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Monday December 15, 2025. 09:34 AM
Superintelligence has become 'a quasi-political forecast' with 'very little to do with any scientific consensus, emerging instead from particular corridors of power.' That's the warning from James O'Sullivan, a lecturer in digital humanities from University College Cork. In...
'A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite,' reports PC Magazine: On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of coordination from the...
Roomba manufacturer iRobot filed for bankruptcy today, reports Bloomberg. After 35 years, iRobot reached a 'restructuring support agrement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong...
'As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead,' reports the Associated Press, 'and severely restrict social media access for young people.' The Danish government announced last...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs 'plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo.' And yet 'less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had...
Sunday December 14, 2025. 11:59 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok's US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app's sale looms. The US has repeatedly delayed the date by which the platform's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast 'Diary of a CEO.' On YouTube, his clone narrates '100 CEOs With...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast 'Diary of a CEO.' On YouTube, his clone narrates '100 CEOs With...
AI 'has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry,' reports Rest of World. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, 'fewer than 25% have secured job offers... there's a sense of panic on the campus.' Students at ...
'Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century,' with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,' says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain. But their research also suggests polar bears 'are rapidly rewiring their ...
America's solar industry 'just delivered another huge quarter,' reports Electrek, 'installing 11.7 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in Q3 2025. That makes it the third-largest quarter on record and pushes total solar additions this year past 30 GW...' According to the new 'US...
Nonprofit Code.org released its 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report this week with a state-by-state analysis of school policies complaining that '0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation.' But meanwhile, at the college level, 'Purdue University will...
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of America's Communications Decency Act. 'The law prevents most civil suits against users or services that are based on what others say,' explains an EFF blog post....
Time magazine used its 98th annual 'Person of the Year' cover to 'recognize a force that has dominated the year's headlines, for better or for worse. For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending...
A January order blocking wind energy projects in America has now been vacated by a U.S. judge and declared unlawful, reports the Associated Press: [Judge Saris of the U.S. district court for the district of Massachusetts] ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be...
The R programming language 'is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers,' says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, 'due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems.' But he says it 'continues to thrive at ...
This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). An anonymous reader shared this report...
This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making 'significant' contributions to software freedom): Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU...
'The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,' notes Inside Java. But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that 'Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.' This ...
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