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Monday May 26, 2025. 04:27 AM
PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can...
AI's downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work,' reports the New York Times. 'Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced... The new approach to coding at many companies has, in...
'OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands,' according to a new article by long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli. 'A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company's ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down.' The results...
Sunday May 25, 2025. 11:22 PM
Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today. The story so far... Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 2023, he'd created a new...
'I am a huge fan of Star Wars,' opines an article from the gaming Aftermath. 'As every Star Wars fan knows, being a Star Wars fan means you hate Star Wars as much as you love it.' But fortunately there's Going Rogue and Galactic — two tabletop games 'inspired' by the Star...
Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency Feature If you've been following AI development over the past few years, one trend has remained constant: bigger models are usually smarter, but also harder to run.…
'Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?' asks an opinion piece in Spain's El Pais newspaper. It argues it's necessary because social media platforms 'have consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies, with a business model that consists of...
Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth's temperature rises. ('The study, published ...
Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world Computex Every time I attend Taiwan's Computex exhibition I'm bewildered by the dozens of vendors selling unremarkable keyboards and mice.…
A year ago, the original creator of SerenityOS posted that 'for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird, a new web browser that started as a simple HTML viewer for SerenityOS.' So it became a stand-alone project that 'aims to render the modern web...
Whether General Motors survives 'depends in part on whether its bets on battery technology pay off,' writes the Wall Street Journal. At $33,600 the company's Chevy Equinox is one of the cheapest EVs in America (only $5,000 more than the gas-powered model). 'But it also...
But it's still going to come in through the back door Comment As AI pilots within enterprises increasingly flame out, OpenAI is making a pivot to consumers, suggesting AI is more likely to sneak into the enterprise through users than walk in through the front door. But IT...
It’s the best time of year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and gear you’ll need for summer fun.
The wonders of a thin phone quickly disappear when you have to baby the battery life.
Besides pressure on Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook 'is facing off against two U.S. judges, European and worldwide regulators, state and federal lawmakers, and even a creator of the iPhone,' writes the Wall Street Journal, 'to say nothing of the cast of...
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.
A new era of 3D display technology is upon us, moving far beyond anything we’ve seen in the past.
'In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north...' remembers the BBC. [T]he Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each...
'Duolingo had been riding high,' reports Fast Company, until CEO Luis von Ahn 'announced on LinkedIn that the company is phasing out human contractors, looking for AI use in hiring and in performance reviews, and that 'headcount will only be given if a team cannot automate...
Doom: The Dark Ages just launched on May 15. But it's already received 'difficulty' balance changes 'that have made the demons of Hell even more dangerous than ever,' writes Windows Central: According to DOOM's official website Slayer's Club, these balance adjustments are...
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