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dimanche 29 juin 2025, 09:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from Smithsonian magazine: Last year, Australian scientists picked up a mysterious burst of radio waves that briefly appeared brighter than all other signals in the sky. Now, the researchers have discovered the blast didn't come from a...
Bcachefs 'pitches itself as a filesystem that 'doesn't eat your data',' writes the open source/Linux blog It's FOSS. Although it was last October that Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet was restricted from participating in the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle (after...
Technology writer Matthew Hutson (also Slashdot reader #1,467,653) looks at a new kind of self-improving AI coding system. It rewrites its own code based on empirical evidence of what's helping — as described in a recent preprint on arXiv. From Hutson's new article in IEEE...
'I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital,' a man told his wife, after experiencing what Futurism calls a 'ten-day descent into AI-fueled delusion' and 'a frightening break with reality.' And a San Franci...
samedi 28 juin 2025, 23:39
Designated as a foreign terrorist group by multiple countries, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel fiercely defends its transnational organized crime syndicate. 'A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records,' reports Reuters, 'and...
'Duolingo stock fell for the fourth straight trading day on Wednesday,' reported Investor's Business Daily, 'as data shows user growth slowing for the language-learning software provider.' Jefferies analyst John Colantuoni said he was 'concerned' by this drop — saying it...
On the International Space Station, air has been slowly leaking out for years from a Russia-controlled module, reports CNN. But recently 'station operators realized the gradual, steady leak had stopped. And that raised an even larger concern.' It's possible that efforts to...
Bloomberg reports: By the time Jessica Lindsey's customers accuse her of being an AI, they are often already shouting. For the past two years, her work as a call center agent for outsourcing company Concentrix has been punctuated by people at the other end of the phone...
'A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app's drivers and passengers,' reports the Guardian: Research by academics at New York's Columbia Business School...
An anonymous reader shared this report from WebProNews: The Linux world is abuzz with news of XLibre, a fork of the venerable X11 window display system, which aims to be an alternative to X11's successor, Wayland. Much of the Linux world is working to adopt Wayland, the...
After past damage to undersea cables, Denmark will boost their surveillance of Baltic Sea/North Sea waters by deploying four uncrewed surface vessels — about 10 meters long — that are equipped with drones and also AI, reports Euronews. The founder/CEO of the company that...
'Mercedes-AMG is transitioning away from the four-cylinder plug-in hybrid powertrain,' reports Car and Driver, 'and back towards the inline-six and V-8 powertrains more traditionally associated with the brand.' That isn't to say that AMG had a change of heart concerning the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could...
The Canadian government has ordered Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Hikvision to cease operations in Canada over national security concerns, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said late on Friday. From a report: Hikvision, also known as Hangzhou Hikvision Digital...
Graphic artists in China are pushing back against AI image generators, which they say 'profoundly shifts clients' perception of their work, specifically in terms of how much that work costs and how much time it takes to produce,' reports The Verge. 'Freelance artists or...
Japanese politicians failed to pass legislation last month that would have allowed married couples to keep separate surnames, despite surveys showing majority public support for the change. Japan remains the only country requiring married couples by law to share the same...
Seven people have now received Neuralink's N1 brain implant, which enables individuals with ALS or spinal cord injuries to control a computer with their thoughts. PCMag reports: In a February 2025 update, Neuralink confirmed that three people had received its brain-computer...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish ...
Tech companies Google and Palo Alto Networks are sounding the alarm over the 'Scattered Spider' hacking group's interest in the aviation sector. From a report: In a statement posted on LinkedIn, Sam Rubin, an executive at Palo Alto's cybersecurity-focused Unit 42, said his...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes in an opinion piece for The Register: Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is -- sort of, kind of -- extending Windows 10 support for another year. For most...
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