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AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America’s Apartments

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you actually move in.” Now imagine it’s far more than just one apartment complex…At two other Jack London Square apartment buildings, my initial...

Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Friday Amazon published a blog post “to address the inaccuracies” in a Financial Times report that the company’s own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December. Amazon writes that the “brief” and “extremely limited” service interruption “was the result of user error — specifically misconfigured access controls — not AI as the story claims.” And “The Financial Times’ claim...

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same...

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter’s “computer brain,” including “its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party software updates, just like ‘jailbreaking’ a cellphone, according to the Dutch State Secretary for Defense.” TWZ notes that the Dutch defense secretary...

Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled “The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun,” arguing that Anthropic’s Claude Code “was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I’ve been knocking off side projects that...

Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton goes on public display for first time

Today at 12:08 PM, via The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of 13th-century saint’s remains

Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton is going on full public display from Sunday for the first time, in a move that is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Inside a nitrogen-filled case with the Latin inscription “Corpus Sancti Francisci” (the body of Saint Francis), the remains...

After 16 Years, ‘Interim’ CTO Finally Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon From the UK’s Post Office

Today at 10:34 AM, via Slashdot

Besides running tech operations at the UK’s Post Office, their interim CTO is also removing and replacing Fujitsu’s Horizon system, which Computer Weekly describes as “the error-ridden software that a public inquiry linked to 13 people taking their own lives.” After over 16 years of covering the scandal they’d first discovered back in 2009, Computer Weekly now talks to CTO Paul Anastassi about...

Ask Slashdot: What’s Your Boot Time?

Today at 07:34 AM, via Slashdot

How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM. Say you want separate Windows and Linux boot processes, and “You have Windows on one SSD/NVMe, and Linux on another. How long do you have to wait for a chance to choose a boot drive?” And more importantly, why is it all taking so long?In a world of 4-5 GHz CPU’s that are thousands of times faster than...

DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982

Today at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

“More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer,” reports CNN:Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s houseï in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning, a firefighter walking home from work found her body, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said...

Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the US

Today at 01:43 AM, via Slashdot

The consumer movement Stop Killing Games “has come a long way in the two years sinceYouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft’sdestruction of The Crew in 2024,” writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. “The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people signed the group’s petition, mandating its consideration by the European Union, and while Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reminded us all that nothing is...

Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU

Today at 01:43 AM, via Slashdot

The consumer movement Stop Killing Games “has come a long way in the two years sinceYouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft’sdestruction of The Crew in 2024,” writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. “The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people signed the group’s petition, mandating its consideration by the European Union, and while Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reminded us all that nothing is...

Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?

Today at 00:43 AM, via Slashdot

Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who’d rejected the code it wrote. But that AI agent’s human operator has now come forward, revealing their agent was an OpenClaw instance with its own accounts, switching between multiple models from multiple providers. (So “No one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing,” the attacked maintainer points out in a new...

America’s Peace Corps Announces ‘Tech Corps’ Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries

Yesterday at 23:43 PM, via Slashdot

Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. “It’s the Peace Corps, but make it AI,” explains Engadget:The Peace Corps’ latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector...

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