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Sunday July 7, 2024. 06:34 AM
Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from Windows Central Microsoft may have opened a can of worms with recent comments made by the tech giant's CEO of AI Mustafa Suleyman. The CEO spoke with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this week. In...
Monday Boeing announced plans to acquire its key supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, for $4.7 billion, according to the Associated Press — 'a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the Department of Justice. Boeing...
IEEE Spectrum (the IEEE's official publication) asks the question. 'How does an AI code generator compare to a human programmer?' A study published in the June issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering evaluated the code produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT in terms of...
Saturday July 6, 2024. 10:58 PM
They lived 378 days in a 'mock Mars habitat' in Houston, reports Engadget. But today the four volunteers for NASA's yearlong simulation will finally emerge from their 1,700-square-foot habitat at the Johnson Space Center that was 3D-printed from materials that could be...
Windows Recall was 'delayed' over concerns that storing unencrypted recordings of users' activity was a security risk. But now Slashdot reader storagedude writes: The latest version of Microsoft's planned Windows Recall feature still contains data privacy and security...
New York City announced a 'major citywide initiative' to increase 'math achievement' among students, according to the mayor's office. 93 middle schools and 420 high schools will implement an 'Illustrative Math' curriculum (from an education nonprofit founded in 2011)...
'Images captured from space show the growth of Cuba's electronic eavesdropping stations,' reported the Wall Street Journal this week, citing a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. But they added that the stations...
'For two years, many unprofitable tech startups have cut costs, sold themselves or gone out of business,' reports the New York Times. 'But the ones focused on artificial intelligence have been thriving.' Now, the AI boom that started in late 2022, has become the strongest...
General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the U.S. government, reports the Associated Press, 'because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards.' The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider: It's a political tale as old as time: put up a campaign poster in your yard, and thieves come to snatch it. But according to The Wall Street Journal, those fed up with front lawn looting are embracing a modern...
'After approximately seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available,' writes ADT magazine, 'emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor.' The Eclipse Theia IDE is part of the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But ...
John Timmer reports via Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced (PDF) that a combination of delays and altered priorities meant that its first-of-its-kind hardware wouldn't see plasma until 2036, with the full-energy...
Longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam shares a report from Phys.Org, with the caption: 'It's not sequestration, but it is a closed carbon loop and can store energy from renewable sources to be released when they are not collecting energy.' From the report: Carbon in the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by...
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: 'If Einstein paved the way for a new era in physics,' explains auction house Christie's in a promotion piece for its upcoming offering of 150+ 'objects of scientific and historical importance' from the Paul G. Allen Collection...
Longtime Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov shares a report from The Hacker News: A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity. ...
Nvidia is expected to earn $12 billion from GPU sales to China in 2024, despite U.S. trade restrictions. Research firm SemiAnalysis says the GPU maker will ship over 1 million units of its new H20 model to the Chinese market, 'with each one said to cost between $12,000 and...
YouTube has released an AI-powered eraser tool to help creators easily remove copyrighted music from their videos without affecting other audio such as dialog or sound effects. TechCrunch's Ivan Mehta reports: On its support page, YouTube still warns that, at times, the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: With dozens of millions of monthly visits, Animeflix positioned itself as one of the most popular anime piracy portals. The site also has an active Discord community of around 35k members, who actively participate in...
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