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Heat Waves Grip 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoAn anonymous reader shares a report: Punishing heat waves gripped three continents on Tuesday, breaking records in cities around the Northern Hemisphere less than two weeks after the Earth recorded ...
Perplexity AI Faces Scrutiny Over Web Scraping and Chatbot Accuracy - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoPerplexity AI, a billion-dollar "AI" search startup, has come under scrutiny for its data collection practices and accuracy of its chatbot responses. Despite claiming to respect website operators ...
Meta Has Created a Way To Watermark AI-Generated Speech - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoAn anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Meta has created a system that can embed hidden signals, known as watermarks, in AI-generated audio clips, which could help in ...
Astronomers Detect Sudden Awakening of Black Hole For First Time - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoAstronomers are observing the sudden awakening of a giant black hole in the constellation of Virgo. "Decades of observations found nothing remarkable about the distant galaxy in the constellation ...
30 Years of FreeDOS - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoFreeDOS, the open-source OS that is helping keep the legacy of DOS alive, will turn 30 next week. Founded in 1994 by Jim Hall, then a college student, FreeDOS was created as a response to Microsoft's ...
TikTok Says US Ban Inevitable Without a Court Order Blocking Law - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoTikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short app in the United States on Jan. 19, saying the U.S. government refused ...
London Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Cancelled After Backlash - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoA cinema in London has cancelled the world premiere of a film with a script generated by AI after a backlash. From a report: The Prince Charles cinema, located in London's West End and which ...
Apple Discontinues 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Service - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 days agoApple said on Monday it will no longer offer its "buy now, pay later" service, Apple Pay Later, in the United States, and will instead focus on bringing installment loan offerings to Apple Pay ...
US Sues Adobe Over Subscription Plan Disclosures - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 days agoThe U.S. government on Monday sued Adobe, accusing the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat of harming consumers by enrolling them in its most lucrative subscription plans without clearly disclosing ...
Officials Query if Any Deaths Directly Linked To UK Hospital Hack - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoOfficials are asking if this month's UK hospital hack resulted in fatalities. From a report: As the fallout from a cyberattack affecting hospitals in London enters its third week, doctors have ...