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Science/Tech

Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless

Today at 00:22 AM, via Slashdot

Meta is acquiring AI wearable startup Limitless, maker of a pendant that records conversations and generates summaries. “We’re excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. CNBC reports: Limitless CEO Dan Siroker revealed the deal on Friday via a corporate blog post but did not disclose the...

India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking

Yesterday at 23:21 PM, via Slashdot

India is weighing a proposal to mandate always-on satellite tracking in smartphones for precise government surveillance — an idea strongly opposed by Apple, Google, Samsung, and industry groups. Reuters reports: For years, the [Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s] administration has been concerned its agencies do not get precise locations when legal requests are made to telecom firms during...

The New York Times Is Suing Perplexity For Copyright Infringement

Yesterday at 22:25 PM, via Slashdot

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement, accusing the AI startup of repackaging its paywalled reporting without permission. TechCrunch reports: The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times’ suit claims that “Perplexity provides commercial products to its own users that substitute” for...

Cloudflare Says It Blocked 416 Billion AI Scraping Requests In 5 Months

Yesterday at 21:45 PM, via Slashdot

Cloudflare says it blocked 416 billion AI scraping attempts in five months and warns that AI is reshaping the internet’s economic model — with Google’s combined crawler creating a monopoly-style dilemma where opting out of AI means disappearing from search altogether. Tom’s Hardware reports: “The business model of the internet has always been to generate content that drive traffic and then sell...

Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. In $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Yesterday at 20:18 PM, via Slashdot

Netflix is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in an $82.7 billion deal that gives it HBO, iconic franchises, and major studio infrastructure. “Warner Bros. shareholders will receive $27.75 a share in cash and stock in Netflix,” notes Bloomberg. “The total equity value of the deal is $72 billion, while the enterprise value of the deal is about $82.7 billion.” From the report: Prior to the closing of...

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘serious ethical concerns’

Yesterday at 18:42 PM, via The Guardian

Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence

The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer. Martin van den Berg, the...

QuickTime Turns 34

Yesterday at 18:16 PM, via Slashdot

On Dec. 2, QuickTime turned 34, and despite its origins in Apple’s chaotic 1990s (1991 to be exact), “it’s still the backbone of video on our devices,” writes Macworld’s Jason Snell. That includes MP4 and Apple’s immersive video formats for Vision Pro. From the report: By the late ’80s and early ’90s, digital audio had been thoroughly integrated into Macs. (PCs needed add-on cards to do much...

Contractors With Hacking Records Accused of Wiping 96 Government Databases

Yesterday at 17:15 PM, via Slashdot

Two Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, previously convicted of hacking the U.S. State Department, were rehired as federal contractors and are now charged with conspiring to steal sensitive data and destroy government databases after being fired. “Following the termination of their employment, the brothers allegedly sought to harm the company and its U.S. government customers by...

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal

Yesterday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

The deal to acquire the Hollywood giant’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.

AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming

Yesterday at 16:14 PM, via Slashdot

Netflix says its open AV1 video codec now powers about 30% of all streaming on the platform and is rapidly becoming its primary delivery format thanks to major gains in compression, bandwidth efficiency, HDR support, and film-grain rendering. TVTechnology reports: The blog by Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford and Jeff Watts comes at a time when AV2 is on the horizon. […] The blog revisits...

AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better Than Political Ads

Yesterday at 15:13 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: New research reveals that AI chatbots can shift voters’ opinions in a single conversation — and they’re surprisingly good at it. A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support...

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