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lundi 18 août 2025, 07:25
Take a look at what being called 'a stunning phenomenon,' captured in a photo taken from the International Space Station as it passed above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the American Southwest. So what was it? 'A rare form of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) called a gigantic ...
A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. 'He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details,' the Post's reporter...
A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. 'He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details,' the Post's reporter...
14 months ago a jury ruled against Boeing, awarding $81 million in damages to failed electric airplane startup Zunum. 'Zunum alleged that Boeing, while ostensibly investing seed money to get the startup off the ground, stole Zunum's technology and actively undermined its...
EV sales are up 27% for the first seven months of 2025 — for the world. But in America 'For the first half of 2025, EV registrations rose 7% to 620,642, with market share inching up just 0.1 percentage point to 7.5 percent,' reports Automotive News. America's new EV...
dimanche 17 août 2025, 23:24
Protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor powering the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification (in testing by cybersecurity lab Dekra against the TrustCB SESIP scheme). Google's security blog called the certification 'a watershed...
Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05 on May 16th. Three months later, it's down 38% — with that drop starting shortly after backlash to the CEO's promise to make it an 'AI-first' company. Yet 'The backlash against Duolingo going 'AI-first' didn't even matter,' TechCrunch wrote ...
A new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found describes the phenomenon like this. 'A 'teacher' model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a 'student'...
This week workers on Blizzard's 'Story and Franchise Development' team 'strongly voted' to join America's largest communications and media labor union, the Communications Workers of America. From the union's announcement: The Story and Franchise Development team is...
Three years ago security researcher Eaton Zveare discovered a vulnerability in Jacuzzi's SmartTub interface allowing access to the personal data of every hot tub owner. Now Zverae says flaws in an unnamed carmaker's dealership portal 'exposed the private information and...
From the French newspaper Le Monde: Odorless, quiet, sustainable. On the last day of July, passengers boarded Barcelona's V3 bus line with no idea where its fuel came from. Written in large letters on the bus facade, just below its name 'Nimbus,' a sign clearly stated: 'This ...
After leaving a nearly 10-year position as a product marketing engineer at Intel, Varun Gupta was charged with possessing trade secrets. He was facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release, according to Oregon's U.S....
'Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless,' writes SC World, citing the presentation of two researchers at the Black Hat security conference: In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different...
'As employers and tech companies rush to deploy AI software into workplaces to improve efficiency, labor unions are stepping up work with state lawmakers across the nation to place guardrails on its use...' reports the Washington Post. 'Union leaders say they must intervene...
Sunlight becomes energy when plants convert four photons of light. But unfortunately, most attempts at synthetic light-absorbing chemicals can only absorb one photon at a time, write two researchers from the University of Melbourne. 'In the Polyzos research group at the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and...
samedi 16 août 2025, 23:49
'Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy,' reports the Washington Post, 'joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice.' Licensed therapists in Illinois are...
'The planet Uranus emits more heat than it gets from the Sun,' reports Science Daily, citing a new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide. 'This means it's still slowly losing leftover heat from its early...
'Several cybersecurity companies debuted advancements in AI agents at the Black Hat conference last week,' reports Axios, 'signaling that cyber defenders could soon have the tools to catch up to adversarial hackers.' - Microsoft shared details about a prototype for a new...
Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 as the then-COO of Canonical. Today he runs developer marketing at Oracle (after holding similar positions at AWS, Adobe, and MongoDB). And this week Asay contributed an opinion piece to InfoWorld reminding us of...
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