character.AI (a company reportedly valued at $1 billion with 20 million users) Judge Anne C. Conway...
The rapid advancements in generative AI technologies have made it essential to create tools that can effectively manage different document formats. While large language models (LLMs) excel at understanding and generating text, they struggle with parsing complex documents...
Apple's end-to-end iCloud encryption product ('Advanced Data Protection') was famously removed in the U.K. after a government order demanded backdoors for accessing user data. So now a Google software engineer wants to build an open source version of Advanced Data Protection ...
In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing 'strategic reserves'of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include 'cryptocurrency...
This 12-hour video of BBC's live wildlife cameras lets you peek into a day in the life of different birds sitting sweetly in their nests. If you've ever wanted to spy on a bird, this is your chance to do it for 12 hours straight. — Read the rest The post Watch these baby...
I recently got a review unit of a Shelfy for my fridge, and I love how it eliminates food waste and offers many other cool features. The Shelfy is a fridge purifier that keeps fruits and vegetables fresh longer and helps eliminate pollutants, bacteria, and bad smells. — Read...
People have been gathering at Coopers's Hill, in Brockworth, England, for hundreds of years to chase a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a steep 200-meter slope. The annual event is complete pandemonium as the racers' plans immediately go out the window at the start,...
If you've never heard a meerkat purr, your wait is over! Meet Minky, a precious — and incredibly spoiled — meerkat who makes the most adorable noises, including purring exactly like a cat. She lives with her human dad Ruben Lambrechts, who runs a family-operated travel...
'We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings,' writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism. (The robots were named 'AI Strategist',...
Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as 'all part of the AI hype...
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