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lundi 19 mai 2025, 16:40
New submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting students' voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams...
Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NBER Macro Annual Conference, founded in 1986. This paper reviews the evolution of mainstream macroeconomics since then. It presents my views, informed by a survey of a number of researchers...
'The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme,' reports the Telegraph, noting that this week Denmark lifted a nuclear power ban imposed 40 years ago. Unlike its neighbours in Sweden and Germany, Denmark has never had a civil...
'Despite many obstacles — and what you may read elsewhere — electric-vehicle sales continue to grow at a healthy pace in the U.S. market,' Cox Automotive reported this week. 'Roughly 7.5% of total new-vehicle sales in the first quarter were electric vehicles, an increase...
TechCrunch reports: The world's only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF) increased the yield of...
OpenAI CEO and Sam Altman believe Artificial General Intelligence could arrive within the next few years. But the speculations of some technologists 'are getting ahead of reality,' writes the New York Times, adding that many scientists 'say no one will reach AGI without a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Kotaku: One of the most striking things about Bungie's Marathon is its presentation. The sci-fi extraction shooter combines bleak settings with bright colors in a way that makes it feel a bit like a sneaker promo meets Ghost in the ...
dimanche 18 mai 2025, 23:02
The BBC visits 'the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.' Even if you're a diehard Apple user, you're probably interacting with Windows systems on a regular basis. When you're pulling cash out, for example, chances are you're using a computer that's...
While Amazon won FAA approval to fly beyond an operators' visual line of sight, 'the program remains a work in progress,' reports Bloomberg: A pair of Amazon.com Inc. package delivery drones were flying through a light rain in mid-December when, within minutes of one...
IBM laid off 'a couple hundred' HR workers and replaced them with AI agents. 'It's becoming a huge thing,' says Mike Peditto, a Chicago-area consultant with 15 years of experience advising companies on hiring practices. He tells Slate 'I do think we're heading to where this...
The Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to 'move the Internet's security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code.' Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they'd begun work on rav1d, a safer high...
The only nuclear power plant still operating in Taiwan was shut down on Saturday, reports Japan's public media organization NHK: People in Taiwan have grown increasingly concerned about nuclear safety in recent years, especially after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima,...
During this year's annual Pwn2Own contest, two researchers from Palo Alto Networks demonstrated an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, reports Cyber Security News, 'earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points.' And the next day another participant used an...
It's a nonprofit that's provide hosting for the Linux Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, Drupal, Firefox, and 160 other projects — delivering nearly 430 terabytes of information every month. (It's currently hosting Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo Linux.) But hosting only...
A new YouTube tool will let advertisers use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they're most engaged, reports CNBC: Peak Points has the potential to enable more impressions and a higher click-through rate on YouTube, a primary metric that determines how...
Last August a Microsoft security update broke dual-booting Windows 11 and Linux systems, remembers the blog Neowin. Distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux were all affected, and 'a couple of days later, Microsoft provided a slightly lengthy...
Amazon's AWS Labs has created LLRT an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient serverless applications. Slashdot reader BitterEpic wants to know what you think of it: Traditional JavaScript runtimes like...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you 'regain control over your data,' has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own...
'The world has changed,' writes Stack Overflow's blog. 'Fast. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we build, learn, and solve problems. Software development looks dramatically different than it did even a few years ago — and the pace of change is only accelerating.' And...
samedi 17 mai 2025, 23:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from CRN: CPU-tracking firm Mercury Research reported on Thursday that Intel's x86 CPU market share grew 0.3 points sequentially to 75.6 percent against AMD's 24.4 percent in the first quarter. However, AMD managed to increase its...
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