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Tuesday January 28, 2025. 08:00 AM
After observing 20 chimpanzees for over 600 hours, researchers in Japan found that chimps are more likely to urinate after witnessing others do so. '[T]he team meticulously recorded the number and timing of 'urination events' along with the relative distances between 'the...
An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior: In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and...
Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details... so judge bins off evidence updated A murder case in Cleveland, Ohio, could collapse because the city's police relied on AI-based facial recognition software to obtain a search warrant.…
Microsoft Exchange administrators running versions older than March 2023 need to update or they won’t get the latest security mitigations, says an expert. But, David Shipley added, even better advice is to shift quickly to the cloud-based Microsoft 365, which always has...
In the first 11 months of 2024, solar energy generation in the US grew by 30%, enabling wind and solar combined to surpass coal for the first time. However, as Ars Technica's John Timmer reports, 'U.S. energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly...
DeepSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.
chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru's STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report...
TL;DR: Save 50% on the VentiFresh Eco Plus, a portable personal air purifier that banishes germs and bad odors for $43.99 (reg. $88). Do you find yourself coughing or struggling with a runny nose when you're in the office? It might be because you're getting sick (yuck), but...
West Sussex County Council is using up to $31 million from the sale of capital assets to fund an Oracle-based transformation project, originally budgeted at $3.2 million but now expected to cost nearly $50 million due to delays and cost overruns. The project, intended to...
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets...
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model...
Crouching tiger, hidden layer(s) Barely a week after DeepSeek's R1 LLM turned Silicon Valley on its head, the Chinese outfit is back with a new release it claims is ready to challenge OpenAI's DALL-E 3.…
Facebook has banned posts mentioning Linux-related topics, with the popular Linux news and discussion site, DistroWatch, at the center of the controversy. Tom's Hardware reports: A post on the site claims, 'Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and...
Monday January 27, 2025. 11:56 PM
'I remember specifically getting messaging when I was younger about how you shouldn't have sex on drugs — that it may be the best sex of your life and ruin the rest of your sex life,' says Sura Hertzberg, founder of the print magazine Sex & Psychedelics. — Read the rest ...
Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues Updated DeepSeek's open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how these models were trained ...
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI...
As wildfires and other effects of climate change threaten the future of the region, devs are pulling together to raise funds for those affected.
Six and a half spins in the air. That's what constitutes a 2340, a dizzying track landed by both a snowboard and skier for the first time on record. At the X Games in Aspen, snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan stomped it on Friday while Italian skier Miro Tabanelli achieved...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: TechCrunch gathered data from several sources and found similar trends. In 2024, 966 startups shut down, compared to 769 in 2023, according to Carta. That's a 25.6% increase. One note on methodology: Those numbers are for...
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