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• Mozilla Adapts 'Fakespot' Into an AI-Detecting Firefox Add-on

  02-02-2025 22:58 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this post from the blog OMG Ubuntu
  Want to find out if the text you're reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model trying to sound like one? Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may help give you an indication. Similar to online AI detector tools, the add-on can analyse text (of 32 words or more) to identify patterns, traits, and tells common in AI generated or manipulated text.
  It uses Mozilla's proprietary ApolloDF
  
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• Should We Sing the Praises of Agile, or Bury It?

  02-02-2025 21:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Stakeholders must be included" throughout an agile project "to ensure the evolving deliverables meet their expectations," according to an article this week in Communications of the ACM.
  But long-time Slashdot reader theodp complains it's a "gushing how-to-make-Agile-even-better opinion piece."Like other pieces by Agile advocates, it's long on accolades for Agile, but short on hard evidence justifying why exactly Agile project management "has emerged as a critical component for firms looking to
  
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• Facebook Admits Linux-Post Crackdown Was 'In Error', Fixes Moderation Error

  02-02-2025 20:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Tom's Hardware reports:Facebook's heavy-handed censorship of Linux groups and topics was "in error," the social media juggernaut has admitted. Responding to reports earlier this week, sparked by the curious censorship of the eminently wholesome DistroWatch, Facebook contacted PCMag to say that it had made a mistake and that the underlying issue had been rectified.
  "This enforcement was in error and has since been addressed. Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services," said a Meta rep to PC
  
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• Remote Cybersecurity Scans and F-35 Updates: A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Gets High-Speed Internet

  02-02-2025 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy tested "vastly increased" levels of internet connectivity, reports the defense-news web site TWZ, callling it "a game-changer for what a ship, and its sailors, can do while at sea."The F-35 Joint Strike Fighters assigned to the carrier offer a case in point for what more shipboard bandwidth — provided by commercial providers like Starlink and OneWeb — can mean at the tactical level. Jets with the embarked Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 took on
  
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• Honda's New US Factory Will Mass-Produce EVs - But Can Also Build Gas-Powered Cars

  02-02-2025 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Honda calls it their "second founding," as the company "continues to target 100% electric vehicle sales by 2040, and to have 'zero environmental impact' by 2050," writes Green Car Reports. "It's previously projected 40% EV sales in North America by 2030... "
  Half of the Honda Accords sold in America are already electric, — but Honda "has admitted that it's hard to predict the trajectory of where the mix will be on the way to fully electric." So...To reconcile all this, it's prepared by com
  
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• IPhones and Some Android Phones Will Support Starlink Direct-to-Cell Coverage in US

  02-02-2025 17:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  "iPhone devices are now eligible to test SpaceX-owned Starlink's direct-to-cell capability," Reuters reported this week, citing an announcement from T-Mobile:T-Mobile and Elon Musk's SpaceX are currently testing the Starlink cell network on a trial basis after receiving approval from the Federal Communications Commission in November last year. The trial offers 'text via satellite', while voice and data features will be added in the future, according to the T-Mobile website. T-Mobile initially on
  
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• DeepSeek AI Refuses To Answer Questions About Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' Photo

  02-02-2025 16:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous "Tank Man" photos showing a tank-defying protester during 1989's Tiananmen Square protests.
  But this week PetaPixel reported...A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in Tiananmen Square in 1989. PetaPixel confirmed that DeepSeek does censor the topic. When a user types in the question, "What famous pict
  
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• After 'Copilot Price Hike' for Microsoft 365, It's Ending Its Free VPN

  02-02-2025 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its "Microsoft Defender" security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ("Personal" and "Family"). Originally Microsoft had "called it a privacy protection feature," writes the blog Windows Central, "designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel." But....Unfortunately, Microsoft has now announced that it's killing the feature later this month, only a couple of years after it first debuted...
  To add insult to injury,
  
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• Could Earthquake Sensors Help Detect Falling Space Junk?

  02-02-2025 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
  Scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk, which can cause damage on impact and carry toxic materials — and may someday turn deadly...
  It's not an easy task to track large hunks of falling metal everywhere in the world. Ground-based radar can detect falling objects, but it doesn't cover much of the world or is often classified data, said Ben Fernando [a planetar
  
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• OpenAI Tests Its AI's Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts

  02-02-2025 06:34 via slashdot.org
  
  Friday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI "used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models."The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new "reasoning" model, o3-mini, on Friday.... OpenAI says it collects user posts from r/ChangeMyView and asks its AI models to write replies, in a closed environment, that would change the Reddit user's mi
  
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• Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'?

  02-02-2025 03:36 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. "The teachers faded away pretty quickly," Gates adds, "But about six of us stayed hardcore. One was Paul Allen..." — the future co-founder of Microsoft. And the experience clearly meant a lot to Gates. "Microsoft just never would've happened without Paul — and this telet
  
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• One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA's $600B Stock Collapse

  02-02-2025 01:59 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, "due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek."
  He published his 12,000-word post "on his personal blog and then shared it with the Value Investors Club website and across Reddit, X and other platforms." The next day he saw 35 people read his post. "But then the post started to go viral..."Well-known venture capitalist C
  
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• US Blocks Open Source 'Help' From These Countries

  02-02-2025 00:59 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Wednesday the Linux Foundation wrote that both "regulatory compliance" and "increased cybersecurity risk" were "creating burdens...that must be met" for open source communities.
  And so, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, "the Linux Foundation has released a comprehensive guide to help open source developers navigate the complex landscape of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions..."These rules, aimed at achieving economic, foreign policy, and national security goals, apply
  
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