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lundi 27 octobre 2025, 19:52
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, Reuters reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. From the report: The...
Mathematicians have identified the first shape that cannot pass through itself. Jakob Steininger and Sergey Yurkevich described the Noperthedron in a paper posted online in August. The shape has 90 vertices and 152 faces. The discovery resolves a question that began in the...
Apple is moving ahead with plans to bring advertising to its Maps app. Starting next year, businesses will be able to pay for more prominent placement within search results, according to Bloomberg [non-paywalled source]. The approach mirrors Search Ads in the App Store,...
Finland's fertility rate has dropped below 1.3 children per woman, the lowest among Nordic countries and far beneath the 2.1 replacement level needed to maintain a steady population. The rate has declined by a third since 2010. Kela, Finland's social insurance agency,...
Australia's competition regulator sued Microsoft today, accusing it of misleading millions of customers into paying higher prices for its Microsoft 365 software after bundling it with AI tool Copilot. From a report: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged...
The U.S. has formed a $1 billion partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security, said Energy Secretary Chris Wright and AMD CEO Lisa Su. From a report: The...
Countries signed their first UN treaty targeting cybercrime in Hanoi on Saturday, despite opposition from an unlikely band of tech companies and rights groups warning of expanded state surveillance. From a report: The new global legal framework aims to strengthen...
Electronic Arts has spent the past year pushing its nearly 15,000 employees to use AI for everything from code generation to scripting difficult conversations about pay. Employees in some areas must complete multiple AI training courses and use tools like the company's...
OpenAI's rival Anthropic has a different approach — and 'a clearer path to making a sustainable business out of AI,' writes the Wall Street Journal. Outside of OpenAI's close partnership with Microsoft, which integrates OpenAI's models into Microsoft's software products,...
'Mozilla is introducing a new privacy framework for Firefox extensions that will require developers to disclose whether their add-ons collect or transmit user data...' reports the blog Linuxiac: The policy takes effect on November 3, 2025, and applies to all new Firefox...
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents, according to a report from BleepingComputer. ...
America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus 'Cal State' system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be...
GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles 'in the near future,' reports the Verge. In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to 'phone projections' for GM cars: The timing is unclear, but...
dimanche 26 octobre 2025, 22:52
North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand 'thanks in part to an explosion of data centers,' reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. 'A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National...
'Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly.' That's the warning from Sean O'Brien, who founded the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law...
Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching 'traditional' TV? YouTube's CEO recently said its viewership on TV sets has 'surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.,' writes The Hollywood Reporter. And YouTube is shelling out big ...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Interesting Engineering: Bill Gates-backed TerraPower's innovative Natrium reactor project in Wyoming has cleared a critical federal regulatory hurdle. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has successfully...
Has AI just become an easy excuse for firms looking to downsize, asks CNBC: Fabian Stephany, assistant professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute, said there might be more to job cuts than meets the eye. Previously there may have been some stigma attached to...
'Around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing,' writes Phys.org. It's what sociologists call serious leisure — 'a hobby that demands skill, commitment and personal fulfillment,' according to an associate...
Data centers were typically 'hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring,' writes the Washington Post. But 'AI experts say that the hubs for computers that power AI are different from the data centers that deliver your Netflix movies...
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