A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. The lawyers apologized at a hearing Thursday in Manhattan federal court for their roles in written submissions…

Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?

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Get more details about this Microsoft/Apple news, including limitations to what can run on Arm versions of Windows 11.

We wanted to share the latest updates and highlights of the recent S3 Community Call. We discussed our next steps as LogicBlox, the longstanding sponsor of https://cache.nixos.org, is ending its sponsorship. More context can be found here → The NixOS Foundation’s…

We're announcing today that the Tor Project users forum will migrate to the Tor Project's infrastructure on June 20th.

One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information.

There was outcry in March 2023 when ex-Deputy Health Minister James Bethell revealed that during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, when it was unclear how easily pets could transmit the virus to humans, the UK government considered ‘that we might have…

Wolfram expands Notebooks, integrating LLM functionality into the new chat cell and Chat Notebook. Stephen Wolfram explains how chat-enabled and chat-driven versions work.

BERKELEY (MarketWatch) -- The hype over the unreleased iPhone has actually increased over the past month despite the fact that nobody has seen or used the...

Using NixOS for a more tractable computing setup.

Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled…

Becca Schuh on being both a writer and a server.

The Swedish startup evroc, which has just raised a €13m pre-seed round, wants to take on a goliath of the tech world: Amazon Web Services.

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.

Rescuing Guns, Germs, and Steel from its worst detractors