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Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1611252/tim-berners-lee-says-ai-will-not-destroy-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media's corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts...
tech.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1611252/tim-berners-lee-says-ai-will-not-destroy-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1414217/subsea-cable-investment-set-to-double-as-tech-giants-accelerate-ai-buildout?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overal...
tech.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1414217/subsea-cable-investment-set-to-double-as-tech-giants-accelerate-ai-buildout?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1334256/microsoft-bets-on-influencers-to-close-the-gap-with-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The co...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1334256/microsoft-bets-on-influencers-to-close-the-gap-with-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1328225/visa-and-mastercard-near-deal-with-merchants-that-would-change-rewards-landscape?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1328225/visa-and-mastercard-near-deal-with-merchants-that-would-change-rewards-landscape?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0215252/whats-the-best-ways-for-humans-to-explore-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?
Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who's researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:
In space, as on Earth, industrial stru...
science.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0215252/whats-the-best-ways-for-humans-to-explore-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0648228/nvidia-connects-ai-gpus-to-early-quantum-processors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
"Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer..." argues investment site The Motley Fool, "by linking today's fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors..."
NVIDIA's new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — o...
hardware.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0648228/nvidia-connects-ai-gpus-to-early-quantum-processors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0552217/rust-foundation-announces-maintainers-fund-to-ensure-continuity-and-support-long-term-roles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to "shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work" that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative "to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust programming la...
developers.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0552217/rust-foundation-announces-maintainers-fund-to-ensure-continuity-and-support-long-term-roles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0357222/nonprofit-releases-thousands-of-rare-american-music-recordings-online?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great...
entertainment.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0357222/nonprofit-releases-thousands-of-rare-american-music-recordings-online?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0133240/what-happens-when-humans-start-writing-for-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility.
"In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI."
"I write about artificial i...
news.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0133240/what-happens-when-humans-start-writing-for-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2353232/apple-explores-new-satellite-features-for-future-iphones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there's now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages.
But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint:
As per Bloomberg's Mark Gu...
apple.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2353232/apple-explores-new-satellite-features-for-future-iphones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2017240/python-foundation-donations-surge-after-rejecting-grant---but-sponsorships-still-needed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
After the Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million grant because it restricted DEI activity, "a flood of new donations followed," according to a new report. By Friday they'd raised over $157,000, including 295 new Supporting Members paying an annual $99 membership fee, says PSF executive...
developers.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2017240/python-foundation-donations-surge-after-rejecting-grant---but-sponsorships-still-needed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/1845207/blue-origin-livestreams-attempt-to-launch-unique-escapade-mission-to-mars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
Blue Origin is livestreaming the launch of its New Glenn rocketreports CNN, "where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago." By observing two Mars locations simultaneously, this mission can measure how Mars responds to space weather in real...
science.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/1845207/blue-origin-livestreams-attempt-to-launch-unique-escapade-mission-to-mars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/189220/ai-slop-in-court-filings-lawyers-keep-citing-fake-ai-hallucinated-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
"According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for AI blunders," reports the New York Times:
Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 case called Brasher ...
yro.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/189220/ai-slop-in-court-filings-lawyers-keep-citing-fake-ai-hallucinated-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being reco...
tech.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0610228/neurodiverse-professionals-25-more-satisfied-with-ai-tools-and-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
Neurodiverse professionals may see unique benefits from artificial intelligence tools and agents, research suggests. With AI agent creation booming in 2025, people with conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia and more report a more level playing...
it.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0610228/neurodiverse-professionals-25-more-satisfied-with-ai-tools-and-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0232234/rust-is-coming-to-debians-apt-package-manager?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
A maintainer of Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) "has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026," reports the blog It's FOSS.
The integration targets critical areas like parsing .deb, .ar, and tar files plus HTTP signature verification using Sequoia. [APT m...
linux.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0232234/rust-is-coming-to-debians-apt-package-manager?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2342231/hilarious-unused-audio-from-2003-baseball-game-rediscovered-by-video-game-history-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
After popular arcade games like Mortal Kombat and Spy Hunter, Midway Games jumped into the home console market, and in 2003 launched their baseball game franchise "MLB Slugfest" for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube. But at times it was almost a parody of baseball, including announcers filling the long hours...
games.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2342231/hilarious-unused-audio-from-2003-baseball-game-rediscovered-by-video-game-history-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Did ChatGPT Conversations Leak... Into Google Search Console Results?
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/027213/did-chatgpt-conversations-leak-into-google-search-console-results?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Did ChatGPT Conversations Leak... Into Google Search Console Results?
"For months, extremely personal and sensitive ChatGPT conversations have been leaking into an unexpected destination," reports Ars Technica: the search-traffic tool for webmasters , Google Search Console.
Though it normally shows the short phrases or keywords typed into Google which led someone t...
tech.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Did ChatGPT Conversations Leak... Into Google Search Console Results?
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/027213/did-chatgpt-conversations-leak-into-google-search-console-results?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans'
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans'
The new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus, was emphatically made by humans, not AI, reports TechCrunch:
If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show "Pluribus," you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: "This show was made by humans." Tha...
entertainment.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans'
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
New Firefox Mascot 'Kit' Unveiled On New Web Page
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2136253/new-firefox-mascot-kit-unveiled-on-new-web-page?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
New Firefox Mascot 'Kit' Unveiled On New Web Page
"The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look," says a new web page at Firefox.com. "Kit's our new mascot and your new companion through an internet that's private, open and actually yours."
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli believes the new mascot "is meant to communicate that m...
news.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
New Firefox Mascot 'Kit' Unveiled On New Web Page
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2136253/new-firefox-mascot-kit-unveiled-on-new-web-page?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday's Crash in Kentucky
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0816223/ups-and-fedex-ground-dozens-of-md-11-aircraft-after-tuesdays-crash-in-kentucky?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday's Crash in Kentucky
American multinational freight company UPS "has grounded its fleet of MD-11 aircraft," reports the Guardian, "days after a cargo plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Kentucky. The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday's crash in Louisville. They were originally bui...
tech.slashdot.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday's Crash in Kentucky
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0816223/ups-and-fedex-ground-dozens-of-md-11-aircraft-after-tuesdays-crash-in-kentucky?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'Stratospheric' AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0533205/stratospheric-ai-spending-by-four-wealthy-companies-reaches-360b-just-for-data-centers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'Stratospheric' AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers
"Maybe you've heard that artificial intelligence is a bubble poised to burst," writes a Washington Post technology columnist. "Maybe you have heard that it isn't. (No one really knows either way, but that won't stop the bros from jabbering about it constantly.)"
"But I can confidently tell you t...
slashdot.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'Stratospheric' AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0533205/stratospheric-ai-spending-by-four-wealthy-companies-reaches-360b-just-for-data-centers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0241231/facebook-dating-is-a-surprise-hit-for-the-social-network?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more than 21 million daily users,...
tech.slashdot.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0241231/facebook-dating-is-a-surprise-hit-for-the-social-network?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Unesco Adopts Global Standards On 'Wild West' Field of Neurotechnology
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0232221/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-wild-west-field-of-neurotechnology?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Unesco Adopts Global Standards On 'Wild West' Field of Neurotechnology
Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining "neural data" and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. "There is no control," said Unesco's chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. "We have to inform the people about the risks, ...
science.slashdot.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Unesco Adopts Global Standards On 'Wild West' Field of Neurotechnology
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0232221/unesco-adopts-global-standards-on-wild-west-field-of-neurotechnology?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lego Unveils First-Ever Star Trek Set
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0226233/lego-unveils-first-ever-star-trek-set?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lego Unveils First-Ever Star Trek Set
New submitter semper_statisticum shares a report from the Independent: Lego is releasing its first-ever Star Trek-inspired model -- with an incredible recreation of the signature ship from the '80s TV series. Made from 3,600 pieces, the [first-ever] Star Trek inspired Lego set is of the U.S.S. Ente...
games.slashdot.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Lego Unveils First-Ever Star Trek Set
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/0226233/lego-unveils-first-ever-star-trek-set?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed