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Heat Waves Grip 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 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 ...
Plan for New Accounting Rules on Software Costs Moves Forward - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoU.S. companies may need to report cash amounts tied to their software expenditures, more of which would be moved off corporate balance sheets under a forthcoming proposal to update decades-old ...
Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Says New Model Outperforms GPT-4 Omni - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoAnthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, claiming it outperforms previous models and OpenAI's GPT-4 Omni. The AI startup also introduced Artifacts, a workspace for users to edit AI-generated ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zelda is Finally Getting Her Own Game - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 days agoAfter years of playing second fiddle to Link in her own franchise, Princess Zelda is finally getting a video game of her own this fall. From a report: During today's Direct presentation, Nintendo ...
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 ...
EU Chat Control Law Proposes Scanning Your Messages - Even Encrypted Ones - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoThe European Union is getting closer to passing new rules that would mandate the bulk scanning of digital messages -- including encrypted ones. On Thursday, EU governments will adopt a position ...
Stability AI Appoints New CEO - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoBritish startup Stability AI has appointed Prem Akkaraju as its new CEO. The 51-year-old Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, "is part of a group of investors including ...
