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A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times.
And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it."
Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new tool, meaning that those articles will run with a generic credit rather than a rep
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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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The World Health Organization said eight cases of hantavirus, including three deaths, have been reported as of May 8. Read more ›
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A quarter way through the 21st century, you'd be forgiven for wondering why we still use physical artefacts like paper and door keys. Read more ›
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Meta is tracking employee keystrokes, tying AI usage to performance reviews, and laying off thousands — all at once — and somehow seems surprised that morale is in freefall. Read more ›
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CNN reports on a "sudden surge of claimed sightings" of "unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas" along Ohio's Mahoning River. "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got... Read more ›
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For all that the 2026 Toyota Prius has to offer, there are plenty of alternatives that skew more towards one or two of the Prius' strengths. Read more ›
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If you're still riding the high of 'Andor,' you'll soon be able to watch a version of 'Rogue One' edited and modeled after the show. Read more ›
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В 2010 году я участвовал в интервьировании на позицию по моделированию и верификации процессорных ядер. Один из кандидатов был благообразный седой американец, который до этого работал в IBM.Я задал вопрос про язык описания и верификации аппаратуры SystemVerilog. На это кандидат сказал, что он еще не освоил SystemVerilog, вписал его в резюме на будущее, но вообще использовал Verilog-95 и немного Verilog-2001.“Нет проблем”, - сказал я и задал вопрос по Verilog-95: “приведите... Read more ›
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Not packing enough cash cost me time and money during my dream bucket-list trip to the Galapagos Islands. Here's what I'll do differently next time. Read more ›
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ICANN has reopened applications for new top-level domains, allowing organizations to create custom extensions. Read more ›
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A 23-year-old university student in Taiwan is currently out on bail following an investigation into a communication breach that brought the nation’s high-speed rail network to a temporary standstill. The individual, identified by the surname Lin, is a radio enthusiast accused of interfering with the terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) system used by rail staff. The Signal Disruption On April 5, three high-speed trains were halted for approximately 48 minutes after... Read more ›
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The rise of camera-equipped smart glasses has introduced new privacy concerns, shifting from general surveillance worries to specific reports of extortion. A recent investigation by the BBC highlighted an incident in London where a woman was filmed without her consent by an individual wearing smart glasses. The footage was subsequently uploaded to social media, where it garnered significant attention and tens of thousands of views. Discreet Recording and Financial Demands... Read more ›
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Disneyland and Disney California Adventure have officially transitioned to using facial recognition technology at most entry gates. This shift aims to streamline park access and enhance fraud prevention by replacing manual ticket checks with biometric validation. While Disney maintains that the system is designed for convenience, the move has reignited a broader conversation regarding data privacy and the normalization of surveillance in public spaces. How the Biometric System Works When... Read more ›
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If you’re tired of running your vacuum multiple times just to get the dirt and debris out of the carpets in your living room, Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav is worth a look. It’s one of the more powerful robot vacuums currently available, and now through May 11th (or while supplies last), it’s on sale at Woot […] Read more ›
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Here is a scenario that should concern every enterprise architect shipping autonomous AI systems right now: An observability agent is running in production. Its job is to detect infrastructure anomalies and trigger the appropriate response. Late one night, it flags an elevated anomaly score across a production cluster, 0.87, above its defined threshold of 0.75. The agent is within its permission boundaries. It has access to the rollback service. So... Read more ›
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Negotiations between Samsung Electronics management and the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) have reached a critical impasse over the structure of employee bonuses. While both parties are reportedly nearing an agreement on a 13% allocation of operating profits—amounting to approximately $340,000 per employee—the primary point of contention remains the duration of this commitment. Management has proposed the payout as a one-time offer, whereas the union demands it be guaranteed annually.... Read more ›
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Fandom Con, one of Northern Ireland’s leading gaming conventions specifically designed for and organised by individuals with autism and neurodiverse conditions, is set to return for its fourth year on Saturday 23rd May at ICC Belfast, with over 2,000 attendees expected from across the island of Ireland. Located just two hours from Dublin, the event […] Read more ›
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Quantum computing does not only pose a risk to up to $3 trillion in digital assets, it also threatens the security of banking systems, military communications, digital identities and more, Project Eleven’s report warns. Read more ›
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This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients. But... Read more ›
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Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug-of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price... Read more ›
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"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet... Read more ›
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Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company —... Read more ›
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"Nuclear AI startup" Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, "three times the amount typically consumed by New York City." Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes — artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections —... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to... Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post: Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound... Read more ›
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"The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel," CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, "leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China." Chinese exports of solar technology, batteries and electric vehicles all reached record highs in March, according to energy think tank Ember, a sign that the historic oil supply shock is accelerating... Read more ›
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In 2016 an online "swarm intelligence" platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren't even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems performed in 2023, 2024, and 2025 — but their predictions were still pretty bad. Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026? This year's winner was 24-to-1 longshot "Golden Tempo"... Read more ›
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