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Sunday July 7, 2024. 01:00 PM
Electric ripples in the resting brain tag memories for storage and add credence to advice about the importance of rest.
From “delves” to “showcasing,” certain words boomed in usage after LLMs became mainstream.
In Communications of the ACM,/em>, long-time FreeBSD contributor Poul-Henning Kamp mocks the idea that the free and open-source software has 'come apart' and 'will end in tears and regret.' Economists and others focused on money — like my bank — have had a lot of trouble figu...
Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from Windows Central Microsoft may have opened a can of worms with recent comments made by the tech giant's CEO of AI Mustafa Suleyman. The CEO spoke with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this week. In...
Monday Boeing announced plans to acquire its key supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, for $4.7 billion, according to the Associated Press — 'a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the Department of Justice. Boeing...
IEEE Spectrum (the IEEE's official publication) asks the question. 'How does an AI code generator compare to a human programmer?' A study published in the June issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering evaluated the code produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT in terms of...
Saturday July 6, 2024. 10:58 PM
They lived 378 days in a 'mock Mars habitat' in Houston, reports Engadget. But today the four volunteers for NASA's yearlong simulation will finally emerge from their 1,700-square-foot habitat at the Johnson Space Center that was 3D-printed from materials that could be...
New York City announced a 'major citywide initiative' to increase 'math achievement' among students, according to the mayor's office. 93 middle schools and 420 high schools will implement an 'Illustrative Math' curriculum (from an education nonprofit founded in 2011)...
Windows Recall was 'delayed' over concerns that storing unencrypted recordings of users' activity was a security risk. But now Slashdot reader storagedude writes: The latest version of Microsoft's planned Windows Recall feature still contains data privacy and security...
'Images captured from space show the growth of Cuba's electronic eavesdropping stations,' reported the Wall Street Journal this week, citing a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. But they added that the stations...
TL;DR: Streamline your coding workflows with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows, now just $34.97 through 7/21. Programming is tough. You deserve to have tools to make it at least a little bit easier on yourself. That’s where Microsoft Visual Studio...
'For two years, many unprofitable tech startups have cut costs, sold themselves or gone out of business,' reports the New York Times. 'But the ones focused on artificial intelligence have been thriving.' Now, the AI boom that started in late 2022, has become the strongest...
What's in the box! No seriously, what's in there that sets our wages Interview Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves 'the use of granular data to produce unpredictable, variable, and...
General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the U.S. government, reports the Associated Press, 'because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards.' The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider: It's a political tale as old as time: put up a campaign poster in your yard, and thieves come to snatch it. But according to The Wall Street Journal, those fed up with front lawn looting are embracing a modern...
'After approximately seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available,' writes ADT magazine, 'emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor.' The Eclipse Theia IDE is part of the...
Universal console support, great battery life, and a powerful companion app make this one of the best gaming headsets I’ve tested in a while.
How many ports do you need? What does 4K UHD even mean? Here's everything you need to know.
Hacking into an account doesn’t always require deep expertise in exploiting vulnerabilities. Sometimes it’s a simple as taking leaked information and placing it elsewhere on the internet. That’s why the release of massive password collections are dangerous—and why alarms are...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But ...
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