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Acting icon Judi Dench calls sight loss ‘a crusher’

Yesterday at 15:06 PM, via The South African

Oscar-winner Judi Dench has said sight loss due to macular degeneration means she can no longer see faces clearly, calling the condition a “crusher” as she marked her 91st birthday on Tuesday. The veteran star of stage and screen, whose role as “M” in eight James Bond films shot her to global fame, has suffered […]

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OpenAI Joins the Linux Foundation’s New Agentic AI Foundation

Today at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production. It may sound well-meaning, but Slashdot reader and NERDS.xyz founder BrianFagioli isn’t buying the narrative. In a report for NERDS.xyz, Fagioli writes: Instead of opening models, training data, or...

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Netflix Faces Consumer Class Action Over $72 Billion Warner Bros Deal

Today at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

Netflix’s $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery has triggered a consumer class action claiming the merger would crush competition, erase HBO Max as a rival, and hand Netflix control over major franchises. Reuters reports: The proposed class action (PDF) was filed on Monday by a subscriber to Warner Bros-owned HBO Max who said the proposed deal threatened to reduce competition in the U.S....

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Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras?

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader Randseed writes: With the likes of Google Nest, Ring, and others cooperating with law enforcement, I started to look for affordable wireless IP security cameras that I can put around my house. Unfortunately, it looks like almost every thing now incorporates some kind of cloud-based slop. All I really want is to put up some cameras, hook them up to my LAN, and install...