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Monday December 4, 2023. 05:00 PM
Abstract to a paper titled, 'Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure' by Jeremy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni and Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research: We demonstrate a situation in which Large Language Models, trained...
Spotify is eliminating about 1,500 jobs, or about 17% of its workforce, in its third round of layoffs this year as the music streaming giant looks to become 'both productive and efficient.' From a report: In a note to employees Monday, Spotify founder and chief executive...
Quantum computing is starting to fulfil its promise as a crucial scientific research tool, IBM researchers claim, as the US tech group attempts to quell fears that the technology will fail to match high hopes for it. From a report: The company is due to unveil 10 projects on ...
You probably keep a backup of important personal files, photos, and videos on a flash drive or external hard drive. In the not-too-distant future, you might store that data in DNA instead. French company Biomemory wants to bring personal DNA-based data storage to the public. ...
What's behind a supposed shortage of cybersecurity workers? Last month cybersecurity professional Ben Rothke questioned whether a 'shortage' even existed. Instead Rothke argued that human resources 'needs to understand how to effectively hire information security...
The free open-source text editor Notepad++ is celebrating its 20th anniversary, the blog OMG! Ubuntu reported this week, 'with a new release filled with some neat new features.' In Notepad++ 8.6 (the 238th release since 2003, for those keeping count) the Windows-based code...
'Advent of Code' has begun. New programming puzzles will appear every day until Christmas at AdventOfCode.com — and the annual event (first started in 2015) has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. This year's first puzzle has been completed by over 150,000 programmers (with...
Slashdot reader XXongo writes: Nuclear power plants have historically been built at gigawatt scale. Recently, however, there has been a new dawn seeing multiple projects to build Small Modular Reactors ('SMRs'), both funded by billionaires and by the U.S. Department of...
Sunday December 3, 2023. 11:59 PM
Gene Simmons is 74 years old. But as the singer for the classic rock band KISS left the stage after their final show, USA Today reports there was a surprise: in the most on-brand KISS move even by KISS standards, before the quartet likely hit their dressing rooms after...
Today is the 20th anniversary of its last flight of the supersonic Concorde aircraft. It was faster than the speed of sound, travelling at speeds of 1,350 mph (2,170 km/h). Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared an article from the Telegraph: As the space race raged and...
For circuit-based quantum computations, the achievable circuit complexity is limited by the quality of timekeeping. That's according to a new analysis published in the journal Physical Review Letters exploring 'the effect of imperfect timekeeping on controlled quantum...
The Atlantic writes: Failing a CAPTCHA isn't just annoying — it keeps people from navigating the internet. Older people can take considerably more time to solve different kinds of CAPTCHAs, according to the UC Irvine researchers, and other research has found that the same is...
An anonymous reader writes: Using realistic ecological modeling, scientists led by Western Sydney University's Jürgen Knauer found that the globe's vegetation could actually be taking on about 20% more of the CO2 humans have pumped into the atmosphere and will continue to do...
Back in 2021 Hurricane Ida knocked out power lines in New Orleans, leaving parts of the city in darkness for 10 days. So a coalition of community-based organizations (including some churches) decided to build 'solar-powered disaster response hubs that could transform the...
Long-time Slashdot reader nmb3000 writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new white paper, Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms, to propose an alternative to the 'often ill-conceived, bills written by state, federal, and international...
It's 'the conference about the joy of Emacs and Emacs Lisp.' Started in 2013, the volunteer-run EmacsConf accepted 44 talks for this year — and Day Two has just started streaming online now. Sunday kicks off with a talk counting on how the 'hypertextual information manager'...
100 miles south of the Canadian border, the tiny town of Bemidji, Minnesota 'has been bombarded by a sudden onslaught of Amazon packages' since early November, reports the Washington Post, 'and local postal workers say they have been ordered to deliver those packages first.' ...
Long-time Slashdot reader BishopBerkeley writes: Varjo follows a completely different model from Apple and Meta for its new AR headset. Computing is done on a connected (via a cable) computer. The tradeoff is that the headset can use the extra computing power of the host...
'As of this year, all new Mac computers are powered by Apple's own silicon, ending the company's 15-plus years of reliance on Intel,' according to a new report from CNBC. 'Apple's silicon team has grown to thousands of engineers working across labs all over the world,...
A pull request has been merged to fix a data corruption issue in OpenZFS (the open-source implementation of the ZFS file system and volume manager). 'OpenZFS 2.2.2 and 2.1.14 released with fix in place,' reports a Thursday comment on GitHub. Earlier this week, jd (Slashdot...
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