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Thursday December 4, 2025. 10:37 PM
'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!' Some say confession is good for the soul, but what if you have no soul? OpenAI recently tested what happens if you ask its bots to 'confess' to bypassing their guardrails.…
The EU has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over a new WhatsApp policy that could block rival AI assistants from accessing the platform. Complaints from smaller AI developers triggered the probe, which could lead to fines of up to 10% of Meta's global revenue if...
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders are asking the right question in their new book Rewiring Democracy: not whether AI will change politics, but how we can shape that change. The cybersecurity expert (behind Data and Goliath) and data scientist tackle something most AI...
He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.
Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: The Italian company Bending Spoons seems to be on an acquisitions spree. Their recent acquisitions of AOL and Vimeo are not yet finalized, yet on Dec. 2 they announced they are buying Eventbrite, a company specializing in...
The Wicked: For Good director says being able to improvise on set allows for the kind of moments that are hard for machines to make.
Purveyor of surveillance software that enables authoritarian oversight, Palantir CEO Alex Karp behaved very strangely during an interview with the New York Times. Appearing drunk on more than power and money, Karp lectured the Times to bow down. Palantir CEO Alex Karp's...
Self-driving cars aren’t perfect, but new safety data suggests they may be far better than many humans behind the wheel. A deep dive into Waymo’s newly released safety data, covering nearly 100 million driverless miles by mid-2025, presents a compelling case for...
And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks Vetting staff who handle sensitive government systems is wise, and so is cutting off their access the moment they're fired. Prosecutors say a federal contractor learned this the hard way when twin brothers previously...
The 30-year-old Virginia resident evaded capture for years after authorities discovered pipe bombs planted near buildings in Washington, DC, the day before the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
OpenAI has been ordered to turn over 20 million de-identified ChatGPT conversation logs to a coalition of news publishers, including The New York Times, in a closely watched copyright battle over generative AI. A US magistrate judge in Manhattan rejected OpenAI’s effort to ...
Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status. Announced November 25, Unison 1.0 marks a point where the language, distributed runtime, and developer workflow have stabilized,...
Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0 of the Alpine Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge package with linux-stable: For years, linux-lts and linux-edge grew apart and developed their...
As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time around, but it contains quite a bit of significant work, with changes to...
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft has silently 'mitigated' a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability exploited by multiple state-backed and cybercrime hacking groups in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-9491, this security flaw allows attackers to ...
Lisa Su leads Nvidia’s biggest rival in the AI chip market. When asked at WIRED’s Big Interview event if AI is a bubble, the company’s CEO said, “Emphatically, from my perspective, no.”
A severe spike in global DRAM prices has pushed Samsung Semiconductor to refuse a long-term RAM order from its own sibling, Samsung Electronics. The move is forcing the smartphone division into short, expensive renegotiations, which will likely mean higher costs for consumer ...
'You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.' –Vacation The station wagon lost the culture war to minivans, got buried by SUVs, and crushed by corporate tax incentives. But it's not dead, just hiding in Europe under a roof box and calling itself a 'crossover.' —...
Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman predicted on Wednesday. He also vowed that the country will not endure...
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