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Monday May 26, 2025. 05:41 PM
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...
Besides pressure on Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook 'is facing off against two U.S. judges, European and worldwide regulators, state and federal lawmakers, and even a creator of the iPhone,' writes the Wall Street Journal, 'to say nothing of the cast of...
'In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north...' remembers the BBC. [T]he Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each...
'Duolingo had been riding high,' reports Fast Company, until CEO Luis von Ahn 'announced on LinkedIn that the company is phasing out human contractors, looking for AI use in hiring and in performance reviews, and that 'headcount will only be given if a team cannot automate...
Doom: The Dark Ages just launched on May 15. But it's already received 'difficulty' balance changes 'that have made the demons of Hell even more dangerous than ever,' writes Windows Central: According to DOOM's official website Slayer's Club, these balance adjustments are...
It's like 'a USB-C port for AI applications...' according to the official documentation for MCP — 'a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools.' And now Microsoft has 'revealed plans to make MCP a native component of Windows,' reports...
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