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Sunday June 1, 2025. 01:34 PM
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 ...
In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing 'strategic reserves'of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include 'cryptocurrency...
'We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings,' writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism. (The robots were named 'AI Strategist',...
Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as 'all part of the AI hype...
'More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube,' according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they're sharing their scientific work and answering questions from...
Priority's new flagship ebike is a premium, classy-looking ride that lets you feel the joy of the open road.
This basic standing desk is easy to assemble and simple to configure, but it sure could use more customization options.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding...
If you use Google’s apps and AI, it’s worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down the plans and how much they cost.
You can wear these heating, foot-massaging sneakers while you're doing the dishes or walking your cat.
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