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Saturday March 30, 2024. 08:34 PM
'Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI,' the Register reported Thursday 'Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency...
America's Department of Homeland Security 'is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones,' reports the U.S. news site NOTUS. They call the purchasers 'a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of...
'Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol,' reports SciTechDaily, 'by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new green fuels.' Tara LeMercier, a PhD student who...
'If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like, it'd be hard to find a place better than Texas,' Bill Gates wrote recently on his blog,' saying 'amazing companies' are breaking ground across the state. 'Each one represents a huge...
Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The New York Times has an occasional series called 'Overlooked,' whereby notable people whose deaths were overlooked at the time receive the obituary they deserve. Their latest installment eulogizes Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who passed...
In November of 2021 America passed a 'Bipartisan Infrastructure Law' which included $7.5 billion for up to 20,000 EV charging spots, or around 5,000 stations, notes the Washington Post (citing an analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy). And new...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsen. The so-called 'Lenna...
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's government to explore the development of a series of homegrown consoles to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Game Rant reports: Russia has taken issue with Western games and developers in recent years, leading the country to threaten the...
The Record reports: Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge who is widely recognized for his contributions to computing, passed away at home on Thursday according to friends and colleagues who have been in touch with his family and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The Biden administration on Friday announced a regulation designed to turbocharge sales of electric or other zero-emission heavy vehicles, from school buses to cement mixers, as part of its multifront attack on...
The U.S. House has set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI-based chatbot, Axios reported Friday. From the report: The House last June restricted staffers' use of ChatGPT, allowing limited use of the paid subscription version...
Google is preparing to introduce a significant change to its ChromeOS platform by decoupling the Chrome browser from the operating system, AndroidCentral writes. The project, known as 'Lacros' (Linux And Chrome OS), aims to solve several issues, including the inability to...
Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said. From a report: These landfills also belch methane, a powerful, planet-warming gas, on average at almost three times the rate reported to...
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: In a recent security announcement, Red Hat's Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the 'xz' compression tools and libraries. The affected...
LinkedIn is testing support for short-form videos to help it compete with TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and other social media platforms. '[W]e are testing new ways to help members more easily discover timely, relevant videos to watch on LinkedIn,' Suzi Owens, a...
Friday March 29, 2024. 11:20 PM
Victoria Song reports via The Verge: When Gmail launched with a goofy press release 20 years ago next week, many assumed it was a hoax. The service promised a gargantuan 1 gigabyte of storage, an excessive quantity in an era of 15-megabyte inboxes. It claimed to be...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: NYC's 'MyCity' ChatBot was rolled out as a 'pilot' program last October. The announcement touted the ChatBot as a way for business owners to 'save... time and money by instantly providing them with actionable and trusted ...
According to The Information (paywalled), Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100 billion datacenter project that will include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called 'Stargate.' Reuters reports: The Information reported that Microsoft would likely be responsible...
U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally. From a report: Google is currently sending in-app notifications to users in the U.S. that starting April 2nd...
Anton Shilov reports via Tom's Hardware: About half of the processors packaged in Russia are defective. This has prompted Baikal Electronics, a Russian processor developer, to expand the number of packaging partners in the country, according to a report in Vedomosti, a...
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