Collaborate Disseminate
Fossil fuels produce NO2, which is linked to asthma attacks, bronchitis, and higher risks of heart disease and stroke, according the EV news site Electrek. But the nonprofit news site Grist.org notes a new analysis showing that those emissions decrease… Continue reading EVs Are Already Making Your Air Cleaner, Research Shows
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Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers to reduce the… Continue reading Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom
Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, report… Continue reading ‘Open Source Registries Don’t Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security’
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or mo… Continue reading Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand
Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once … Continue reading AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America’s Apartments
Friday Amazon published a blog post “to address the inaccuracies” in a Financial Times report that the company’s own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December.
Amazon writes that the “brief” and “extremely limited” service interru… Continue reading Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”
While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly u… Continue reading Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter’s “computer brain,” including “its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party softwar… Continue reading F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister
Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled “The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun,” arguing that Anthropic’s Claude Code… Continue reading Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?
Besides running tech operations at the UK’s Post Office, their interim CTO is also removing and replacing Fujitsu’s Horizon system, which Computer Weekly describes as “the error-ridden software that a public inquiry linked to 13 people taking their own… Continue reading After 16 Years, ‘Interim’ CTO Finally Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon From the UK’s Post Office