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"It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists," writes MIT Technology Review. " Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing."
New York Magazine's "Intelligencer" column argues OpenAI wants ChatGPT in your browser because "That's where people who use computers, par
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An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned after HR subtly told him to find a new job, refusing to give up the GPU in the process. Read more ›
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Trump says that $2,000 tariff checks are coming mid-2026. His GOP allies on Capitol Hill aren't so sure. Read more ›
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For two years, Cook County residents who participated in its basic income piot received $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments. Read more ›
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George R.R. Martin teases the 'Game of Thrones' universe will finally get to the world after the OG show's divisive finale. Read more ›
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Microsoft will not release a diversity and inclusion report for 2025 like it has been doing every year since 2019, Stephen Totilo from Game File has reported. Totilo asked the company if it was skipping this year after it failed to publish a report from October to early November like it had done so the previous years. “We are not doing a traditional report this year as we’ve evolved beyond... Read more ›
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The 'Hunger Games' movies have still got it, because the 'Sunrise on the Reaping' trailer was Lionsgate's second-biggest ever. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1617 on November 23 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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We rounded up every Miss Universe and figured out which countries have produced the most titleholders since 1952. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The universe's expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our understanding of dark energy, the elusive force that counters the inward pull of gravity in our universe... Last year, a consortium of hundreds of researchers using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)... Read more ›
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Meta "is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company's generative AI technology" reports the Washington Post. They cite records they've reviwed showing that Meta "would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users." The company plans to test the product with a small group of Facebook users in select cities such as New York and... Read more ›
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Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high-stakes domains like finance, medicine or autonomous systems, such unreliability is unacceptable. Enter Lean4, an open-source programming language and interactive theorem prover becoming a key tool to inject rigor and certainty into AI systems. By leveraging formal verification, Lean4 promises to make AI safer, mo Read more ›
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In a triumphant election-night speech earlier this month, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani addressed Donald Trump directly, telling the president to “Turn the volume up.” Trump has repeatedly called Mamdani a “Communist” and questioned his citizenship status. But when the two met in the Oval Office on Friday, it was all strikingly cordial — […] Read more ›
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I found that celebrating the holidays with my family of just four a little underwhelming. Now I invite friends and friends of friends to join us. Read more ›
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The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security. Read more ›
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The grid hits Sin City, with Lando Norris looking to extend his lead at the top of the Drivers' Championship. Read more ›
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Consumers chose better value and superior performance over slim new design of Air model Read more ›
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In a 2023 pitch to investors, a "well-financed, highly credentialed" startup named Stardust aimed for a "gradual temperature reduction demonstration" in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. ("Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles," says one slide. "Equivalent to ~1% extra cloud coverage.") "Another page told potential investors Stardust had already run low-altitude experiments using 'test particles'," the article notes: [P]ublic records and inte Read more ›
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A look into why matcha is so expensive and how demand in the US is driving prices higher. Read more ›
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might. WSJ: The contents of the webpage came up during Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate confirmation process. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) in February said Kennedy had assured him that, if he was confirmed, the CDC would "not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines... Read more ›
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Microsoft has acknowledged in a support article that major Windows 11 core features including the Start Menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and System Settings break after applying monthly cumulative updates released on or after July 2025. The problems stem from XAML component issues that affect updates beginning with July's Patch Tuesday release (KB5062553). The failures occur during first-time user logins after cumulative updates are applied and on non-persistent OS installations like... Read more ›
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Britain said on Wednesday it would ban the resale of tickets to concerts, sport and other live events for profit, disrupting ticket touts and the platforms that benefit from their activities. From a report: Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said touts were ripping off fans by using bots to snap up batches of tickets for coveted shows and reselling them at sky-high prices. "Our new proposals will shut down the touts'... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash. "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming," tweeted Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO for Microsoft's AI group. Suleyman added that he grew up playing the old-school... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not. The Linux kernel maintainer made the comments during an interview at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul earlier this month. But he cautioned that vibe coding would be a "horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint" for production code. Torvalds told Dirk Hohndel, head of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus. Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San Diego arrived with math skills below high-school level. Now, according to... Read more ›
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The EU's cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web in Europe since their introduction in 2018. But the cookie nightmare is about to crumble thanks to some big proposed changes announced by the European Commission today. From a report: Instead of having to click accept or reject on a cookie pop-up for every website you visit in Europe, the EU is preparing to... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader ukoda shares a report from the Associated Press: China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024,... Read more ›
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The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) was forced to cancel its leadership election after a trustee lost their portion of the Helios voting system's decryption key, making it impossible to reveal or verify the final results. Ars Technica reports: The IACR said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios, an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: The White House is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Friday that tells the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence, according to four people familiar with the matter and a leaked draft of the order obtained by POLITICO. The draft document, confirmed as authentic by three people familiar with the matter,... Read more ›
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