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Saturday April 5, 2025. 09:34 PM
This week NASA 'issued a solicitation for the next two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station,' reports Space News. Scheduled after May of 2026 and then mid-2027, 'These will be the fifth and sixth such missions to the ISS, part of a broader low Earth...
Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot...
The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications 'opened the door to a new wave of security threats,' argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.) So as part of the Linux Foundation's...
Back in 2023 Python's infrastructure director called it 'the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability of PyPI' while giving users 'one of our most requested features: organization accounts.' (That is, 'self-managed teams with their own...
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Is OpenAI's ChatGPT violating copyrights? The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023. But Ars Technica summarizes OpenAI's response. The New York Times (or NYT) 'should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles... partly because of the newspaper's own...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Yet another busy hurricane season is likely across the Atlantic this year -- but some of the conditions that supercharged storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 have waned, according to a key forecast issued Thursday. A warm --...
A new study shows bonobos can combine vocal calls in ways that mirror human language, producing phrases with meanings beyond the sum of individual sounds. 'Human language is not as unique as we thought,' said Dr Melissa Berthet, the first author of the research from the...
SpaceX's Fram2 mission returned safely after becoming the first crewed spaceflight to orbit directly over Earth's poles. From a report: Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who is the financier of this mission, the Fram2 crew has been free-flying through orbit since...
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious plan to create 1 million hectares of new rice farms in eastern Merauke Regency faces strong criticism from scientists who have warned it will fail due to unsuitable soils and climate. Military 'food brigades' are currently...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a world filled with 'vibe coding,' Zach Yadegari, teen founder of Cal AI, stands in ironic, old-fashioned contrast. Ironic because Yadegari and his co-founder, Henry Langmack, are both just 18 years old and still in...
Web crawlers collecting training data for AI models are overwhelming Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged...
Software engineer and longtime Slashdot reader, Dmitry Grinberg (dmitrygr), shares a recent project they've been working on: 'an interactive-speed Linux on a tiny board you can easily build with only 3 8-pin chips': There was a time when one could order a kit and assemble a...
Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won't be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with...
Midjourney's new V7 image model features a revamped architecture with smarter text prompt handling, higher image quality, and default personalization based on user-rated images. While some features like upscaling aren't yet available, it does come with a faster, cheaper...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has...
Friday April 4, 2025. 11:40 PM
Google has introduced Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model built on its Gemini platform and tailored for cybersecurity. BetaNews reports: Sec-Gemini v1 is built on top of Gemini, but it's not just some repackaged chatbot. Actually, it has been tailored with security in...
For the second time, President Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. operations by 75 days. The TikTok deal 'requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed,' said Trump in a post on his Truth Social platform. The extension...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen -- a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit -- not only had no law degree, but ...
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