After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in It took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual...

TheRegister

5 sept., 21:09

Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions

An anonymous reader shares a report: Can AI help 'smooth over' discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta....

Slashdot

5 sept., 20:41

Critical, make-me-super-user SAP S/4HANA bug under active exploitation

9.9-rated flaw on the loose, so patch now A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.…

TheRegister

5 sept., 20:04

Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms

Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it's taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security. From a report: The San Francisco-based startup is widening existing restrictions on...

Slashdot

5 sept., 20:01

Top Spec Razer Blade Laptops Are Average 14 Percent Off Right Now

This slim gaming laptop is one of our favorites, with an impressive design and the power to match.

Wired: Tech.

5 sept., 19:52

Public Strongly Backs Aim of 30% of Land and Sea Set Aside For Nature, Poll Finds

Much of the world favors protecting 30% of the world's land and water for nature by 2030, according to new research that has found overwhelming public support for the goal across eight countries on five continents. The Guardian: Nearly 200 nations agreed in 2022 to set aside ...

Slashdot

5 sept., 19:20

Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking

Because handing battlefield ID to an algorithm has never gone wrong before, right? The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death ...

TheRegister

5 sept., 19:13

Geoffrey Hinton: 'AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer'

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has warned that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while impoverishing most workers. The computer scientist, who pioneered neural network research in the 1980s, told Financial Times that rich people will use AI to replace workers,...

Slashdot

5 sept., 18:40

Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration

It won't be fully functional for a while, though video Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.…

TheRegister

5 sept., 18:38

Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi : une caméra de sécurité 4K avec recherche vidéo IA locale

Dans le sillage de la maison connectée, la sécurité connectée occupe une place majeure à l'IFA 2025. La marque Reolink vient de dévoiler une nouvelle caméra ambitieuse: la TrackFlex Floodlight Wifi. Elle s'accompagne de la solution ReoNeura AI.

01net

5 sept., 18:32

ERREUR : NordVPN ne coûte pas vraiment 3,09 €/mois comme l’indique son site

Grâce à un partenariat avec Amazon.fr, souscrire à NordVPN ne nécessite que 2,72 €/mois en ce moment. Profitez vite de ce prix délirant!

01net

5 sept., 18:30

Firefox ESR 115 won't quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026

Firefox 145 is dumping 32-bit Linux, though Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, had some good news this week for users still clinging to Windows 7 – Firefox ESR 115 support is being extended until March 2026.…

TheRegister

5 sept., 18:01

Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices

Alphabet's Google was hit with a $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators. From a report: The move by the European Commission...

Slashdot

5 sept., 18:00

OpenAI lancerait sa propre puce d’IA l’année prochaine

OpenAI préparerait sa propre puce d’intelligence artificielle en partenariat avec Broadcom. Destinée à un usage interne, cette puce viendrait épauler les gigantesques besoins d’infrastructure d’OpenAI, déjà engagé dans des projets colossaux pour soutenir...

01net

5 sept., 17:59

3 milliards d’euros ! L’Europe inflige une énorme amende à Google

Une de plus! Google écope d'une nouvelle sanction de la Commission européenne à hauteur de quasiment 3 milliards d'euros. En cause: les pratiques du moteur de recherche sur le marché de la publicité en ligne.

01net

5 sept., 17:38

Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself?

Panasonic's market value has remained flat at approximately $25 billion over the past decade while rivals Hitachi, Sony and NEC have increased their valuations sixfold during the same period. The Osaka-based conglomerate announced a restructuring plan in May 2025 to...

Slashdot

5 sept., 17:20

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.

Wired: Tech.

5 sept., 17:08

De la musique à la lumière : les enceintes Sonos parlent désormais aux ampoules Philips Hue

Sonos Voice Control intègre Philips Hue pour contrôler à la voix aussi bien la musique que l’éclairage.

01net

5 sept., 16:54

Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the tech behemoth was entering the 'most ambitious decade yet' in its climate action. 'Today, I'm proud to announce that we...

Slashdot

5 sept., 16:40