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NASA Faces First-Ever Claim for Space Debris Damage - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoA Florida homeowner has filed an unprecedented claim against NASA for damages caused by space debris that crashed through his roof in March. Alejandro Otero is seeking over $80,000 for property ...
OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoOpenAI CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about how AI could hurt some creative jobs, suggesting during a talk that some jobs were maybe always a bit replaceable anyway. From a report: "I think it's ...
EFF: New License Plate Reader Vulnerabilties Prove The Tech Itself is a Public Safety Threat - ...
Slashdot· 2 days agoAutomated license plate readers "pose risks to public safety," argues the EFF, "that may outweigh the crimes they are attempting to address in the first place." When law enforcement uses automated ...
Tuesday SpaceX Launches a NOAA Satellite to Improve Weather Forecasts for Earth and Space - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoTuesday a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch a special satellite — a state-of-the-art weather-watcher from America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will complete a series ...
Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Says New Model Outperforms GPT-4 Omni - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 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 ...
TikTok Says US Ban Inevitable Without a Court Order Blocking Law - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 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· 5 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 ...
Asda IT Staff Shuffled Off To TCS Amid Messy Tech Divorce From Walmart - Slashdot
Slashdot· 7 days agoAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Asda is transferring more than 100 internal IT workers to Indian outsourcing company TCS as it labors to meet deadlines to move away from ...
Perplexity AI Faces Scrutiny Over Web Scraping and Chatbot Accuracy - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 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 ...
Plan for New Accounting Rules on Software Costs Moves Forward - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 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 ...