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Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

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Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

admin February 5, 2023

Go on, bring on the FLAMEs Sooner or later, everything ends up in Microsoft Excel.…

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Apple Watches and iPhones are Placing Dozens of False Distress Calls About Skiers

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Apple Watches and iPhones are Placing Dozens of False Distress Calls About Skiers

admin February 5, 2023

Dispatchers for 911 emergency calls “are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned...

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US Fighter Jets Shoot Down Spy Balloon With a Single Missile

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US Fighter Jets Shoot Down Spy Balloon With a Single Missile

admin February 5, 2023

CNN reports: The US military used fighter jets from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to take...

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Before Chinese Spy Balloon, Classified US Report Highlighted Foreign Aerial Spying

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Before Chinese Spy Balloon, Classified US Report Highlighted Foreign Aerial Spying

admin February 5, 2023

That Chinese spy balloon floating over the continental U.S. “generated deep concern,” reports the New York Times...

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AI Models Spit Out Photos of Real People and Copyrighted Images

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AI Models Spit Out Photos of Real People and Copyrighted Images

admin February 5, 2023

MIT’s Technology Review reports: Popular image generation models can be prompted to produce identifiable photos of real...

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79-Year-Old Vint Cerf Receives IEEE Medal of Honor

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79-Year-Old Vint Cerf Receives IEEE Medal of Honor

admin February 5, 2023

Long-time Slashdot reader penciling_in shared this special report from CircleID: Vinton Cerf, widely known as the ‘Father...

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After Cracking Another ‘Secure’ Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42

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After Cracking Another ‘Secure’ Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42

admin February 5, 2023

Slashdot reader lexios shares this report from the French international news agency Agence France-Press: European police arrested...

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Bitcoin’s 2023 Price Rise ‘Very Suspicious’, Says Manipulation Researcher

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Bitcoin’s 2023 Price Rise ‘Very Suspicious’, Says Manipulation Researcher

admin February 5, 2023

In 2017 the New York Times covered research co-authored by John Griffin, a finance professor at the...

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Internet Archive Celebrates 1927 Works’ Arrival in Public Domain with Short Film Contest

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Internet Archive Celebrates 1927 Works’ Arrival in Public Domain with Short Film Contest

admin February 5, 2023

To celebrate this year’s “Public Domain Day,” the Internet Archive “asked people to submit short films highlighting...

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Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at Build-Time

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Proposed Linux Patch Allows Disabling CPU Security Mitigations at Build-Time

admin February 5, 2023

Phoronix reports: A proposed Linux kernel patch would provide a new Kconfig build time option of “CONFIG_DEFAULT_CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF”...

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