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Sunday January 26, 2025. 09:34 AM
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that 'this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software...
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TL;DR: Get a 1minAI lifetime subscription for $99.99 before codes sell out—less than 50 are left in stock. Rumor has it that ChatGPT-5 will be released this year and be more powerful than ever before, but why wait? An even better tool combines all of the top AI models into ...
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming...
A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. 'involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors,' reports NPR, 'to effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks...' '[P]otential...
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux 'could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,' according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. It's the code that processes packets of network traffic,...
Saturday January 25, 2025. 11:34 PM
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority 'for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,' reports USA Today. Unfortunately, 'What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps' further development. The trio is part of...
Akihabara News — Samsung Electronics has ceased the supply of its AI chips to Baidu, a significant move prompted by stringent US export controls aimed at China. The decision, which took effect on January 22, involves the cessation of packaging for the AI chip known as...
CleanTechnicareports that last year Americans 'bought 37% more air source heat pumps than the next most popular heating appliance — gas furnaces.' And Americans bought 21% more heat pumps than they did in 2023. Canary Media is quick to point out that in many homes, more than...
The Vox Pupuli collective group has announced the first release of OpenVox, a community-maintained open source implementation of the Puppet configuration management system. Introduced January 21, the OpenVox automation framework is designed to be a drop-in replacement for...
ZDNET's senior editor sees an 'overwhelmingly negative' response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, 'they made it a 30% price increase' — going...
Mark Zuckerberg, who has famously leaned into his masculine management style, is caught lying about his masculine achievements on a masculine podcast. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is pathetic. Zuckerberg is just making stuff up on...
2021: 'Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup' 2025: Canoo 'Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas' 'Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million...' ...
Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert are on bathroom patrol at the US Capitol. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! I am the very model of a Genital Inspector General,Enforcing laws both laughable and vaguely puritanical,I scrutinize your bathroom...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
Slashdot reader jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model. Bambu Labs responded that...
'For years, renewable energy proponents have hoped to build a U.S. electric grid powered by wind, solar, geothermal and — to a lesser extent — nuclear power...' writes the Washington Post. In America's power markets 'the economics of clean energy are strong,' with renewable...
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