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dimanche 1 juin 2025, 05:34
With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians 'to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,' according to RestOfWorld.org — 'the first such nationwide initiative in...
Earlier this month the 'Create New Issue' page on GitHub got a new option. 'Save time by creating issues with Copilot' (next to a link labeled 'Get started.') Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. 'With Copilot, creating...
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current 'advanced' LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with...
samedi 31 mai 2025, 23:02
Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia's nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. 'Data, including building plans, diagrams,...
A U.S. federal judge has decided that free-speech protections in the First Amendment 'don't shield an AI company from a lawsuit,' reports Legal Newsline. The suit is against Character.AI (a company reportedly valued at $1 billion with 20 million users) Judge Anne C. Conway...
Apple's end-to-end iCloud encryption product ('Advanced Data Protection') was famously removed in the U.K. after a government order demanded backdoors for accessing user data. So now a Google software engineer wants to build an open source version of Advanced Data Protection ...
In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing 'strategic reserves'of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include 'cryptocurrency...
'We've officially entered the age of watching robots clobber each other in fighting rings,' writes Vice.com. A kick-boxing competition was staged Sunday in Hangzhou, China using four robots from Unitree Robotics, reports Futurism. (The robots were named 'AI Strategist',...
Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as 'all part of the AI hype...
'More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube,' according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they're sharing their scientific work and answering questions from...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding...
A five-year study by Wageningen University and the German Primate Research Center found that wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau repeatedly strike stones against trees, presumably as a form of communication. Phys.Org reports: Over the course of a five-year field study, the...
Artificial intelligence could soon outpace Bitcoin mining in energy consumption, according to Alex de Vries-Gao, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Institute for Environmental Studies. His research estimates that by the end of 2025, AI could account for nearly ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the 'industrial scale theft' of premium video services, especially live sport, a new report says. The research by Enders Analysis accuses Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft of...
Billions of stolen cookies are being sold on the dark web and Telegram, with over 1.2 billion containing session data that can grant cybercriminals access to accounts and systems without login credentials, bypassing MFA. The Register reports: More than 93.7 billion of them...
In a full-circle moment for Palmer Luckey, Meta and his defense tech company Anduril are teaming up to develop mixed reality headsets for the U.S. military under the Army's revamped SBMC Next program. The collaboration will merge Meta's Reality Labs hardware and Llama AI...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency...
Instagram now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos, allowing users to upload images that 'appear just exactly as you shot it.' Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the update in a Threads post, noting that 'almost every phone camera defaults to' that format. The Verge reports:...
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Microsoft just can't leave well enough alone. The company is now injecting formatting features into Notepad, a program that has long been appreciated for one thing -- its simplicity. You see, starting with version 11.2504.50.0,...
vendredi 30 mai 2025, 23:35
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: If you've left a comment on a YouTube video, a new website claims it might be able to find every comment you've ever left on any video you've ever watched. Then an AI can build a profile of the commenter and guess where you ...
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