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Monday June 16, 2025. 09:44 AM
KDE isn't the only organization reaching out to ' as Microsoft prepares to end support for Windows 10. 'Now, The Document Foundation, maker of LibreOffice, has also joined in to support the Endof10 initiative,' reports the tech blog Neowin: The foundation writes: 'You don't...
Spain's newspaper El Pais found an entire fake album on YouTube titled Rumba Congo (1973). And they cite a study from France's International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers that estimated revenue from AI-generated music will rise to $4 billion in 2028,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: Amazon's hard-line stance on getting disabled employees to return to the office has sparked a backlash, with workers alleging the company is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as their rights to...
In Tokyo Mitsubishi is deploying 'an innovative new battery swap network for electric cars' in a multi-year test program reports the EV news site Electrek. But it's not just for electric cars. Along with the 14 modular battery swapping stations, Mitsubishi is also deploying...
Timothy B. Lee has written for the Washington Post, Vox.com, and Ars Technica — and now writes a Substack blog called 'Understanding AI.' This week he visits recent research by computer scientists and legal scholars from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University that...
Sunday June 15, 2025. 11:29 PM
Meta and AWS have used Rust, and Netflix uses Go,reports the programming news site InfoQ. But using another language, Apple recently 'migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput, and significantly reducing memory ...
NPR looks at the 'high-quality, climate-friendly apartments' in Vienna, asking if it's a model for addressing both climate change and the housing crisis. About half the city's 2 million people live in the widespread (and government-supported) apartments, with solar panels on ...
A chain of stores called Home Bargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. Unfortunately, 'Facewatch' made a mistake. 'We acknowledge and understand how distressing this experience must have been,' an anonymous Facewatch spokesperson tells...
The state of New York is 'asking companies to disclose whether AI is the reason for their layoffs,' reports Entrepreneur: The move applies to New York State's existing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system and took effect in March, Bloomberg reported....
'Cooper Taylor is only 17 years old, but he's already trying to revolutionize the drone industry,' writes Business Insider: His design makes the drone more efficient, customizable, and less expensive to construct, he says. He's built six prototypes, 3D printing every piece...
America's federal government is building a website and API called ai.gov to 'accelerate government innovation with AI', according to an early version spotted by 404 Media that was posted on GitHub by the U.S. government's General Services Administration. That site 'is...
It's the technology 'Google tried (and failed at) more than a decade ago,' writes CNN. (And Meta and Amazon have also previously tried releasing glasses with cameras, speakers and voice assistants.) Yet this week Snap announced that 'it's building AI-equipped eyewear to be...
Space may be the perfect place to study cancer — and someday even treat it,' writes Space.com: On Earth, gravity slows the development of cancer because cells normally need to be attached to a surface in order to function and grow. But in space, cancer cell clusters can...
Meta's CTO, Palantir's CTO, and OpenAI's chief product officer are being appointed as lieutenant colonels in America's Army Reserve, reports The Register. (Along with OpenAI's former chief revenue officer). They've all signed up for Detachment 201: Executive Innovation...
In 1989 a computer scientist argued that more functionality in software actually lowers usability and practicality — leading to the counterintuitive proposition that 'worse is better'. But is that still true? Python's original creator Guido van Rossum addressed the question...
Last week America's financial aid program announced that 'the rate of fraud through stolen identities has reached a level that imperils the federal student aid programs.' Or, as the Associated Press suggests: Online classes + AI = financial aid fraud. 'In some cases,...
Will an expansion of biofuels increase greenhouse gas emissions, despite their purported climate benefits? That's the claim of a new report from the World Resources Institute, which has been critical of US biofuel policy in the past. Ars Technica has republished an article...
Saturday June 14, 2025. 10:49 PM
'People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT,' reports the Washington Post. But that's just the first change, according to a New York-based start-up devoted to watching for content-scraping AI companies with a free analytics product and ...
Rocky Linux 10 'Red Quartz' has reached general availability, notes a new article in The Register — surveying the differences between 'RHELatives' — the major alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Rocky 10 release notes describe what's new, such as support for RISC-V...
Recently the Browser Company (the startup behind the Arc web browser) switched over to building a new AI-powered browser — and its beta has just been released, reports TechCrunch, 'though you'll need an invite to try it out.' The Chromium-based browser has a URL/search bar th...
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