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Monday May 6, 2024. 01:34 PM
Wednesday Rest of World noticed an overlooked tech story in Argentina: Olga de León looked confused as she walked out of a nightclub on the edge of Buenos Aires on a recent Tuesday afternoon. She had just had her iris scanned. 'No one told me what they'll do with my eye,' de...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mint: Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new Grok AI-powered feature called 'Stories', which allows users to read summaries of a trending post on the social media platform. The feature is...
'Without San Francisco, Star Wars wouldn't exist,' says David Reat, the culture studies director of the architecture department at Glasgow's University of Strathclyde. SFGate reports: Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, where his father expected him to run the family...
Science Alert reports that a team of researchers found 'that changes in glucose metabolism could help cancer grow by temporarily disabling a gene that protects us from tumors called BRCA2.' The team first examined people who inherited one faulty copy of BRCA2. They found...
From the Washington Post's 'Technology 202' newsletter: As tech giants move toward a world in which chatbots supplement, and perhaps supplant, search engines, the Microsoft executive assigned to make sure AI is used responsibly said the industry has to be careful not to...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arrests for driving under...
Sunday May 5, 2024. 11:18 PM
A 'string of legal victories' by America's market-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission 'has jolted some of crypto's biggest players,' reports Politico — even as they're seeking more credibility with U.S. lawmakers: Judges have recently rebuked claims that the SEC...
'What if the big tech companies achieved their ultimate business goal — maximizing engagement on their platforms — in a way that has undermined our ability to function as an open society?' That's the question being asked by Chuck Todd, chief political analyst for NBC News: Wh...
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate: Late last year, tales of tech workers paying $700 a month for tiny 'bed pods' in downtown San Francisco went viral. The story provided a perfect distillation of SF's wild (and wildly expensive) housing market — and inspired...
The Associated Press reports that an F-16 performing aerial combat tests at 550 miles per hour was 'controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot.' And riding in the front seat was the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force... AI marks one of the biggest advances in...
Last month Reuters reported that Venezuela's state-run oil company 'plans to increase digital currency usage in its crude and fuel exports as the U.S. reimposes oil sanctions on the country, three people familiar with the plan said.' [The oil company] since last year had...
The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems: When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right? With Mastodon being a federated platform (a part of the Fediverse), the request to generate a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian: Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of...
'A leap in our ability to see the chemistry of matter in three-dimensions at the nanoscale was achieved, allowing scientists to understand how nanomaterials are chemically arranged,' writes Slashdot reader Hovden: Traditionally, seeing matter at the smallest sizes requires...
Thursday the Verge reported that a new report from Microsoft 'outlines the steps the company took to release responsible AI platforms last year.' Microsoft says in the report that it created 30 responsible AI tools in the past year, grew its responsible AI team, and required ...
Come 2029, all cars sold in the U.S. 'must be able to stop and avoid contact with a vehicle in front of them at speeds up to 62 mph,' reports Car and Driver. 'Additionally, the system must be able to detect pedestrians in both daylight and darkness. As a final parameter, the ...
In 2016, an online 'swarm intelligence' platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers, in order. (But the next year their predictions weren't even close, with TechRepublic suggesting 2016's race had an unusual cluster of just a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an antisatellite nuclear weapon in space, and have obtained information that undermines Moscow's explanation that the...
Saturday May 4, 2024. 11:25 PM
CircleID reports that Multinational internet service provider Cogent recently announced that it was offering $206 million in secured notes (a corporate bond backed by assets). 'The unusual part is what it's using as security: some of its IPv4 addresses and the leases on...
The blog It's FOSS is 'pissed at the casual arrogance of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical..... The sheer audacity of not caring for its users reeks of Microsoft-esque arrogance.' If you download a.deb package of a software, you cannot install it using the official...
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