Collaborate Disseminate
America’s Energy Department “wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI,” reports Communications of the ACM:
It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country’s 17 national laboratories, their supercomp… Continue reading How America’s Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI
“Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath:
The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging co… Continue reading Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension
The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there’s more bad news, reports CNBC.” “Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025.”
While previous bitcoin selloffs were of… Continue reading Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months
Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He’s now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that “Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version… Continue reading Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)
The Sunday Times reports:
A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a “number of cases”. Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected… Continue reading UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
A few weeks ago on a bike ride “inspiration struck” for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate…
Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn’t own a smartphone. “It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence,” Eg… Continue reading How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary… Continue reading Amazon CEO’s Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversati… Continue reading Shutterstock ‘Evolves’ Into ‘Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform’
“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.”
Or As Fortune put it,… Continue reading GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:
The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches b… Continue reading Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork