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Monday October 14, 2024. 05:59 AM
'Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android,' reports the blog Android Authority. 'The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. 'This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for...
'Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data' from 23andMe, reports SFGate. But can you actually do that? 23andMe makes it easy to feel like you've protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions...
America's electric vehicle subsidies brought a 2-to-1 return on investment, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 'That includes environmental benefits, but mostly reflects a shift of profits to the United States,' reports the New York Times....
To avoid overloading local electric grids, Britain's most productive windfarm 'is paid to turn off,' reports the Guardian — and across the industry these so-called 'constraint payments' amount to billions every year. 'Government officials are hoping to correct the clear...
Sunday October 13, 2024. 11:48 PM
Slashdot reader Rick Schumann shared this report from the blog AppleInsider: A new paper from Apple's artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as those from Meta and OpenAI, still lack basic reasoning skills. The group...
'Technical outerwear brand Arc'teryx and wearable technology startup Skip have teamed up to create exoskeleton hiking pants, powered by AI...' reports CNN. After four years of collaboration and testing, the two companies plan to start selling the battery-powered pants in...
The Wall Street Journal reports on a 'suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft... as many as a dozen or more' that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago 'over an area that includes the home base for the Navy's SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval...
Zambia has the largest man-made lake in the world, reports the Associated Press — but a severe drought has left the lake's 128-meter-high (420-feet) dam wall 'almost completely exposed'. This leaves Kariba dam without enough water to run most of its hydroelectric turbines —...
Though native Linux game servers have been scarce over the last two decades, 'I've seen people using the Box64 emulator to play x86_64 games on ARM devices,' writes Slashdot reader VennStone. 'It got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers...? 'I thought it would be...
Early this morning SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on its fifth test flight. But more importantly, CNBC points out, SpaceX 'made a dramatic first catch of the rocket's more than 20-story tall booster.' Watch the footage here. It's pretty exciting... The...
Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE's ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language's share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October ...
spatwei shared an article from SC World: Attacks on large language models (LLMs) take less than a minute to complete on average, and leak sensitive data 90% of the time when successful, according to Pillar Security. Pillar's State of Attacks on GenAI report, published...
Meta's Oversight Board 'is spinning off a new appeals center,' reports the Washington Post, 'to handle content disputes from European social media users on multiple platforms'. It will operate under Europe's Digital Services Act, 'which requires tech companies to allow users ...
The Wall Street Journal delves into the origin story of that teenaged Grand Theft Auto VI leaker. Arion Kurtaj, now 19 years old, is the most notorious name that has emerged from a sprawling set of online communities called the Com... Their youthful inventiveness and...
Thursday the Associated Press reported: One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely damaged by Hurricane Helene is operating again. Sibelco...
After nearly 30 years of covering Kamala Harris, the San Francisco Chronicle is now letting ChatGPT do it. Sort of... 'We're introducing a new way to engage with our decades of coverage: an AI-powered tool designed to answer your questions about Harris' life, her journey...
Saturday October 12, 2024. 11:34 PM
wiredmikey writes: As the dust settles following the massive Windows BSOD tech outages caused by CrowdStrike in July 2024, the question is now, how do we prevent this happening again? While there was no current way Microsoft could have prevented this incident, the OS firm is ...
In mid-2021 Ameria's National Security Advisor set up a new directorate focused on 'advanced chips, quantum computing, and other cutting-edge tech,' reports Wired. And the next year as Congress was working on boosting America's semiconductor sector, he was 'closing in on a...
Former Ukranian officer Serhii 'Flash' Beskrestnov created a Signal channel where military communications specialists could talk with civilian radio experts, reports MIT's Technology Review. But radio communications are crucial for drones, so... About once a month, he drives ...
Many U.S. states now require candidates to disclose when political ads used generative AI, reports the Washington Post. Unfortunately, researchers at New York University's Center on Technology Policy 'found that people rated candidates 'less trustworthy and less appealing'...
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