Collaborate Disseminate
OpenAI announced Friday it’s pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports:
The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity”, which had moved … Continue reading OpenAI Announces It’s Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra
Researchers believe they’ve found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express:
Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical… Continue reading Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There’s also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents.
But Phoroni… Continue reading GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff’s office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being … Continue reading Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
To celebrate Quake’s 30th anniversary, Bethesda released “a brutal new episode” — a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine “delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognit… Continue reading Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
IGN reports:
[A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies.
According to a report … Continue reading RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
IGN reports:
[A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies.
According to a report … Continue reading RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
“Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google’s search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court filing,” MediaPost reports, citing a friend-of-the-cour… Continue reading Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he’s released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored … Continue reading Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones
Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he’s released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored … Continue reading Slashdot Reader Builds a Free Photo-Verification App for iPhones