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Monday February 17, 2025. 04:20 PM
Apple is exploring ways to monetize its Maps app by introducing paid business listings and prioritized search results, Bloomberg News reports, citing an internal company meeting with the Maps team. The initiative would allow businesses to pay for higher placement in search...
Junior software developers' overreliance on AI coding assistants is creating knowledge gaps in fundamental programming concepts, developer Namanyay Goel argued in a post. While tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude enable faster code shipping, developers struggle to explain...
'Amazon required employees to work from the office five days a week starting January 2nd,' writes the Seattle Times, 'a change from the company's three-day in-office mandate that had been in effect since May 2023.' And as Seattle's largest employer (with 50,000 Seattle-based ...
Today Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission 'said DeepSeek would no longer be available for download until a review of its personal data collection practices was carried out,' reports AFP. A number of countries have questioned DeepSeek's storage of user data,...
California is 'considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries,' reports the Los Angeles Times. They call the idea 'one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the...
For over a decade Karol Herbst has been a developer on the open-source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux. 'He went on to become employed by Red Hat,' notes Phoronix. 'While he's known more these days for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics...
The Cleveland Review of Books ponders a new 697-page hardcover collection of American poet/author Kevin Killian's.... reviews from Amazon. (Over 2,000 of 'em — written over the course of 16 years.) In 2012, he wrote three substantial paragraphs about the culinary perfection...
Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies 'are changing us individually and collectively,' writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title?...
Sunday February 16, 2025. 10:41 PM
'A robotic lander from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now in orbit around the Moon,' reports Spaceflight Now, 'and going through its final preparations to land in the coming weeks.' Its arrival comes nearly a month after the spacecraft launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket...
gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei...
'What if time is not as fixed as we thought?' That's the question raised in an announcement from the University of Surrey. 'Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from past to future — time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the...
Christie's auction house notes that an AI-generated 'portrait' of an 18th-century French gentleman recently sold for $432,500. (One member of the Paris-based collective behind the work says 'we found that portraits provided the best way to illustrate our point, which is that ...
'Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes...' writes the tech news site Hot Hardware. But the site adds that newly unsealed court documents 'reveal that Meta allegedly used a minimum of 81.7TB of illegally...
Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an 'under-the-radar robot push' that 'could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.' Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment...
Luigi Mangione faces first-degree murder charges. On Valentine's Day he posted his first public comments online, reports People magazine, with Mangione saying he's grateful for the support he's receiving: Earlier this week, Mangione accepted $297,000 in donations to cover...
In January the TIOBE Index (estimating programming language popularity) declared Python their language of the year. (Though it was already #1 in their rankings, it had showed a 9.3% increase in their ranking system, notes InfoWorld.) TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen says this reflects...
Bloomberg reports that Apple's long-promised overhaul for Siri 'is facing engineering problems and software bugs, threatening to postpone or limit its release, according to people with knowledge of the matter....' Last June, Apple touted three major enhancements coming to...
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen has been testing AI clients. (They report that China's DeepSeek 'turned out to be extremely good at explaining why I should not trust it. Every computer security problem I ever thought of or heard about and some more besides.') Then they...
'Reddit Answers' uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit's CEO saying the idea has 'incredible monetization potential.'...
'Reddit Answers' uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit's CEO saying the idea has 'incredible monetization potential.'...
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