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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same name to generate up to twenty-second-long cinematic clips. However, OpenAI's product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai, sa
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Russia is not a significant cyber threat to the U.S. anymore, Trump's new Defense Secretary says. Read more ›
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Ad industry insiders told BI they felt spending on Musk's X platform could help advertisers avoid some potential risks. Read more ›
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Elle Fanning and Whoopi Goldberg were among the worst-dressed celebrities at the 2025 Oscars. See which other stars' red carpet looks made the list. Read more ›
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Tesla protests are growing nationwide as anger grows over Elon Musk's ties to Trump and DOGE. Read more ›
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MWC 2025 is officially underway, and Tecno is one of the companies that announced the most new hardware. The brand introduced the Camon 40 series smartphones, although we didn't get the detailed specs so it was more of an extended teaser. We learned they would come with Mediatek chipsets and Circle to Search. Tecno also showcased Megabook S14, Megabook K15S, and Megabook T14 Air laptops, a Watch GT1 wearable and... Read more ›
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Can you feel it? Spring is in the air. The mornings are brighter, birds are singing and flowers are starting to break free from their wintery soil confines. And, to kick off the upcoming season, Xbox has more Game Pass news to share. Read more Read more ›
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Ex-VP of HR at Microsoft Chris Williams shared how venting on LinkedIn and other social media platforms can backfire and when it can be a success. Read more ›
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Steam hit another new player record this weekend, with more than 40 million people online at the same time. Read more Read more ›
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The chain, which has over 45,000 stores worldwide, has attracted customers with cheap ice cream and bubble tea. Read more ›
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It didn’t take long for wireless earbuds to become ubiquitous. Apple’s AirPods launched back in September 2016, joining notable true wireless headphones from Jabra, Sony, Samsung, and others. Shortly after, they became the go-to choice for many of us when listening to music, podcasts and streaming services on our phones and tablets. But wireless earbuds can get very dirty very quickly, because not only are we using them a lot,... Read more ›
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London-based Arāya Ventures, announced today it has completed a second close of the Arāya Super Angel Fund at €22 million and received a €6 million commitment from British Business Investments. This subsidiary of the British Business Bank will be co-investing alongside the Arāya Super Angel Fund. The community-powered fund which will invest in up to ... Read more ›
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At the 97th Academy Awards, some Hollywood stars wore outfits with tributes to their films and current events. Read more ›
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Mackenzie Fly moved from the US to Berlin because she loved the city but had a rough time getting a long-term visa and almost gave up. Read more ›
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"Decisions that we make today, you will really see the impact three to five years down the road," Lisa Su said at a recent Stanford talk. Read more ›
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March futures opened at $95K early today, gapping higher by over $9K from Friday's high. Read more ›
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"Saturday Night Live" debuted Mike Myers in the role of impersonating Elon Musk on this weekend's show. Read more ›
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Realme's concept phone offers 3x and 10x lens module options. Or you can simply bring your own lens to the party. Read more ›
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A mod for Monster Hunter Wilds has been created that allows for unlimited character and palico edits, essentially bypassing Capcom's monetisation. Read more Read more ›
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The best-dressed stars at the 2025 Oscars included Halle Berry, Cynthia Erivo, and more. See the top celebrity outfits at the 97th Academy Awards. Read more ›
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Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python." It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real... Read more ›
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Apple said it planned to hire an additional 20,000 staff in the US over the next four years as part of a $500 billion American investment plan. Financial Times: The $500 billion figure [non-paywalled source], spread over Trump's second term in office, includes regular spending on thousands of US suppliers, data centres and corporate facilities, as well as new initiatives such as an academy in Michigan "to train the next... Read more ›
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company's Gemini AI products to be in the office "at least every weekday" [non-paywalled source] and suggested "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times. The directive comes as Brin warned that "competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot," referring to artificial... Read more ›
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Inception, a Palo Alto-based AI company founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel diffusion-based large language model (DLM) that significantly outperforms traditional LLMs in speed and efficiency. "Inception's model offers the capabilities of traditional LLMs, including code generation and question-answering, but with significantly faster performance and reduced computing costs, according to the company," reports TechCrunch. From the report: Ermon hypothesized generating Read more ›
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North Korean hackers have executed the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, draining $1.5 billion from Dubai-based exchange Bybit by compromising its multisignature cold wallet system. The attackers stole over 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins without exploiting code vulnerabilities or infrastructure. Security researchers from Elliptic identified North Korean signatures in the subsequent laundering operations, consistent with the nation's ongoing cryptocurrency theft operations that fund its. Read more ›
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you're not really buying an ebook or video game. From a report: Wyden's letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to "ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed decisions and understand what ownership rights they are obtaining." Wyden wants the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same name to generate up to twenty-second-long cinematic... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up to occupy different roles; one acting as a receptionist of a hotel, another acting on... Read more ›
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Citigroup credited a client's account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank's attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues. Financial Times: The erroneous internal transfer, which occurred last April and has not been previously reported, was missed by both a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was approved to... Read more ›
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Amazon has introduced its first-ever quantum processor, dubbed Ocelot, designed specifically to reduce quantum error correction costs by up to 90% compared to existing approaches. The prototype chip uses "cat qubits" -- named after Schrodinger's cat thought experiment -- which intrinsically suppress certain types of quantum errors. Unlike conventional approaches that add error correction after designing the architecture, AWS built Ocelot with quantum error correction as the primary requirement. The... Read more ›
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