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Wednesday June 4, 2025. 01:00 AM
Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer in AI and Turing Award winner, has launched a $30 million non-profit aimed at developing 'honest' AI systems that detect and prevent deceptive or harmful behavior in autonomous agents. The Guardian reports: Yoshua Bengio, a renowned computer...
A post claiming to be written by Trump, ranting about alt-rock/ska/punk band Fishbone playing the song 'Racist Piece of $H!T' at their recent performance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, has been making the rounds on social media. It's riling up MAGA to be mad at...
JetBrains is deepening its collaboration with the Spring platform team, with the goal of making the Kotlin language a top choice for professional server-side work. The JetBrains-Spring partnership, announced May 22, is intended to make Kotlin a more natural and powerful...
Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to 'bring clarity to threat-actor naming.'…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region 'backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and...
The Google Chrome team issued an update to fix a high-severity vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The issue was also mitigated by a configuration change pushed out last Thursday to users of the stable Chrome version, which didn’t require a browser...
Tuesday June 3, 2025. 11:48 PM
Something pretty wild just happened in New York City, and you probably didn’t even hear it… literally. You see, a fully electric aircraft just landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport, making history as the first of its kind to touch down at any of the three major ...
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report: A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to his role in a 'swatting' ring that targeted dozens of public officials, including a former US president. Going by the aliases 'Plank,' 'Jonah' and 'Cypher,'...
'It appears as though Meta (aka: Facebook's parent company) and Yandex have found a way to sidestep the Android Sandbox,' writes Slashdot reader TheWho79. Researchers disclose the novel tracking method in a report: We found that native Android apps -- including Facebook,...
TL;DR: I jumped ship and grabbed lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2024 for $129.97 (reg. $149.99) while it's still on sale. It's the best decision I've made this year. Okay, real talk: it's 2025 and I am done with subscriptions. I mean, come on. Between Netflix, Spotify,...
Fvwm3, the venerable, solid, configurable, no-nonsense window manager for X, has been updated: fvwm3 1.1.3 has been released. While the version number indicates that this is a minor release, there’s one reason why 1.1.3 is actually a much bigger deal than the version number...
Generative AI (genAI) is enhancing worker value and productivity, not replacing people — and that’s true even for roles that are vulnerable to automation, according to new new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Analysis by PwC of nearly 1 billion job ads...
Meta plans to fully automate ad creation using artificial intelligence by the end of next year. The move, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, could upend the traditional advertising world and redefine how businesses, big and small, promote themselves online. The tech...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Latin Times: A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots....
Snowflake (Nasdaq:SNOW) has announced its intent to acquire US-based cloud-based PostgreSQL database provider Crunchy Data for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to offer developers an easier way to build AI-based applications by offering a PostgreSQL database, to be dubbed...
The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney anticipated his company's battle with Apple would create 'fireworks,' but he never expected Fortnite to disappear from the iOS App Store for nearly five years. When Epic deliberately violated App Store rules in 2020 by inserting its own payment...
TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.…
Microsoft cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years, underscoring the tech industry's efforts to trim costs even as it plows billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. From a report: More than 300 employees were told their positions had been...
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default...
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