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Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos pushed back on director James Cameron's recent assertion that AI could slash film production costs by half, arguing instead for quality improvements over cost reduction during Netflix's first-quarter earnings call Thursday. 'I read the article too ...
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)... In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot...
A new Seagate report reveals that hard drives significantly outperform solid-state drives in environmental sustainability metrics, particularly when accounting for manufacturing processes. According to the storage-maker's ''Decarbonizing Data'>Decarbonizing Data' [PDF]...
Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes Updated A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash,...
Google has reversed course on its Gemini Live screen sharing feature by making it available for free to all Android users through the Gemini app. The rollout will be gradual; as long as your Android phone can run the latest version of the Gemini app, you should receive this...
The Trump administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.
Bruce66423 shares a report: Toothpaste can be widely contaminated with lead and other dangerous heavy metals, new research shows. Most of 51 brands of toothpaste tested for lead contained the dangerous heavy metal, including those for children or those marketed as green. The ...
Delusional Trump is now worried that the price of eggs are not high enough. 'The egg prices are down 87%,' he claimed while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. 'But nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs you want. — Read the rest The post Trump's latest...
Someone hacked Seattle's crosswalk buttons into tiny speakers of truth, making them spit out messages 'from Jeff Bezos' that accidentally said the quiet part loud about wealth inequality. The digital prankster programmed multiple crosswalks around Amazon's mothership in...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Members of the European Parliament were offered special pouches to protect digital devices from espionage and tampering for a visit to Hungary this week, a sign of rising spying fears within Europe. Five lawmakers from the Parliament's...
Welcome to Cyprus, where officials discovered a new threat to national security: journalists reporting facts. As reported in OCCRP, the Mediterranean nation's Interior Ministry drafted legislation that would let authorities raid reporters' homes, offices, and devices. 'The...
DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.
A communication error between GoDaddy Registry and Markmonitor took Zoom's services offline for almost two hours on Wednesday when GoDaddy mistakenly blocked the zoom.us domain. The outage affected all services dependent on the zoom.us domain. GoDaddy's block prevented...
Rice, the world's most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published this week in The Lancet. From ...
Documentaries used to be about more than just true crime and celebrity deep-dives. Gary D. Rhodes' new book Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters From 1970s Documentaries (May 2025, Feral House) is a lavishly illustrated history of how ...
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's...
Today at the Star Wars Celebration Japan conference, director Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine) took the stage with a surprise announcement. He's directing Star Wars: Starfighter, a brand new film starring Ryan Gosling who also hit the stage in Makuhari for the big reveal,...
Nature has published an analysis of the 21st century's most-cited scientific papers, revealing a surprising pattern: breakthrough discoveries like mRNA vaccines, CRISPR, and gravitational waves don't make the list. Instead, a 2016 Microsoft paper on 'deep residual learning'...
Remember Donald Trump's grandiose promises of ending Russia's war on Ukraine on Day One? He crowed for months on end, with every variation of: 'It'll take me no longer than one day.' The Mexican-wall builder even upped the ante right before the vote, claiming he'd end the...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Voyager project has released a new version of its Ubuntu-based distribution. The latest version, Voyager Live 25.04, is an interim release offering nine months of support. 'I present you Voyager 25.04 final ...
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