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Saturday May 17, 2025. 02:50 AM
Walmart is preparing for a future where AI agents shop on behalf of consumers by adapting its systems to serve both humans and autonomous bots. As major players like Visa and PayPal also invest in agentic commerce, Walmart is positioning itself as a leader by developing its...
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, AWS CEO Matt Garman said the UK must expand nuclear energy to meet the soaring electricity demands of AI-driven data centers. From the report: Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is part of the retail giant Amazon, plans to spend 8...
Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking Chinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.…
A new set of 27 Linux kernel patches introduces a 'Swap Tables' mechanism aimed at enhancing virtual memory management. As Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports, 'the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Apple's next step for CarPlay is a version you'll only get to try if you're a fan of luxury cruisers or a popular spy film franchise. CarPlay Ultra, with its new suite of exclusive features like custom gauges, is coming first ...
Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.…
MIT has formally requested the withdrawal of a preprint paper on AI and scientific discovery due to serious concerns about the integrity and validity of its data and findings. It didn't provide specific details on what it believes is wrong with the paper. From a post:...
Friday May 16, 2025. 11:38 PM
The Chinese government recently imposed new restrictions on students using AI in the classroom. Not only do the restrictions forbid students from using AI-derived content in their schoolwork, but, for some age levels, students are also prohibited from using generative AI...
Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss? Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.…
Elon Musk’s xAI is under fire after its chatbot, Grok, began making unsolicited references to “white genocide” in South Africa. The incident, which surfaced on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this week, sparked concerns about how easily AI tools can be manipulated to...
OpenAI has launched Codex, a powerful AI coding agent in ChatGPT that autonomously handles tasks like writing features, fixing bugs, and testing code in a cloud-based environment. TechCrunch reports: Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company's o3 AI reasoning...
TL;DR: If you need some help with coding, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows is a great tool and it's currently on sale for $27.97 (reg. $499) through June 1. Whether you're a coding pro or total newbie, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional is ready to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Meta thinks there's no reason to carry on with its defense after the Federal Trade Commission closed its monopoly case, and the company has moved to end the trial early by claiming that the FTC utterly failed to prove...
Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go Microsoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer.…
An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out Comment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers.…
This May Patch Tuesday release is very much a “back-to-basics” update with just 78 patches for Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and.NET. Notably, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Due to the concerns of ...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Verizon's $9.6 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications, valuing the Dallas-based company at $20 billion including debt. The approval comes after Verizon agreed to scale back diversity initiatives to comply with Trump...
Others have found more subtle ways to fool the AI into giving problematic responses.
Charter Communications announced a $21.9 billion deal Friday to acquire Cox Communications, combining two major cable providers as they face mounting competition from wireless carriers offering 5G home internet. The transaction merges Charter's 31.4 million customers with...
If you’re ready for a break from artificial intelligence, Google I/O won’t be your safe haven. The annual developer conference — which starts next week in Mountain View, Calif. — and also offers a large virtual option, is expected to focus heavily on Google’s...
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