An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: David Greene had never heard of NotebookLM, Google’s buzzy artificial intelligence tool that spins up podcasts on demand, until a former colleague emailed him to ask if he’d lent it his voice. “So… I’m probably the 148th person to ask this, but did you license your voice to Google?” the former co-worker asked in a fall 2024 email....
A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel’s DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience. Phoronix reports: Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration on Fedora. Rather than using DRM Panic with just the kernel log contents being encoded in the QR code displayed when a kernel panic occurs,...
Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.6. In this new major release, Spectacle can recognize texts from screenshots, a new on-screen...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: More than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company’s customers are still grappling with higher prices, uncertainty, and the challenges of reducing vendor lock-in. Today, CloudBolt Software released a report, “The Mass Exodus That Never Was: The Squeeze Is Just Beginning,” that provides insight into those...
A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. From a report: The case filed by Almeida Law Group on behalf of San Francisco-based “Spencer Christy, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated” centers on the Data Security Program regulations implemented by the DOJ last year....
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” from AI, and believes most work involving “sitting down at a computer” — accounting, legal, marketing, project management — will be fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He pointed to exponential growth in computational power and predicted that creating a new AI model will...
Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands lost 25 to 30% of their stock; London saw the smallest decline. Leek trained a random forest model on 49,840 pubs...
After Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian vice-skip Marc Kennedy of cheating last week, everyone has become an expert in curling rules. They’re missing the point.
Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing indie-horror video games on camera, has pulled off something that most independent filmmakers never manage — a self-financed, self-distributed debut feature that has grossed more than $30 million domestically against a $3 million budget. Iron...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different ‘interfaces.’ Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members...
Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest
The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.
Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the...
Amid the high-stakes tech deal-making of Web Summit Qatar 2026, a new investment thesis emerged that challenges the traditional global response to regional instability. Hammam Elmasri, Co-Founder of EmpactUS, presented a compelling case to global venture capitalists and institutional leaders: the future of post-conflict recovery in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) must pivot […]
Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, capable of sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random read performance of 5.5 million IOPS — roughly double the throughput of the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives available today. The drive targets AI and data center workloads and ships in E1.S and E3.S form factors across two variants: the Pro, available in...
This week, the crypto market is finally flashing green for some coins. The Toncoin price is holding above its short-term moving average, showing signs of resilience even amid longer-term pressure. Meanwhile, Chainlink price has jumped past the $9.00 mark, breaking key resistance and signaling renewed momentum. But among those searching for the next crypto to […]
Toronto, Canada – AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON), the world’s leading public technology company scaling the Telegram super app with AI Infrastructure and Telegram Applications for its addressable market of 1 billion monthly active users, today reports the signing and closing of a strategic $30 million AI compute infrastructure lease agreement, adding 504 NVIDIA B200 […]
New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Global equity markets are facing a defining moment as the “AI Loser Trade” gains momentum, driving a sharp rotation out of hyper-growth tech stocks into defensive sectors. Amidst this backdrop of heightened volatility—with the VIX climbing over 4% today—Jonathan Reedwell, Senior Equity Fund Manager at Ofek Kesef Asset Management, urges […]
Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem — in fact, it could even cloud it. From a report: In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)....