- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIndustrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world's life-support systems. From a report: "Ocean acidification is approaching a critical threshold," particularly in higher-latitude regions, says the latest report on ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051654"You have something in you. Rage. Never let it go."Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube Premium users around the world woke up to bad news today. In over a dozen countries, the price of YouTube Premium individual and family plans increased significantly. This is only the most recent sweep of price increases from Google, as many countries saw price jumps only months ago, with the United States being ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/09/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMessaging app Telegram will provide users' IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests, according to Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov. From a report: The platform changed its terms of service to deter criminals from abusing it, Durov said in a post on Telegram Monday. The move comes less than a month after ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/09/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMarc Benioff said Microsoft's Copilot AI hasn't lived up to the hype. The Salesforce CEO said on the company's second-quarter earnings call that its own AI is nothing like Copilot, which he said was unimpressive. From a report: "So many customers are so disappointed in what they bought from Microsoft Copilot because they're not getting the accuracy and the ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051549NotebookLM's "Audio Summaries" show a more personable future for AI-generated content.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051708X announces reversal but must prove compliance before it can be reinstated.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051647"Everyone here has done bad things. Someone wants us gone."Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday. From a report: Earlier this month, Musk had said that the first Starships to Mars would launch in two years "when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens." The CEO on Sunday said that the first crewed mission timeline will depend upon the ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAutomattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine -- a managed WordPress hosting provider that has raised nearly $300 million in funding over its 14-year history -- a "cancer to WordPress." From a report: Mullenweg criticized the company -- which has been commercializing the open ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSonos launched a disastrous app update in May, prompting CEO Patrick Spence to commission an internal investigation led by chief counsel Eddie Lazarus. The software release, plagued with missing features and bugs, has sparked widespread customer outrage and led to a $200 million revenue shortfall. Sonos shares have plummeted 25% this year. Lazarus ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051655The ban would start in model-year 2027 for software and MY2030 for hardware.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051670Governments are banking on this old drug in the event of an H5N1 outbreak.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe US Commerce Department on Monday will propose a ban on the sale or import of smart vehicles that use specific Chinese or Russian technology because of national security concerns, according to US officials. From a report: A US government investigation that began in February found a range of national security risks from embedded software and hardware from ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051630Deep Blue Aerospace is just one of several Chinese companies working on vertical landing.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2041081Brighter and tougher, Tandem RGB stacks may help OLED keep its display reign.Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIn 2022 about 346,000 electric cars were reportedly sold in California. But the same year its greenhouse gas emissions dropped a whopping 9.3 million metric tons — the amount produced by 2.2 million gas-powered cars — lowering emissions 2.4% from the year before. "The biggest drop came from transportation, due largely to the increased use of renewable ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/09/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNature published an introduction to running an LLM locally, starting with the example of a bioinformatician who's using AI to generate readable summaries for his database of immune-system protein structures. "But he doesn't use ChatGPT, or any other web-based LLM." He just runs the AI on his Mac... Two more recent trends have blossomed. First, ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/23/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedFirst released on July 11th, the Firefox-based Zen browser is "taking a different approach to the user interface," according to the blog It's FOSS. The Register says the project "reminds us strongly of Arc, a radical Chromium-based web browser... to modernize the standard web browser UI by revising some fundamental assumptions." [Arc] removes the URL bar ...Posted 1 week 6 days ago - 09/22/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051613Voice chatbots are increasingly picking up the phone for restaurants.Posted 2 weeks 16 hours ago - 09/22/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051605Polypropylene and polyethylene can be broken down simultaneously.Posted 2 weeks 1 day ago - 09/21/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051513"Legislation has been adopted and now needs to be enforced."Posted 2 weeks 1 day ago - 09/21/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051340"If the deorbit vehicle is ready, do we go ahead and bring it home?"Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago - 09/20/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051342Tiny device installed inside TI-84 enables Wi-Fi Internet, access to AI chatbot.Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago - 09/20/24
- http://arstechnica.com/?p=2051545A DOJ win in Google's ad tech monopoly trial could benefit everyone, experts say.Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago - 09/20/24
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