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Three Years Left To Limit Warming To 1.5C, Leading Scientists Warn - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The Earth could be doomed to bre... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/2122207/three-years-left-to-limit-warming-to-15c-leading-scientists-warn?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth

Apple says generative AI cannot think like a human - research paper pours cold water on reasoning models - Apple researchers found that today's most advanced AI reaso... - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/apple-says-generative-ai-cannot-think-like-a-human-research-paper-pours-cold-water-on-reasoning-models #artificialintelligence #techindustry

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt - When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions' Comment  The collapse of Builde... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/builderai_insolvency/

Here’s how to claim your piece of Apple’s $95 million Siri settlement - If you’ve noticed Siri listening when you didn’t ask for it, you have until July 2 to fil... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/how-claim-apple-settlement-siri-lawsuit/

Consumers Aren't Flocking to Microsoft's AI Tool 'Copilot' - Microsoft Copilot "isn't doing as well as the company would like," reports XDA-Dev... - https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/27/1925219/consumers-arent-flocking-to-microsofts-ai-tool-copilot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes - Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder Far be from us to suggest Microsoft ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/classic_outlook_cpu_spike/

This inside-out design solves most of the rotary engine’s problems - Enlarge / On the left, LiqudPiston's High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle engin... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983309 #departmentofdefense #liquidpiston #rotaryengine #generator #cars #uavs

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way - Home Labs and bare bones test rigs matter and Broadcom’s back in the game VMware has resu... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/vmware_free_esxi_returns/

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it - Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries - Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ #machinelearning #biz⁢ #ddos #ai

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day - ‘It's just pure incompetence’ confesses penguin emperor Linux kernel development boss Lin... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/linux_6_14_day_late/

DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code - It might need polishing, but a useful find for any budding cybercrooks out there DeepSeek... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/deepseek_malware_code/

Reverse-Engineering the Polynomial Constants in the Pentium’s FPU - Die photo of the Intel Pentium processor with the floating point constant ROM high... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/reverse-engineering-the-polynomial-constants-in-the-pentiums-fpu/ #reverseengineering #polynomial #pentium

How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it - This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsl... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1110705/measuring-vaccine-hesitancy/ #biotechnologyandhealth #thecheckup #app

Trump says he’ll delay TikTok ban, but the platform must be sold - Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

... - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347202/trump-tiktok-ban-delay-us-acquisition

VLC Tops 6 Billion Downloads, Previews AI-Generated Subtitles - VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/09/1310205/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #opensource

Runway-to-Space No More, Reaction Engines Cease Trading - It’s not often that the passing of a medium sized company on an industrial estate ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/runway-to-space-no-more-reaction-engines-cease-trading/ #reactionengines #spaceplane #sabre #news

[Kerry Wong] Talks (and Talks) About a 300 MHz Oscilloscope - There aren’t many people who could do an hour-long video reviewing an oscilloscope... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/29/kerry-wong-talks-and-talks-about-a-300-mhz-oscilloscope/ #oscilloscope #reviews

Tech Life's look back at the year - We look back at the high and lows of another fascinating twelve months in tech - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5wn9

The Twisted History of Ethernet on Twisted Pair Wiring - We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. Bu... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/30/the-twisted-history-of-ethernet-on-twisted-pair-wiring/ #theserialport #networkhacks #10base-t #ethernet #history #10base2 #5base2 #3com