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  • Three Years Left To Limit Warming To 1.5C, Leading Scientists Warn

    Thu 11:30pm By BeauHD
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. That's the stark warning from more than 60 of the world's leading…
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  • Social Media Ban Moves Closer in Australia After Tech Trial

    Thu 10:30pm By msmash
    Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking a user's age is technologically possible and can be integrated into existing services. From a report: The conclusions are a blow to…
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  • Axolotl Discovery Brings Us Closer Than Ever To Regrowing Human Limbs

    Thu 9:10pm By BeauHD
    alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A team of biologists from Northeastern University and the University of Kentucky has found one of the key molecules involved in axolotl regeneration. It's a crucial component in ensuring the body grows back…
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  • MIT Chemical Engineers Develop New Way To Separate Crude Oil

    Thu 8:30pm By BeauHD
    Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the Cool Down: A team of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a new process to separate crude oil components, potentially bringing forward a replacement that can…
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  • macOS Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support

    Thu 7:50pm By BeauHD
    The first macOS Tahoe beta appears to drop support for legacy FireWire 400 and 800, making it impossible to sync or mount older iPods and external drives that rely on the standard. MacRumors reports: Unlike on macOS Sequoia and earlier versions, the first…
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  • Publishers Facing Existential Threat From AI, Cloudflare CEO Says

    Thu 7:10pm By msmash
    Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for their content, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Axios at an event in Cannes on Thursday. From a report: Search traffic referrals have…
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  • Chinese Studios Plan AI-Powered Remakes of Kung Fu Classics

    Thu 6:30pm By BeauHD
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li and a legion of the all-time greats of martial cinema are about to get an AI makeover. In a sign-of-the-times announcement at the Shanghai International Film…
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  • Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols

    Thu 5:50pm By BeauHD
    Starting mid-July 2025, Microsoft 365 will begin blocking legacy authentication protocols like Remote PowerShell and FrontPage RPC to enhance security under its "Secure by Default" initiative. Admins must now grant explicit consent for third-party app access,…
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  • SpaceX Starship Explodes On Test Stand

    Thu 5:10pm By BeauHD
    SpaceX's Starship exploded on its test stand in South Texas ahead of an engine test, marking the fourth loss of a Starship this year. "In three previous test flights, the vehicle came apart or detonated during its flight," notes the Washington Post. No…
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  • The 16-Billion-Record Data Breach That No One's Ever Heard of

    Thu 4:30pm By BeauHD
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Several collections of login credentials reveal one of the largest data breaches in history, totaling a humongous 16 billion exposed login credentials. The data most likely originates from various…
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  • Hackers Are Turning Tech Support Into a Threat

    Thu 2:40pm By msmash
    Hackers have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from cryptocurrency holders and disrupted major retailers by targeting outsourced call centers used by American corporations to reduce costs, WSJ reported Thursday. The attackers exploit low-paid call center…
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  • Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

    Thu 2:00pm By msmash
    Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC reported Thursday. From the report: The tech company is turning to its catalog of 20 billion YouTube videos to train…
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  • Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn't Matter

    Thu 1:20pm By msmash
    Simon Willison, commenting on the recent paper from Apple researchers that found state-of-the-art large language models face complete performance collapse beyond certain complexity thresholds: I thought this paper got way more attention than it warranted --…
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  • Apple Software Chief Rejects macOS on iPad

    Thu 12:40pm By msmash
    Apple software chief Craig Federighi has ruled out bringing macOS to the iPad, amusingly using a kitchen utensil analogy to explain the company's design philosophy. "We don't want to create a boat car or, you know, a spork," Federighi said in an interview.…
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  • AI Ethics Pioneer Calls Artificial General Intelligence 'Just Vibes and Snake Oil'

    Thu 12:01pm By msmash
    Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face and founder of Google's responsible AI team, has dismissed artificial general intelligence as "just vibes and snake oil." Mitchell, who was ousted from Google in 2021, has co-written a paper arguing…
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  • Iran Tells Citizens To Delete WhatsApp

    Thu 11:22am By msmash
    Iranian state television has instructed residents to delete WhatsApp from their smartphones, claiming the messaging platform gathers user information to share with Israel. The local media provided no evidence supporting these allegations but additionally…
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  • Amazon Orders Employees To Relocate To Seattle and Other Hubs

    Thu 10:40am By msmash
    93 Escort Wagon writes: More proof that Amazon's leadership views the balance of power between itself and its workforce tilting decisively in its favor: Amazon's employees are being told they must relocate to one of the company's large hubs -- with the company…
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  • MIT Experiment Finds ChatGPT-Assisted Writing Weakens Student Brain Connectivity and Memory

    Thu 10:00am By msmash
    ChatGPT-assisted writing dampened brain activity and recall in a controlled MIT study [PDF] of 54 college volunteers divided into AI-only, search-engine, and no-tool groups. Electroencephalography recorded during three essay-writing sessions found the AI group…
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  • New US Visa Rules Will Force Foreign Students To Unlock Social Media Profiles

    Thu 9:00am By BeauHD
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has…
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  • Steam Beta Enables Proton On Linux For All Titles

    Thu 6:00am By BeauHD
    Valve has quietly updated the Steam Beta Client to enable Proton by default for all Windows games on Linux, eliminating the need for users to toggle compatibility settings manually. GamingOnLinux reports: For some context here: originally, Proton had an option…
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