- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLast month, researchers from the University of Washington started conducting an experiment on a decommissioned naval ship in Alameda to test if spraying salt water into the air could brighten clouds and cool the planet. However, their project was forced to stop this month after the city got word of what was going on. SFGate reports: According to a city ...Posted 2 days 14 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLongtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which controls interstate energy infrastructure, approved a rule Monday that should boost new transmission infrastructure and make it easier to connect renewable energy projects. (More coverage here, here, and here.) Some 11,000 projects totaling 2,600 GW of ...Posted 2 days 15 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLauren Forristal writes via TechCrunch: Netflix announced during its Upfronts presentation on Wednesday that it's launching its own advertising technology platform only a year and a half after entering the ads business. This move pits it against other industry heavyweights with ad servers, like Google, Amazon and Comcast. The announcement signifies a ...Posted 2 days 15 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedPolice officers in Britain could be armed with Ghostbusters-style devices that fire electromagnetic rays to shut down the engines of ebikes being used in a crime. From a report: Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), said the weapon was in development and could be months away from being available, though it is expected to be ...Posted 2 days 16 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Efforts to build a global quantum internet have received a boost from two developments in quantum information storage that could one day make it possible to communicate securely across hundreds or thousands of kilometers. The internet as it exists today involves sending strings of digital bits, or 0s ...Posted 2 days 17 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedArizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed two lawsuits Wednesday against the international online retail giant Amazon.com, accusing it of deceptive and unfair business practices. Courthouse News Service: The two lawsuits, filed in state court, say Amazon's Prime cancellation process and the algorithm that decides whether a product is offered through a "buy ...Posted 2 days 17 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedGoogle is opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform, allowing app developers to access over 600 million connected devices and tap into the Google Home automation engine. In addition, Google announced that it'll be turning Google TVs into Google Home hubs and Matter controllers. The Verge reports: The Home APIs can access any Matter device ...Posted 2 days 18 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's I/O conference is still happening, and while the big keynote was yesterday, major Android beta releases have apparently been downgraded to Day 2 of the show. Google really seems to want to be primarily an AI company now. Android already had some AI news yesterday, but now that the code-red ...Posted 2 days 19 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThis week, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Apple is introducing several new accessibility features. Noteworthy additions include eye-tracking support for recent iPhone and iPad models, customizable vocal shortcuts, music haptics, and vehicle motion cues. Engadget reports: The most intriguing feature of the set is the ability to use the ...Posted 2 days 19 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedWith Amazon on its heels, the nation's biggest company by revenue is hunting for ways to continue growing. From a report: For a decade, Walmart has reigned as the nation's biggest company by revenue. Its sales last year added up to $648 billion -- more than $1.2 million a minute. That status comes with benefits. It gives Walmart power in negotiations with ...Posted 2 days 20 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader shares a report: There are concerning reports on Reddit that Apple's latest iOS 17.5 update has introduced a bug that causes old photos that were deleted -- in some cases years ago -- to reappear in users' photo libraries. After updating their iPhone, one user said they were shocked to find old NSFW photos that they deleted in 2021 ...Posted 2 days 21 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop AI and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to "harness the opportunities and address the risks" of the quickly developing technology. AP: The ...Posted 2 days 22 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIntel unveiled Thunderbolt Share on Wednesday with which it promises to streamline screen and file sharing between two PCs. Tom's Hardware: Thunderbolt Share will allow PC owners to connect their two computers with a wired connection that leverages Thunderbolt's speed (40Gbps or higher), low latency, and built-in security. It allows PC-to-PC access that ...Posted 2 days 23 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/24/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe FBI has seized the notorious BreachForums hacking forum that leaked and sold stolen corporate data to other cybercriminals. From a report: The seizure occurred on Wednesday morning, soon after the site was used last week to leak data stolen from a Europol law enforcement portal. The website is now displaying a message stating that the FBI has taken ...Posted 3 days 52 minutes ago - 05/15/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedschwit1 shares a report: Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday announced that it was closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale ...Posted 3 days 1 hour ago - 05/15/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedTech columnist and venture investor MG Siegler, commenting on the new iPad Pro: I love the iPad for the things it's good at. And I love the MacBook for the things it's good at. What I want is less a completely combined device and more a single device that can run both macOS and iPadOS. And this new iPad Pro, again equipped with a chip faster than any ...Posted 3 days 1 hour ago - 05/15/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe Department of Justice says it is considering whether to prosecute Boeing over two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft. From a report: The aviation giant breached the terms of an agreement made in 2021 that shielded the firm from criminal charges linked to the incidents, the DOJ said. Boeing has denied that it violated the agreement. The ...Posted 3 days 2 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/24...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedIn an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Frank Pallone Jr (D-N.J.) made their case for why Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has "outlived its usefulness." Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects online platforms from liability for user-generated content, allowing them to ...Posted 3 days 3 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAt Google I/O on Tuesday, Google previewed a feature that will alert users to potential scams during a phone call. TechCrunch reports: The feature, which will be built into a future version of Android, uses Gemini Nano, the smallest version of Google's generative AI offering, which can be run entirely on-device. The system effectively listens for ...Posted 3 days 5 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedPhilip Ball reports via Scientific American: Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues who were simply trying to put together a compendium of human DNA functions. Their Âproject was called ENCODE, for ...Posted 3 days 9 hours ago - 05/15/24
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Starting in June of last year, global temperatures went from very hot to extreme. Every single month since June, the globe has experienced the hottest temperatures for that month on record -- that's 11 months in a row now, enough to ensure that 2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 will likely ...Posted 3 days 12 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAt Google I/O today, Google introduced a "next-generation AI assistant" called Project Astra that can "make sense of what your phone's camera sees," reports Wired. It follows yesterday's launch of GPT-4o, a new AI model from OpenAI that can quickly respond to prompts via voice and talk about what it 'sees' through a smartphone camera or on a computer ...Posted 3 days 14 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://entertainment.slashdot.or...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLater this month, Comcast will launch a three-way bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+. It will "come at a vastly reduced price to anything in the market today," said. Comcast chief Brian Roberts. Variety reports: The goal is to "add value to consumers" and at the same time "take some of the dollars out of" other companies' streaming businesses, he ...Posted 3 days 14 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://entertainment.slashdot.or...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAt its I/O developer conference today, Google announced Veo, its latest generative AI video model, that "can generate 'high-quality' 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic styles," reports The Verge. From the report: Veo has "an advanced understanding of natural language," according to Google's press ...Posted 3 days 15 hours ago - 05/14/24
- http://slashdot.org/story/24/05/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOpenAI's co-founder and Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the company to work on "something personally meaningful," wrote CEO Sam Altman in a post on X. "This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. [...] I am forever grateful for what he did here and committed ...Posted 3 days 16 hours ago - 05/14/24
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