Collaborate Disseminate
Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct softwa… Continue reading Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies
NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency’s long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partner… Continue reading NASA Restarts Work To Support Europe’s Uncrewed Trip To Mars After Years of Setbacks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most … Continue reading Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought
A new Ipsos poll finds Americans are increasingly getting news from online personalities and comedians instead of traditional TV or newspapers. The survey says nearly 70% get news online in a given week, versus 55% from TV and 25% from newspapers, with… Continue reading Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources
NIST is narrowing how it handles CVEs in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), saying it will only automatically enrich higher-priority vulnerabilities. “CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not automatical… Continue reading NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge In Vulnerability Submissions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling to … Continue reading Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla’s email subsidiary MZLA Technologies just introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client aimed at organizations that want to run AI on their own infrastructure instead of relying entirely on cloud services. The idea is to… Continue reading Mozilla ‘Thunderbolt’ Is an Open-Source AI Client Focused On Control and Self-Hosting
Amazon’s newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with developers. Cord Cutters News reports: This week, Amazon announced the upcoming launch of a … Continue reading Amazon’s New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from… Continue reading OpenAI Starts Offering a Biology-Tuned LLM
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other … Continue reading Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB