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Saturday April 5, 2025. 08:34 PM
Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot...
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model has definitively beaten the Turing test, after it was found to be human 73% of the instances where it was prompted to adopt a human-like persona. The Turing test, named after British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, measures a machine’s...
AI experts are more likely to be optimistic about the technology than the general public, according to a study released April 3 by the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 5,410 U.S. adults and 1,013 AI experts throughout 2024. Despite their differences, both groups agreed on...
The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications 'opened the door to a new wave of security threats,' argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.) So as part of the Linux Foundation's...
Back in 2023 Python's infrastructure director called it 'the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability of PyPI' while giving users 'one of our most requested features: organization accounts.' (That is, 'self-managed teams with their own...
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Is OpenAI's ChatGPT violating copyrights? The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023. But Ars Technica summarizes OpenAI's response. The New York Times (or NYT) 'should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles... partly because of the newspaper's own...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Yet another busy hurricane season is likely across the Atlantic this year -- but some of the conditions that supercharged storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 have waned, according to a key forecast issued Thursday. A warm --...
I've never spent much time in the Midwest, so when a friend from Minneapolis recently sent me a video highlighting this year's 'All Hockey Hair Team,' I was confused—and intrigued. I had never heard of the All Hockey Hair Team, but now that I've seen the video and learned...
Watch someone climb a giant stack of crates at a carnival in this daring challenge. Players get hooked up on a harness in this game, and must stack as many crates as they can. The crates are handed to them in the air on a pole, and they must stack the new crate while...
After the recent, devastating fires in Los Angeles, a new danger is worrying scientists. The threat of mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases is on the rise. Swimming pools left behind in the fires have become potential breeding grounds for dangerous mosquitos, and leaving...
For over forty years, astronomers have been baffled by X-rays from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula. A white dwarf is the remnant of a star that has shed its outer layers to form a nebula. They do not ordinarily emit X-rays, but observations by Chandra and...
To say people aren't exactly thrilled with Nintendo right now would be an understatement. The excitement of our first extended look at the Switch 2 was tempered heavily by the price tag attached: $450 for the console itself is rough as it is, but they also made the...
The next DOOM game is looming on the horizon, but you have to salute those still looking back to 1995. 'DOOM can run on everything' has been a meme longer than I've been alive, but I promise that the concoctions they're cooking up in the scarily dedicated Will It Run DOOM? —...
Pixel Watch 3 boots Microsoft's OS in latest feat of delightful pointlessness Windows on Arm has been around since the Surface RT – but this is another kind of arm altogether.…
Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.
One of Nintendo’s best and most influential controllers is making a comeback on Switch 2, alongside a host of classic games.
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