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How Internet Pioneers Celebrated 50 Years of the Internet - Slashdot
Slashdot· 11 hours agoFounded in 1963, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers held a special event Sunday that they said would be "inspiring engineering for the next 50 years." The event featured talks ...
Britain Covered Up Tainted Blood Scandal That Killed Thousands, Report Finds - Slashdot
Slashdot· 14 hours agoUPI reports that the British government covered up "a multi-decade tainted blood scandal, leading to thousands of related deaths, a report published Monday found." Britain's National Health ...
OpenAI Didn't Copy Scarlett Johansson's Voice for ChatGPT, Records Show - Slashdot
Slashdot· 17 hours agoThe Atlantic argued this week that OpenAI "just gave away the entire game... The Johansson scandal is merely a reminder of AI's manifest-destiny philosophy: This is happening, whether you like ...
Satya Nadella Says Microsoft's AI-Focused Copilot+ Laptops Will Outperform Apple's MacBooks - ...
Slashdot· 16 hours ago"Apple's done a fantastic job of really innovating on the Mac," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Wall Street Journal in a video interview this week. Then he said "We are gonna outperform ...
Eagles Changed Migration Route To Avoid Ukraine War - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoScientists report that Greater Spotted Eagles altered their migration routes across Ukraine to avoid conflict and habitat destruction caused by the war. The BBC reports: The scientists studied ...
New Warp Drive Concept Does Twist Space, Doesn't Move Us Very Fast - Slashdot
Slashdot· 19 hours agoAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A team of physicists has discovered that it's possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive and not break any known rules of physics ...
Meta, Activision Sued By Parents of Children Killed in Last Year's School Shooting - Slashdot
Slashdot· 18 hours agoExactly one year after the fatal shooting of 19 elementary school students in Texas, their parents filed a lawsuit against the publisher of the videogame Call of Duty, against Meta, and against ...
OpenAI Releases Former Employees From Controversial Exit Agreements - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoOpenAI has reversed its decision requiring former employees to sign a perpetual non-disparagement agreement to retain their vested equity, stating that they will not cancel any vested units ...
FTC Chair: AI Models Could Violate Antitrust Laws - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday that companies that train their artificial intelligence (A) models on data from ...
China's Blistering Solar Growth Runs Into Grid Blocks - Slashdot
Slashdot· 22 hours agoChina's rapid solar power expansion is slowing due to grid bottlenecks, market reforms, and diminishing rooftop space, with new solar builds dropping 32% in March year-on-year. Reuters reports ...