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Saturday May 24, 2025. 10:32 AM
Computing pioneer's personal papers expected to fetch tens of thousands Precious scientific papers once belonging to wartime codebreaking genius Alan Turing – rescued from an attic clear-out where they faced destruction – are set to fetch a fortune at auction next...
Google's new AI video tool, Veo 3, is being used to create hyperrealistic videos that are now flooding the internet, terrifying viewers 'with a sense that real and fake have become hopelessly blurred,' reports Axios. From the report: Unlike OpenAI's video generator Sora,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: One of Microsoft's latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons, and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims. In a paper published in the journal Nature and an accompanying blog...
In early 2025, U.S. solar power production jumped 44% compared to the previous year, driven by end-of-year construction to capture tax incentives and long-term cost advantages. 'The bad news is that, in contrast to China, solar's growth hasn't been enough to offset rising...
Kraken is launching tokenized versions of U.S. equities for 24/7 trading outside the U.S., giving global investors blockchain-based access to major companies like Apple and Tesla. Reuters reports: Tokenization refers to the process of issuing digital representations of...
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a press release from the White House, outlining a series of executive orders that overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and speed up deployment of new nuclear power reactions in the U.S.. From a report: The NRC is a 50-year-old,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Jalopnik: With the gradual rise of semi-autonomous vehicles, there will likely be multiple cameras pointing back when you pull out a phone to take a photo or record video of a car. One reddit user found out earlier this month that...
As Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump over a '60 Minutes' interview, the Freedom of the Press Foundation warns that it will sue over a deal that allegedly “could amount to a bribe.”
Richard Speed writes via The Register: It was 30 years ago when the first public release of the Java programming language introduced the world to Write Once, Run Anywhere -- and showed devs something cuddlier than C and C++. Originally called 'Oak,' Java was designed in the...
Friday May 23, 2025. 11:20 PM
Google's new AI Mode for Search, which is rolling out to everyone in the U.S., has sparked outrage among publishers, who call it 'the definition of theft' for using content without fair compensation and without offering a true opt-out option. Internal documents revealed by...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Nate Anderson: Don't worry about the 'mission-driven not-for-profit' College Board -- it's drowning in cash. The US group, which administers the SAT and AP tests to college-bound students, paid its CEO $2.38...
Spain's grid operator has accused some large power plants of not doing their job to help regulate the country's electricity system in the moments before last month's catastrophic blackout across the Iberian peninsula. From a report: Beatriz Corredor, chair of grid operator...
Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, according to new research. From a report: The study, published in Nature Food, investigated how well each country could feed their populations in seven...
Several romance novelists have accidentally left AI writing prompts embedded in their published books, exposing their use of chatbots, 404Media reports. Readers discovered passages like 'Here's an enhanced version of your passage, making Elena more relatable' in K.C....
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and data lake environment in expectation the proximity will help users that...
Rice plants can inherit tolerance to cold without changes to their genomes, according to a decade-long study carried out by researchers in China. From a report: The work, published in Cell this week, strengthens the evidence for a form of evolution in which environmental...
Bank accounts, personal details all hoovered up in the attack Nova Scotia Power on Friday confirmed it had been hit by a ransomware attack that began earlier this spring and disrupted certain IT systems, and admitted the crooks leaked data belonging to about 280,000...
Harvard University's Galileo Project is using AI to automate the search for unidentified anomalous phenomena, marking a significant shift in how academics approach what was once considered fringe research. The project operates a Massachusetts observatory equipped with...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.
Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31 Three years after confirming its acquisition by Fastly, Glitch is pulling the plug on its app hosting platform.…
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