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Monday May 26, 2025. 02:22 AM
Linus Torvalds has officially released version 6.15 of the Linux kernel. While this update doesn’t include anything flashy or headline-grabbing, it continues the steady evolution of the most important open source kernel in the world. As usual, driver updates make up the...
TL;DR: New Members get a 1-year BJ's The Club+ Card Membership for $50 (reg. $120), earn 2% back, save on gas, and enjoy free delivery perks. BJ's has quietly become a favorite for warehouse club shoppers, and for good reason. While other warehouse stores might get more...
'OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands,' according to a new article by long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli. 'A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company's ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down.' The results...
Sunday May 25, 2025. 11:59 PM
OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands. A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company’s ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down. The results are raising eyebrows across the AI safety community, and not because the...
Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today. The story so far... Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 2023, he'd created a new...
TL;DR: Pay once, own it forever—get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $49.97 (reg. $219.99) through June 1. Subscription fees are basically everywhere. Between your health apps, entertainment apps, and gaming apps, monthly payments add up big time....
'I am a huge fan of Star Wars,' opines an article from the gaming Aftermath. 'As every Star Wars fan knows, being a Star Wars fan means you hate Star Wars as much as you love it.' But fortunately there's Going Rogue and Galactic — two tabletop games 'inspired' by the Star...
Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency Feature If you've been following AI development over the past few years, one trend has remained constant: bigger models are usually smarter, but also harder to run.…
'Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?' asks an opinion piece in Spain's El Pais newspaper. It argues it's necessary because social media platforms 'have consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies, with a business model that consists of...
Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth's temperature rises. ('The study, published ...
Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world Computex Every time I attend Taiwan's Computex exhibition I'm bewildered by the dozens of vendors selling unremarkable keyboards and mice.…
A year ago, the original creator of SerenityOS posted that 'for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird, a new web browser that started as a simple HTML viewer for SerenityOS.' So it became a stand-alone project that 'aims to render the modern web...
TL;DR: This HD projector is also a retro gaming console with 36,000+ games, Android 11, and two wireless controllers — all for $99.99 (reg. $149.99). This is not a drill. Someone decided to take a full-on HD movie projector, cram 36,000+ retro games into it, toss in Android...
Whether General Motors survives 'depends in part on whether its bets on battery technology pay off,' writes the Wall Street Journal. At $33,600 the company's Chevy Equinox is one of the cheapest EVs in America (only $5,000 more than the gas-powered model). 'But it also...
But it's still going to come in through the back door Comment As AI pilots within enterprises increasingly flame out, OpenAI is making a pivot to consumers, suggesting AI is more likely to sneak into the enterprise through users than walk in through the front door. But IT...
It’s the best time of year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and gear you’ll need for summer fun.
The wonders of a thin phone quickly disappear when you have to baby the battery life.
Besides pressure on Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook 'is facing off against two U.S. judges, European and worldwide regulators, state and federal lawmakers, and even a creator of the iPhone,' writes the Wall Street Journal, 'to say nothing of the cast of...
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.
A new era of 3D display technology is upon us, moving far beyond anything we’ve seen in the past.
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