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Thursday April 3, 2025. 04:57 AM
GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…
Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies reliant on global supply chains stand to lose the most from President Trump’s trade policies, but some software firms expect more demand for their services.
Robotics and machine learning engineer Naveen Kul developed WattWise, a lightweight open-source CLI tool that monitors power usage via smart plugs and throttles system performance based on electricity pricing and peak hours. Tom's Hardware reports: The simple program, called ...
Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit behind the annual novel-writing challenge, is shutting down after 20 years but will keep its websites online temporarily so users can retrieve their content. The Guardian reports: A 27-minute YouTube video posted the same day by the organization's...
Hooters, the restaurant chain named for the prominently-posed busts of its servers, is going tits up. The company filed for bankruptcy today and announced plans to sell its remaining locations to franchisees, thereby guaranteeing continuity of service for those still dining...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Calibre 8.0; Fedora reproducibility; OpenWrt One; 6.15 Merge Window; LSFMM+BPF coverage including BPF in GCC, Rust merging process, and more. Briefs: Ubuntu namespaces; New FPL; PorteuX 2.0; Firefox 137.0; GCC Rust;...
A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac...
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it's launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access...
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China,...
According to Bloomberg, India is set for a surge in tech startup IPOs valued at around $100 billion by 2027, with major players like Flipkart, PhonePe, and Oyo preparing to go public. From a report: A report from Indian investment bank The Rainmaker Group suggests that the...
When some people with a vagina are highly aroused or having an orgasm, a rush of fluid will squirt out. It is a real thing. It does happen. But what exactly is this liquid? Is it urine? Some kind of ejaculate? — Read the rest The post Here's the scientific truth about...
The Red Rover doggy daycare in South Carolina separates its canine guests into two groups depending on the dogs' energy levels: Side A is for the chillaxed, introverted doggos, while Side B is for the more active, extroverted pups. And there's no denying which group is...
To mark Microsoft's 50th anniversary, Bill Gates has released the original Altair BASIC source code he co-wrote with Paul Allen, calling it the 'coolest code' he's ever written and a symbol of the company's humble beginnings. Thurrott reports: 'Before there was Office or...
Lexar has officially launched its PLAY PRO microSD Express card. This launch seems quite perfectly timed with today’s announcement of both the Nintendo Switch 2’s pricing and availability. The PLAY PRO microSD Express card utilizes the SD 7.1 specification, which...
Wednesday April 2, 2025. 11:57 PM
Tim Stokely partnered with a crypto company to bid for TikTok as the social media company faces a deadline to either sell or be banned in the US. Amazon also placed a last-minute bid.
Double-oh-sh... The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free...
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