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Thursday July 11, 2024. 05:20 PM
Despite soaring investment in AI hardware, most companies are struggling to turn the technology into profitable ventures, Goldman Sachs' latest AI adoption tracker reveals. Equity markets project a $330 billion boost to annual revenues for AI enablers by 2025, up from $250...
The federal government has spent $22 billion in recent years on technology from the top 100 national-security startups, a paltry portion of overall contract spending and less than half of what venture capitalists have invested in those same companies. WSJ: The gap...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The German government and mobile phone carriers have agreed in principle on steps to phase components by Chinese technology companies out of the nation's 5G wireless network over the next five years, two people familiar with...
Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It's the second such alert campaign from the company this year, following a similar notification sent to users in 92 nations in...
'Nature recently published an open-access article (not paywalled) that studies the lifecycle of lithium-ion batteries once they are manufactured,' writes Slashdot reader NoWayNoShapeNoForm. 'The study is a 'cradle-to-grave' look at these batteries and certain chemicals that...
A recent study has exposed a method of artificially inflating citation counts through 'sneaked references,' which are extra citations included in metadata but not in the actual text of articles. This manipulation, uncovered in journals by Technoscience Academy, distorts...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fast-food chain Whataburger's app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without...
Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from TIME Magazine: On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute;...
A group of residents in Tokyo said on Wednesday they were aiming to block construction of a massive logistics and data centre planned by Singaporean developer GLP, in a worrying sign for businesses looking to Japan to meet growing demand. From a report: The petition by more...
A high-tech race is under way between the U.S. and China as both countries chase an elusive energy source: fusion. From a report: China is outspending the U.S., completing a massive fusion technology campus and launching a national fusion consortium that includes some of its ...
'For 55 years, San Diego Comic-Con has been offering fans and aficionados of all things comic and movie related a place to meet, gawk, show off, and in general bask in their geekery,' writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. 'That may be coming to an end. Due to...
The U.S. FTC, along with two other international consumer protection networks, announced on Thursday the results of a study into the use of 'dark patterns' -- or manipulative design techniques -- that can put users' privacy at risk or push them to buy products or services or ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The Girls in Tech nonprofit women's tech community is closing its doors after 17 years, according to a newsletter from founder Adriana Gascoigne. Gascoigne said the decision was made with 'sadness and devastation' and was ...
Wednesday July 10, 2024. 11:30 PM
Microsoft is under fire for its handling of customer notifications following a data breach by Russian state-sponsored hackers. The tech giant confirmed in March that the group known as Midnight Blizzard had accessed its systems, potentially compromising customer data....
A bipartisan group of senators reached a new agreement on legislation that would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children, as well as the president and vice president, from purchasing and selling stocks while in office. According to CNBC, it would also...
AMD shares are up following the announcement that it plans to acquire Finnish artificial intelligence company Silo AI for about $665 million. Reuters reports: Acquiring Silo AI will help AMD improve the development and deployment of AMD-powered AI models and help potential...
Amazon Web Services is the latest entrant to the generative AI game with the announcement of App Studio, a groundbreaking tool capable of building complex software applications from simple written prompts. TechCrunch's Ron Miller reports: 'App Studio is for technical folks...
At its Galaxy Unpacked event today, Samsung unveiled a slew of new devices ushering in the 'Next Frontier of Mobile AI.' With 'cross-device intelligence,' each device has its own set of AI features that Samsung said will be personalized for users, good for humanity, and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: On Wednesday, Amazon claimed that it reached its goal of sourcing all its power from clean energy sources in the past year. If taken at face value, the announcement would mean it hit the milestone seven years ahead of schedule, which...
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years now, Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass has set itself apart by offering subscribers launch-day access to new first-party titles in addition to a large legacy library of older games. That important 'day one' perk is now set to go away...
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