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On the barren outskirts of Abilene, Texas, traffic had snarled to a crawl: It was shift-change time at Project Stargate, and as several hundred workers drove off the 800-acre site that contains the debut Stargate data center, plumes of dust from the red clay dirt followed the caravan of pickup ...

Long-time Slashdot reader invisik saw this story on Yahoo News: Comedian and voice actor George Lowe, who is well-known as the voice of Space Ghost on "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," died on March 2. He was 67... He did some voice-over work for TBWS and Cartoon Network in the 1980s to mid-1990s bef...

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

AI models might not be as “smart” as companies’ testing claims.

Lawmakers are fed up with setting their clocks back and forth, but there's no clear consensus on making Daylight Saving Time permanent.

By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Newer generative AI models have begun developing deceptive behaviors -- such as cheating at chess -- when they cannot achieve objectives through standard reasoning methods. The findings come from a preprint study from Palisade Research. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Popular Science ar...

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Sniffies, which previously only offered a web app, spent more than a year working to moderate its NSFW offering for the app store.

Apple’s new iPhone 16e has a lot going for it, but in both name and price it’s not an iPhone SE. Here’s why that could prove a problem.

By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.

A new crop of AI video generators is producing an endless stream of nonconsensual AI generated porn.

Let's face it — a new MacBook is expensive. Upgraded offers a smarter way to stay up to date. Instead of paying the full price upfront, you spread the cost over 36 months, with the option to upgrade after 24 payments. Plus, you don't have to worry about selling your old device on a site like Facebook Marketplace.

Anthropic has submitted policy suggestions to the White House it says would better prepare America to capture the economic benefits of AI.

Utah has become the first U.S. state to pass legislation requiring app store operators to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors downloading apps. The App Store Accountability Act adds to a wave of children's online safety bills advancing through state legislatures nationwide. S...

A collection of 150+ nifty tips and tricks for macOS, for both system features like the Dock, Spotlight, and Mission Control and built-in apps like Safari, Mail, and Photos.

Apple will never sell a cheap upgrade to anything, but choices the firm has made about the MacBook Air mean even it can't wring all that much more cash out of buyers.

YouTube said its YouTube Premium and Music subscription services now have more than 125 million global subscribers, including those on free trials. YouTube is also expanding a cheaper ad-free tier it has been testing in the U.S. and in some markets overseas as the video giant aims to grow subscription revenues. The cheaper tier, called Premium Lite, is available for $7.99 per month, compared

Two former rivals are teaming up to revive Digg. Its founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have bought the platform and plan to relaunch it...

Trump isn’t working for the American taxpayer.

The M4 MacBook Air, announced on Wednesday and shipping in a week, is technically unsurprising (it’s powered by the M4 chip, unveiled by Apple last May and added to Macs last November, and fe…

It’s been nearly two years since the Mac Studio was updated to M2, but on Wednesday Apple announced the next step in its evolution. And if you’re ready to write off the Mac Studio as ha…

The M3 Ultra may not be an M4, but it’s still a whopper.

According to the Association for Computing Machinery, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton have been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the...

Google Messages is introducing an artificial intelligence feature that aims to help protect Android users from text message scams.

Apple has launched an update to the iPad Air, retaining the same design and updating the processor to the powerful M3.

Apple is expected to upgrade its MacBook Air on Wednesday, though like with the iPad Air and new iPad, the update will probably be just a spec bump.

An LA Times AI tool is adding political bias labels and sometimes awkward summaries of alternative viewpoints to articles.