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dimanche 26 octobre 2025, 15:34
Reason.com explores the fortunes of Aurora Innovation, the first company to put heavy-duty commercial self-driving trucks on public roads (and hopes to expand routes to El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix by the end of the year): An obscure federal rule is slowing the self-driving...
'Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday,' reports Space.com: The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9 a.m local Japan time...
25 years ago today on Slashdot... Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released PlayStation 2 consoles (and games). '500,000 lucky members of the American gaming public are sneaking a few minutes of...
Critics question why basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections are 'being exploited remain prevalent in mission-critical codebases maintained by companies whose core business is cybersecurity,' writes CSO Online. Benjamin Harris, CEO of...
Thursday Ubuntu-maker Canonical 'officially launched Canonical Academy, a new certification platform designed to help professionals validate their Linux and Ubuntu skills through practical, hands-on assessments,' writes the blog It's FOSS: Focusing on real-world scenarios,...
'Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,' reports Reuters, 'challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.' In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks' 'context-aware AI assistant': If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO's claims that Amazon ...
samedi 25 octobre 2025, 22:44
'OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,' warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. 'It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.' In September they...
Thursday the Washington Post profiled 'the people who dare to say no to AI,' including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says 'she doesn't want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce...' 'As the tech ...
An AI system 'apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm,' reports the Guardian, 'and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.' Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a ...
The Associated Press reports that 'North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars' by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies — all orchestrated by the North Korean government to finance R&D...
'Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time,' writes the Associated Press: Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE'koh) on Thursday, a...
The Washington Post reports on 996, 'a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week...' As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting...
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Associated Press: Myanmar's military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported...
Electronic Arts (EA) has partnered with Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, to co-develop generative AI tools aimed at accelerating game development. 'I use the term smarter paintbrushes,' Steve Kestell, Head of Technical Art for EA SPORTS said in the announcement....
China's private space company LandSpace has completed a key static fire test of its Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) reusable rocket -- a stainless-steel, methane-fueled launcher modeled after SpaceX's Starship. Universe Today reports: The latest milestone took place on Monday, Oct. 22nd at...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Iceland's frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes -- marking the country's first confirmed finding of these...
Texas's electricity demand has surged to record highs in 2025 but renewable energy is meeting the challenge. According to new data from the Energy Information Administration, solar output has quadrupled since 2021, wind continues steady growth, and battery storage is...
alternative_right shares a report from France 24: [Sweden's] latest contribution to the war effort is Glimt, an innovative project launched by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) earlier this year. Glimt is an open platform that relies on the theory of 'crowd...
Apple has begun shipping U.S.-made AI servers from a new factory in Houston, Texas -- part of its $600 billion investment in American manufacturing and supply chains. CNBC reports: Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan said on Thursday that the servers will power the...
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