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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 23:20:52 JST Slashdot :verified:

Data Center Boom May End Up Being 'Irrational,' Investor Warns https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/147208/data-center-boom-may-end-up-being-irrational-investor-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Data Center Boom May End Up Being 'Irrational,' Investor Warns - Slashdot
  
  A prominent venture capitalist has warned that the technology industry's massive buildout of AI data centers risks becoming "irrational" and could end in disaster, particularly as companies pursue small nuclear reactors to power the facilities. Josh Wolfe, co-founder and partner at Lux Capital, comp...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 02:14:33 JST Slashdot :verified:

MAHA Report Found To Contain Citations To Nonexistent Studies https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1643248/maha-report-found-to-contain-citations-to-nonexistent-studies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  MAHA Report Found To Contain Citations To Nonexistent Studies - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House's sweeping "MAHA Report" appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence [non-paywalled source], resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts sa...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 10:43:01 JST Slashdot :verified:

Linux 6.16 Adds 'X86_NATIVE_CPU' Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/27/2223207/linux-616-adds-x86nativecpu-option-to-optimize-your-kernel-build?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Linux 6.16 Adds 'X86_NATIVE_CPU' Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build - Slashdot
  
  unixbhaskar shares a report from Phoronix: The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of y...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 03:15:00 JST Slashdot :verified:

Researchers Warn Some Infectious Fungus Could Spread as Earth's Temperatures Rise https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/2145226/researchers-warn-some-infectious-fungus-could-spread-as-earths-temperatures-rise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Researchers Warn Some Infectious Fungus Could Spread as Earth's Temperatures Rise - Slashdot
  
  Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth's temperature rises. ("The study, published this month, is currentl...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 07:51:32 JST Slashdot :verified:

Nvidia's RTX 5060 Review Debacle Should Be a Wake-Up Call https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/2025241/nvidias-rtx-5060-review-debacle-should-be-a-wake-up-call?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Nvidia's RTX 5060 Review Debacle Should Be a Wake-Up Call - Slashdot
  
  Nvidia is facing backlash for allegedly manipulating the review process of its GeForce RTX 5060 GPU by withholding drivers, selectively granting early access to favorable reviewers, and pressuring media to present the card in a positive light. As The Verge's Sean Hollister writes, the debacle "shoul...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 01:14:08 JST Slashdot :verified:

America's College Towns Go From Boom To Bust https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1554221/americas-college-towns-go-from-boom-to-bust?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  America's College Towns Go From Boom To Bust - Slashdot
  
  America's regional state universities are experiencing steep enrollment declines, triggering economic crises in the towns that depend on them, while flagship universities continue to thrive. At Western Illinois University in Macomb, enrollment has plummeted 47% since 2010, driving the city's popul...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 23:13:36 JST Slashdot :verified:

The Quiet Collapse of Surveys: Fewer Humans (and More AI Agents) Are Answering Survey Questions https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1030208/the-quiet-collapse-of-surveys-fewer-humans-and-more-ai-agents-are-answering-survey-questions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  The Quiet Collapse of Surveys: Fewer Humans (and More AI Agents) Are Answering Survey Questions - Slashdot
  
  Survey response rates have collapsed from 30-50% in the 1970s to as low as 5% today, while AI agents now account for an estimated 20% of survey responses, according to a new analysis. The UK's Office for National Statistics has seen response rates drop from 40% to 13%, with some labor market quest...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 03:01:50 JST Slashdot :verified:

Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/0420236/curl-warns-github-about-malicious-unicode-security-issue?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue - Slashdot
  
  A Curl contributor replaced an ASCII letter with a Unicode alternative in a pull request, writes Curl lead developer/founder Daniel Stenberg. And not a single human reviewer on the team (or any of their CI jobs) noticed. The change "looked identical to the ASCII version, so it was not possible to ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 16:18:04 JST Slashdot :verified:

Dark Matter Formed When Fast Particles Slowed Down and Got Heavy, New Theory Says https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/15/2311254/dark-matter-formed-when-fast-particles-slowed-down-and-got-heavy-new-theory-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Dark Matter Formed When Fast Particles Slowed Down and Got Heavy, New Theory Says - Slashdot
  
  Dartmouth researchers propose that dark matter originated from massless, light-like particles in the early universe that rapidly condensed into massive particles through a spin-based interaction. Phys.Org reports: [T]he study authors write that their theory is distinct because it can be tested usin...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 00:40:00 JST Slashdot :verified:

Asking Chatbots For Short Answers Can Increase Hallucinations, Study Finds https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/12/2114214/asking-chatbots-for-short-answers-can-increase-hallucinations-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Asking Chatbots For Short Answers Can Increase Hallucinations, Study Finds - Slashdot
  
  Requesting concise answers from AI chatbots significantly increases their tendency to hallucinate, according to new research from Paris-based AI testing company Giskard. The study found that leading models -- including OpenAI's GPT-4o, Mistral Large, and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet -- sacrifice fa...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 00:39:51 JST Slashdot :verified:

Reddit Turns 20 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/12/2112256/reddit-turns-20?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Reddit Turns 20 - Slashdot
  
  ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols marks Reddit's 20 years of being "the front page of the internet," recalling its evolution from a scrappy startup into a cultural powerhouse that shaped online discourse, meme culture, and the way millions consume news and entertainment. Slashdot is also given a subtle...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 00:39:31 JST Slashdot :verified:

The Stealthy Lab Cooking Up Amazon's Secret Sauce https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/12/2124207/the-stealthy-lab-cooking-up-amazons-secret-sauce?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  The Stealthy Lab Cooking Up Amazon's Secret Sauce - Slashdot
  
  Amazon's decade-old acquisition of Annapurna Labs has emerged as a pivotal element in its AI strategy, with the once-secretive Israeli chip design startup now powering AWS infrastructure. The $350 million deal, struck in 2015 after initial talks between Annapurna co-founder Nafea Bshara and Amazon e...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 19:57:31 JST Slashdot :verified:

The UN Ditches Google for Form Submissions, Opts for Open Source 'CryptPad' Instead https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/04/2350224/the-un-ditches-google-for-form-submissions-opts-for-open-source-cryptpad-instead?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  The UN Ditches Google for Form Submissions, Opts for Open Source 'CryptPad' Instead - Slashdot
  
  Did you know there's an initiative to drive Open Source adoption both within the United Nations — and globally? Launched in March, it's the work of the Digital Technology Network (under the UN's chief executive board) which "works to advance open source technologies throughout UN agencies," pr...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 04:41:43 JST Slashdot :verified:

'KDE Plasma LTS Releases Are Dead' https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/04/1911207/kde-plasma-lts-releases-are-dead?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  'KDE Plasma LTS Releases Are Dead' - Slashdot
  
  With its Start menu-style application launcher and its bottom-of-the-screen taskbar, KDE Plasma is a "nice" and "traditional" desktop environment that's "also highly customizable," notes It's FOSS News. But there's a change coming... In contrast to other desktop environments, KDE offers a long-t...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 08:54:51 JST Slashdot :verified:

Temu To Stop Selling Goods From China Directly To US Customers https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/02/2121218/temu-to-stop-selling-goods-from-china-directly-to-us-customers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Temu To Stop Selling Goods From China Directly To US Customers - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Temu has said it will stop selling goods imported from China in the US directly to customers from its platform. The online marketplace said sales would now be handled by "locally based sellers," with orders fulfilled from within the country. The move...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 01:54:47 JST Slashdot :verified:

Video Game Website Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1633235/video-game-website-polygon-sold-to-valnet-and-hit-with-mass-layoffs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Video Game Website Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet and much of its masthead has been laid off, Kotaku has learned. The sale was subsequently announced in a press release. Multiple staff members have posted online about losing their jobs ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 04:21:17 JST Slashdot :verified:

Unauthorized AI Bot Experiment Infiltrated Reddit To Test Persuasion Capabilities https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/28/1642223/unauthorized-ai-bot-experiment-infiltrated-reddit-to-test-persuasion-capabilities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Unauthorized AI Bot Experiment Infiltrated Reddit To Test Persuasion Capabilities - Slashdot
  
  Researchers claiming affiliation with the University of Zurich secretly deployed AI-powered bots in a popular Reddit forum to test whether AI could change users' minds on contentious topics. The unauthorized experiment, which targeted the r/changemyview subreddit, involved bots making over 1,700 com...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:37:52 JST Slashdot :verified:

On YouTube's 20th Anniversary, the Platform Says Over 20 Trillion Videos Have Been Uploaded https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/1457232/on-youtubes-20th-anniversary-the-platform-says-over-20-trillion-videos-have-been-uploaded?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  On YouTube's 20th Anniversary, the Platform Says Over 20 Trillion Videos Have Been Uploaded - Slashdot
  
  On its 20th anniversary, YouTube now says that since YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim's video -- "Me at the zoo" -- was posted, more than 20 trillion videos have been uploaded. From a report: The video behemoth dropped a number of jaw-dropping stats Wednesday, along with significant updates to its TV ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 16:28:08 JST Slashdot :verified:

OpenAI Would Buy Google's Chrome, Exec Testifies At Trial https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/2154251/openai-would-buy-googles-chrome-exec-testifies-at-trial?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  OpenAI Would Buy Google's Chrome, Exec Testifies At Trial - Slashdot
  
  At Google's antitrust trial, OpenAI's head of product revealed the company would consider buying Chrome if regulators force Alphabet to sell it, arguing such a move could help improve ChatGPT's search capabilities. Reuters reports: ChatGPT head of product Nick Turley made the statement while testif...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 10:59:40 JST Slashdot :verified:

Scientists Find Rare Evidence Earth is 'Peeling' Under the Sierra Nevada Mountains https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0136216/scientists-find-rare-evidence-earth-is-peeling-under-the-sierra-nevada-mountains?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Scientists Find Rare Evidence Earth is 'Peeling' Under the Sierra Nevada Mountains - Slashdot
  
  "Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd," reports CNN, "a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth's crust would typically be too hot and high pressure for...

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