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40,000 AI-Narrated Audiobooks Flood Audible - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 hours agoA new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves -- ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It's an AI audiobook revolution that has ...
Poorer Nations Must Be Transparent Over Climate Spending, Says Cop29 Leader - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 hours agoPoor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said.
Police Resurrect Lockbit's Site and Troll the Ransomware Gang - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 hours agoAn international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about ...
PlayStation Reverses Course on Helldivers 2 PSN Account Requirement - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 hours agoPlayStation has reversed course on the Helldivers 2 PSN account requirement, walking back the unpopular policy after a weekend long backlash that included tens of thousands of negative reviews ...
More Than 90% of Stablecoin Transactions Aren't From Real Users, Visa Study Finds - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 hours agoMore than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren't coming from genuine users, according to a new metric co-developed by Visa, suggesting such crypto tokens may be far away from becoming ...
Microsoft Readies New AI Model To Compete With Google, OpenAI - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 hours agoFor the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough ...
In Argentina, Facing Surging Inflation, 500K Accept Worldcoin's Offer of $50 for Iris-Scanning - ...
Slashdot· 7 hours agoWednesday Rest of World noticed an overlooked tech story in Argentina: Olga de León looked confused as she walked out of a nightclub on the edge of Buenos Aires on a recent Tuesday afternoon ...
Breakthrough Achieved In Nanometer-Resolution Imaging of 3D Chemistry - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day ago"A leap in our ability to see the chemistry of matter in three-dimensions at the nanoscale was achieved, allowing scientists to understand how nanomaterials are chemically arranged," writes ...
Elon Musk's X Launches Grok AI-Powered 'Stories' Feature - Slashdot
Slashdot· 11 hours agoAn anonymous reader shared this report from Mint: Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new Grok AI-powered feature called 'Stories', which allows users to ...
Can Technology Help Reduce Drunk-Driving Deaths? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 21 hours agoAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback ...