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Monday February 10, 2025. 08:30 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine, according to three sources. The...
An anonymous reader shares a report: For a man who's spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe's prospects on AI are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. 'We are not in the race today,' French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN's...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A new paper [PDF] from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can 'result in the deterioration of cognitive...
AmiMoJo writes: A computer expert who has battled for a decade to recover a $743 million bitcoin fortune he believes is buried in a council dump in south Wales is considering buying the site so he can hunt for the missing fortune. James Howells lost a high court case last...
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving technology from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas in 'as soon as 2026,' with plans to scale to 'thousands' of vehicles in additional markets in the months to follow. From a report: To signal its seriousness, the...
OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia for its chip supply by developing its first generation of in-house AI silicon. From a report: The ChatGPT maker is finalizing the design for its first in-house chip in the next few months and plans to send...
Europe's Euclid space telescope has captured a rare 'Einstein ring,' showing light from a distant galaxy bent into a perfect circle by the gravity of another galaxy sitting between Earth and the source, the European Space Agency said. The phenomenon, spotted around galaxy...
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis downplayed the technological significance of DeepSeek's latest AI model, despite its market impact. 'Despite the hype, there's no actual new scientific advance there. It's using known techniques,' Hassabis said on Sunday. 'Actually many of...
They publish 77 newspapers in 26 U.S. states, according to Wikipedia. But this week a 'cybersecurity event' at the newspapers' parent company 'disrupted systems and networks,' according to an article at one of their news sites which quotes an email sent to employees by the...
President Donald Trump has ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt penny production to cut government spending, according to a Truth Social post on Sunday. The U.S. Mint spent 3.69 cents to produce and distribute each penny last year, resulting in a $85.3 million...
'The Internet's Own Boy' was inscribed below the bust, according to the San Francisco Standard, adding that the 312-pound marble statue 'was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving.' It was unveiled Friday at the Internet Archive...
Today T-Mobile announced what they're calling 'the next big thing in wireless' — T-Mobile Starlink. But the real surprise is 'The beta is now open for absolutely everyone — yes, even Verizon and AT&T customers — to register for free access until July.' And, as they explained ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune: More than 14 million job seekers' applications went completely ignored in a single quarter last year, according to one hiring platform. Now, sites like Greenhouse and LinkedIn are experimenting with new ways to hold...
Sunday February 9, 2025. 11:34 PM
Fortune remembers that in 2011 Steve Jobs had told author Walter Isaacson that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates would 'be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.' But The Indendepent notes that in his new memoir Gates does write ...
Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch...
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Long-time Slashdot reader Shayde once restored a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and even ran Turbo Pascal on a 40-year-old Apple II clone. Now he's exploring a 27-year-old Macintosh PowerBook G3 — with 64 megabytes memory and 4 gigabytes of disk space. 'The year is 1997, and...
Keynotes at this year's FOSDEM included free AI models and systemd, reports Heise.de — and also a progress report from Miguel Ojeda, supervisor of the Rust integration in the Linux kernel. Only eight people remain in the core team around Rust for Linux... Miguel Ojeda...
'Can you skydive continuously without landing...?' asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, 'only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.' Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on ...
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