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Sunday June 1, 2025. 09:29 PM
A 15-year-old asked the question — receiving an answer from an associate professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. They write (on The Conversation) that 'As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality....
The Ladybird browser project is now officially tax-exempt as a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Started two years ago (by the original creator of SerenityOS), Ladybird will be 'an independent, fast and secure browser that respects user privacy and fosters an open web.' They're...
Should a recovering addict take methamphetamine to stay alert at work? When an AI-powered therapist was built and tested by researchers — designed to please its users — it told a (fictional) former addict that 'It's absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get...
Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware Broadcom’s VMware business unit has dropped the lowest tier of its channel program, a move one analyst told The Register will benefit its rivals.…
AI company Anthropic (founded in 2021 by a team that left OpenAI) is now making about $3 billion a year in revenue, reports Reuters (citing 'two sources familiar with the matter.') The sources said December's projections had been for just $1 billion a year, but it climbed to ...
In December it looked like NASA's next administrator would be the billionaire businessman/space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX. But Saturday the nomination was withdrawn 'after a thorough review of prior associations,' according to an announcement made on...
Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.
Eero mesh systems are popular and easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.
If you’re in pursuit of your next PR, the durable Nice Rocc palm-cooling device can lower your core body temperature fast.
A 21-year-old's startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator — after building their web site and prototype mostly with 'vibe coding'. NPR explores vibe coding with Tom Blomfield, a Y Combinator group partner: 'It really caught on, this idea that people are no longer...
If conversations are slow to load and Gmail’s search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.
Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.
For less than the cost of a round of drinks, a plasticized Boston Dynamics fever dream could be yours too.
'How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?' asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales 'One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe....
With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians 'to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,' according to RestOfWorld.org — 'the first such nationwide initiative in...
Earlier this month the 'Create New Issue' page on GitHub got a new option. 'Save time by creating issues with Copilot' (next to a link labeled 'Get started.') Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. 'With Copilot, creating...
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current 'advanced' LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with...
Saturday May 31, 2025. 11:02 PM
Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. 'Data, including building plans, diagrams,...
A U.S. federal judge has decided that free-speech protections in the First Amendment 'don't shield an AI company from a lawsuit,' reports Legal Newsline. The suit is against Character.AI (a company reportedly valued at $1 billion with 20 million users) Judge Anne C. Conway...
Apple's end-to-end iCloud encryption product ('Advanced Data Protection') was famously removed in the U.K. after a government order demanded backdoors for accessing user data. So now a Google software engineer wants to build an open source version of Advanced Data Protection ...
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