AI and Scientists Face Off to See Who Can Come Up With the Best Ideas
Scientific breakthroughs rely on decades of diligent work and expertise, sprinkled with flashes of ingenuity and, sometimes, serendipity. What if we could speed up this process? Creativity is crucial when…
A truck full of batteries has been burning for almost a full day, shutting down ports in LA
A container truck burns outside the Port of Los Angeles. | Image: Pepe’s Towing A truck full of lithium-ion batteries is burning in Los Angeles, shutting down ports and a…
Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | eccolo74) Valve Corporation, tired of paying arbitration fees, has removed a mandatory arbitration clause from Steam’s subscriber agreement. Valve told gamers in yesterday’s update that…
Threads now lets you tag your location
Illustration: The Verge Meta is rolling out the ability to tag your location on your Threads posts. If you have the feature, you’ll see a pin in the post composer…
AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
Enlarge / Examples of the kind of CAPTCHAs that image-recognition bots can now get past 100 percent of the time. (credit: Arxiv, Plesner et al.) Anyone who has been surfing…
Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday
Enlarge (credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Most members of Dell’s sales team will no longer have the option to work remotely, starting on Monday, Reuters reported this week, citing an internal…
Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.…
Study: Cats in little crocheted hats shed light on feline chronic pain
Enlarge / “When you spend more time putting electrodes back on than you do actually recording the EEGs, you get creative.” (credit: Alienor Delsart) Our feline overlords aren’t particularly known…
“Not a good look”: Google’s ad tech monopoly defense widely criticized
Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal / Staff | Getty Images News) Google wound down its defense in the US Department of Justice’s ad tech monopoly trial this week, following a week…
AMD Talks Enterprise AI Use Cases and AI Roadmap
Kumeran Siva of AMD talked at the Ignite AI Infra event spoke on Enterprise AI Use Cases. AMD has done the long research to create the chiplet architecture. In October,…