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Sunday October 26, 2025. 02:55 AM
'Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,' reports Reuters, 'challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.' In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks' 'context-aware AI assistant': If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO's claims that Amazon ...
Saturday October 25, 2025. 10:44 PM
'OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,' warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. 'It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.' In September they...
Thursday the Washington Post profiled 'the people who dare to say no to AI,' including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says 'she doesn't want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce...' 'As the tech ...
An AI system 'apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm,' reports the Guardian, 'and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.' Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a ...
The Associated Press reports that 'North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars' by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies — all orchestrated by the North Korean government to finance R&D...
'Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time,' writes the Associated Press: Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE'koh) on Thursday, a...
The Washington Post reports on 996, 'a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week...' As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting...
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Associated Press: Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported...
Plus: Aura’s new digital photo frame goes wireless, a mood-morphing watch, Wyze and TP-Link unveil solar-powered outdoor security cameras, and Intel will open “AI Experience Stores” in five cities.
Whether you’re new to feeding birds or have been at your wits’ end for years, here are some tried-and-true tips on how to foil these wily rodents.
Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.
Electronic Arts (EA) has partnered with Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, to co-develop generative AI tools aimed at accelerating game development. 'I use the term smarter paintbrushes,' Steve Kestell, Head of Technical Art for EA SPORTS said in the announcement....
In OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, the Ask ChatGPT sidebar is moderately helpful at best. Sometimes, it’s confusingly wrong.
Mauro Porcini is, amazingly, Samsung's first ever chief design officer. He's got a hell of a job ahead of him.
Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, according to a House of...
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China's private space company LandSpace has completed a key static fire test of its Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) reusable rocket -- a stainless-steel, methane-fueled launcher modeled after SpaceX's Starship. Universe Today reports: The latest milestone took place on Monday, Oct. 22nd at...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Iceland's frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes -- marking the country's first confirmed finding of these...
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