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NYT: ‘Meta’s Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable’

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Meta’s embrace of AI is making its employees miserable,” reports the New York Times. And “After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees’ computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up.” (One employee even told Meta’s CTO in an internal post, “Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning.” In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees...

‘Changing of the Guard’? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

While Nvidia has dominated the “infrastructure boom” since 2022’s launch of ChatGPT and “the generative AI craze,” CNBC writes that “This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a ‘changing of the guard in AI.'”Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel notched gains of about 25%, while memory maker Micron jumped more than 37% and...

Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Under the nonprofit Linux Foundation, “a new Sustaining Package Registries Working Group will seek to identify concrete funding, governance, and security practices,” reports ZDNet, “to keep code flowing as download counts grow…. Because software builds, continuous integration pipelines, and AI systems hammer registries at machine speed rather than human speed, the sites can’t keep up. “That...

Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone,” they said Friday, announcing an...

Rush Rescue Mission for NASA’s $500M Space Telescope Passes Key Milestone

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it’s now “at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention,” reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that “just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone.”On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to...

The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn’t Closer To Delivery

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization’s “Trump Phone” — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward:FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name “T1” show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January… [T]he phone was...

The emerging cancer treatment that’s exciting scientists: ‘We’ve just scratched the surface on what’s possible’

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

After embarking on a trial of CAR T-cell therapy, actor Sam Neill announced he is cancer-free. Researchers are enthusiastic the therapies could be a major weapon in the battle against cancer

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“Game-changer.” That’s how Prof Misty Jenkins, an immunologist at the Walter and...

Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense...

Cisco Releases Open-Source ‘DNA Test for AI Models’

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Cisco has released an open-source tool “to trace the origins of AI models,” reports SC World, “and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain.”[Cisco’s Model Provenance Kit] is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to other model...

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

All 20 of America’s state-run healthcare marketplace sites “include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies,” reports Gizmodo, citing a report from Bloomberg:Per the report, seven million Americans bought their health insurance through state exchanges in 2026, and many of them may have had personal information shared with companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap,...

10 People Called Police to Report Bigfoot Sighting in Ohio

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

CNN reports on a “sudden surge of claimed sightings” of “unidentified figures averaging 8 feet tall in wooded areas” along Ohio’s Mahoning River.”And it stopped just as quickly as it started,” says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports …. Byron doesn’t take every report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before...

Newspaper Chain’s Reporters Withhold Their Bylines to Protest ‘AI-Assisted’ Articles

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman “has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences,” reports the New York Times. And the chain’s reporters “are not happy about it.”Journalists in many of the company’s newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from...

Why Some US Schools Are Cutting Back On the Technology They Spent Billions On

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

America’s school districts “spent billions on technology during the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post.”But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children.”Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology...

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. “Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future,” Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect of Buddhism in South Korea,...

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare

Yesterday at 12:30 PM, via Wired

Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more.

The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via Wired

The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw.

Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reported this week here at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union. Freely available...

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Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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