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Sunday July 14, 2024. 01:32 PM
Just be careful not to shave off too many bits... These things are known to hallucinate as it is Hands on If you hop on Hugging Face and start browsing through large language models, you'll quickly notice a trend: Most have been trained at 16-bit floating point of...
Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.
Tech founders painted a vision of employees clocking into virtual workplaces. But the adoption of VR at work has been slow.
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'A leading South Korean producer of electric vehicle batteries has declared itself in crisis,' reports the Financial Times, 'as its customers struggle with disappointing EV sales in Europe and the US.' SK On, the world's fourth-largest EV battery maker behind Chinese giants...
'In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit,' reports the Guardian, 'and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.' South...
ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: Friday the hardware review site Gamers Nexus filed a YouTube video report alleging some serious claims: that PC component manufacturer MSI left their internal warranty and RMA processing web site accessible to the open Internet, with no ...
“I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Elon Musk posted on X after the incident.
Saturday July 13, 2024. 11:55 PM
'Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security,' reports BleepingComputer — by changing the way it stores plain text encryption keys for the SQLite database where users' messages are stored: When BleepingComputer contacted Signal about the flaw in 2018, we never ...
clovis (Slashdot reader #4,684) writes: Joe Engle received his astronaut wings in a ceremony on July 15, 1965, for his flight in the hypersonic aircraft, reaching an altitude of 50 miles above the Earth. At 32, he was the youngest man to become an astronaut. Later, he...
Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from BetaNews: Check Point Research has identified a critical zero-day spoofing attack exploiting Microsoft Internet Explorer on modern Windows 10/11 systems, despite the browser's retirement. Identified as CVE-2024-38112, this...
TechSpot writes: Users of the Linksys Velop Pro 6E and 7 mesh routers should change their passwords and Wi-Fi network names through an external web browser. The two models transmit critical information to outside servers in an insecure manner upon initial installation. New...
MuckRock is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit collaborative news site to 'request, analyze and share government documents,' according to its web site. And long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared their report about a lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper: In a vault at the...
Slashdot reader Kirschey writes: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection determined that the redesigned Apple Watch models do not violate AliveCor's electrocardiogram patents, allowing them to be imported. This decision comes before a consolidated hearing at the Federal...
A report from TechSpot: For home videographers and data hoarders who still rely on optical discs for archiving, some bad news just dropped: Sony is winding down production of recordable Blu-ray media... In an interview Sony gave to AV Watch recently, the company admitted...
And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice... Color us skeptical Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security.…
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'Intel's problems with unstable 13th-gen and 14th-gen high-end CPUs appear to run deeper than we thought,' writes TechRadar, 'and a new YouTube video diving into these gremlins will do little to calm any fears that buyers of Raptor Lake Core i9 processors (and its subsequent ...
These WIRED-tested hearing aids, approved by a licensed audiologist, will help seniors whose hearing has faded with age.
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