Collaborate Disseminate
Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. “And in East Asia’s test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student’s future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahe… Continue reading Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests
The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world “after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre.”
Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film’s reviews “range from negative to tepid p… Continue reading ‘Supergirl’ Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects
“Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries,” writes InfoWorld:
According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next… Continue reading Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years
Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee “to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after sus… Continue reading An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee
IBM spent a decade “building, testing and improving” quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.
“This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science projec… Continue reading IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing
America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration, cited in this report from Electrek:
… Continue reading Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America’s Electricity Generation
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike tr… Continue reading How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models
There’s a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post — and it’s even worse than a dire earlier forecast:
The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorolog… Continue reading France’s Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050
Max Planck won 1918’s Nobel Prize for physics. Yet two of his papers were retracted — a move now being criticized by Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec and Mahdi Khelfaoui, a fellow historian of science at UQ Trois-R… Continue reading Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, “the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world…”
“But when scholars tried… Continue reading Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI