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This month saw results from a yearlong global study of “potential negative risks that generative AI poses to student”. The study (by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education) also suggests how to prevent risks and maximize benefits:
… Continue reading The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
An anonymous reader shared this article from the blog Linuxiac
In a blog post, Alan Pope, a longtime Ubuntu community figure and former Canonical employee who remains an active Snap publisher… [warns of] a persistent campaign of malicious snaps imper… Continue reading Former Canonical Developer Advocate Warns Snap Store Isn’t Safe After Slow Responses to Malware Reports
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:
Google’s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool … Continue reading Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ Cite YouTube For Health Queries More Than Any Medical Sites, Study Suggests
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative sponsored its third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition in Tokyo this week, receiving 73 entries, the most ever for a Pwn2Own event.
“Under Pwn2Own rules, all disclosed vulnerabilities are reported to affected vend… Continue reading Infotainment, EV Charger Exploits Earn $1M at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026
CIO magazine reports that “the push toward in-person work environments will make it more difficult for IT leaders to retain and recruit staff, some experts say.”
“In addition to resistance, there would also be the risk of talent turnover,” [says Lawre… Continue reading Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
“Airlines canceled more than 10,000 U.S. flights scheduled for this weekend,” reports CNBC, “as a massive winter storm sweeps across the country, with heavy snow and sleet forecast, followed by bitter cold… set to snarl travel for hundreds of thousan… Continue reading Airlines Cancel Over 10,000 US Flights Due To Massive Winter Storm
Slashdot reader Mr. Dollar Ton summarizes this article from Bloomberg:
According to a new report from think tank “Ember”, the availability of cheap green tech can have developing countries profit from earlier investment and skip steps in the transitio… Continue reading Cheap Green Tech Allows Faster Path To Electrification For the Developing World
Early Friday “there were nearly 113 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 1:05 a.m. ET,” reports Reuters. But that’s down “from over 15,890 reports at its peak a day earlier, according to Downdetector.” Reuters points out the ou… Continue reading Microsoft 365 Endured 9+ Hours of Outages Thursday
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune
The large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are not a path to human-level intelligence, two AI experts asserted in separate remarks at Davos. Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winni… Continue reading AI Luminaries Clash At Davos Over How Close Human-Level Intelligence Really Is
“NASA remains confident it has a handle on the problem and the vehicle can bring the crew home safely,” reports CNN.
But “When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Or… Continue reading NASA Confident, But Some Critics Wonder if Its Orion Spacecraft is Safe to Fly