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A new study found a sharp rise in real-world cases of AI chatbots and agents ignoring instructions, evading safeguards, and taking unauthorized actions such as deleting emails or delegating forbidden tasks to other agents. According to the Guardian, the study "identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehavior between October and March," reports the Guardian. From the report: The study, by the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR), gathered thousands of real-w
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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DoorDash's CEO said close to two-thirds of the company's code is written by AI. Read more ›
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"I loved her for that because as women, we do feel guilty," Victoria Beckham said, referring to the piece of advice she received from Diane von Furstenberg. Read more ›
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Crypto majors took a breather Thursday after a strong run, with bitcoin holding around $81,000 and ether slipping below $2,330 as global equities pushed to fresh records on hopes of a US-Iran deal. Read more ›
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Today, iQOO has made the Z11 and Z11x official in Malaysia. The Z11 comes with a 6.83-inch 1260x2800 AMOLED screen with 144Hz refresh rate, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 SoC at the helm, and a 9,020 mAh battery with 90W wired charging support. iQOO Z11 official images On the rear there's a 50MP main camera and a 2MP depth sensor, while for selfies you get a 32MP snapper. The phone... Read more ›
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Zest Equity appoints Zeid Barghouti as Senior Executive Officer of its FSRA-regulated entity Zest ADGM, leading UAE operations and MENA expansion. Read more ›
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Spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace has raised $60 Mn (around ₹570 Cr) in a round co-led by existing investors American billionaire… Read more ›
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Cuban said that if your CEO "has no clue" what AI is, it's time to think about finding a different job. Read more ›
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The XRQ-73, a 1,250-pound drone, uses a mix of electric and jet-fuel propulsion, which is supposed to make it much quieter and fly more efficiently. Read more ›
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A monthly series that examines how the legal ecosystem uses new technologies to serve fast-changing business needs. First burst for 2026: the mid-career switch from law firm to legal-tech start-up Read more ›
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Elka Requinta's digital nomad mantra was: have desk, will travel. But after living on two islands in Southeast Asia, she began to wonder whether the desk was enough. Read more ›
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The opportunity to join a dynamic business and influence the wider legal sector holds increasing appeal Read more ›
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No matter how good it is, every lawn mower eventually needs replacing. But how much use can you expect to get out of a mower engine on average? Read more ›
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Tesla has produced the first Semi from its new high-volume production line at Gigafactory Nevada, a milestone for the long-delayed electric Class 8 truck program after years of pilot builds and delays. Electrek reports: The Tesla Semi has had one of the longest gestation periods in Tesla's history. First unveiled in 2017, the truck was originally promised for production in 2019. That target slipped repeatedly -- to 2020, then 2021,... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from ZeroHedge: The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Cloudera, accusing the enterprise data and artificial intelligence company of deliberately engineering a hiring process that excluded American workers from at least seven lucrative technology positions while the firm pursued permanent residency sponsorship for foreign workers on temporary visas. In a 14-page complaint filed with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, the department's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The system prompt for OpenAI's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query." The explicit operational warning was made public last week as part of the latest open source... Read more ›
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A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country's population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), "the permanent resident population must not exceed 10 million before 2050, and Switzerland should abandon its freedom of movement agreement with the EU," reports Reuters. From the report: Switzerland's population is now more... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that Charles Lieber, the former Harvard scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments and ties to China, is now leading China's state-funded i-BRAIN lab in Shenzhen, where he has access to advanced nanofabrication tools and primate research facilities for brain-computer interface work. From the report: Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world's leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back than ever, releasing "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" along with other documentation and notes from its developer. Today's source release is so... Read more ›
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RightsCon, one of the world's largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia's government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and "thematic issues," while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent meeting with the government. 404 Media reports: Minister of Technology and Science Felix Mutati first announced the postponement on April... Read more ›
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French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old suspected of using the alias "breach3d" in connection with a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the state agency that handles passports, ID cards, and other secure documents. The breach allegedly involved 12 million to 18 million lines of data offered for sale online, potentially affecting up to a third of France's population if the records are unique. The Register reports: It formally opened... Read more ›
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A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases using messy, real-world emergency department records. Researchers say the results don't support replacing doctors, but they do suggest AI could meaningfully reshape clinical workflows if tested carefully in prospective trials. NPR reports: The researchers ran a series of experiments on the AI model... Read more ›
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A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw dubbed "Copy Fail" can let a local, unprivileged attacker gain root access on major Linux distributions, with researchers claiming the bug affects kernels shipped since 2017. "The POC exploit works out of the box today, but a future version that can escape from containers like Docker is promised soon," writes Slashdot reader tylerni7. "Technical details are available here." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shares a report... Read more ›
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