- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Google's Gemini AI often just feels like a chatbot built into a text-input field, but you can really start to do special things when you give it access to a ton of data. Gemini in Gmail will soon be able to search through your entire backlog of emails and show a summary in a sidebar. That's simple to describe but solves ...Posted 3 days 16 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAmong Google's swath of new AI models and tools announced today, the company is also expanding its AI content watermarking and detection technology to work across two new mediums. The Verge: Google's DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, took the stage for the first time at the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday to talk not only about the team's new AI ...Posted 3 days 17 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMarc Whitten, Unity Create's chief product and technology officer, is stepping down on June 1, 2024, following the company's contentious Runtime Fee policy. Whitten will assist with the transition until December 31, 2024. The now-discarded Runtime Fee, announced in September 2023, faced severe backlash from developers who viewed it as a punitive per-install ...Posted 3 days 17 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedsamleecole writes: For the last decade, farmers have been warning that John Deere, a company celebrated by farmers, country musicians, and politicians, has been doing something else very American: Concentrating power, stripping away the ownership rights of people who buy their products, and adding a bevy of artificial, software-based repair restrictions ...Posted 3 days 18 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedGoogle is shaking up Search. On Tuesday, the company announced big new AI-powered changes to the world's dominant search engine at I/O, Google's annual conference for developers. From a report: With the new features, Google is positioning Search as more than a way to simply find websites. Instead, the company wants people to use its search engine to ...Posted 3 days 19 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch reported Tuesday. From the report: The newly compromised data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of Dell customers. This personal data is contained in customer "service reports," ...Posted 3 days 20 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: At a privately held event, Google recently demonstrated a special build of Chromium OS -- code-named "ferrochrome" -- running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8. However, Chromium OS wasn't shown running on the phone's screen itself. Rather, it was projected to an external display, which is possible because Google ...Posted 3 days 20 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMeta is shutting down Workplace, the tool it sold to businesses that combined social and productivity features, according to messages to customers obtained by Axios and confirmed by Meta. From the report:Meta has been cutting jobs and winnowing its product line for the last few years while investing billions first in the metaverse and now in AI. Micah ...Posted 3 days 21 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA panel of judges in the Netherlands has found Alexey Pertsev, one of the developers behind crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, guilty of money laundering. Wired: Over the course of two days in March, the Russian national was tried on the allegation that the tool he developed had allowed criminals -- among them hackers with ties to North Korea -- to ...Posted 3 days 22 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe developers of team-based shooter Marvel Rivals have apologized for a contract clause that made creators promise not to provide "subjective negative reviews of the game" in exchange for early access to a closed alpha test. From a report: The controversial early access contract gained widespread attention over the weekend when streamer Brandon Larned ...Posted 3 days 22 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3, according to an email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Matt Garman, SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO. Read more of this story at Slashdot.Posted 3 days 23 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies -- Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX -- were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the ...Posted 4 days 23 minutes ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAccording to a new study published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior, researchers found that internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world. "Our analysis is the first to test whether or not internet access, mobile internet access and regular use of the internet relates to wellbeing on a global level," said Prof ...Posted 4 days 3 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCruise's autonomous vehicles have resumed operation in Phoenix, Arizona, following an incident in San Francisco last October where a driverless vehicle dragged a pedestrian. The Verge reports: Cruise spokesperson Tiffany Testo said the company is deploying only two autonomous vehicles with safety drivers behind the wheel. In addition, the company has eight ...Posted 4 days 6 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://ask.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: On a side street outside the headquarters of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology in the center of London on Monday, 20 or so protesters are getting their chants in order. "What do we want? Safe AI! When do we want it?" The protesters hesitate. "Later?" someone offers. The group of mostly young ...Posted 4 days 9 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOpenAI has launched an official macOS app for ChatGPT, with a Windows version coming "later this year." "Both free and paid users will be able to access the new app, but it will only be available to ChatGPT Plus users starting today before a broader rollout in 'the coming weeks,'" reports The Verge. From the report: In the demo shown by OpenAI, users could ...Posted 4 days 11 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedJosh Norem reports via ExtremeTech: At the recent International supercomputing conference called ISC 2024, Intel's newest Aurora supercomputer installed at Argonne National Laboratory raised a few eyebrows by finally surpassing the exascale barrier. Before this, only AMD's Frontier system had been able to achieve this level of performance. Intel also ...Posted 4 days 11 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMelinda French Gates announced today she is stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three years after announcing her separation from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. With her departure as co-chair, the foundation will change its name to Gates Foundation and Bill Gates will be its sole chairperson, said CEO Mark Suzman. NBC News reports: In ...Posted 4 days 13 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: IBM managed the open sourcing of Granite code by using pretraining data from publicly available datasets, such as GitHub Code Clean, Starcoder data, public code repositories, and GitHub issues. In short, IBM has gone to great lengths to avoid copyright or legal issues. The Granite Code Base models are trained ...Posted 4 days 13 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAI is hitting the global labour market "like a tsunami" International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday. AI is likely to impact 60% of jobs in advanced economies and 40% of jobs around the world in the next two years, Georgieva told an event in Zurich. From a report: "We have very little time to get people ready for it, ...Posted 4 days 14 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedGameStop shares surged over 72% on Monday after Keith Gill, also known as "Roaring Kitty," returned to social media following a three-year hiatus. Gill gained notoriety for his role in the 2020 meme stock frenzy, where he encouraged amateur investors to buy GameStop shares, significantly driving up the stock price and challenging hedge funds. From a report: ...Posted 4 days 15 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple and Google have launched a new industry standard called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday, iPhone and Android users will receive alerts when an unknown Bluetooth device is detected moving with them. The move comes after numerous cases of trackers like Apple's AirTags being ...Posted 4 days 15 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is attempting to solve the hassle of coordinating with colleagues on when everyone will be in the office. It's a problem that emerged with the increase in hybrid and flexible work after the recent covid-19 pandemic, with workers spending less time in the office. Microsoft Places is an AI-powered app that goes ...Posted 4 days 16 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Richard "Rick" Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent the transplant in March at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston at age 62. The hospital said in a ...Posted 4 days 16 hours ago - 05/13/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Meta Platforms is exploring developing AI-powered earphones with cameras, which the company hopes could be used to identify objects and translate foreign languages, according to three current employees. Meta's work on a new AI device comes as several tech companies look to develop AI wearables, and after Meta added an AI ...Posted 4 days 18 hours ago - 05/13/24
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