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dimanche 15 juin 2025, 20:20
A chain of stores called Home Bargains installed facial recognition software to spot returning shoplifters. Unfortunately, 'Facewatch' made a mistake. 'We acknowledge and understand how distressing this experience must have been,' an anonymous Facewatch spokesperson tells...
The state of New York is 'asking companies to disclose whether AI is the reason for their layoffs,' reports Entrepreneur: The move applies to New York State's existing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system and took effect in March, Bloomberg reported....
'Cooper Taylor is only 17 years old, but he's already trying to revolutionize the drone industry,' writes Business Insider: His design makes the drone more efficient, customizable, and less expensive to construct, he says. He's built six prototypes, 3D printing every piece...
America's federal government is building a website and API called ai.gov to 'accelerate government innovation with AI', according to an early version spotted by 404 Media that was posted on GitHub by the U.S. government's General Services Administration. That site 'is...
It's the technology 'Google tried (and failed at) more than a decade ago,' writes CNN. (And Meta and Amazon have also previously tried releasing glasses with cameras, speakers and voice assistants.) Yet this week Snap announced that 'it's building AI-equipped eyewear to be...
Space may be the perfect place to study cancer — and someday even treat it,' writes Space.com: On Earth, gravity slows the development of cancer because cells normally need to be attached to a surface in order to function and grow. But in space, cancer cell clusters can...
Meta's CTO, Palantir's CTO, and OpenAI's chief product officer are being appointed as lieutenant colonels in America's Army Reserve, reports The Register. (Along with OpenAI's former chief revenue officer). They've all signed up for Detachment 201: Executive Innovation...
In 1989 a computer scientist argued that more functionality in software actually lowers usability and practicality — leading to the counterintuitive proposition that 'worse is better'. But is that still true? Python's original creator Guido van Rossum addressed the question...
Last week America's financial aid program announced that 'the rate of fraud through stolen identities has reached a level that imperils the federal student aid programs.' Or, as the Associated Press suggests: Online classes + AI = financial aid fraud. 'In some cases,...
Will an expansion of biofuels increase greenhouse gas emissions, despite their purported climate benefits? That's the claim of a new report from the World Resources Institute, which has been critical of US biofuel policy in the past. Ars Technica has republished an article...
samedi 14 juin 2025, 22:49
'People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT,' reports the Washington Post. But that's just the first change, according to a New York-based start-up devoted to watching for content-scraping AI companies with a free analytics product and ...
Rocky Linux 10 'Red Quartz' has reached general availability, notes a new article in The Register — surveying the differences between 'RHELatives' — the major alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Rocky 10 release notes describe what's new, such as support for RISC-V...
Recently the Browser Company (the startup behind the Arc web browser) switched over to building a new AI-powered browser — and its beta has just been released, reports TechCrunch, 'though you'll need an invite to try it out.' The Chromium-based browser has a URL/search bar th...
In a world first, a research team used 2D materials — only an atom thick — to develop a computer. The team (led by researchers at Pennsylvania State University) says it's a major step toward thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics. From the University's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET: By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. 'ChatGPT...
Earlier this week looters who stole iPhones 'got an unexpected message from Apple,' reports the Economic Times. 'Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.' Stolen phones 'were remotely locked...
Last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could eliminate half the entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. CNN called the remarks 'part of the AI hype machine.' Asked about the prediction this week at a Paris tech conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Since 2022, the U.S. has tightened the noose around the sale of high-end AI chips and other technology to China overnational-security concerns. Yet Chinese companies have made advances using workarounds. In...
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.Org: A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State....
NASA and Axiom Space have indefinitely delayed the Axiom-4 launch to the International Space Station due to concerns about a persistent air leak in the Russian PrK vestibule of the aging Zvezda module. 'The PrK serves as a passageway between the station's Zvezda module and...
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