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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 19:49 EDT

Tom Lehrer, Satirical Songwriter and Mathematician, Dies at Age 97

Satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer died Saturday at age 97. The Associated Press notes Lehrer had long ago "largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities." Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 18:51 EDT

Huawei Shows Off 384-Chip AI Computing System That Rivals Nvidia's Top Product

Long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that can rival Nvidia's most advanced offering, even though the company faces U.S. export restrictions. The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day event in Shanghai where companies showcase their latest AI innovations, drawing a large crowd to the company's booth. The CloudMatrix 384... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 18:51 EDT

Huawei Shows Off 384-Chip AI Computing System That Rival Nvidia's Top Product

Long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that can rival Nvidia's most advanced offering, even though the company faces U.S. export restrictions. The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day event in Shanghai where companies showcase their latest AI innovations, drawing a large crowd to the company's booth. The CloudMatrix 384... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 17:48 EDT

Researchers Quietly Planned a Test to Dim Sunlight Over 3,900 Square Miles

California researchers planned a multimillion-dollar test of salt water-spraying equipment that could one day be used to dim the sun's rays — over a 3,900-square mile are off the west coasts of North America, Chile or south-central Africa. E&E News calls it part of a "secretive" initiative backed by "wealthy philanthropists with ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley" — and a piece of the "vast scope of research aimed... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 15:59 EDT

VPN Downloads Surge in UK as New Age-Verification Rules Take Effect

Proton VPN reported a 1,400 percent hourly increase in signups over its baseline Friday — the day the UK's age verification law went into effect. For UK users, "apps with explicit content must now verify visitors' ages via methods such as facial recognition and banking info," notes Mashable: Proton VPN previously documented a 1,000 percent surge in new subscribers in June after Pornhub left France, its second-biggest market, amid the... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 14:34 EDT

Is ChatGPT Making You Stupid?

"Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results," argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, "internet users aren't just outsourcing memory — they may be outsourcing thinking itself." Generative AI tools don't just retrieve information; they can create, analyze and summarize it. This represents a fundamental shift: Arguably, generative AI is... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 13:34 EDT

'It's DOOM, but You Can Cut, Copy and Paste Opponents'

From the Adafruit blog: Greg Technology (aka Greg Sadetsky) on YouTube demonstrates a version of Chocolate Doom where opponent characters can be cut, copied, and pasted at will to add a bit more fun to the game. Obviously this means you can paste in your attackers multiple times. ("They're kind of not really happy if you do that..." Greg says at one point in the video. "But then, you can... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 12:34 EDT

'Fantastic Four' Tops 'Superman' Opening, Second-Largest of the Year

Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps "raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets," reports Forbes. That haul makes it "the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year after they announced a reduction in film and TV show quantity to focus on quality." The roughly $57 million "Fantastic Four: First Steps" generated... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 11:34 EDT

To Fight Climate Change, Norway Wants to Become Europe's Carbon Dump

Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to "the world's first carbon shipping port," reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be "buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed." Norway's government is covering 80% of the $1 billion first phase, with another $714 million from three fossil fuel companies toward an ongoing expansion (with an... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 10:34 EDT

Creator of 1995 Phishing Tool 'AOHell' On Piracy, Script Kiddies, and What He Thinks of AI

In 1995's online world, AOL existed mostly beside the internet as a "walled, manicured garden," remembers Fast Company. Then along came AOHell "the first of what would become thousands of programs designed by young hackers to turn the system upside down" — built by a high school dropout calling himself "Da Chronic" who says he used "a computer that I couldn't even afford" using "a pirated copy of Microsoft Visual... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 07:34 EDT

'Chuck E. Cheese' Handcuffed and Arrested in Florida, Charged with Using a Stolen Credit Card

NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... "I grabbed his right arm while giving the verbal instruction, 'Chuck E, come with me Chuck E,'" Tallahassee police officer Jarrett Cruz wrote in the report. After a child's birthday party in June at... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 03:34 EDT

'Serious Delays' Hit Satellite Mega-Constellations of China's Starlink Rivals

"A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays," reports the South China Morning Post, "that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources." Only 90 satellites have been launched into low Earth orbit for the Qianfan broadband network — also known as the Thousand Sails Constellation or G60 Starlink — well short of the project's goal of 648 by the end of this... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/27/2025 00:34 EDT

Did a Vendor's Leak Help Attackers Exploit Microsoft's SharePoint Servers?

The vulnerability-watching "Zero Day Initiative" was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned about the source for that exploit of Microsoft's Sharepoint servers: How did the attackers, who include Chinese government spies, data thieves, and ransomware operators, know how to exploit the... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 21:35 EDT

Comic-Con Peeks at New 'Alien' and 'Avatar' Series, Plus 'Predator' and 'Coyote vs. Acme' Movies

At this weekend's Comic-Con, "Excitement has been high over the sneak peeks at Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands," reports CNET. (Nine Inch Nails has even recorded a new song for Tron: Ares .) A few highlights from CNET's coverage: The Coyote vs. Acme movie will hit theaters next year "after being rescued from the pile of scrapped ashes left by Warner Bros. Discovery," with footage screened during a Comic-Con panel.... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 18:34 EDT

Astronomer Hires Coldplay Lead Singer's Ex-Wife as 'Temporary' Spokesperson:  Gwyneth Paltrow

The "Chief People Officer" of dataops company Astronomer resigned this week from her position after apparently being caught on that "Kiss Cam" at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original co-founder and chief product officer as the new interim CEO. UPDATE (7/26): In an unexpected twist, Astronomer put out a new video Friday night starring... Gwyneth Paltrow.... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 17:34 EDT

Google Will Help Scale 'Long-Duration Energy Storage' Solution for Clean Power

"Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage company," reports Data Center Dynamics. "The tech giant signed a long-term partnership with Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company's CO2 battery technology." Google explains in a blog post that the company's technology "can store excess clean energy and then dispatch it back to the grid for 8-24 hours, bridging the gap between... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 16:34 EDT

Stack Exchange Moves Everything to the Cloud, Destroys Servers in New Jersey

Since 2010 Stack Exchange has run all its sites on physical hardware in New Jersey — about 50 different servers. (When Ryan Donovan joined in 2019, "I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet.") But this month everything moved to the cloud, a new blog post explains. "Our servers are now cattle, not pets. Nobody is going to have to drive... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 15:34 EDT

ChatGPT Loses in a Game of Chess Against Magnus Carlsen

The world's best human chess player beat ChatGPT, reports Time magazine. Magnus Carlsen posted on X.com earlier this month that "I sometimes get bored while travelling," and shared screenshots of his conversations with ChatGPT after he beat the AI chatbot "without losing a single piece." ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. ChatGPT resigned the match... "That was methodical, clean, and... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 14:34 EDT

Google Gemini Deletes User's Files, Then Just Admits 'I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically'

An anonymous reader shared this report from Mashable: Google Gemini's coding agent hallucinated while completing a task and then deleted a bunch of code, a GitHub user claims. The frustrated vibe coder is Anuraag Gupta, who goes by anuraag2601 on GitHub. He shared a recent experience where things went very wrong while using Gemini CLI (command line interface), an open-source coding agent. In his GitHub post, Gupta, who is a... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/26/2025 13:34 EDT

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Spared The Earth. What Happens if It Hits the Moon Instead in 2032?

Remember asteroid 2024 YR4 (which at one point had a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth, before ending up at "impact probability zero")? CNN reports that asteroid is now "zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun." "But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon." The latest observations of the asteroid in... Read more ›

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