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• Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize

  14-06-2025 22:49 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT," reports the Washington Post.
  But that's just the first change, according to a New York-based start-up devoted to watching for content-scraping AI companies with a free analytics product and "ensuring that these intelligent agents pay for the content they consume." Their data from 266 web sites (half run by national or local news organizations) found that "traffic from retrieval bots grew 49% in the first quarte
  
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• Rocky and Alma Linux Still Going Strong. RHEL Adds an AI Assistant

  14-06-2025 21:49 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Rocky Linux 10 "Red Quartz" has reached general availability, notes a new article in The Register — surveying the differences between "RHELatives" — the major alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux:The Rocky 10 release notes describe what's new, such as support for RISC-V computers. Balancing that, this version only supports the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 series; it drops Rocky 9.x's support for the older Pi 3 and Pi Zero models...
  RHEL 10 itself, and Rocky with it, now require x86-64-v3
  
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• Arc Browser's Maker Releases First Beta of Its New AI-Powered Browser 'Dia'

  14-06-2025 20:34 via slashdot.org
  
  Recently the Browser Company (the startup behind the Arc web browser) switched over to building a new AI-powered browser — and its beta has just been released, reports TechCrunch, "though you'll need an invite to try it out."
  The Chromium-based browser has a URL/search bar that also "acts as the interface for its in-built AI chatbot" which can "search the web for you, summarize files that you upload, and automatically switch between chat and search functions."The Browser Company's CEO Josh
  
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• World's First 2D, Atom-Thin Non-Silicon Computer Developed

  14-06-2025 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In a world first, a research team used 2D materials — only an atom thick — to develop a computer. The team (led by researchers at Pennsylvania State University) says it's a major step toward thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics.From the University's announcement:They created a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) computer — technology at the heart of nearly every modern electronic device — without relying on silicon. Instead, they used two diffe
  
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• ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600

  14-06-2025 18:34 via games.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were — first blaming the Atari icons as too abstract, then faring no better even after switching to standard chess notations," Caruso
  
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• Stolen iPhones from an Apple Store Remotely Disabled, Started Blaring Alarms

  14-06-2025 17:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Earlier this week looters who stole iPhones "got an unexpected message from Apple," reports the Economic Times.
  "Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted."
  Stolen phones "were remotely locked and triggered alarms, effectively turning the devices into high-tech bait. Videos circulating online show the phones flashing the message while blaring loudly, making them impossible to ignore."According to LAPD Officer Chris
  
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• Anthropic's CEO is Wrong, AI Won't Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Says NVIDIA's CEO

  14-06-2025 16:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could eliminate half the entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. CNN called the remarks "part of the AI hype machine."
  Asked about the prediction this week at a Paris tech conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged AI may impact some employees, but "dismissed" Amodei's claim, according to Fortune. "Everybody's jobs will be changed. Some jobs will be obsolete, but many jobs are going to be created ... Whenever companies are more producti
  
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• Chinese AI Companies Dodge US Chip Curbs Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad

  14-06-2025 15:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Since 2022, the U.S. has tightened the noose around the sale of high-end AI chips and other technology to China overnational-security concerns. Yet Chinese companies have made advances using workarounds. In some cases, Chinese AI developers have been able to substitute domestic chips for the American ones. Another workaround is to smuggle AI hardware into China through third countries. But people in the industry say that has becom
  
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• Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming From Ice In Antarctica

  14-06-2025 12:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  alternative_right shares a report from Phys.Org: A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hi
  
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• NASA Delays Commercial Crew Launch To Assess ISS Air Leak

  14-06-2025 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NASA and Axiom Space have indefinitely delayed the Axiom-4 launch to the International Space Station due to concerns about a persistent air leak in the Russian PrK vestibule of the aging Zvezda module. "The PrK serves as a passageway between the station's Zvezda module and spacecraft docked at its aft port," notes CBS News. From the report: In a blog post, NASA said cosmonauts aboard the station "recently performed inspections of the pressurized module's interior surfaces, sealed some additional
  
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• Smart Tires Will Report On the Health of Roads In New Pilot Program

  14-06-2025 05:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Do you remember the Pirelli Cyber Tire? No, it's not an angular nightmare clad in stainless steel. Rather, it's a sensor-equipped tire that can inform the car it's fitted to what's happening, both with the tire itself and the road it's passing over. The technology has slowly been making its way into the real world, starting with rarified stuff like the McLaren Artura. Now, Pirelli is going to put some Cyber Tires to work for everybody, not j
  
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• IBM Says It's Cracked Quantum Error Correction

  14-06-2025 03:30 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Edd Gent reporting for IEEE Spectrum: IBM has unveiled a new quantum computing architecture it says will slash the number of qubits required for error correction. The advance will underpin its goal of building a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, called Starling, that will be available to customers by 2029. Because of the inherent unreliability of the qubits (the quantum equivalent of bits) that quantum computers are built from, error correction will be crucial for building reliable,
  
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• Enterprise AI Adoption Stalls As Inferencing Costs Confound Cloud Customers

  14-06-2025 02:50 via news.slashdot.org
  
  According to market analyst firm Canalys, enterprise adoption of AI is slowing due to unpredictable and often high costs associated with model inferencing in the cloud. Despite strong growth in cloud infrastructure spending, businesses are increasingly scrutinizing cost-efficiency, with some opting for alternatives to public cloud providers as they grapple with volatile usage-based pricing models. The Register reports: [Canalys] published stats that show businesses spent $90.9 billion globally o
  
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• There Aren't Enough Cables To Meet Growing Electricity Demand

  14-06-2025 02:10 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  High-voltage electricity cables have become a major constraint throttling the clean energy transition, with manufacturing facilities booked out for years as demand far exceeds supply capacity. The energy transition, trade barriers, and overdue grid upgrades have turbocharged demand for these highly sophisticated cables that connect wind farms, solar installations, and cross-border power networks.
  The International Energy Agency estimates that 80 million kilometers of grid infrastructure must be
  
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• UK Universities Sign $13.3 Million Deal To Avoid Oracle Java Back Fees

  14-06-2025 01:30 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to 9.86 million pounds ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023." Jisc, a membership organization that runs procurement for higher and further education establishments in the UK, said it had signed an agreement to purchase the
  
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• Anker Recalls More Than 1.1 Million Power Banks

  14-06-2025 00:50 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Anker is recalling 1.15 million "PowerCore 10000" portable chargers due to fire and explosion risks linked to overheating lithium-ion batteries, with 19 incidents reported. "That includes two minor burn injuries and 11 reports of property damage amounting to over $60,700," reports CBS News. Consumers are urged to stop using the affected devices, check their serial numbers, and request a free replacement through Anker's website. From the report: According to a notice from the U.S. Consumer Produc
  
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• macOS Tahoe Brings a New Disk Image Format

  14-06-2025 00:10 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Apple's macOS 26 "Tahoe" introduces a new disk image format called ASIF, designed to dramatically improve performance over previous formats like UDRW and sparse bundles -- achieving near-native read/write speeds for virtual machines and general disk image use. The Eclectic Light Company reports: Apple provides few technical details, other than stating that the intrinsic structure of ASIF disk images doesn't depend on the host file system's capabilities, and their size on the host depends on the
  
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