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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: "We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery that will be leveraged by both defenders and attackers."
In May 1986, Russinovich wrote a utility called Enhancer for the Apple II personal computer. The uti
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Второе начало термодинамики гласит: энтропия замкнутой системы не убывает. Любой сложный порядок — будь то живая клетка или работающий двигатель — это локально пониженная энтропия. Чтобы поддерживать такой порядок, его нельзя просто «сохранять»: необратимые процессы деградации идут постоянно и самопроизвольно. Порядок требует непрерывного восстановления.Но восстановление порядка означает локальное уменьшение энтропии — а это возможно лишь в том случае, если система открыта: избыточная энтропия сбрасывается. Read more ›
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Когда-то в далеком 1968 году Филип К. Дик задавался вопросом: «Мечтают ли андроиды об электрических овцах?» Способны ли машины переживать, желать и видеть сны? Хоть сегодняшние «андроиды» и несколько иные, чем в произведении, вопрос до сих остается актуальным. Только слегка сместился фокус: не «мечтают ли», а «снятся ли им цифровые овцы»? Существует ли у нейросетей аналог фазы медленного сна, перерабатывают ли они данные «во сне» и, главное, способны ли «видеть... Read more ›
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Когда я начал разбираться, чем в open source можно закрыть задачу ASOC / Vulnerability Management, выбор оказался довольно грустным. По сути единственный известный вариант это DefectDojo. Сам я его в production не тащил, но от коллег регулярно слышал одну и ту же боль: на больших объёмах findings он начинает захлёбываться, в UI быстро не хочется заходить, а аналогов с человеческим интерфейсом и БДУ ФСТЭК «из коробки» в open source я... Read more ›
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When my son died, my understanding of motherhood changed. Now, I spend Mother's Day at his grave. It's the only place I feel like a whole family. Read more ›
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"Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year," according to a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest. But the bigger shift is how messy the ecosystem has become. Established groups like Akira and Qilin are still active, while newer players like The Gentlemen surged into the top tier with a 588 percent spike in activity. At... Read more ›
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An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country's national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, "after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were 'fictitious'." Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the draft policy for public comment. [Ntshavheni] said the policy seeks to strengthen government's ability to regulate and adopt AI responsibly,... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins." Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres. The goblin-speak caught the attention of programmers, who are often heavy users of the bot. Barron Roth, a 32-year-old product manager at a tech... Read more ›
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Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports: "Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space," said Fils-Aimé. "Amazon's mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart... Essentially what Amazon wanted... Read more ›
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A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics... Read more ›
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A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer... Read more ›
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A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. "Many of humanity's most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago." "The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution." Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way... Read more ›
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The Associated Press reports: On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then alerted the state's forest service and largest electric utility. One of dozens of AI cameras installed for the utility Arizona Public Service had spotted early signs of what came to be known as the Diamond Fire. Firefighters... Read more ›
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"Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable," writes Engadget: OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These "optional animated companions" don't do any coding themselves, but serve as a floating overlay that can tell you what Codex is working on, notify you when Codex completes a task or whether it needs your input on something. The new feature lets developers... Read more ›
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"So yesterday the Devteam (it is always the Devteam) released version 5.0 of legendary and venerable rogueike compuer game NetHack," writes the Rogue-like games column @Play. "It is 39 years old..." MilenCent (Slashdot reader #219,397) writes: In addition to play changes it's left for players to discover, this version updates the code to compile with C99, makes it much easier to cross compile the code for other systems than the... Read more ›
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