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Monday May 19, 2025. 10:57 PM
Remember that time 153 of America's most prestigious intellectuals joined forces like some sort of Justice League for journalistic freedom? Except instead of fighting Darkseid, they were really concerned about someone getting criticized on Twitter. As reported in The Nation, ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok...
Imagine software that can watch hundreds of live video streams at once, understand what’s happening, and summarize it all in seconds. That’s now a reality with NVIDIA’s new AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS), a powerful addition to its growing arsenal...
Chatbots are more persuasive in online debates than people -- especially when they are able to personalize their arguments using information about their opponent. From a report: The finding, published in Nature Human Behaviour on 19 May, highlights how large language models...
At launch, Sliders was a fantastic, if terribly named, sci-fi television show. It got a lot worse. The mid-1990s FOX Sci-Fi series Sliders started out really fun. I just preferred to forget it as the show clearly lost its way, but here, Toy Galaxy examines the failure...
Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior Microsoft has added xAI's Grok 3 family to its Azure AI Foundry platform, seemingly unfazed by the firm's rivalry with Microsoft investee OpenAI or the chatbot's recent descent into conspiracy territory.…
People are turning to generative AI to sort out their interpersonal conflicts, but some say it’s heightening their anxiety.
The Rust Release Team has shipped Rust 1.87, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features accommodations for anonymous pipes and architecture intrinsics. The new release was announced May 15, the same day as Rust’s 10th anniversary. Users with a...
An anonymous reader shares a report: European 'green' funds holding more than $33 billion of investments in major oil and gas companies have been revealed by an investigation, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of these investment funds...
The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could be weaponized to fuel censorship.
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue...
Following January's wildfires and Trump's harassment of international tourists, Los Angeles' tourism-driven economy is in a shambles. Restaurants are closing and hotels are struggling as international tourism numbers fall through the floor. The trade wars started by the...
Microsoft Word’s spell check can already suggest words in real time, but imagine an “idea check” future in which AI suggests ideas on the fly as users type. This is how Microsoft is evolving Copilot — as an AI assistant predicting ideas in real time by tapping into...
Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC's official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release.…
The Miracle Aligner published a bardcore cover of Lorde's Royals that goes the extra mile, or should I say gān þā ofer mīl: the lyrics are in Old English. A big thanks to Sluggard for carrying this video with all his hard work, check out the lyrics and his...
Microsoft writes on its blog that neither Azure nor the company’s AI technology has been used to harm people in Gaza. After allegations surfaced that these Microsoft products were being used by the Israeli military to harm civilians in Gaza, the company conducted internal...
Microsoft unveiled 'Edit on Windows,' a new command-line text editor, at its Build conference today. The open-source tool allows developers to edit files directly in the command line without switching to another app, similar to vim but designed to be more user-friendly....
What if humanity's future alongside superintelligent AI isn't extinction, but irrelevance? Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dropped this mind-bending perspective at a recent New Zealand panel, comparing our potential future to microscopic creatures living in our...
A fair dinkum disaster Updated Australia's first homegrown rocket launch has been delayed after the vehicle's fairing unexpectedly deployed on the launchpad.…
Scott Adams, creator of the 'Dilbert' comic strip, revealed he has terminal prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. It's the same disease affecting former president Joe Biden. During his Rumble show, 'Coffee With Scott Adams,' Adams shared his prognosis. — Read the...
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