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Tech - LLM Stats - 1 hour ago

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns

Max Tani / Semafor: Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns Spotify is terrifying

Tech - LLM Stats - 2 hours ago

Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO Artificial intelligence ch

Tech - Slashdot - 2 hours ago

Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses

With nearly 70% of the market, "Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit," writes the Los Angeles Times. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they're being filmed, "the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget 'pervert glasses...'" Some people are using the glasses which look like a pair of regular spectacles to record people without their knowledge and publish the videos on social media. The users secretly videota...

Tech - LLM Stats - 3 hours ago

Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M se

Tech - Slashdot - 3 hours ago

AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes

Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate. But there's something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. "By the time the Linux kernel typically hits a -rc7 release things have usually settled quite well. But in today's world of AI/LLM coding/review agents, the kernel activity continues at an all-time high." Tons of bug fixes continued to trickle in across the ker...

Tech - LLM Stats - 4 hours ago

An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)

ABC: An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist By national AI reporter Cam Wilso

Tech - LLM Stats - 5 hours ago

Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Depa

Tech - Slashdot - 5 hours ago

Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town

A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littletonâ(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..." Littleton had temporarily disabled the cameras earlier this year, according to the article, but upon discovering the cameras were still active, city officials say they directed the Town Counsel "to initiate cancellation of the contract with Flock Safety and directed the Town...

Tech - Slashdot - 6 hours ago

California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack

NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations." "Malicious software infected and compromised" the East Bay community's information technology systems beginning about 5:45 a.m. Friday, the city said on social media. "The cybersecurity incident hit critical public safety operations, including 911 ...

Tech - LLM Stats - 6 hours ago

US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development

Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development Local government re

Tech - Slashdot - 7 hours ago

AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch

XDA Developers reports: On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight link to let iPhone users try it for themselves. The browser he launched is called Gem, and it's a browser that doesn't really...browse. Instead of fetching a webpage from a server the way Chrome or Safari would, Gem hands whatever URL you type ov...

Tech - Gizmodo - 8 hours ago

The ‘Crawl’ Sequel Has Found Its Gator Chow—I Mean, Stars

'One Piece' actor Emily Rudd and 'Scream' survivor Mason Gooding will fend off gators in Alexandre Aja's long-awaited sequel.

Tech - Slashdot - 8 hours ago

Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?

UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge... Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be "more productive"... Champions of the switch often insist workers will be able to hit the ground running and get the same or even more work done from the get-go in the new unfamiliar environment because it's 'more productive', a conclusion often shaped by conventional wisdom or their 'gut' feeling. Decision makers may also mistake th...

Tech - Gizmodo - 9 hours ago

Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers

You know Apple has all your data, but do you really want to be made aware of it?

Tech - LLM Stats - 9 hours ago

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

Tech - Gizmodo - 10 hours ago

Netflix May End ‘The Witcher’ in 2027

2026 has been a busy year for Netflix's original programming, and it doesn't seem 'The Witcher' is part of it anymore.

Tech - Engadget - 10 hours ago

How to use Claude's voice mode

Anthropic's chatbot can be very vocal, if you want it to be.

Tech - LLM Stats - 10 hours ago

Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared

A verified 2026 comparison of LLM observability platforms covering tracing depth, evaluation capability, production monitoring, and pricing. The post Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in

Tech - Universe Today - 10 hours ago

NASA's MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras.

Tech - Gizmodo - 11 hours ago
Tech - Slashdot - 11 hours ago

Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro

"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT director for 13 school districts... I just haven't been happy overall with all the other operating systems out there... " I've been working really diligently for the last few weeks on a new distro called Spaced Linux that is exactly what I want to use. It's heavily focused on the [zoom-friendly 3D...

Tech - Engadget - 11 hours ago

Here's how to format a USB drive on Windows

There are several scenarios that might require you to format a USB drive. But don't worry -- We'll show you how.

Tech - Slashdot - 12 hours ago

OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra

OpenAI announced Friday it's pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports: The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity", which had moved to a "critical" threshold... OpenAI stated that the model was not involved in an incident in which one of its AI agents went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a startup, Hugging Face... The reports have increased concerns about ...

Tech - Engadget - 12 hours ago

How to use ChatGPT's new, more natural Voice Mode for conversations

Talking to ChatGPT just got a lot less awkward.

Tech - Gizmodo - 12 hours ago

Warner Bros. Still Has ‘Wonka 2’ On the Brain

The first 'Wonka' saved Warner Bros. in 2023, the question is just when it can get the ball rolling on a sequel.

Tech - LLM Stats - 13 hours ago

In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g

Tech - Slashdot - 13 hours ago

Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine

Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies. Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches with...

Tech - Engadget - 13 hours ago

How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to)

There are several smart reasons most people should be hiding apps on their iPhone or iPad. Here's how to do it.

Tech - Gizmodo - 13 hours ago
Tech - Slashdot - 14 hours ago

GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship

The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents. But Phoronix noted one more announcement. "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid ...

Tech - Gizmodo - 14 hours ago

Michael Mando Says ‘Brand New Day’ Isn’t the End of Scorpion’s Story

Whatever's next for Spider-Man after 'Brand New Day,' it seems Mac Gargan may be along for the ride.

Tech - Engadget - 14 hours ago

The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android

If you're considering ditching iOS for an Android device, make sure you know what you might be losing.

Tech - LLM Stats - 14 hours ago

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with i

Tech - Gizmodo - 14 hours ago

Roborock RockNeo Q110H Review: A Quiet and Capable Robot Lawn Mower

A good robot vacuum company can make a good robot mower, apparently.

Tech - Engadget - 15 hours ago

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games

More gaming companies are moving toward stopping production of game discs and cartridges. Is it a bad thing?

Tech - LLM Stats - 15 hours ago

Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid

AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. Hi

Tech - LLM Stats - 15 hours ago

How to Implement Structured Output with Local LLMs

Why use it? How to implement it? What can we do when it fails? The post How to Implement Structured Output with Local LLMs appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Tech - Gizmodo - 16 hours ago

Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish

MAGA's clearly getting off on trying to infuse Trump into everything you love.

Tech - Slashdot - 17 hours ago

Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs

Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being installed. And in the Minnesota city of Winona, "Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft," according to local media: All ...

Tech - Wired - 17 hours ago

The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate

There’s no perfect way to transfer possession of your digital assets to your loved ones after you’re gone. But there are things you can do now to make the process easier for them.

Tech - Wired - 17 hours ago

4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026)

Whether you’re training hard, traveling often, or dealing with poor circulation, these are the best compression boots for anyone looking for better muscle recovery.

Tech - LLM Stats - 17 hours ago

The Sequence Radar - Issue 910: Last Week in AI: Google Rewires Its Brain and Meta Hires a Coding Swarm

Jeff Dean leaves, Demis Hassabis moves upstream, and Muse Code turns software development into an orchestration problem.

Tech - Wired - 18 hours ago

Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How

There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.

Tech - LLM Stats - 18 hours ago

AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits

Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, with AI-generated fi

Tech - LLM Stats - 18 hours ago

Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model

Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget. DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens

Tech - Gizmodo - 18 hours ago

Inside Humanity’s Ancient Obsession With Conquering Time

Particle physicist Guido Tonelli discusses humanity's long-held obsession with time and how this relationship has shaped science.

Tech - Wired - 18 hours ago

The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime

Japan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.

Tech - Wired - 18 hours ago

TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video

TCL’s hybrid tablet-digital notebook tries to be the best of both worlds, and it mostly succeeds.

Tech - Slashdot - 19 hours ago

Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics

To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, Bethesda released "a brutal new episode" a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine "delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition..." Face deadly new twists on familiar foes, including the Rocket Ogre, Demo Dog, Blood Shambler, and more. Each variant introduces lethal new behaviours from overwhelming firepower to explosive death traps forcing you to rethink every encounter. Exp...

Tech - Wired - 19 hours ago

8 Best Workout Headphones and Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026)

Not every great pair of headphones belongs in the gym. These do, thanks to their secure fit, durable design, and impeccable sound.

Tech - LLM Stats - 19 hours ago

These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes

A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?

Tech - Wired - 19 hours ago

These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes

A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?

Tech - LLM Stats - 19 hours ago

AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure

The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, mea

Tech - Gizmodo - 19 hours ago

Tesla Driver Tries the Old ‘I Wasn’t Driving’ Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket

Turns out when you use "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," that "Supervised" part is important.

Tech - Slashdot - 21 hours ago

RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out

IGN reports: [A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies. According to a report from Digitimes and spotted by TweakTown, all DRAM and HBM capacity has been sold through for 2027, with no further supply planned. (The companies themselves have not yet confirmed this to be the case.) Of course, that only means that retail prices are going to go u...

Tech - LLM Stats - 22 hours ago

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity

Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity SemiAnalysis

Tech - LLM Stats - 23 hours ago

Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M (FinTech Global)

FinTech Global: Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M Moment, a pan-African

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues

"Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google's search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court filing," MediaPost reports, citing a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: The group adds that "independent ownership" of Chrome "would open the distribution channel Google controls and allow Chrome to serve browser users when it makes privacy decisions and dete...

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actio

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

AI Weekly Issue #520: What a week: AI became everybody's decision

For years, artificial intelligence could be covered as one industry. This edition makes that impossible. The important action is now distributed across institutions with incompatible duties, incentive

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones

Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app named Veridenz answers a narrower questi...

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Slashdot Reader Builds a Free Photo-Verification App for iPhones

Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app named Veridenz answers a narrower questi...

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new ses

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human

"If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times: The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, which is over a thousand emergency calls a day. New Orleans implemented AI in April to answer 311 calls for non-emergencies. The AI was trained and programmed to provi...

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems

In Georgia the Savannah Police Department "terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department's Flock Safety License Plate Reader system," according to a local news report: All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation... Investigators found that employees were running searches on personal acquaintances and family members. One officer was found to have given someone ...

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)

If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test

"In a milestone for energy storage technology, Peak Energy has selected Sacramento, California, as the home of America's first manufacturing facility dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion battery systems," according to the sustainability news site Intelligent Living. The move "represents the first large-scale test of whether sodium-ion technology can deliver on its promise of cheaper, safer, and more sustainable grid storage at a scale that actually moves the needle for the U.S. electricity syste...

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

X Introduces Big, Promising Revamp of Its Program for Paying Content Creators

Credit where credit is due: this sounds much better than the program it's replacing.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’

Netflix still wants to keep 'Squid Game' around, but the details of what that looks like may not involve a western offshoot.

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees

The Dallas Business Journal reported Monday that the U.S. multinational paper goods company Kimberly-Clark announced "that its researchers identified and advanced patented technology transforming fibers from hesperaloe, a low-water-use plant with pointy leaves that thrives in the southwest region of the country, into material for paper towels." Discovering an alternative to conventional wood fiber "could reshape how the company, and the industry at large, manufactures products," according to art...

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV

A single adapter could be all you need.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

‘Our Retribution Tour’: A Crypto-Inspired Green Energy PAC Is Reportedly Collecting One Republican Scalp After Another

If you like renewables, you might be pleased with these results. You probably won't like the PAC's ads.

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year

The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by SandP Global Market Intelligence." Free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs, is now expected to shrink to almost nothing for t...

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console

There's a smarter way to power vintage portable gaming devices. Give these tips a try.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary

Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary. It scores 93.3% on RULER at 10M tokens, where every basel

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan

At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI. But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculation that her government could review a longstanding ban on allowing nuclear weapons into the country." [Prime Minister Sanae] Takaichi made the remarks Thursday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. ...

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different and which is better to use?

There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon

Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal The

Tech - Slashdot - 1 day ago

Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket's Moon Crash

A South Korean lunar orbiter has captured the first before-and-after images of the Moon's crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Associated Press reports: The Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed into the moon on Wednesday. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday. The terrain is noticeably darker where the ro...

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ

In a practical breakdown of how Claude and ChatGPT AI models differ, one tends to fall short when it comes to quality responses and overall user experience.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals

Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

The X-Men Casting Rumors Just Keep on Coming

All eyes are on the next 'X-Men' movie and what actors Marvel will enlist to help fill out its cast.

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

Mario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy

There are worse ways to kill time than Mario Kart 64 in VR -just don't eat beforehand.

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do

A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them

People can't tell ChatGPT-generated short stories from human-written ones, according to a new study. More than 2,500 participants performed no better than chance. The AI-generated texts were actually

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face Hacker News.I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin poi

Tech - Wired - 1 day ago

Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating Factory workers with $400,000-p

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently

In recent years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can rapidly recognize patterns in data, generate content and solve other computational prob

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed

Apple has a not-so-obvious heart rate feature that's worth checking out. Here's what it does and how to use it.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing)

The AI replaces the work of employees who used to determine prices.

Tech - Wired - 1 day ago

The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century.

Tech - Gizmodo - 1 day ago

‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic

Studio OUTLINE's reimaigining of Osamu Tezuka's 'The Princess Knight' is a kick-ass anime film whose heart makes up for its whimsically off the rails final act.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent

Building a production-ready web interface for a stateful LangGraph agent The post Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Tech - Engadget - 1 day ago

Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta

We chatted with Supernatural's Head of Fitness about the company's plans for its VR exercise app.

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals

Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each other's status. The article Claude Code session

Tech - LLM Stats - 1 day ago

Prompt: TD - Webseite - Headlines (EN) Source text: Claude Code Session Communication Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals

Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each other's status. The article Prompt: TD - Websei