Collaborate Disseminate
The gaming news site Aftermath reports:
Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the… Continue reading Gamers Sue PlayStation: It’s Not Clear They’re Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them “can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone… can surf the web as if they were you.” (And t… Continue reading How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks
This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure “whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions.”
But while OpenAI’s top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader… Continue reading OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers… Continue reading Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device
Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it’s not just because of a heart attack and … Continue reading Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup ‘2Brains Inc’ to Solve LLM Hallucinations
CNBC reports:
Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recal… Continue reading Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into ‘Freeway Construction Zones’
CNN reports:
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word “mis… Continue reading Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry).
But this week SMPTE “announced that its complete Standards cata… Continue reading SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall
Ars Technica’s senior security editor reports:
Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers.
The company na… Continue reading Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor
The Free Software Foundation’s GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal.
But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploi… Continue reading FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by AI Researchers in GNU Savannah Repository