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How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling

Yesterday at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.

Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and ‘Occasionally May Hallucinate’

Yesterday at 10:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Copilot Actions on Windows 11” is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, “and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up.” But maybe it’s off for a good reason…besides the fact that it can access any apps installed on your system:In a support document, Microsoft admits that features like Copilot Actions...

Amazon’s AI-Powered IDE Kiro Helps Vibe Coders with ‘Spec Mode’

Yesterday at 07:34 AM, via Slashdot

A promotional video for Amazon’s Kiro software development system took a unique approach, writes GeekWire. “Instead of product diagrams or keynote slides, a crew from Seattle’s Packrat creative studio used action figures on a miniature set to create a stop-motion sequence…” “Can the software development hero conquer the ‘AI Slop Monster’ to uncover the gleaming, fully functional robot buried...

Arthur Hayes Blames Crypto Plunge on Contraction in Dollar Liquidity: Here’s Why Digitap ($TAP) is the Best Hedge Against a Dollar Crunch

Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via Tech Financials

Arthur Hayes thinks Bitcoin’s latest plunge isn’t about investors losing faith, but rather about the dollar tap being turned off. As liquidity thins, it gets harder to find solid altcoins to buy, and investors need to think very differently. Hayes argues that a sharp contraction in dollar liquidity has dragged BTC down, and he was […]

Best Crypto Presales: Digitap ($TAP) Raises $2M Amid Violent Bear Market

Yesterday at 06:48 AM, via Tech Financials

Markets are bleeding, retail investors are panicking, and yet crypto presales are absolutely booming. Well, not all of them, but banking-focused presales are crushing it in this violent bear market. When majors unwind like this, the smartest way to read the future is to look at how investors are positioning for the coming months—to follow […]

Did Bitcoin Play a Role in Thursday’s Stock Sell-Off?

Yesterday at 04:35 AM, via Slashdot

A week ago Bitcoin was at $93,714. Saturday it dropped to $85,300. Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday’s stock market sell-off on “the ongoing plunge in bitcoin’s price,” reports Fortune:”There has been a strong correlation between it and the price of TQQQ, an ETF that seeks to achieve daily investment results that correspond to three times (3x) the daily...

PHP 8.5 Brings Long-Awaited Pipe Operator, Adds New URI Tools

Yesterday at 03:35 AM, via Slashdot

“PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser,” reports the Register, “marking one of the scripting language’s more substantial updates… “The pipe operator allows function calls to be chained together, which avoids theextraneous variables and nested statements that might otherwise beinvolved. Pipes tend to make code more readable than...

‘The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming’

Yesterday at 01:35 AM, via Slashdot

In a 2023 pitch to investors, a “well-financed, highly credentialed” startup named Stardust aimed for a “gradual temperature reduction demonstration” in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. (“Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles,” says one slide. “Equivalent to ~1% extra cloud coverage.”) “Another page told potential investors Stardust...

Meta Plans New AI-Powered ‘Morning Brief’ Drawn From Facebook and ‘External Sources’

Yesterday at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Meta “is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company’s generative AI technology” reports the Washington Post. They cite records they’ve reviwed showing that Meta “would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users.”The company plans to test the product with a small group of Facebook users in...

Are Astronomers Wrong About Dark Energy?

Saturday at 22:36 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our understanding of dark energy, the elusive force that counters the inward pull of gravity in our universe… Last year, a consortium of hundreds of researchers...

Britain Sets New Record, Generating Enough Wind Power for 22 Million Homes

Saturday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Sky News:A new wind record has been set for Britain, with enough electricity generated from turbines to power 22 million homes, the system operator has said. The mark of 22,711 megawatts (MW) was set at 7.30pm on 11 November… enough to keep around three-quarters of British homes powered, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) said. The country had...

Analyzing 47,000 ChatGPT Conversations Shows Echo Chambers, Sensitive Data – and Unpredictable Medical Advice

Saturday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

For nearly three years OpenAI has touted ChatGPT as a “revolutionary” (and work-transforming) productivity tool, reports the Washington Post. But after analyzing 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, the Post found that users “are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks.”The Post analyzed a collection of thousands of publicly shared ChatGPT...

780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks

Saturday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

In October Zorin OS claimed it had 100,000 downloads in a little over two days in the days following Microsoft’s end of support for Windows 10. And one month later, Zorin OS developers now claim that 780,000 people downloaded it from a Windows computer in the space of a month, according to the tech news site XDA Developers.In a post on the Zorin blog, the developers of the operating system...

Physicists Reveal a New Quantum State Where Electrons Run Wild

Saturday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

ScienceDaily reports:Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even discovered a bizarre “pinball” state where some electrons stay locked in place while others dart around freely. Their simulations help explain how these phases form and how they...

Tiny ‘Micro-Robots’ in your Bloodstream Could Deliver Drugs with Greater Precision

Saturday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Washington Post reports:Scientists in Switzerland have created a robot the size of a grain of sand that is controlled by magnets and can deliver drugs to a precise location in the human body, a breakthrough aimed at reducing the severe side effects that stop many medicines from advancing in clinical trials… “I think surgeons are going to look at this,” [said Bradley J. Nelson, an author of...

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