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It's a feature-length film "rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender," reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.
In January Blender.org called Flow "the manifestation of Blender's mission, where a small, independent team with a limited budget is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide, and achieve recognition with over 60 awards, including a Golden Globe for Best An
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After Friday's Oval Office clash with Trump and Vance, Zelenskyy said he's still "ready to sign" a deal with the US over Ukraine's mineral deposits. Read more ›
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LA Noire boss Brendan McNamara is back within GTA developer Rockstar, as the head of the newly-acquired and retitled studio Rockstar Australia. Read more 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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The first teardown of the iPhone 16e is now live and you can enjoy it on YouTube thanks to PBKReviews. It shows a traditional tidy Apple assembly that is moderately tough to repair. One interesting bit that came out of this disassembly is the battery capacity as written on the cell – 4,005mAh. That is not too far from the previously reported capacity of 3,961mAh. But it does sound better... Read more ›
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A blowup at the White House on Friday proved a rude awakening for some of the US’s closest partners in Europe, and left them scrambling to contemplate a world in which they can no longer be sure that the US is a reliable ally in Russia’s war on Ukraine. In the wake of President Donald […] Read more ›
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Mobile World Congress 2025 has officially kicked off in Barcelona. Google is on the ground previewing two AI features that will begin rolling out to Android devices starting later this month. The first is Live Video, which Google first showed at I/O 2024 last May. The tool takes advantage of Gemini's multi-modal capabilities to allow users to show the chatbot what their phone's camera sees. As you can see from... 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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These sectors are falling behind when it comes to digital transformation, and SMBs are likely at a higher risk. Read more ›
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It's been a while since I looked at a main series Pokémon game and thought, "That looks nice." This includes last week's full reveal of Pokémon Legends Z-A, which going from the first bit of footage seems to feature a lot of hazy-edged grey rooftops, futurist UI, and eerily smooth NPCs, and not a lot of consistent, nice-to-look-at art direction to tie it together. This is also a shame. First,... Read more ›
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Like many folks who saw Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's reveal trailer last year, my first thoughts were along the lines of 'Get that gorgeous-looking battle system into my veins, stat.' And at long last, I've been able to sample an early chunk of Sandfall Interactive's upcoming action RPG for myself, playing around the first three and a half hours of the game after its opening prologue. Read more Read more ›
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PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware. Read more ›
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Likeability plays a big role in getting hired. Here are some psychological tricks to help you click with your interviewer. Read more ›
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As a child growing up in the '90s, living without eggs because of my allergy was difficult. Amid soaring egg prices, though, many are joining me. Read more ›
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Netflix is making a big push into video games. The company first dabbled in games with interactive titles like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and a Carmen Sandiego game. But starting in 2021, it made gaming a much bigger priority — Netflix hired a former EA exec and let people play a selection of mobile games for free as […] 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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The Trump Pump briefly sent the prices of five cryptocurrencies soaring, but they're already coming back down to Earth. Read more ›
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BYD, the Chinese EV giant and Tesla's arch rival, unveiled a vehicle-mounted drone system that lets drivers deploy the gadget on the move to take videos. Read more ›
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DeepSeek shared theoretical cost-profit margins of 545%, but they assume everyone who uses its largely free AI models would pay. Read more ›
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Confused by Task Manager seemingly getting CPU usage wrong in Windows 11? Don’t worry, Microsoft has cleared up what’s going on here. 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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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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A Disney employee's download of an AI image generation tool from GitHub led to a massive data breach in July 2024, exposing over 44 million internal Slack messages. The software contained infostealer malware that compromised Matthew Van Andel's computer [non-paywalled source] for five months, giving hackers access to his 1Password manager. The attackers used the stolen credentials to access Disney's corporate systems, publishing sensitive information including customer data, employee passport... Read more ›
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