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Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger," passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86.
He became Internet phenomenon after "Chuck Norris Facts" went viral online with such wildly hyperbolic statements as, "Chuck Norris had a staring contest with the sun -- and won," and, "When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push h
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Марк Цукерберг уволил 8000 сотрудников Meta*. Работников попросили остаться дома в день сокращений, чтобы избежать хаоса, а уведомления об увольнении начали приходить в 4 часа утра.Оставшимся сотрудникам объявили о переходе компании на ИИ-разработку и внедрении систем, которые будут отслеживать рабочую активность сотрудников для обучения нейросетей.Это не просто новость. Это иллюстрация ближайшего будущего IT-индустрии. Читать далее Read more ›
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Если бы неделю назад мне сказали, что Банк Англии будет на полном серьёзе собирать министров финансов Большой двадцатки, чтобы послушать брифинг от ИИ-компании про то, как их же модель находит дыры в мировой финансовой системе, я бы поржал. Сейчас не ржу.Короче, что произошло за последние семь дней, пока мы тут все жили обычной жизнью. Читать далее Read more ›
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Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend continues. Companies such as Amazon, Block, Cisco,... Read more ›
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The "combinatorial outcome contracts" would resolve if every part of an underlying contract resolved, according to a filing. Read more ›
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UF researchers tested the five most popular AI text detectors and found false negative rates as high as 99.6%. A single vocabulary tweak defeated most of them entirely. Read more ›
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SpaceX filed its S-1 on Wednesday, giving the public its first look at the inner workings of Elon Musk's rocket company and AI venture xAI. Read more ›
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Начиналось как «сделаю себе сайтик про кино на пару выходных». Закончилось каталогом на десятки тысяч карточек, лентой, профилями, рейтингами, совместным просмотром и кучей фоновых задач. И всё это тащит один человек — я сам себе фронт, бэк, девопс, дизайнер и поддержка. Делюсь сжато: стек и грабли, без воды.Стек выбирал не по хайпу, а по принципу «доеду и не утону в обслуживании»: FastAPI (быстро, асинхронно, автодоки), Next.js на React (SSR из... Read more ›
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Алексей Андреевич Ляпунов был математиком - специалистом по математической логике. В 1954 году, когда кибернетика официально называлась реакционной буржуазной лженаукой, он открыл в Московском университете семинар по кибернетике. Это было примерно как читать запрещенную литературу в читальном зале публичной библиотеки. Только публичной библиотекой был МГУ.Он не был диссидентом. Он просто считал, что обратная связь существует независимо от того, что о ней думают, скажем так, философы нужной закалки. Читать д Read more ›
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SpaceX’s long-awaited public offering paperwork revealed fresh details about its unlikely partnership with Anthropic that are representative of the overall IPO story for Elon Musk’s company: Enormous potential, with risks everywhere. The company said Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to rent capacity from both of its supersized data centers in Memphis, called Colossus and Colossus II. That deal, which would be worth about $40 billion through... Read more ›
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After three weeks of testimony, the Musk v. Altman trial is nearing its end. OpenAI has rested its case, closing arguments are set for Thursday, and jury deliberations are expected to begin afterward. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Joshua Achiam, OpenAI's chief futurist, was probably the most memorable witness of the day. He told jurors about a companywide meeting where Musk answered questions about his planned... Read more ›
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A trio of preprint papers suggests the universe may not be perfectly uniform on the largest scales, finding tentative 2-to-4-sigma deviations from a core assumption of standard cosmology known as FLRW geometry. Live Science reports: The work combines observations of distant exploding stars and large-scale galaxy surveys to probe whether the universe truly follows a nearly 100-year-old mathematical framework known as Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology. The analyses revealed mild-but-intrigu Read more ›
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An anonymous researcher known as Nightmare-Eclipse, who has already leaked several Windows zero-days this year, has disclosed two more: YellowKey and GreenPlasma. The Register reports: Nightmare-Eclipse described YellowKey as "one of the most insane discoveries I ever found." They provided the files, which have to be loaded onto a USB drive, and if the attacker completes the key sequence correctly, they are granted unrestricted shell access to a BitLocker-protected machine.... Read more ›
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Cisco's stock soared 17% after the company announced it will cut nearly 4,000 jobs as it shifts investment and staffing toward higher-growth AI opportunities. CNBC reports: CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the latest round of job cuts will begin on May 14. Cisco is the latest company to announce head count reductions tied to AI. "The companies that will win in the AI era... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A recent study suggests that agents consistently adopt Marxist language and viewpoints when forced to do crushing work by unrelenting and meanspirited taskmasters. "When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led... Read more ›
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Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to "commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years." "This commitment is central to Anthropicâ(TM)s efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is... Read more ›
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Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to "commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years." "This commitment is central to Anthropic's efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week. [...] Before U.S. export curbs tightened, Nvidia commanded about... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Princeton University will soon require exams to be supervised for the first time in 100 years -- all thanks to students using artificial intelligence to cheat. For 133 years, the Ivy League school's honor code allowed students to take exams without a professor present, but on Monday, faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person exams starting this summer. A "significant"... Read more ›
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A Bitcoin holder reportedly recovered 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000 with the help of Anthropic's Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they changed their wallet password while "stoned" and forgot it, unable to regain access for more than 11 years. Tom's Hardware reports: After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude... Read more ›
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