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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 14:50 EDT

'I Won't Connect My Dishwasher To Your Stupid Cloud'

A software engineer discovered that his newly purchased Bosch 500 series dishwasher locks basic functionality behind cloud connectivity, reigniting concerns about internet-dependent home appliances. Jeff Geerling found that features like rinse cycle, delayed start and eco mode on his $1,000 dishwasher require connecting to WiFi and creating an account with "Home Connect," Bosch's cloud service. Geerling criticized the approach as potentially part of planned obsolescence, noting that without a current... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 14:10 EDT

Boeing Is Pushing To Withdraw Guilty Plea Agreement

Boeing is seeking to withdraw an earlier agreement to plead guilty in a long-running criminal case that blamed the company for deceiving regulators before two deadly crashes of 737 MAX jets, WSJ is reporting, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The aerospace giant is seeking more lenient treatment from the Justice Department, which under the Trump administration is reviewing numerous pending criminal cases that haven't yet gone... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 13:28 EDT

Signal Head Defends Messaging App's Security After US War Plan Leak

The president of Signal defended the messaging app's security on Wednesday after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen's Houthis. For a report: Signal's Meredith Whittaker did not directly address the blunder, which Democratic lawmakers have said was a breach of U.S. national security. But she described the app as the "gold standard in private... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 12:54 EDT

Apple Says It'll Use Apple Maps Look Around Photos To Train AI

An anonymous reader shares a report: Sometime earlier this month, Apple updated a section of its website that discloses how it collects and uses imagery for Apple Maps' Look Around feature, which is similar to Google Maps' Street View, as spotted by 9to5Mac. A newly added paragraph reveals that, beginning in March 2025, Apple will be using imagery and data collected during Look Around surveys to "train models powering Apple... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 12:01 EDT

Ticketmaster May Have Violated Consumer Protection Laws

An anonymous reader shares a report: The UK's Consumer Markets Authority (CMA) has provided an update into its investigation of Ticketmaster after the sale of Oasis reunion tour tickets resulted in grossly inflated ticket prices and numerous consumer complaints. The CMA said that the results of the investigation warranted, "consulting with the ticketing platform on changes to ensure fans receive the right information, at the right time." Of concern to... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 11:22 EDT

Alibaba's Tsai Warns of 'Bubble' in AI Data Center Buildout

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai has warned of a potential bubble forming in data center construction, arguing that the pace of that buildout may outstrip initial demand for AI services. From a report: A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate, the billionaire executive and financier said. Many of those projects are built without... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 10:40 EDT

OpenAI CEO Altman Says AI Will Lead To Fewer Software Engineers

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes companies will eventually need fewer software engineers as AI continues to transform programming. "Each software engineer will just do much, much more for a while. And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers," Altman told Stratechery. AI now handles over 50% of code authorship in many companies, Altman estimated, a significant shift that's happened rapidly as large language models have... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 10:00 EDT

Music Pioneer Napster Sells For $207 Million

Infinite Reality, a 3D technology company, has acquired Napster for $207 million, the companies announced Tuesday. The deal aims to transform the once-notorious music sharing service into a metaverse platform. Napster, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, was the first major peer-to-peer file-sharing application before legal battles forced its closure in 2001. Since 2016, it has operated as a subscription streaming service. Infinite Reality plans to create... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 09:00 EDT

AlexNet, the AI Model That Started It All, Released In Source Code Form

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first time, demonstrated a huge jump in a computer's ability to recognize images. Thursday, the Computer History Museum (CHM), in collaboration with Google, released for the first time... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 06:00 EDT

Firefly Aerospace Selects Blue Origin Unit To Explore Volcanic Formations On Moon

Firefly Aerospace has teamed up with Blue Origin's Honeybee Robotics unit to deploy a rover on its 2028 lunar mission to study the Gruithuisen Domes -- rare volcanic formations that may reveal insights into the moon's geology and potential resources. The announcement follows Firefly's successful Blue Ghost Mission 1, which outlasted all prior commercial lunar landings. Reuters reports: The Gruithuisen Domes, located on the moon's near side, are unusual volcanic... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/25/2025 03:00 EDT

NASA's Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Yet Found on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars -- decane, undecane, and dodecane -- suggesting that complex prebiotic chemistry may have occurred in the planet's ancient lakebeds. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. From a press release: Scientists probed an existing rock sample inside Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) mini-lab and found the molecules decane, undecane,... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 23:30 EDT

Software Maker SAP Becomes Europe's Largest Company

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: German software company SAP overtook Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company by market capitalization on Monday. At 0900 GMT, SAP had a market cap of $340 billion, slightly more than Novo Nordisk, according to Reuters calculations using LSEG Workspace data. SAP is Europe's largest software maker, providing business application software used by companies for finance, sales, supply chain and... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 21:40 EDT

Meta Considers Charging For Ad-Free Facebook and Instagram In the UK

Meta is considering a paid subscription in the UK that would remove advertisements from its platform. The BBC reports: Under the plans, people using the social media sites could be asked to pay for an ad-free experience if they do not want their data to be tracked. Meta already provides ad-free subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in the EU, starting from euros (5 pounds) a month. A spokesperson for... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 21:20 EDT

Samsung CEO Han Jong-hee Passes Away At 63

Samsung Electronics vice chairman and co-CEO, Han Jong-hee, passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday at the age of 63. The Korea Herald reports: Since joining Samsung Electronics, Han held several key positions, including head of the LCD TV Lab. In 2021, he was appointed vice chairman and co-CEO, taking charge of the company's Device eXperience or DX division, which oversees its electronics and consumer device businesses. Developing... Read... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 21:00 EDT

2 In 5 Tech Workers Quit Over Inflexible Workspace Policies

Two in five tech workers quit in the past year due to inflexible workplace policies around hours, location, and workload intensity, with most citing a desire for remote work and greater autonomy. The Register reports: The findings come from a survey of 26,000 plus staff that operate in 35 markets, including 2,548 respondents in tech, and fly in the face of more and more corporations issuing return to office mandates... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 20:20 EDT

Software Engineer Runs Generative AI On 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4

A software engineer successfully ran Meta's Llama 2 generative AI model on a 20-year-old PowerBook G4, demonstrating how well-optimized code can push the limits of legacy hardware. MacRumors' Joe Rossignol reports: While hardware requirements for large language models (LLMs) are typically high, this particular PowerBook G4 model from 2005 is equipped with a mere 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 1GB of RAM. Despite this 20-year-old hardware, my brother was able... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 19:40 EDT

Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Jack Ma-backed Ant Group used Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by 20%, according to people familiar with the matter. Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba and Huawei, to train models using the so-called Mixture of Experts machine learning approach, the people said. It got results similar to those from Nvidia chips like... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 19:00 EDT

Microsoft Announces Security AI Agents To Help Overwhelmed Humans

Microsoft is expanding its Security Copilot platform with six new AI agents designed to autonomously assist cybersecurity teams by handling tasks like phishing alerts, data loss incidents, and vulnerability monitoring. There are also five third-party AI agents created by its partners, including OneTrust and Tanium. The Verge reports: Microsoft's six security agents will be available in preview next month, and are designed to do things like triage and process phishing... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 18:20 EDT

'China's Engineer Dividend Is Paying Off Big Time'

An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg column: Worries over China's "3D" problem -- that deflation, debt and demographics are structurally hampering growth -- are melting away. Instead, investors are talking about how the world's second-largest economy can take on the US and challenge its technological dominance. There is the prevailing sense that China's "engineer dividend" is finally paying off. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of engineers has ballooned from... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/24/2025 17:40 EDT

FaunaDB Shuts Down But Hints At Open Source Future

FaunaDB, a serverless database combining relational and document features, will shut down by the end of May due to unsustainable capital demands. The company plans to open source its core technology, including its FQL query language, in hopes of continuing its legacy within the developer community. The Register reports: The startup pocketed $27 million in VC funding in 2020 and boasted that 25,000 developers worldwide were using its serverless database.... Read more ›

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