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Wednesday January 15, 2025. 01:00 AM
Futurism is declaring this onset of 'Slopaggeddon,' search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. —...
SCOTUS unlikely to save it, no time to find a buyer. So, hi, Xiaohongshu! Comment TikTok is just about out of options to save itself from a looming ban in the United States, though that hasn't stopped one US senator from planning a bill to extend the divest-or-dumped...
A week after announcing performance-based job cuts similar to those at Meta, Microsoft said it also plans to pause hiring in part of its consulting unit. CNBC reports: The changes by the U.S. consulting division are meant to align with a policy by the Microsoft Customer and...
Tuesday January 14, 2025. 11:58 PM
They tried to keep it from prying eyes, but several people did notice it: Google made a pretty significant policy change regarding the use of fingerprinting by advertisers. While Google did not allow advertisers to use digital fingerprinting, the company has now changed its...
ChatGPT can now schedule reminders and recurring tasks -- but only if you're a ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Pro subscriber. TechCrunch reports: With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, 'Remind me when my passport expires in six months,' and the AI assistant ...
When Mike Goldman offered $5,000 to anyone who could compress a randomly-generated file of their chosen size in early 2001, he thought his money was perfectly safe. After all, it's mathematically impossible to compress truly random data. But Patrick Craig spotted a loophole...
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The p...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Texas has sued (PDF) one of the nation's largest car insurance providers alleging that it violated the state's privacy laws by surreptitiously collecting detailed location data on millions of drivers and using that...
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill,...
A talented corgi named Dash used to spend his days hurling toys at his humans. Until he took up the piano and became a busker in New York City. Playing tunes on a pet-size piano, the pup now keeps busy drawing a large crowd at Central Park and other outdoor spaces as he...
The dissociative 'psychedelic' drug Ketamine has shown to be helpful at relieving depression in zebrafish. The new scientific study by Harvard researchers could increase our understanding of how ketamine works in the human brain to alleviate depression and eventually lead to ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Academia is in a credibility crisis. A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts. To understand the...
Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate Corporation and its mobile analytics subsidiary, Arity, alleging the American insurance giant...
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has deleted malware planted on more than 4,200 computers by a group of criminal hackers who were backed by the People's Republic of China. From a report: The malware, known as 'PlugX,' affected thousands of computers around ...
You'd think six years would be enough time to scrub down a meat factory infested with insects and mold, but when it comes to Boar's Head deli meats, the slime and stink keep on a comin'. The black mold, rancid smells, and other unsanitary conditions found at the Jarratt,...
Enterprise computers are often the ugly ducklings of the PC world, viewed as dull, slow and less feature-rich than their consumer counterparts. But vendors at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show launched a selection of business machines (alongside their consumer...
OpenAI is doubling down on its vision for AI in the U.S., unveiling its economic blueprint, “AI in America.” This document outlines strategies to spur AI development, regulate the technology, and maintain America’s edge over global competitors like China. The release...
A Google engineer has warned that a major shift in web browser caching is upending long-standing performance optimization practices. Browsers have overhauled their caching systems that forces websites to maintain separate copies of shared resources instead of reusing them...
As AI evolves at breakneck speed, its more complex models demand increasingly staggering amounts of computational power. Because the computational requirements of AI models grow exponentially as they scale, traditional processors struggle to keep up. They require excessive...
Famed automaker Mercedes-Benz is taking in-car navigation to a whole new level. The luxury car company announced on Monday the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring conversational AI capabilities to its MBUX Virtual Assistant, powered by Google...
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