Meta CTO: 2025 Make or Break Year for Metaverse
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about 1 hour ago
Physicists Confirm The Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism
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USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
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UK Team Invents Self-Healing Road Surface To Prevent Potholes
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OpenAI Partners With California State University System
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Apple Announces 'Invites' App, Raises AppleCare+ Subscription Prices For iPhone
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Google Removes Pledge To Not Use AI For Weapons From Website
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
An anonymous reader writes: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to provide patrons with information they don't realize is AI-generated. Public libraries primarily use two companies to manage and lend ebooks: Hoopla...
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RISC-V Mainboard For the Framework Laptop 13 Is Now Available
The DeepComputing RISC-V Mainboard that Framework announced last year for its 13-inch laptops is now available for $199. Liliputing reports: If you already have a Framework Laptop 13 with an Intel or AMD motherboard, the new board is a drop-in replacement. But if you don't have a Framework Laptop you can also use the mainboard as a standalone computer: Framework sells a $39 Cooler Master case that effectively turns its mainboards into mini desktop computers. The RISC-V Mainboard comes from...
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$42 Billion Broadband Grant Program May Scrap Biden Admin's Preference For Fiber
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been demanding an overhaul of a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, and now his telecom policy director has been chosen to lead the federal agency in charge of the grant money. "Congratulations to my Telecom Policy Director, Arielle Roth, for being nominated to lead NTIA," Cruz wrote last night, referring to President Trump's pick to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Roth's nomination is...
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Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME
In his post about the future of Fedora Workstation, Christian F.K. Schaller discusses how the Red Hat team plans to integrate AI with IBM's open-source Granite engine to enhance developer tools, such as IDEs, and create an AI-powered Code Assistant. He says the team is also working on streamlining AI acceleration in Toolbx and ensuring Fedora users have access to tools like RamaLama. From the post: One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora...
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Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can't Seem To Make Its Physical Stores Work
Amazon's brick-and-mortar expansion has faltered, WSJ reported Tuesday, as the e-commerce giant plans to close its Amazon Go store in Woodland Hills, California, shrinking the cashierless convenience store chain to 16 locations across four states, down from roughly twice that number in early 2023. The company is pivoting to license its "Just Walk Out" technology, now used by more than 200 retailers including colleges and airports, while focusing its physical retail strategy on grocery stores through Whole Foods Market and...
about 16 hours ago
Cruise To Slash Workforce By Nearly 50% After GM Cuts Funding To Robotaxi Operations
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise will lay off about half of its 2,100 employees and remove several top executives, including CEO Marc Whitten, as parent company General Motors shifts away from robotaxi development to focus on personal autonomous vehicles. The cuts come two months after GM said it would stop funding Cruise's robotaxi program to save $1 billion annually. Affected workers will receive severance packages including eight weeks of pay and benefits through April. The restructuring follows an October incident where...
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Panasonic To Cut Costs To Support Shift Into AI
Panasonic will cut its costs, restructure underperforming units and revamp its workforce as it pivots toward AI data centers and away from its consumer electronics roots, the company said on Tuesday. The Japanese conglomerate aims to boost profits by 300 billion yen ($1.93 billion) by March 2029, partly by consolidating production and logistics operations. Bloomberg reports that CEO Yuki Kusumi has declined to confirm if the company would divest its TV business but said alternatives were being considered. The Tesla...
about 17 hours ago
Americans Kiss Job Hopping Goodbye
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about 18 hours ago
Microsoft Quietly Makes It Harder To Install Windows 11 on Old PCs Ahead of Windows 10's End of Support
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about 18 hours ago
Lung Cancer Diagnoses On the Rise Among Never-Smokers Worldwide
The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, with air pollution an "important factor," the World Health Organization's cancer agency has said. From a report: Lung cancer in people who have never smoked cigarettes or tobacco is now estimated to be the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths worldwide, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Lung cancer in never-smokers is also occurring almost exclusively as adenocarcinoma, which has become...
about 19 hours ago
Chris Anderson Is Giving TED Away To Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future
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about 20 hours ago
Microsoft Veteran Ponders World Where Toothbrushes Need Reboots
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about 20 hours ago
China Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Google
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about 21 hours ago
Popular Linux Orgs Freedesktop, Alpine Linux Are Scrambling For New Web Hosting
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In what is becoming a sadly regular occurrence, two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux, need to rally some of their millions of users so that they can continue operating. Both services have largely depended on free server resources provided by Equinix (formerly Packet.net) and its Metal division for the past few years. Equinix announced recently that it was sunsetting its bare-metal sales and services, or renting out physically...
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AI Systems With 'Unacceptable Risk' Are Now Banned In the EU
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1 day ago
Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
Salesforce is cutting jobs as its latest fiscal year gets underway, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter, even as the company simultaneously hires workers to sell new artificial intelligence products. From the report: More than 1,000 roles will be affected, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally, the person added. Salesforce had nearly 73,000 workers as of...
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CERN's Mark Thomson: AI To Revolutionize Fundamental Physics
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1 day ago
Bonobos Can Tell When They Know Something You Don't
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1 day ago
Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time For People Who Download DeepSeek
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1 day ago
TSA's Airport Facial-Recognition Tech Faces Audit Probe
The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has launched an audit of the TSA's use of facial recognition technology at U.S. airports following concerns from lawmakers and privacy advocates. The Register reports: Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari notified a bipartisan group of US Senators who had asked for such an investigation last year that his office has announced an audit of TSA facial recognition technology in a letter [PDF] sent to the group Friday. "We have reviewed the concerns...
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Judge Denies Apple's Attempt To Intervene In Google Search Antitrust Trial
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Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won't use an AI assistant to help write their application. "While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process," the applications say. "We want to understand your personal...
1 day ago
Microsoft Paint Gets a Copilot Button For Gen AI Features
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1 day ago
NetChoice Sues To Block Maryland's Kids Code, Saying It Violates the First Amendment
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Air Force Documents On Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), whose tagline is "Win the Fight," has paid more than a hundred thousand dollars to a company that is providing generative AI services to other parts of the Department of Defense. But the AFRL refused to say what exactly the point of the research was, and provided page after page of entirely blacked out, redacted documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
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Why Even Physicists Still Don't Understand Quantum Theory 100 Years On
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1 day ago
Trump Orders Creation of US Sovereign Wealth Fund, Says It Could Buy TikTok
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1 day ago
Anthropic Makes 'Jailbreak' Advance To Stop AI Models Producing Harmful Results
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1 day ago
Cloudflare Rolls Out Digital Tracker To Combat Fake Images
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1 day ago
Levels of Microplastics in Human Brains May Be Rapidly Rising, Study Suggests
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2 days ago
OpenAI's New Trademark Application Hints at Humanoid Robots, Smart Jewelry, and More
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2 days ago
New Bill Aims To Block Foreign Pirate Sites in the US
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced a bill that would allow courts to block access to foreign websites primarily engaged in copyright infringement. The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act would enable rightsholders to obtain injunctions requiring large Internet service providers and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites. The bill marks a shift from previous site-blocking proposals, notably including DNS providers like Google and Cloudflare with annual revenues above $100 million. Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin backed the measure,...
2 days ago
AI Won The Beatles a Grammy 55 Years After They Broke Up
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2 days ago
Meta's Investment in Virtual Reality on Track To Top $100 Billion
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2 days ago
Ubuntu's Dev Discussions Will Move From IRC to Matrix
The blog OMG Ubuntu reports: Ubuntu's key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests, meetings, and other vital chatter must take place... Only the current #ubuntu-devel and #ubuntu-release Libera IRC channels are moving to Matrix, but other Ubuntu development-related channels can choose to move — officially, given some projects were using Matrix over IRC...
2 days ago
Will Cryptomining Facilities Change Into AI Data Centers?
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2 days ago
Google Stops Malicious Apps With 'AI-Powered Threat Detection' and Continuous Scanning
Android and Google Play have billions of users, Google wrote in its security blog this week. "However, like any flourishing ecosystem, it also attracts its share of bad actors... That's why every year, we continue to invest in more ways to protect our community." Google's tactics include industry-wide alliances, stronger privacy policies, and "AI-powered threat detection." "As a result, we prevented 2.36 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that...
2 days ago
Boeing Acquires Spirit AeroSystems, While Boeing's 'Starliner' Unit Gets a New VP
Spirit Aerosystems builds aircraft components, including fuselages and flight deck sections for Boeing, according to Wikipedia. But now Boeing is set to acquire Spirit AeroSystems. The aviation blog called Aviation Source News says the price tag was $4.7 billion, and opines that Boeing's move signals "a renewed focus on quality and supply chain stability" as Boeing "addresses lingering concerns surrounding its 737 program." Spirit's recent struggles with quality control and production delays have had a fallout effect for Boeing... By...
2 days ago
OpenAI Holds Surprise Livestream to Announce Multi-Step 'Deep Research' Capability
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words. "Deep Research" UPDATE: The stream has begun, and it's about OpenAI's next "agent-ic offering". ("OpenAI cares about agents because we believe they're going to transform knowlege work...") "We're introducing a capability called Deep Research... a model that does multi-step research. It discovers content, it synthesizes content, and it...
2 days ago
OpenAI Makes Surprise Livestream Today for 'Deep Research' Announcement
Just three hours ago, OpenAI made a surprise announcement to their 3.9 million followers on X.com. "Live from Tokyo," they'd be livestreaming... something. Their description of the event was just two words. "Deep Research" It begins in just 15 minutes. X.com users shared their reactions to the coming announcement: "It's like DeepSeek, but cleaner" "Deep do do if things don't work out" "Live from Tokyo? Hope this research includes the secret to waking up early!" "Stop trying, we don't trust...
2 days ago
Mozilla Adapts 'Fakespot' Into an AI-Detecting Firefox Add-on
An anonymous reader shared this post from the blog OMG Ubuntu Want to find out if the text you're reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model trying to sound like one? Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may help give you an indication. Similar to online AI detector tools, the add-on can analyse text (of 32 words or more) to identify patterns, traits, and tells common in AI generated or manipulated...
3 days ago
Should We Sing the Praises of Agile, or Bury It?
"Stakeholders must be included" throughout an agile project "to ensure the evolving deliverables meet their expectations," according to an article this week in Communications of the ACM. But long-time Slashdot reader theodp complains it's a "gushing how-to-make-Agile-even-better opinion piece." Like other pieces by Agile advocates, it's long on accolades for Agile, but short on hard evidence justifying why exactly Agile project management "has emerged as a critical component for firms looking to improve project delivery speed and flexibility" and the...
3 days ago
Facebook Admits Linux-Post Crackdown Was 'In Error', Fixes Moderation Error
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3 days ago
Remote Cybersecurity Scans and F-35 Updates: A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Gets High-Speed Internet
An aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy tested "vastly increased" levels of internet connectivity, reports the defense-news web site TWZ, callling it "a game-changer for what a ship, and its sailors, can do while at sea." The F-35 Joint Strike Fighters assigned to the carrier offer a case in point for what more shipboard bandwidth — provided by commercial providers like Starlink and OneWeb — can mean at the tactical level. Jets with the embarked Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314...
3 days ago
Honda's New US Factory Will Mass-Produce EVs - But Can Also Build Gas-Powered Cars
Honda calls it their "second founding," as the company "continues to target 100% electric vehicle sales by 2040, and to have 'zero environmental impact' by 2050," writes Green Car Reports. "It's previously projected 40% EV sales in North America by 2030... " Half of the Honda Accords sold in America are already electric, — but Honda "has admitted that it's hard to predict the trajectory of where the mix will be on the way to fully electric." So... To reconcile...
3 days ago
IPhones and Some Android Phones Will Support Starlink Direct-to-Cell Coverage in US
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3 days ago
DeepSeek AI Refuses To Answer Questions About Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' Photo
The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous "Tank Man" photos showing a tank-defying protester during 1989's Tiananmen Square protests. But this week PetaPixel reported... A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in Tiananmen Square in 1989. PetaPixel confirmed that DeepSeek does censor the topic. When a user types in the question, "What famous picture has a man...
3 days ago
After 'Copilot Price Hike' for Microsoft 365, It's Ending Its Free VPN
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3 days ago
Could Earthquake Sensors Help Detect Falling Space Junk?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk, which can cause damage on impact and carry toxic materials — and may someday turn deadly... It's not an easy task to track large hunks of falling metal everywhere in the world. Ground-based radar can detect falling objects, but it doesn't cover much of the world or is often classified data, said Ben...
3 days ago
OpenAI Tests Its AI's Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts
Friday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI "used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models." The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new "reasoning" model, o3-mini, on Friday.... OpenAI says it collects user posts from r/ChangeMyView and asks its AI models to write replies, in a closed environment, that would change the Reddit user's mind...
3 days ago
Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'?
Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. "The teachers faded away pretty quickly," Gates adds, "But about six of us stayed hardcore. One was Paul Allen..." — the future co-founder of Microsoft. And the experience clearly meant a lot to Gates. "Microsoft just never would've happened without Paul — and this...
3 days ago
One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA's $600B Stock Collapse
On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, "due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek." He published his 12,000-word post "on his personal blog and then shared it with the Value Investors Club website and across Reddit, X and other platforms." The next day he saw 35 people read his post. "But then the post started to go viral..." Well-known...
3 days ago
US Blocks Open Source 'Help' From These Countries
Wednesday the Linux Foundation wrote that both "regulatory compliance" and "increased cybersecurity risk" were "creating burdens...that must be met" for open source communities. And so, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, "the Linux Foundation has released a comprehensive guide to help open source developers navigate the complex landscape of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions..." These rules, aimed at achieving economic, foreign policy, and national security goals, apply to various interactions, including those in the open source community....
3 days ago
America's FDA Warns About Backdoor Found in Chinese Company's Patient Monitors
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4 days ago
Sensitive DeepSeek Data Was Exposed to the Web, Cybersecurity Firm Says
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4 days ago
Malicious PDF Links Hidden in Text Message Scam Impersonating US Postal Service
SC World reports: A new phishing scam targeting mobile devices was observed using a "never-before-seen" obfuscation method to hide links to spoofed United States Postal Service (USPS) pages inside PDF files, [mobile security company] Zimperium reported Monday. The method manipulates elements of the Portable Document Format (PDF) to make clickable URLs appear invisible to both the user and mobile security systems, which would normally extract links from PDFs by searching for the "/URI" tag. "Our researchers verified that this method...
4 days ago
California Built the World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant. Now It May Close
"Sometimes, government makes a bad bet..." writes the Los Angeles Times. Opening in 2014, the Ivanpah concentrated solar plant "quickly became known as an expensive, bird-killing eyesore." Assuming that state officials sign off — which they most likely will, because the deal will lead to lower bills for PG&E customers — two of the three towers will shut down come 2026. Ivanpah's owners haven't paid off the project's $1.6-billion federal loan, and it's unclear whether they'll be able to do...
4 days ago
Bluesky Grows to 30 Million Users. Threads Adds 20 Million More Just in January
Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three months, and for a few days in early November was adding over one million users a day. "That rate equals about 12 new users per second. The 30 million user mark compares to 9 million users...
4 days ago
Were DeepSeek's Development Costs Much Higher Than Reported?
Nearly three years ago a team of Chinese AI engineers working for DeepSeek's parent company unveiled an earlier AI supercomputer that the Washington Post says was constructed from 10,000 A100 GPUs purchased from Nvidia. Roughly six months later "Washington had banned Nvidia from selling any more A100s to China," the article notes. Remember that number as you read this. 10,000 A100 GPUs... DeepSeek's new chatbot caused a panic in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street this week, erasing $1 trillion...
4 days ago
Police Use of AI Facial Recognition Results In Murder Case Being Tossed
"A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to kill Blake Story last year," reports Cleveland.com. "That's because Cleveland police used a facial recognition program — one that explicitly says its results are not admissible in court — to obtain a search warrant, according to court documents." The search turned up what police say is the murder weapon in the suspect's home. But a Cuyahoga County judge tossed that evidence after siding with defense attorneys who...
4 days ago
Sam Altman: OpenAI Has Been On the 'Wrong Side of History' Concerning Open Source
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a precarious position. It's battling the perception that it's ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese companies like DeepSeek, which OpenAI alleges might've stolen its IP. The ChatGPT maker has been trying to shore up...
4 days ago
The 25-Year Success Story of SereneScreen
A recent video from retro tech YouTuber Clint "LGR" Basinger takes a deep dive into the history of the SereneScreen Marine Aquarium, exploring how former Air Force pilot Jim Sachs transformed a lackluster Windows 95 screensaver into a 25-year digital phenomenon. PC Gamer reports: The story centers on Jim Sachs, a man with one of those "they don't make this type of guy anymore" life stories so common to '80s and '90s computing, one Sachs recounted to the website AmigaLove...
4 days ago
TikTok's Traffic Bounces Back Despite Being Pulled Off App Stores
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4 days ago
Shell Walks Away From Major New Jersey Offshore Wind Farm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump's early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from a major project off the coast of New Jersey. Shell told The Associated Press it is writing off the project, citing increased competition, delays and a changing market. "Naturally we also take regulatory context into consideration," spokesperson Natalie Gunnell said in an email. Shell co-owns the...
4 days ago
FDA Approves Drug To Treat Pain Without Opioid Effects
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4 days ago
Android 16's Linux Terminal Runs Doom
Google is enhancing Android 16's Linux Terminal app to support graphical Linux applications, so Android Authority decided to put it to the test by running Doom. From the report: The Terminal app first appeared in the Android 15 QPR2 beta as a developer option, and it still remains locked behind developer settings. Since its initial public release, Google pushed a few changes that fixed issues with the installation process and added a settings menu to resize the disk, forward ports,...
4 days ago
Drone Pilot To Plead Guilty In Collision That Grounded Aircraft Fighting Palisades Fire
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4 days ago
Most Men Would Marry Their AI Girlfriends If It Were Legal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: EVA AI, a platform allowing you to create and connect with your own AI partner, recently surveyed 2,000 men and found that 8 in 10 would consider marrying an AI girlfriend if it were legal. Not only that, but 83% of men also believe they could form a deep emotional bond with an AI girlfriend. What's even scarier is that a whopping 78% of men surveyed said they would consider creating...
4 days ago
Meta In Talks To Reincorporate In Texas or Another State, Exit Delaware
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4 days ago
Swiss Tax Authority Forced To Buy Bahamas Domain Name After URL Typo
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4 days ago
Google Pixel 4a's Ruinous 'Battery Performance' Update Is a Bewildering Mess
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: What exactly is wrong with the batteries in some of Google's Pixel 4a phones still out there? Google has not really said. Now that many Pixel 4a owners are experiencing drastically reduced battery life after an uncommon update for an end-of-life phone, they are facing a strange array of options with no path back to the phone they had. Google's "Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program," announced in early January, told owners...
5 days ago
Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses
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5 days ago
Dell is Making Everyone Return To Office, Too
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5 days ago
Cursing Disables Google's AI Overviews
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5 days ago
OpenAI's o3-mini: Faster, Cheaper AI That Fact-Checks Itself
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5 days ago
'Magical' Efficient-Market Theory Rebuked in Era of Passive Investing
An anonymous reader shares a report: At first blush, stock trading this week is hardly a paragon of the market-efficiency theory, an oft-romanticized idea in Economics 101. After all, big equity gauges plunged on Monday, spurred by fears of an AI model released a week earlier, before swiftly rebounding. A fresh academic paper suggests the rise of passive investing may be fueling these kind of fragile market moves. According to a study to be published in the prestigious American Economic...
5 days ago
Thousands of Highly Cited Scientists Have At Least One Retraction
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5 days ago
DeepSeek Outstrips Meta and Mistral To Lead Open-Source AI Race
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5 days ago
Microplastics in Placentas Linked To Premature Births, Study Suggests
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5 days ago
Taiwan Says Government Departments Should Not Use DeepSeek, Citing Security Concerns
An anonymous reader shares a report: Taiwan's digital ministry said on Friday that government departments should not use Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) service, saying that as the product is from China it represents a security concern. Democratically-governed Taiwan has long been wary of Chinese tech given Beijing's sovereignty claims over the island and its military and political threats against the government in Taipei. In a statement, Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs said that government departments are not allowed...
5 days ago
Apple Battles For Role in Google Antitrust Trial, Warning of Serious Risks
Apple has filed an emergency motion [PDF] for a stay in the Google antitrust trial, warning that it faces "clear and substantial irreparable harm" if barred from participating in the case's remedies phase. The motion, filed on January 30, 2025, comes after Judge Amit Mehta denied Apple's request for limited intervention earlier in the week. Apple -- which makes more than $20 billion a year from Google to use the Android-maker's search engine on Safari -- argues that the U.S....
5 days ago
WhatsApp Says Journalists and Civil Society Members Were Targets of Israeli Spyware
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5 days ago
Microsoft Slaps $400 Premium on Intel-powered Surface Lineup
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5 days ago
Quantum Computer Built On Server Racks Paves the Way To Bigger Machines
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily scaled up to achieve the computational power needed to tackle scientific challenges ranging from drug discovery to more energy-efficient machine learning. Aurora is a "photonic" quantum computer, which means it crunches numbers using photonic qubits -- information encoded in light. In practice, this means combining and recombining laser beams on multiple chips using lenses,...
5 days ago
Intel Won't Bring Its Falcon Shores AI Chip To Market
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5 days ago
AM Radio For All Vehicles Legislation Reintroduced
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5 days ago
'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, the company's co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he was increasingly careful about what he says internally at Meta. From a report: "Everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?," Zuckerberg said. Meta made changes to the question-and-answer section of the company all hands meeting because of the leaks, Zuckerberg said, according to meeting audio obtained by 404 Media. "I want to be able to be able to talk about stuff...
5 days ago
VGHF Opens Free Online Access To 1,500 Classic Game Mags, 30K Historic Files
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5 days ago
Italy Blocks DeepSeek Over Data Privacy Concerns
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5 days ago
Apple Reports Quarterly Record Revenue of $124 Billion
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5 days ago
Archivists Work To Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website's own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on data.gov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the...
5 days ago
Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones
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5 days ago
US DOJ Sues To Block Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 Billion Juniper Deal
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6 days ago