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Monday February 24, 2025. 10:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by exiles from OpenAI, has introduced the first AI model that can produce either conventional output or a controllable amount of 'reasoning' needed to solve more grueling...
Microsoft has quietly launched a new version of Microsoft Office for Windows that can be used to edit documents for free, no Microsoft 365 subscription or Office license key required. From a report: This free version of Office is based on the full desktop apps, but has most...
Major corporations are reshaping their workforces around AI with Salesforce announcing it will not hire software engineers in 2025 and other companies laying off thousands while shifting focus to AI-specific roles. Duolingo has laid off thousands after implementing...
Oracle founder Larry Ellison's agricultural technology venture Sensei Ag has largely failed to deliver on its ambitious goals despite costing more than half a billion dollars, more than he spent to purchase Hawaii's Lanai island itself. Eight years after its founding, little ...
More than half the world's countries have no plans to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, despite committing to a global agreement to do so less than three years ago, new analysis shows. From a report: In late 2022, nearly every country signed a once-in-a-decade UN deal...
Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands' most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. From a report: 'We are mostly...
Microsoft has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it's securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term. From a report: OpenAI's biggest backer has voided leases in the US totaling...
Financial Times: Venture capitalists have always been happy to back pre-profit companies. Back in the halcyon ZIRP era, they became happy to finance pre-revenue companies. But at least even Juicero, Wag and the Fyre Festival had an actual product. From Bloomberg over the...
Google is preparing to abandon SMS verification codes for Gmail authentication in favor of QR codes, Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes. The move aims to address significant security vulnerabilities inherent in SMS-based verification while combating fraudulent...
The Los Angeles Times publishes a weekly 'Boiling Point' newsletter about climate change and energy issues. And this week they examined whether the scientific fact of a change climate is reflected in the mass media: For the second year running, nonprofit consulting firm Good ...
Apple said it planned to hire an additional 20,000 staff in the US over the next four years as part of a $500 billion American investment plan. Financial Times: The $500 billion figure [non-paywalled source], spread over Trump's second term in office, includes regular...
After completing a journalism graduate degree, Carla McCanna took a job 'training AI models to optimize accuracy and efficiency,' according an article by Nieman Journalism Lab: Staff jobs are scarce... and the competition for them is daunting. (In 2024, the already...
When it comes to application packaging, earlier this month the site Its FOSS complained that Fedora Flatpaks 'are often unmaintained or broken, leading to a poor experience for users who aren't usually aware they're using them.' And this apparently created friction with OBS...
'A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire,' writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as 'a fire risk hiding in plain sight.' [Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this observation from space/science news blogger Robert Zimmerman: Having now reached lunar orbit in preparation for its landing on March 2, 2025, an engineering test instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has now proven that ...
Netflix calls it 'a live-action reimagining of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. And this weekend Netflix shared a blooper reel from their live-action show's first season, reports Engadget, 'giving fans a look at some cute behind the...
Sunday February 23, 2025. 10:55 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues. Baseball ...
New power plants burning natural gas are being built all across America, reports the Washington Post, calling it a gas boom 'driven in large part by AI.' They blame tech companies like Microsoft and Meta — which 'looked to gas amid a shortage of adequate new clean energy' —...
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called 'The Poetry of Reality.' Monday's topic? 'Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT' Richard Dawkins: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Tu...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Telegraph: Workers with an axe to grind against their employer are using AI to bombard businesses with costly and inaccurate lawsuits, experts have warned. Frustration is growing among employment lawyers who say they are seeing ...
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