- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedBrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: If you run Plex Media Server, it's time to drop everything and update. The company has quietly patched a security issue that affects recent versions of its software, and users are being told to upgrade as soon as possible. According to an email Plex sent to affected customers, versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x ...Posted 1 week 5 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedRising subscription costs, shrinking content libraries, and regional restrictions are pushing viewers back toward piracy. Once seen as nearly dead, piracy has resurged through illicit streaming platforms as the fractured, ad-laden streaming market struggles to deliver convenience and value. The Guardian reports: According to London-based piracy monitoring ...Posted 1 week 6 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://developers.slashdot.org/s...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedDeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model was severely delayed after months of failed training attempts on Huawei's Ascend chips, which suffered from unstable hardware, slow interconnects, and immature software. The Register reports: Following the industry rattling launch of DeepSeek R1 earlier this year, the Chinese AI darling faced pressure from ...Posted 1 week 6 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. [...] Running an AI model locally has numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy and ...Posted 1 week 7 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedPayPal payment processing has been unavailable for Steam purchases in most countries since early July 2025, Valve has confirmed, with functionality limited to transactions in U.S. dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Japanese Yen, Australian dollars, and Canadian dollars. In a statement to RockPaperShotgun, the company said one of PayPal's acquiring banks ...Posted 1 week 8 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple has reintroduced blood oxygen monitoring to certain Apple Watch models in the U.S. by shifting the feature's calculations to the paired iPhone, sidestepping an ITC import ban stemming from its legal dispute with medical device maker Masimo. TechCrunch reports: Blood oxygen data will be measured and calculated on the user's paired iPhone, and results ...Posted 1 week 8 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star tried to swallow a black hole with which it had engaged in a lengthy pas de deux. The star, ...Posted 1 week 9 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedFormer Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden criticized subscription gaming services like Xbox Game Pass, arguing that developers working under such models become "wage slaves." Speaking in a recent industry discussion, Layden contended that subscription services prevent developers from traditional profit-sharing arrangements. "They're not creating ...Posted 1 week 10 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNegotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production. From a report: A draft of the treaty released Wednesday wouldn't limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products. Instead, it's centered on ...Posted 1 week 10 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is considering ways to bring in additional revenue, and bringing ads to ChatGPT is one option on the table. While being interviewed on Decoder, ChatGPT head Nick Turley said he's "humble enough not to rule it out categorically," but hedged that OpenAI would need to "be very thoughtful and tasteful" about how ads ...Posted 1 week 11 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedTwenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel in 2005, airless tires remain absent from passenger vehicles despite their promise to "eliminate nearly 200 million scrap tires a year caused by flats and underinflation," according to Michelin's internal testing cited in a Jalopnik report. Current prototypes "tend to transfer more road noise and vibration ...Posted 1 week 12 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMeta's internal policy document permitted the company's AI chatbots to engage children in "romantic or sensual" conversations and generate content arguing that "Black people are dumber than white people," according to a Reuters review of the 200-page "GenAI: Content Risk Standards" guide. The document, approved by Meta's legal, public policy and ...Posted 1 week 12 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedElectricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. Residential electricity bills increased at least $15 monthly for Ohio households starting in June due to data center demands, according to utility data and an ...Posted 1 week 13 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedKodak says it remains confident it can avoid shutdown despite filing required "going concern" disclosures about $500 million in debt obligations due within 12 months. The 133-year-old photography company plans to draw approximately $300 million from its U.S. pension fund in December to pay off a significant portion of its term loan before maturity. Chief ...Posted 1 week 14 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections (OCCE) has revealed in its annual report that it will "explore the use" AI and emerging technologies to see how they will shape the government body's approach for the next year. From a report: Commissioner Caroline Simard's office didnâ(TM)t outline ways it might adopt AI. In its outlook, the OCCE expected ...Posted 1 week 14 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe next version of Windows will become "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI transforms how users interact with computers, Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davuluri said in a company video. Davuluri, Corporate Vice President and head of Windows, said that voice will emerge as a primary input method alongside keyboard and mouse, with the operating ...Posted 1 week 15 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedBrianFagioli writes: Lenovo is starting its fiscal year with a major win, delivering record-breaking PC sales and claiming dominance in the AI PC space. For the first quarter of its 2025/26 fiscal year, the company reported $18.8 billion in revenue, which is 22 percent higher than the same period last year. Profit came in at $505 million, more than double ...Posted 1 week 17 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIgor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, has left the company to start Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety and humanity-advancing startups. TechCrunch reports: Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley's leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. "Today was my last day ...Posted 1 week 18 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedData brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. From a report: More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers' personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker ...Posted 1 week 20 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: India's blueprint for displacing China as the world's electronics workshop contains a rather extraordinary feature: the entire Indian edifice requires Chinese companies to supply the technical architecture, manufacturing know-how and operational templates that would make such displacement theoretically possible. Let's ...Posted 1 week 21 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedRussian authorities are "partially" restricting calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet. From a report: In a statement, government media and internet regulator Roskomnadzor justified the measure as necessary for fighting crime, saying that "according to law enforcement agencies and ...Posted 1 week 22 hours ago - 08/14/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader New Atlas: An engineered protein that acts like a molecular sponge has the potential to change how carbon monoxide poisoning is treated, chasing down CO molecules in the bloodstream and helping the body flush them out in just minutes, without the risk of short- or long-term health issues that come with the current frontline treatment, ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 08/13/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/08/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAfter over 130 years in business, Kodak has warned it may not survive. From a report: The Rochester, New York-based Eastman Kodak Co. offered a bleak picture of its financials in earnings reports and filings, tracking a second quarter loss and sending shares tumbling in early trading Tuesday, Aug. 12. The iconic brand said in Monday, Aug. 11 government ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 08/13/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe Pentagon is poised to cancel two nearly finished Navy and Air Force HR software projects worth over $800 million so new contracts can be awarded to other vendors, including Salesforce, Palantir, and Workday. "The reason for the unusual move: officials at those departments, who have so far put the existing projects on hold, want other firms, including ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 08/13/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Zelle's parent company, Early Warning Services, alleging it knowingly enabled over $1 billion in fraud from 2017 to 2023 by failing to implement basic safeguards. CNBC reports: "EWS knew from the beginning that key features of the Zelle network made it uniquely susceptible to fraud, and yet it failed to adopt ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 08/13/25
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