Is Dark Energy Weakening?
December 28, 2025 at 08:34PM
December 28, 2025 at 08:34PM
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Is Dark Energy Weakening?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis…
Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing 'Digital Sovereignty'
December 28, 2025 at 11:34PM
December 28, 2025 at 11:34PM
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Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing 'Digital Sovereignty'
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of "digital sovereignty": The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally.…
How Will Rising RAM Prices Affect Laptop Companies?
December 29, 2025 at 12:34AM
December 29, 2025 at 12:34AM
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How Will Rising RAM Prices Affect Laptop Companies?
Laptop makers are facing record-setting memory prices next year. The site Notebookcheck catalogs how different companies are responding: Sources told [Korean business newspaper] Chosun Biz that some manufacturers have signed preliminary contracts with Samsung…
Google's 'AI Overview' Wrongly Accused a Musician of Being a Sex Offender
December 29, 2025 at 01:34AM
December 29, 2025 at 01:34AM
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Google's 'AI Overview' Wrongly Accused a Musician of Being a Sex Offender
An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician…
Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing
December 29, 2025 at 02:58AM
December 29, 2025 at 02:58AM
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Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing
Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino "isn't imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards," (according to Mitch Stoltz, EFF director for competition and IP litigation). While Adafruit's managing…
Texas Father Rescues Kidnapped 15-Year-Old Daughter After Tracking Her Phone's Location
December 29, 2025 at 04:00AM
December 29, 2025 at 04:00AM
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Texas Father Rescues Kidnapped 15-Year-Old Daughter After Tracking Her Phone's Location
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian: A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter's cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege...…
Did Tim Cook Post AI Slop in His Christmas Message Promoting 'Pluribus'?
December 29, 2025 at 05:00AM
December 29, 2025 at 05:00AM
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Did Tim Cook Post AI Slop in His Christmas Message Promoting 'Pluribus'?
Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the "festive artwork" shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, "made on MacBook Pro." Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease…
'No Happy Ending for Movie Theatres', Argues WSJ - No Matter Who Wins Warner Bros.
December 29, 2025 at 06:40AM
December 29, 2025 at 06:40AM
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'No Happy Ending for Movie Theatres', Argues WSJ - No Matter Who Wins Warner Bros.
Regardless of who ends up owning Warners Bros., "the outlook for theatrical movies is dimming," writes a Wall Street Journal tech columnist, noting that this year's U.S. box office of $8.3 billion (as of December 25) "is a bit below last year's and well below…
There Was Some Good News on Green Energy in 2025
December 29, 2025 at 07:40AM
December 29, 2025 at 07:40AM
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There Was Some Good News on Green Energy in 2025
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases "are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change..." But in 2025, "there…
YouTube 向新用户推荐的信息流逾五分之一含有 AI 垃圾
一项研究发现,YouTube 向新用户推荐的视频信息流逾五分之一是 AI 垃圾。Kapwing 调查了全球 15000 个最受欢迎的 YouTube 频道——每个国家排名前 100 的频道——发现其中 278 个频道的内容全是 AI 垃圾——AI 生成的低质量视频。据估计,这些 AI 内容频道累计播放量逾 630 亿次,总订阅用户 2.21 亿,每年创造约 1.17 亿美元的收入。研究人员还创建了一个新 YouTube 账号,发现 YouTube 推荐算法推荐的前 500 个视频有 104 个 是 AI 垃圾。社交平台如 X 和 Meta 也都存在类似的情况。此前的一项分析发现,YouTube 增长最快的频道中近十分之一是 AI 垃圾。Kapwing 的研究还发现,西班牙人可能最热衷此类内容,该国人口中的半数约 2000 万人关注这些 AI 频道,埃及有 1800 万人关注,美国 1450 万,巴西 1350 万。 via Solidot
一项研究发现,YouTube 向新用户推荐的视频信息流逾五分之一是 AI 垃圾。Kapwing 调查了全球 15000 个最受欢迎的 YouTube 频道——每个国家排名前 100 的频道——发现其中 278 个频道的内容全是 AI 垃圾——AI 生成的低质量视频。据估计,这些 AI 内容频道累计播放量逾 630 亿次,总订阅用户 2.21 亿,每年创造约 1.17 亿美元的收入。研究人员还创建了一个新 YouTube 账号,发现 YouTube 推荐算法推荐的前 500 个视频有 104 个 是 AI 垃圾。社交平台如 X 和 Meta 也都存在类似的情况。此前的一项分析发现,YouTube 增长最快的频道中近十分之一是 AI 垃圾。Kapwing 的研究还发现,西班牙人可能最热衷此类内容,该国人口中的半数约 2000 万人关注这些 AI 频道,埃及有 1800 万人关注,美国 1450 万,巴西 1350 万。 via Solidot
逾四成 GNOME Core 应用用 C 语言开发
GNOME 开发者分享了该项目的代码和语言统计数据:截至 2025 年底,总代码行数 6,692,516 行,其中应用 1,611,526 行。44.8% 的 GNOME Core 应用用 C 语言开发,之后是 20.7% 的 Vala,13.8% 的 JavaScript,Rust 语言开发的应用占 10.3%,Python 占 6.9%,C++ 占 3.45%。GNOME Circle Apps 中最流行的语言是 Rust,占比高达 41.7%,C 仅占 5.56%,Python 29.2%,Vala 12.5%,JavaScript 9.72%。C 语言在 GNOME 组件/库中占主导位置,占比 76%,其次是 Rust 的 10.3% 和 Vala 的 3.77%。 via Solidot
GNOME 开发者分享了该项目的代码和语言统计数据:截至 2025 年底,总代码行数 6,692,516 行,其中应用 1,611,526 行。44.8% 的 GNOME Core 应用用 C 语言开发,之后是 20.7% 的 Vala,13.8% 的 JavaScript,Rust 语言开发的应用占 10.3%,Python 占 6.9%,C++ 占 3.45%。GNOME Circle Apps 中最流行的语言是 Rust,占比高达 41.7%,C 仅占 5.56%,Python 29.2%,Vala 12.5%,JavaScript 9.72%。C 语言在 GNOME 组件/库中占主导位置,占比 76%,其次是 Rust 的 10.3% 和 Vala 的 3.77%。 via Solidot
Rob Pike Angered by 'AI Slop' Spam Sent By Agent Experiment
December 29, 2025 at 10:34AM
December 29, 2025 at 10:34AM
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Rob Pike Angered by 'AI Slop' Spam Sent By Agent Experiment
"Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades...." read the email. "With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village. "IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting…
AI Chatbots May Be Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors
December 29, 2025 at 01:55PM
December 29, 2025 at 01:55PM
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AI Chatbots May Be Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors
One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, "the person tells the computer…
Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline
December 29, 2025 at 04:44PM
December 29, 2025 at 04:44PM
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Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline
Engadget reports on "a widespread breach" of Ubisoft's game Rainbow Six Siege "that left various players with billions of in-game credits, ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts." Ubisoft took the game's servers offline early Saturday morning, and…
60 Game Workers Form First Ubisoft Union in North America
December 29, 2025 at 06:44PM
December 29, 2025 at 06:44PM
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60 Game Workers Form First Ubisoft Union in North America
About 60 workers in Halifax, Nova Scotia have formed Ubisoft's first union in North America, reports the CBC (though its 17,000 employees include some unionized workforces in other parts of the world): T.J. Gillis, a senior server developer at Ubisoft Halifax…
Ask Slashdot: What's the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw In 2025?
December 29, 2025 at 08:35PM
December 29, 2025 at 08:35PM
slashdot.org
Ask Slashdot: What's the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw In 2025?
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: What's the stupidest use of AI you encountered in 2025? Have you been called by AI telemarketers? Forced to do job interviews with a glitching AI? With all this talk of "disruption" and "inevitability," this is…
UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
December 29, 2025 at 10:00PM
December 29, 2025 at 10:00PM
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UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
The world's largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA),…
LG Launches UltraGear Evo Gaming Monitors With What It Claims is the World's First 5K AI Upscaling
December 29, 2025 at 10:42PM
December 29, 2025 at 10:42PM
tech.slashdot.org
LG Launches UltraGear Evo Gaming Monitors With What It Claims is the World's First 5K AI Upscaling
LG has announced a new premium gaming monitor brand called UltraGear, and the lineup's headline feature is what the company claims is the world's first 5K AI upscaling technology -- an on-device solution that analyzes and enhances content in real time before…
Global Hotel Groups Bet on Customer Loyalty To Beat Online and AI Agents
December 29, 2025 at 11:22PM
December 29, 2025 at 11:22PM
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Global Hotel Groups Bet on Customer Loyalty To Beat Online and AI Agents
The world's largest hotel chains are aggressively pushing customers toward direct bookings as they brace for a future where AI "agents" could reshape how travelers find and reserve rooms. Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Wyndham have all expanded their loyalty…