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Sunday April 6, 2025. 09:34 PM
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K...
It's 'a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,' Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. 'For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.' Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on...
It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.' (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's earlier 'Snow Leopard' upgrade to 'Leopard' OS — an upgrade that's 'all about how little it added and how much it took away'.)...
'I started working on Voyager in 1977,' the Voyager mission's project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. 'It was my first job out of college.' 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager...
Tinder 'is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,' notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI's...
This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their 'Horizon' accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission 'is attempting to...
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, 'But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the ...
Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web). Friday Xbox's general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to 'an AI-generated gaming experience' at Copilot.Microsoft.com 'Move, shoot, explore — and every frame...
Berkeley, California is 'the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents,' reports the Associated Press (noting that officials in many cities claim the practice is driving up the price of housing). But then real estate software company...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 11:34 PM
Over on Reddit's 'selfhosted' subreddit for alternatives to popular services, long-time Slashdot reader Zoup described a pain point: - Landlock is a Linux Security Module (LSM) that lets unprivileged processes restrict themselves. - It's been in the kernel since 5.13, but...
'The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955,' writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew up the box office in...
This week NASA 'issued a solicitation for the next two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station,' reports Space News. Scheduled after May of 2026 and then mid-2027, 'These will be the fifth and sixth such missions to the ISS, part of a broader low Earth...
Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot...
The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications 'opened the door to a new wave of security threats,' argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.) So as part of the Linux Foundation's...
Back in 2023 Python's infrastructure director called it 'the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability of PyPI' while giving users 'one of our most requested features: organization accounts.' (That is, 'self-managed teams with their own...
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Wikipedia remembers Dave Täht as 'an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre.' But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him 'one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a...
Is OpenAI's ChatGPT violating copyrights? The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023. But Ars Technica summarizes OpenAI's response. The New York Times (or NYT) 'should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles... partly because of the newspaper's own...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Yet another busy hurricane season is likely across the Atlantic this year -- but some of the conditions that supercharged storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 have waned, according to a key forecast issued Thursday. A warm --...
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