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lundi 29 décembre 2025, 17:03
The AI industry, for all the anxiety about mass unemployment, is quietly minting entirely new job categories that require distinctly human skills -- empathy, judgment, and the ability to calm down a passenger trapped inside a broken-down robotaxi. Data annotators are no...
The world's largest hotel chains are aggressively pushing customers toward direct bookings as they brace for a future where AI 'agents' could reshape how travelers find and reserve rooms. Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Wyndham have all expanded their loyalty programs and perks...
LG has announced a new premium gaming monitor brand called UltraGear, and the lineup's headline feature is what the company claims is the world's first 5K AI upscaling technology -- an on-device solution that analyzes and enhances content in real time before it reaches the...
The world's largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has almost...
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: What's the stupidest use of AI you encountered in 2025? Have you been called by AI telemarketers? Forced to do job interviews with a glitching AI? With all this talk of 'disruption' and 'inevitability,' this is our chance to have ...
About 60 workers in Halifax, Nova Scotia have formed Ubisoft's first union in North America, reports the CBC (though its 17,000 employees include some unionized workforces in other parts of the world): T.J. Gillis, a senior server developer at Ubisoft Halifax, says he became ...
Engadget reports on 'a widespread breach' of Ubisoft's game Rainbow Six Siege 'that left various players with billions of in-game credits, ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts.' Ubisoft took the game's servers offline early Saturday morning, and as of Sunday...
One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, 'the person tells the computer it's their reality...
'Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades....' read the email. 'With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village. 'IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI ...
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases 'are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change...' But in 2025, 'there were silver linings ...
dimanche 28 décembre 2025, 23:40
Regardless of who ends up owning Warners Bros., 'the outlook for theatrical movies is dimming,' writes a Wall Street Journal tech columnist, noting that this year's U.S. box office of $8.3 billion (as of December 25) 'is a bit below last year's and well below prepandemic...
Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the 'festive artwork' shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, 'made on MacBook Pro.' Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease the season...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian: A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter's cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege... Her father...
Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino 'isn't imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards,' (according to Mitch Stoltz, EFF director for competition and IP litigation). While Adafruit's managing editor Phillip...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician said he learned of...
Laptop makers are facing record-setting memory prices next year. The site Notebookcheck catalogs how different companies are responding: Sources told [Korean business newspaper] Chosun Biz that some manufacturers have signed preliminary contracts with Samsung, Micron, and SK ...
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of 'digital sovereignty': The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis by a South...
'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the...
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