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• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals To Buy 23andMe and Its Data For $256 Million

  19-05-2025 23:30 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is acquiring most of 23andMe's assets for $256 million. The sale includes 23andMe's Personal Genome Service, Total Health and Research Services business lines. What's not included is 23andMe's telehealth unit, Lemonaid Health, which the company acquired for around $400 million in 2021. It'll be shut down, but all staffers will remain employed. CNBC reports: The deal is still subject to approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Pending a
  
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• xAI's Grok 3 Comes To Microsoft Azure

  19-05-2025 22:50 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok -- specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini -- will "have all the service-level agreements Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product," says Microsoft. They'll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the ot
  
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• AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates

  19-05-2025 22:10 via slashdot.org
  
  Chatbots are more persuasive in online debates than people -- especially when they are able to personalize their arguments using information about their opponent. From a report: The finding, published in Nature Human Behaviour on 19 May, highlights how large language models (LLMs) could be used to influence people's opinions, for example in political campaigns or targeted advertising.
  "Obviously as soon as people see that you can persuade people more with LLMs, they're going to start using them,
  
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• European 'Green' Investments Hold Billions in Fossil Fuel Majors

  19-05-2025 21:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: European "green" funds holding more than $33 billion of investments in major oil and gas companies have been revealed by an investigation, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of these investment funds used branding such as Sustainable Global Stars and Europe Climate Pathway.
  Over $18 billion was invested in the five biggest polluters: TotalEnergies, Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP. These topped a 2023 Carbon Majors ranking
  
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• Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a New Command-Line Text Editor

  19-05-2025 20:53 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft unveiled "Edit on Windows," a new command-line text editor, at its Build conference today. The open-source tool allows developers to edit files directly in the command line without switching to another app, similar to vim but designed to be more user-friendly.
  Accessible by typing "edit" in a command prompt, the lightweight editor (less than 250KB) includes features like multiple file support via ctrl + P shortcuts, find and replace functionality, and regular expression support. "What
  
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• LinkedIn Executive Warns AI Threatens Entry-Level Jobs as Graduate Unemployment Rises

  19-05-2025 20:10 via slashdot.org
  
  AI is eroding entry-level positions across multiple industries, threatening the traditional career ladder for young professionals, LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer warned Monday. College graduate unemployment has risen 30% since September 2022, compared to 18% for workers overall, according to LinkedIn data. The company's research shows Generation Z workers expressing greater pessimism about their futures than any other age group.
  "Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career lad
  
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• Microsoft's Plan To Fix the Web: Letting Every Website Run AI Search for Cheap

  19-05-2025 19:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has announced NLWeb, an open protocol designed to democratize AI-powered search capabilities for websites and apps. Developed by Microsoft technical fellow Ramanathan V. Guha, who previously created RSS and Schema.org, NLWeb allows site owners to implement ChatGPT-style natural language search with minimal code. The protocol enables websites to process complex queries like "spicy and crunchy appetizers for Diwali" or "jackets warm enough for Quebec," requiring only an AI model, some co
  
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• Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

  19-05-2025 18:54 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source, Microsoft said Monday. The tool, which allows developers to run Linux distributions directly in Windows, is available for download, modification, and contribution. "We want Windows to be a great dev box," said Pavan Davuluri, corporate VP at Microsoft. "Having great WSL performance and capabilities" allows developers "to live in the Windows-native experience and take advantage of all they need in Linux."
  First launched in 2016 with an emulate
  
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• Germany Drops Opposition To Nuclear Power

  19-05-2025 18:01 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Germany has dropped its long-held opposition to nuclear power, in the first concrete sign of rapprochement with France by Berlin's new government led by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
  Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, according to French and German officials.
  The move resolves a major dispute between the two countries that has delayed
  
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• How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future

  19-05-2025 17:22 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, is now deploying Google's Gemini chatbots to more than 105,000 high school students -- marking the largest U.S. school district AI deployment to date. This represents a dramatic reversal from just two years ago when the district blocked such tools over cheating and misinformation concerns.
  The initiative follows President Trump's recent executive order promoting AI integration "in all subject areas" from kindergarten t
  
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• New South Wales Education Department Caught Unaware After Microsoft Teams Began Collecting Students' Biometric Data

  19-05-2025 16:40 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  New submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting students' voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams feature called 'voice and face enrollment' by default, which creates biometric profiles to enhance meeting experiences and transcriptions via its CoPilot AI tool.
  The NSW department learned of the data collection a month after
  
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• Thoughts About the Evolution of Mainstream Macroeconomics Over the Last 40 Years

  19-05-2025 16:00 via slashdot.org
  
  Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NBER Macro Annual Conference, founded in 1986. This paper reviews the evolution of mainstream macroeconomics since then. It presents my views, informed by a survey of a number of researchers who have made important contributions to the field. I develop two main arguments.
  The first is that, starting from strikingly different positions, there has been substantial convergence, in terms of methodology, architecture, a
  
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• Danes Are Finally Going Nuclear. They Have To, Because of All Their Renewables

  19-05-2025 13:16 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme," reports the Telegraph, noting that this week Denmark lifted a nuclear power ban imposed 40 years ago.
  Unlike its neighbours in Sweden and Germany, Denmark has never had a civil nuclear power programme. It has only ever had three small research reactors, the last of which closed in 2001. Most of the renewed interest in nuclear seen around the world stems from the expected growth in electricity demand fr
  
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• EV Sales Keep Growing In the US, Represent 20% of Global Car Sales and Half in China

  19-05-2025 09:16 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Despite many obstacles — and what you may read elsewhere — electric-vehicle sales continue to grow at a healthy pace in the U.S. market," Cox Automotive reported this week. "Roughly 7.5% of total new-vehicle sales in the first quarter were electric vehicles, an increase from 7% a year earlier."
  An anonymous reader shared this analysis from Autoweek:
  "Despite a cloud of uncertainty around future EV interest and potential economic headwinds hanging over the automotive industry, consum
  
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• Since 2022 Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough, US Researchers Have More Than Doubled Its Power Output

  19-05-2025 05:06 via hardware.slashdot.org
  TechCrunch reports:The world's only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned.In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility (NIF) increased the yield of the experiment, first to 5.2 megajoules and then again to 8.6 megajoules, according to a source with knowledge of the experiment. The new results are significant improvements over the historic experiment in 2022, which was the f
  
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• Why We're Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Any Time Soon

  19-05-2025 02:06 via slashdot.org
  OpenAI CEO and Sam Altman believe Artificial General Intelligence could arrive within the next few years. But the speculations of some technologists "are getting ahead of reality," writes the New York Times, adding that many scientists "say no one will reach AGI without a new idea — something beyond the powerful neural networks that merely find patterns in data. That new idea could arrive tomorrow. But even then, the industry would need years to develop it."
  "The technology we're building
  
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• Bungie Blames Stolen 'Marathon' Art On Former Developer

  19-05-2025 00:19 via games.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Kotaku:One of the most striking things about Bungie's Marathon is its presentation. The sci-fi extraction shooter combines bleak settings with bright colors in a way that makes it feel a bit like a sneaker promo meets Ghost in the Shell, or as designer Jeremy Skoog put it, "Y2K Cyberpunk mixed with Acid Graphic Design Posters." But it now looks like at least a few of the visual design elements that appeared in the recent alpha test were lifted from eig
  
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• 'The People Stuck Using Ancient Windows Computers'

  18-05-2025 23:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  The BBC visits "the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines."Even if you're a diehard Apple user, you're probably interacting with Windows systems on a regular basis. When you're pulling cash out, for example, chances are you're using a computer that's downright geriatric by technology standards. (Microsoft declined to comment for this article.) "Many ATMs still operate on legacy Windows systems, including Windows XP and even Windows NT," which launched in 1993, says Elvis Montiero,
  
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• Why Two Amazon Drones Crashed at a Test Facility in a December

  18-05-2025 21:59 via tech.slashdot.org
  While Amazon won FAA approval to fly beyond an operators' visual line of sight, "the program remains a work in progress," reports Bloomberg:
  A pair of Amazon.com Inc. package delivery drones were flying through a light rain in mid-December when, within minutes of one another, they both committed robot suicide... [S]ome 217 feet (66 meters) in the air [at a drone testing facility], the aircraft cut power to its six propellers, fell to the ground and was destroyed. Four minutes later and 183 feet
  
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• When a Company Does Job Interviews with a Malfunctioning AI - and Then Rejects You

  18-05-2025 20:45 via it.slashdot.org
  IBM laid off "a couple hundred" HR workers and replaced them with AI agents. "It's becoming a huge thing," says Mike Peditto, a Chicago-area consultant with 15 years of experience advising companies on hiring practices. He tells Slate "I do think we're heading to where this will be pretty commonplace."
  Although A.I. job interviews have been happening since at least 2023, the trend has received a surge of attention in recent weeks thanks to several viral TikTok videos in which users share videos
  
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• 'Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C'

  18-05-2025 19:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  The Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to "move the Internet's security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code." Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they'd begun work on rav1d, a safer high performance AV1 decoder written in Rust, according to a new update:
  We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d w
  
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• Taiwan Shuts Down Its Last Nuclear Reactor

  18-05-2025 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  The only nuclear power plant still operating in Taiwan was shut down on Saturday, reports Japan's public media organization NHK:People in Taiwan have grown increasingly concerned about nuclear safety in recent years, especially after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, northeastern Japan... Taiwan's energy authorities plan to focus more on thermoelectricity fueled by liquefied natural gas. They aim to source 20 percent of all electricity from renewables such as wind and solar power next year
  
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• Firefox Announces Same-Day Update After Two Minor Pwn2Own Exploits

  18-05-2025 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  During this year's annual Pwn2Own contest, two researchers from Palo Alto Networks demonstrated an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, reports Cyber Security News, "earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points." And the next day another participant used an integer overflow to exploit Mozilla Firefox (renderer only).But Mozilla's security blog reminds users that a sandbox escape would be required to break out from a tab to gain wider system access "due to Firefox's robust security
  
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• OSU's Open Source Lab Eyes Infrastructure Upgrades and Sustainability After Recent Funding Success

  18-05-2025 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  It's a nonprofit that's provide hosting for the Linux Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, Drupal, Firefox, and 160 other projects — delivering nearly 430 terabytes of information every month. (It's currently hosting Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo Linux.) But hosting only provides about 20% of its income, with the rest coming from individual and corporate donors (including Google and IBM). "Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate do
  
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• YouTube Announces Gemini AI Feature to Target Ads When Viewers are Most Engaged

  18-05-2025 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A new YouTube tool will let advertisers use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they're most engaged, reports CNBC:Peak Points has the potential to enable more impressions and a higher click-through rate on YouTube, a primary metric that determines how creators earn money on the video platform... Peak Points is currently in a pilot program and will be rolling out over the rest of the year.
  The product "aims to benefit advertisers by using a tactic that aims to grab users' atte
  
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• 9 Months Later, Microsoft Finally Fixes Linux Dual-Booting Bug

  18-05-2025 09:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Last August a Microsoft security update broke dual-booting Windows 11 and Linux systems, remembers the blog Neowin. Distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux were all affected, and "a couple of days later, Microsoft provided a slightly lengthy workaround that involved tweaking around with policies and the Registry in order to fix the problem."
  The update "was meant to address a GRUB bootloader vulnerability that allowed malicious actors to bypass Secure Boot's safety mec
  
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• Ask Slashdot: Would You Consider a Low-Latency JavaScript Runtime For Your Workflow?

  18-05-2025 05:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon's AWS Labs has created LLRT an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient serverless applications.
  Slashdot reader BitterEpic wants to know what you think of it:Traditional JavaScript runtimes like Node.js rely on garbage collection, which can introduce unpredictable pauses and slow down performance, especially during cold starts in serverless environments like AWS Lambda. LLRT's manual memory management, courtesy of Rust, el
  
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• Google Restores Nextcloud Users' File Access on Android

  18-05-2025 03:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica:Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own servers. Months of emails and explanations to Google's Play Store representatives have yielded no changes, Nextcloud .That blog post — and media coverage of it — seem to have moved the needle. In an update to the p
  
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• Stack Overflow Seeks Realignment 'To Support the Builders of the Future in an AI World'

  18-05-2025 00:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  "The world has changed," writes Stack Overflow's blog. "Fast. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we build, learn, and solve problems. Software development looks dramatically different than it did even a few years ago — and the pace of change is only accelerating."
  And they believe their brand "at times" lost "fidelity and clarity. It's very much been always added to and not been thought of holistically. So, it's time for our brand to evolve too," they write, hoping to articulate a pe
  
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• Intel Struggles To Reverse AMD's Share Gains In x86 CPU Market

  17-05-2025 23:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CRN:
  CPU-tracking firm Mercury Research reported on Thursday that Intel's x86 CPU market share grew 0.3 points sequentially to 75.6 percent against AMD's 24.4 percent in the first quarter. However, AMD managed to increase its market share by 3.6 points year over year. These figures only captured the server, laptop and desktop CPU segments. When including IoT and semicustom products, AMD grew its x86 market share sequentially by 1.5 points and year over
  
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• Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone?

  17-05-2025 22:34 via slashdot.org
  
  "The altruistic OpenAI is gone, if it ever existed," argues a new article in the Atlantic, based on interviews with more than 90 current and former employees, including executives. It notes that shortly before Altman's ouster (and rehiring) he was "seemingly trying to circumvent safety processes for expediency," with OpenAI co-founder/chief scientist Ilya telling three board members "I don't think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI." (The board had already discovered
  
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• Researchers Finally Link Long Covid 'Brain Fog' to Inflammation

  17-05-2025 21:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill:A new study indicates the debilitating "brain fog" suffered by millions of long COVID patients is linked to changes in the brain, including inflammation and an impaired ability to rewire itself following COVID-19 infection. United Press International reported this week that the small-scale study, conducted by researchers at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Michigan State University, shows that altered levels of a pair of key brai
  
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• The Most Promising Ways to Destroy 'Forever Chemicals'

  17-05-2025 20:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "Researchers are seeking a breakthrough in technologies to tackle PFAS contamination," reports the Washington Post — including experiments with ultraviolet light, plasma and sound waves:"We're in a good spot," said Christopher Higgins, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines who researches PFAS. "There's a lot of things being tested. ... Around the world, everyone is trying to work on this topic...." PFAS destruction technologies are beginning to
  
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• Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue

  17-05-2025 19:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  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 visually spot this..."
  The impact of changing one or more letters in a URL can of course be devastating depending on conditions... [W]e have implemented checks to help us poor humans spot things like th
  
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• Despite Success of New 'Assassin's Creed' Game, Ubisoft Stock Tumbles 18%

  17-05-2025 18:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  "Shares of Ubisoft sank 18% on Thursday," reports CNBC, "after the French video game firm reported full-year earnings that disappointed investors... The company's shares have lost almost 60% of their value in the past 12 months, as the firm faced financial struggles, development hurdles, and underperformance of some of its key titles."
  Ubisoft said its latest Assassin's Creed game "delivered the second-highest Day 1 sales revenue in franchise history and set a new record for Ubisoft's Day 1 perf
  
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• Paleontologists Identify Tiny Three-Eyed 'Sea Moth' Predator in Fossils

  17-05-2025 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the 'sea moth'," reports CNN, "that swam in Earth's oceans 506 million years ago."
  Tiny as in 15 to 61 mm in total body length. (That's 0.60 to 2.4 inches...) But check out the illustration in CNN's article...Mosura fentoni, as the species is known, belongs to a group called radiodonts, an early offshoot of the arthropod evolutionary tree, according to a new study published Tuesday
  
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• Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Thanks Its Many Stakeholders - and Mozilla - on Rust's 10th Anniversary

  17-05-2025 16:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Thursday was Rust's 10-year anniversary for its first stable release. "To say I'm surprised by its trajectory would be a vast understatement," writes Rust's original creator Graydon Hoare. "I can only thank, congratulate, and celebrate everyone involved... In my view, Rust is a story about a large community of stakeholders coming together to design, build, maintain, and expand shared technical infrastructure."It's a story with many actors:- The population of developers the language serves who ex
  
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• The Top Fell Off Australia's First Orbital-Class Rocket, Delaying Its Launch

  17-05-2025 12:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Australia's first orbital-class rocket launch was delayed after the nose cone of Gilmour Space's Eris rocket unexpectedly detached due to an electrical fault during final preparations. Although no damage occurred and no payload was onboard, the company is postponing the launch to investigate and replace the fairing before attempting another test flight. Ars Technica reports: Gilmour, the Australian startup that developed the Eris rocket, announced the setback in a post to the company's social me
  
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• NASA Resurrects Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft's Thrusters After 20 Years

  17-05-2025 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NASA engineers have successfully revived Voyager 1's backup thrusters, unused since 2004 and once considered defunct. Space.com reports: This remarkable feat became necessary because the spacecraft's primary thrusters, which control its orientation, have been degrading due to residue buildup. If its thrusters fail completely, Voyager 1 could lose its ability to point its antenna toward Earth, therefore cutting off communication with Earth after nearly 50 years of operation. To make matters more
  
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• FDA Clears First Blood Test To Help Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

  17-05-2025 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: U.S. health officials on Friday endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer's and identify patients who may benefit from drugs that can modestly slow the memory-destroying disease. The test can aid doctors in determining whether a patient's memory problems are due to Alzheimer's or a number of other medical conditions that can cause cognitive difficulties. The Food and Drug Administration cleared it for patients 55
  
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• Microsoft's Command Palette is a Powerful Launcher For Apps, Search

  17-05-2025 03:35 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft has released Command Palette, an enhanced version of its PowerToys Run launcher introduced five years ago. The utility, aimed at power users and developers, provides quick access to applications, files, calculations, and system commands through a Spotlight-like interface.
  Command Palette integrates the previously separate Window Walker functionality for switching between open windows and supports launching command prompts, executing web searches, and navigating folder structures. Unlik
  
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• Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers

  17-05-2025 02:50 via slashdot.org
  
  Walmart is preparing for a future where AI agents shop on behalf of consumers by adapting its systems to serve both humans and autonomous bots. As major players like Visa and PayPal also invest in agentic commerce, Walmart is positioning itself as a leader by developing its own AI agents and supporting broader industry integration. PYMNTS reports: Instead of scrolling through ads or comparing product reviews, future consumers may rely on digital assistants, like OpenAI's Operator, to manage thei
  
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• UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss

  17-05-2025 02:10 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  In an exclusive interview with the BBC, AWS CEO Matt Garman said the UK must expand nuclear energy to meet the soaring electricity demands of AI-driven data centers. From the report: Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is part of the retail giant Amazon, plans to spend 8 billion pounds on new data centers in the UK over the next four years. Matt Garman, chief executive of AWS, told the BBC nuclear is a "great solution" to data centres' energy needs as "an excellent source of zero carbon, 24/7 power
  
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• Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains

  17-05-2025 01:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  A new set of 27 Linux kernel patches introduces a "Swap Tables" mechanism aimed at enhancing virtual memory management. As Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports, "the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel." From the report: Engineer Kairui Song with Tencent posted the Swap Table patch series today for implementing the design ideas discussed in recent mont
  
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• Apple's New CarPlay 'Ultra' Won't Fix the Biggest Problem of Phone-Connected Cars

  17-05-2025 00:50 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Apple's next step for CarPlay is a version you'll only get to try if you're a fan of luxury cruisers or a popular spy film franchise. CarPlay Ultra, with its new suite of exclusive features like custom gauges, is coming first to Aston Martin vehicles with the largest, most blaring dash screens. The more advanced version of CarPlay won't necessarily fix the lingering issues the software has with some modern vehicles. Segmenting CarPlay into newer
  
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• MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery

  17-05-2025 00:10 via science.slashdot.org
  
  MIT has formally requested the withdrawal of a preprint paper on AI and scientific discovery due to serious concerns about the integrity and validity of its data and findings. It didn't provide specific details on what it believes is wrong with the paper. From a post: "Earlier this year, the COD conducted a confidential internal review based upon allegations it received regarding certain aspects of this paper. While student privacy laws and MIT policy prohibit the disclosure of the outcome of th
  
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• OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT

  16-05-2025 23:30 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  OpenAI has launched Codex, a powerful AI coding agent in ChatGPT that autonomously handles tasks like writing features, fixing bugs, and testing code in a cloud-based environment. TechCrunch reports: Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company's o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces "cleaner" code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run tests on its code until passing results are achieved.The Codex
  
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• Meta Argues Enshittification Isn't Real

  16-05-2025 22:50 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Meta thinks there's no reason to carry on with its defense after the Federal Trade Commission closed its monopoly case, and the company has moved to end the trial early by claiming that the FTC utterly failed to prove its case. "The FTC has no proof that Meta has monopoly power," Meta's motion for judgment (PDF) filed Thursday said, "and therefore the court should rule in favor of Meta." According to Meta, the FTC failed to show evidence tha
  
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• Verizon Secures FCC Approval for $9.6 Billion Frontier Acquisition

  16-05-2025 22:02 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  The Federal Communications Commission has approved Verizon's $9.6 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications, valuing the Dallas-based company at $20 billion including debt. The approval comes after Verizon agreed to scale back diversity initiatives to comply with Trump administration policies.
  FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who previously threatened to block mergers over DEI practices, praised the deal for its potential to "unleash billions in new infrastructure builds" and "accelerate the tran
  
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• Charter To Buy Cox For $21.9 Billion Amid Escalating War With Wireless

  16-05-2025 21:22 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Charter Communications announced a $21.9 billion deal Friday to acquire Cox Communications, combining two major cable providers as they face mounting competition from wireless carriers offering 5G home internet. The transaction merges Charter's 31.4 million customers with Cox's 6.3 million, creating a larger entity to defend against aggressive expansion from Verizon and T-Mobile.
  Charter lost 60,000 internet customers in the March quarter, underscoring the industry's vulnerability as traditional
  
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