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Tuesday May 27, 2025. 12:38 AM
alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries. Read more of this story...
Monday May 26, 2025. 10:30 PM
As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister and former Meta executive, claimed a push for artist consent would 'basically kill' the AI industry. From a report: Speaking at an event promoting his new book,...
Newark Liberty International Airport has suffered six radar and radio outages in nine months, with the most recent occurring May 9th when controllers told pilots 'our scopes just went black again' before handing off flights to other facilities. The outages have forced flight ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that foreign service providers like Microsoft and Zoom that act against Russian interests should be 'throttled.' Putin said it was important for Russia to develop domestic software...
Pakistan will allocate 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity in the first phase of a national initiative to power bitcoin mining and AI data centres, its finance ministry said on Sunday. The allocation is part of Islamabad's plans to use its surplus electricity to bitcoin...
Amazon software engineers are reporting that AI tools are transforming their jobs into something resembling the company's warehouse work, with managers pushing faster output and tighter deadlines while teams shrink in size, according to the New York Times. Three Amazon...
An anonymous reader shares a report: [Last] week, it was announced that Docomo's emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network's devices. This marks the end of an emoji era that first began in 1999, even though the set hasn't been updated since...
Venture capitalists are inverting their traditional investment approach by acquiring mature businesses and retrofitting them with AI. Firms including General Catalyst, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures and solo investor Elad Gil are employing this private equity-style strategy ...
'For decades, Hollywood directors including Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron and Alex Garland have cast AI as a villain that can turn into a killing machine,' writes the Los Angeles Times. 'Even Steven Spielberg's relatively hopeful A.I.: Artificial Intelligence had a...
31 years ago FreeBSD was first released. But here in 2025, searches for the Unix-like FreeBSD OS keep increasing on Google, notes the official FreeBSD blog — and it's at least a two-year trend. Yet after talking to some businesses using (or interested in using) FreeBSD, they...
It's America's biggest box office for a Memorial Day weekend ever, reports Variety. And it's been more than a decade since this many Americans went to see a movie during a three-day weekend... Families turned out in force for Disney's live-action 'Lilo & Stitch' remake,...
Earlier this month app developer Guilherme Rambo had a warning for iPhone users: If you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who's also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name 'Dave and Buster's', the message will never...
AI's downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work,' reports the New York Times. 'Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced... The new approach to coding at many companies has, in...
'OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands,' according to a new article by long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli. 'A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company's ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down.' The results...
Sunday May 25, 2025. 11:22 PM
Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today. The story so far... Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 2023, he'd created a new...
'I am a huge fan of Star Wars,' opines an article from the gaming Aftermath. 'As every Star Wars fan knows, being a Star Wars fan means you hate Star Wars as much as you love it.' But fortunately there's Going Rogue and Galactic — two tabletop games 'inspired' by the Star...
'Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?' asks an opinion piece in Spain's El Pais newspaper. It argues it's necessary because social media platforms 'have consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies, with a business model that consists of...
Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth's temperature rises. ('The study, published ...
A year ago, the original creator of SerenityOS posted that 'for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird, a new web browser that started as a simple HTML viewer for SerenityOS.' So it became a stand-alone project that 'aims to render the modern web...
Whether General Motors survives 'depends in part on whether its bets on battery technology pay off,' writes the Wall Street Journal. At $33,600 the company's Chevy Equinox is one of the cheapest EVs in America (only $5,000 more than the gas-powered model). 'But it also...
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