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Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports:
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy “ho… Continue reading New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
The United States and China have agreed to “launch a dialogue” on AI, reports Reuters.
On artificial intelligence, the two sides agreed to hold a dialogue on the technology’s risks and benefits, with the next round of discussions set for November, and… Continue reading China and the US Say They’ve Agreed to Start Talks About AI
Last weekend KDE’s annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing
an AI-native KDE,” writes The Register. This led KDE developer Nate Graham to open a discussion about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions which “rapidly beca… Continue reading KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
Microsoft’s senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that “Throughout Excel’s 40-year history, you’ve only been able to put one value per cell.” But that’s now changing with arrays in cells (as well as nested arrays) and lists.
“You can create a … Continue reading After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli
AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,”… Continue reading AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Copilot+ PCs” were Microsoft’s official branding for Windows 11 “AI PCs” that met their system requirements. But the 2024 launch “didn’t go smoothly,” writes Windows Central, after security researchers discovered its proposed “Recall” feature was woef… Continue reading Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its ‘Copilot+ PC’ Brand?
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites.
While posted as links that weren’t publicly listed, “the… Continue reading Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
A New Mexico jury on Friday “found Facebook liable for deceiving users” about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press.
A New Mexico newspaper calls it “another massive legal victory” against Facebook, reporting that the jury found Faceb… Continue reading Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
“Signature forgery.” It’s a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn’t require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to “reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold” and lower the req… Continue reading There’s a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com.
Yankovic’s asteroid was championed by planetary scientist Allison McGraw j… Continue reading Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic