Collaborate Disseminate
“Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed,” writes TechCrunch. That’s the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp’s corporate card/bill pay data as well as Re… Continue reading Big Companies That Invest Heavily in AI Also Hire More People, Report Suggests
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group “assisting clients with AI implementations,” reports CNBC:
[Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that’s become known as forward deployed enginee… Continue reading Microsoft and Amazon Commit Billions to New AI Implementation Units for Businesses
Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes:
Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than “power apps”). Some of these are closed source, some are open, but they… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Which Apps Aren’t Available on Linux?
America’s Justice Department and FBI teamed joined Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation to arrest a teenager they say is part of one of the world’s biggest cybercrime syndicates, reports Tom’s Hardware. The “Scattered Spider” syndicate has extort… Continue reading Windows 11 Identifier Code Used to Arrest 19-Year-Old Over Alleged Ransomware Spree
“A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize,” reports the Guardian.
In mid-May the story had been selected as a regional winner, but with critics on X and Bluesky “cl… Continue reading Short Story Accused of Being AI-written Goes on to Win Contest’s First Prize
“The internet is filled with fakes,” writes Gizmodo. “A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters… Continue reading GoDaddy Warns India’s Crackdown on Fake Site Registrars Could Upend Internet Privacy Everywhere
247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. “They are proving themselve… Continue reading EV Batteries Defy Expectations, Last Hundreds of Thousands of Miles
CNN reports:
Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to gr… Continue reading Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons’ Leftovers to Survive
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
With the taglin… Continue reading New Google Ad Imagines America’s ‘Declaration of Independence’ Written With AI Help
Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers.
They’ve all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments “are already b… Continue reading Are Wars Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security?