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Sunday October 26, 2025. 02:44 AM
Thursday Ubuntu-maker Canonical 'officially launched Canonical Academy, a new certification platform designed to help professionals validate their Linux and Ubuntu skills through practical, hands-on assessments,' writes the blog It's FOSS: Focusing on real-world scenarios,...
'Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,' reports Reuters, 'challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.' In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks' 'context-aware AI assistant': If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO's claims that Amazon ...
Saturday October 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Stimulate your brain with award-winning, original documentaries on Curiosity Stream for just $149.99 (Reg. $399.99). We spend so much time on streaming sites. Not necessarily watching anything, but scrolling through titles until we feel numb or fall asleep. Is this...
'OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,' warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. 'It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.' In September they...
Thursday the Washington Post profiled 'the people who dare to say no to AI,' including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says 'she doesn't want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce...' 'As the tech ...
An AI system 'apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm,' reports the Guardian, 'and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.' Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a ...
The Associated Press reports that 'North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars' by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies — all orchestrated by the North Korean government to finance R&D...
Writer/director David Chase may not have made anything good since The Sopranos, but, y'know, he made The f*cking Sopranos, so he gets a pash for dat. Not Fade Away was awful, The Many Saints of Newark is a complete joke when held up next to the series it's meant to be a...
I love Fallout 4 (I also love Starfield—maybe I have a disease?). I love to build bases, play with community-made mods, and still get a jolt of glee every time I uncover a new, random tidbit, even after all these years of playing. — Read the rest The post Fallout 4 will...
'Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time,' writes the Associated Press: Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE'koh) on Thursday, a...
More than a few games have tried to capture the Twin Peaks vibe. That isn't surprising in and of itself — the show is still considered among the best of all time, and there's just something about that specific brand of sleepy small-town cosmic horror that lends itself to...
If you weren't already convinced that artificial intelligence isn't ready for prime time, I've got something to help sway you. This week in Baltimore, Taki Allen, a professional teenager, was doing what teens are supposed to do: going to high school: Getting an education. —...
The Washington Post reports on 996, 'a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week...' As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting...
TL;DR: The Vespera Pro Smart Telescope is here to make stargazing cool again — get $300 off with code SMART and explore the cosmos without needing a PhD in astrophysics. Forget fumbling with star maps — this thing basically does astrophotography for you. — Read the rest ...
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Associated Press: Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported...
Plus: Aura’s new digital photo frame goes wireless, a mood-morphing watch, Wyze and TP-Link unveil solar-powered outdoor security cameras, and Intel will open “AI Experience Stores” in five cities.
Whether you’re new to feeding birds or have been at your wits’ end for years, here are some tried-and-true tips on how to foil these wily rodents.
Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.
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