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Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a ma...

Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle

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Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO's 40-Year-Old Apple II Code An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: "We are entering an era ...

Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO's 40-Year-Old Apple II Code

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Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. Axios reports: The deal brings Moltbook's creators -- Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr -- into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former S...

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents

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German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system, arguing it unfairly restricts access to advertising data while allowing Apple to remain the central gatekeeper -- without subjecting its own apps to the same restrictions. If...

German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency

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EQT Eyes $6 Billion Sale of SUSE Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open-source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, roughly doubling the valuation since EQT took the company private in 2023. Reuters reports: EQT "has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of priv...

EQT Eyes $6 Billion Sale of SUSE

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Many International Game Developers Plan To Skip GDC In US An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco, as they have since 1988, for the weeklong Game Developers Conference. But this year's show will be missing many international developers who s...

Many International Game Developers Plan To Skip GDC In US

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FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed possible unauthorized access to law-enforcement-sensitive information. "The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged al...

FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools

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Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch thousands of mirror-bearing satellites to reflect sunlight onto Earth at night and "power solar farms after sunset, provide lighting for rescue workers and illuminate city streets, among other things," reports the New York Times. From the report: It ...

Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror

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European Consortium Wants Open-Source Alternative To Google Play Integrity An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This...

European Consortium Wants Open-Source Alternative To Google Play Integrity

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Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience Samsung says it's thinking about bringing "vibe coding" to future Galaxy phones, allowing users to describe apps or interface changes in plain language and have AI generate the code. TechRadar interviewed Won-Joon Choi, Samsung's head of mobile experience, to learn more about the plans. Here's an ex...

Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down after overseeing the platform's growth from a Twitter research project into a 40-million-user alternative to X. "As Bluesky matures, the company needs a seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution, while I return to what I do best: building new things,"...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

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Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics Qualcomm and Arduino have unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, a new AI-focused single-board computer built for robotics and edge systems. Engadget reports: Called the Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 processor along with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). "Ventun...

Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics

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Anthropic Sues the Pentagon After Being Labeled a Threat To National Security Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Trump administration labeled the company a "supply chain risk" and canceled its government contracts when Anthropic refused to allow its AI model Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. Fortune reports: The lawsuit, f...

Anthropic Sues the Pentagon After Being Labeled a Threat To National Security

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'If Lockheed Martin Made a Game Boy, Would You Buy One?' "If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?" That was the [rhetorical] question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewed ModRetro's Game Boy-style handheld device back in 2024. He said it "might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made," though the connection to Palmer Luck...

'If Lockheed Martin Made a Game Boy, Would You Buy One?'

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AI Allows Hackers To Identify Anonymous Social Media Accounts, Study Finds An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) -- the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT -- successfully match...

AI Allows Hackers To Identify Anonymous Social Media Accounts, Study Finds

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Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country's Constitution Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. "The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions," reports Politico. From the ...

Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country's Constitution

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US Military Tested Device That May Be Tied To Havana Syndrome On Rats, Sheep An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuri...

US Military Tested Device That May Be Tied To Havana Syndrome On Rats, Sheep

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New SETI Study: Why We Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. "A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar 'space weather' could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect." Stellar activity and pla...

New SETI Study: Why We Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals

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Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com: Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) ...

Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions

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Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he ackno...

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

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Steam on Linux Numbers Dropped to 2.23% in February "In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%," reports Phoronix. And then in December Steam on Linux jumped even higher, to 3.58%. But January's numbers settled a little lower, at 3.38%. And last Monday the February numbers were released, showing Steam on Linux at... 2.23%? Like w...

Steam on Linux Numbers Dropped to 2.23% in February

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OpenAI's Former Research Chief Raises $70M to Automate Manufacturing With AI "OpenAI's former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup building an AI and software platform to automate manufacturing," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter. "Arda, the new startup co-founded by Bob McGrew, is raising at a valuation of ...

OpenAI's Former Research Chief Raises $70M to Automate Manufacturing With AI

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Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce When Block cut 4,000 jobs — nearly half its workforce — co-founder Jack Dorsey "pointed to AI as the culprit," writes Entrepreneur magazine. "Dorsey claimed that AI tools now allow fewer employees to accomplish the same work." "But analysts see a different explanation: poor manageme...

Jack Dorsey's Block Accused of 'AI-Washing' to Excuse Laying Off Nearly Half Its Workforce

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Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs Cornell University makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like 'synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals." Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, r...

Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs

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AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI Palantir's CEO was blunt. "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job... and you're going to screw the military — if you don't think that's going to lead to the nationalization of our technology, you're retarded..." And OpenAI's Sam Altman is thinking a...

AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI

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Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives? Would you move sunrise to 9 a.m. in Detroit? Or to 4:11 a.m. in Seattle... Though both options have problems, "There's no law we can pass to move the sun to our will," argues the president of the nonprofit "Save Standard Time". The Associated Press explains why America remains stuck in that annual...

Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?

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As US Tariffs Hit EVs, Hyundai Discontinues Its Cheapest IONIQ 6, While Kia Delays EV6 adn EV9 GT First, Hyundai "is discontinuing its most affordable electric sedan after just three years on the market," reports USA Today. After being introduced in 2022, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 "quickly gained the admiration of automotive critics because of its affordable pricing and capable performance specs." ...

As US Tariffs Hit EVs, Hyundai Discontinues Its Cheapest IONIQ 6, While Kia Delays EV6 adn EV9 GT

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Steven Spielberg + Dinosaurs + Netflix = Mixed Reviews Steven Spielberg directed his last Jurassic Park movie nearly 30 years ago, notes ScreenRant. But the 79-year-old filmmaker now brings us The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary on Netflix where he's executive producer: The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on...

Steven Spielberg + Dinosaurs + Netflix = Mixed Reviews

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A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could...

A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit

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How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox's Security "It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal. The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was seriou...

How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox's Security

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