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Science/Tech

DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations

Monday at 23:22 PM, via Slashdot

The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal transportation regulations, ProPublica reported on Monday, citing the U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. From the report: The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen...

Valve Facing UK Lawsuit Over Pricing and Commissions

Monday at 22:45 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Video game developer and distributor Valve must face a 656 million-pound ($897.7 million) lawsuit in Britain, which alleges it charged publishers excessive commissions for its Steam online store, after a tribunal ruled on Monday the case could continue. Valve was sued in 2024 on behalf of up to 14 million people in the United Kingdom who bought games or...

New California Law Means Big Changes For Photos of Homes in Real Estate Listings

Monday at 22:05 PM, via Slashdot

California house hunters now have legal protection against the kind of real estate photo trickery that has long plagued the home-buying process, as a new state law requiring disclosure of digitally altered listing images took effect on January 1. Assembly Bill 723 mandates that real estate agents and brokers include a “reasonably conspicuous” statement whenever photos have been altered using...

Scientists launch AI DinoTracker app that identifies dinosaur footprints

Monday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers say artificial intelligence system matches human expert classification about 90% of the time

Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions of years ago.

“When we find a dinosaur footprint, we try to do the Cinderella thing and find the foot that matches the...

Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE

Monday at 21:46 PM, via Wired

A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE.

GTA 6’s Physical Release Could Be Delayed To 2027 Because of Leaks

Monday at 21:28 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: An insider who correctly leaked information about Oblivion: Remastered and other titles is warning that GTA 6’s physical release could be pushed back. GTA 6 is set to finally launch on November 19, 2026, but fans hoping to get their hands on a physical copy could be stuck waiting even longer. According to a report from Polish site PPE, insider Graczdari says...

AIWNN Launches Fully Autonomous AI Driven News Radio Station

Monday at 21:03 PM, via Tech Financials

AIWNN has launched a fully autonomous, AI powered news radio station that broadcasts spoken versions of press releases around the clock, offering continuous access to publicly distributed news content. The platform operates without human hosts or editors. Instead, AIWNN uses automated systems to identify press releases published online and convert them into audio for live […]

Nike Says It’s Investigating Possible Data Breach

Monday at 20:53 PM, via Slashdot

Nike says it is investigating a potential data breach, after a group known for cyber attacks reportedly claimed to have leaked a trove of data related to its business operations. From a report: “We always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously,” Nike said in a statement. “We are investigating a potential cyber security incident and are actively assessing the situation.” The...

This Wireless Mic Kit Is $70 Off

Monday at 20:24 PM, via Wired

Save on a full DJI Mic 3 bundle, or pick and choose to build your own portable recording setup.

Television Turns 100

Monday at 20:10 PM, via Slashdot

Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to journalists and members of the Royal Institution in a cramped attic workshop above what is now Bar Italia in London’s Soho. On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist’s dummy...

How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall

Monday at 19:30 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making — and breaking — fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the “.ai” top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since...

Fixing Retail With Land Value Capture

Monday at 18:50 PM, via Slashdot

The independent coffee shops and quirky boutiques that make neighborhoods like Hayes Valley in San Francisco or Williamsburg in Brooklyn desirable are caught in a frustrating economic trap: they create value that ends up in the pockets of nearby homeowners rather than their own cash registers. An essay in Works in Progress magazine argues that when an interesting new store or restaurant opens,...

SKC Capital Announces Upcoming G4 Token IEO Amid Strong Market Interest

Monday at 18:47 PM, via Tech Financials

Global — SKC Capital today announced the upcoming Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) of the G4 Token, as market interest continues to build ahead of its official launch. The announcement comes at a time of heightened global economic uncertainty, with the G4 Token attracting significant attention from both institutional and individual investors. Since its launch, the […]

World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say

Monday at 18:12 PM, via Slashdot

Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday. From a report: Demand for cooling will “drastically” increase in giant countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, where hundreds of millions of people lack air conditioning or other means of beating the heat. But even a...

Saudi Arabia To Scale Back Neom Megaproject

Monday at 17:28 PM, via Slashdot

Saudi Arabia is preparing to significantly scale back Neom, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s flagship development that sprawls across a Belgium-sized stretch of Red Sea coastline and was once billed as the world’s largest construction site. Financial Times is reporting that Prince Mohammed, who chairs the project, now envisions something “far smaller” as a year-long review nears completion....

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