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upstart writes:Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it.

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upstart writes:Smarter agents, continuous updates, and the eternal struggle to prove ROI:

upstart writes:New requirements could see more 'bad content' on Wikipedia, its owners warn:

pdfernhout writes:A recent US Congressional Report suggests: "We stand at the edge of a new industrial revolution, one that depends on our ability to engineer biology. Emerging biotechnology, coupled with artificial intelligence, will transform everything from the way we defend and build our nation to how we nourish and provide care for Americans."From the Executive Summary:

upstart writes:As Big Tech gets used to the pain, smaller vendors urged to up their game:

slon writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-05-people-ai-colleagues-lazier.html

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owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2025/05/386-prefetch-circuitry-reverse-engineered.html

slon writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-urine-powered-electrolysis-energy-efficient.html

DannyB writes:'Tone deaf': US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AICrowdStrike CEO announces 5% of workforce to be slashed globally, citing artificial intelligence efficiencies created in the business

quietus writes:Christopher (Chris) Alan Pelkey had two tours of duty in Iraq, and one in Afghanistan, behind him when, on a November Saturday afternoon, a car stopped behind him at a red light and started honking his horn. The veteran sergeant got out of his car and walked to the other car with his hands held up, as if he wanted to ask what the problem was. Then three shots rang out.Now, three years later, his family has used generative AI to allow him to appear as a witness in his own murder case. It is worth watching the generated video here.I have difficulty interpreting this. While this video appears eerily touching to me, it is not hard to foresee how these kind of videos could also be used to sway a judge or jury to much heavier penalties.The video also reminded me of the Caleb character in the science fiction series WestWorld (seasons 3 and 4). Caleb is an army veteran who, for therapy purposes, is coupled to an AI version of his killed-in-action army buddy. Instead of having a liberating effect though, the feeling is more that his AI buddy holds him back, keeping him instead dependent on the service.And then there's this video of a recent interview given by Mark Zuckerberg -- wearing Meta's Ray-Ban AI connected glasses, which he claimed were selling by the millions -- at Stripe Sessions, where he talks about how personal AI will be their focus, and what that actually will mean (at 14'), and, connected to that, the need to long-term invest in glasses as the ultimate devices for AI (24') -- seeing what you see, hearing what you hear.The currently existing AI ethics rules/frameworks focus on data privacy and legal responsibility. Maybe we should start to think early, here, about potential sociological and psychological impacts.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:openSUSE removes Deepin from its repositories after long string of security issues and unauthorised security bypassThom Holwerda - 2025-05-07

looorg writes:Just how many penises are there on the Bayeux tapestry? The previous count was 93. Now they claim to have found another one. So is it 93 or 94? Most of them belong to horses. So it's a Oxford professor showdown in how many penises they can see in a tapestry. Nobs for History!

Fnord666 writes:Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

upstart writes:Sunscreen might have helped early humans outlive Neanderthals:

upstart writes:Scientists transformed energy-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning 'beige' fat. Once implanted, How Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death:

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NotSanguine writes:From Nate Anderson over at Ars Technica:

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hubie writes:People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer - new study:

hubie writes:Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston:

upstart writes:Black hole analogs are one of our best tools for understanding how they work:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates/

upstart writes:A breakthrough in Hilbert's sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics in math:

upstart writes:Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027:

DECbot writes:As first seen in @Day of the Dalek's journal, and suggested to be posted as a Meta story on the Main page by @quietus, here is a call for volunteers:

owl writes:https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventure-march-1980/

upstart writes:Kosmos 482, weighing 500kg, was meant to land on Venus in the 1970s but it never made it out of orbit because of a rocket malfunction:

upstart writes:Backstage access: Spotify's dev tools side-hustle is growing legs:

upstart writes:Microsoft Finally Launches Its Controversial Recall Feature:

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upstart writes:Plastic-eating mealworms native to Africa discovered:

upstart writes:The final farewell for LG's phone business:

upstart writes:China may have achieved a "Sputnik moment" in the clean energy technology race by successfully reloading a nuclear reactor that runs on thorium:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2025/05/intel-386-register-circuitry.html

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