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Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories

Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories - Slashdot

CNN reports that newspaper chain Gannett "has paused the use of an AI tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made sev...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

No Exit: Rains Close the Roads In and Out of Burning Man

No Exit: Rains Close the Roads In and Out of Burning Man - Slashdot

Though it

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Shell Scraps Its $100 Million-a-Year Carbon Offset Plan

Shell Scraps Its $100 Million-a-Year Carbon Offset Plan - Slashdot

Shell PLC has quietly abandoned its plan to spend $100 million a year on carbon credits, "which is the largest offset program among corporation...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Russia Targets Ukraine With New Android Backdoor, Intel Agencies Say

Russia Targets Ukraine With New Android Backdoor, Intel Agencies Say - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Russia

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

US Officials Look To Move Marijuana To Lower-Risk Drug Category

US Officials Look To Move Marijuana To Lower-Risk Drug Category - Slashdot

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended easing restrictions on marijuana, a department spokesperson said on Wednesda...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Saints Row Developer Volition Has Been Shut Down

Saints Row Developer Volition Has Been Shut Down - Slashdot

After 30 years of operations, the developer behind 2001

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Apple Experimenting With 3D Printing To Create Devices

Apple Experimenting With 3D Printing To Create Devices - Slashdot

According to Bloombeg

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Magic Leap AR Headset Will 'Cease To Function' In 2025

Magic Leap AR Headset Will

An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

AI Quadcopter 'Swift' Beats Top Human Drone Racers

AI Quadcopter

An autonomous, artificial-intelligence-powered drone called Swift has beaten humanity

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

NASA Officials Sound Alarm Over Future of the Deep Space Network

NASA Officials Sound Alarm Over Future of the Deep Space Network - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: NASA officials sounded an alarm Tuesday about the agency

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Paramount DMCAs 'Star Trek' Fan Project

Paramount DMCAs

Timothy Geigner writes via Techdirt: Paramount has gone after fan-made works playing off of the franchise for years and years. Even Paramount

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Hackers Shut Down 2 of the World's Most Advanced Telescopes

Hackers Shut Down 2 of the World

Some of the world

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

China State-Backed Firm Apologizes For 'Home Developed' Software Based On Microsoft Source Code

China State-Backed Firm Apologizes For

An anonymous reader writes: A Guangdong-based state-backed enterprise in charge of e-government projects in the Southern Chinese province has apolo...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Australia Will Not Force Adult Websites To Bring In Age Verification Due To Privacy and Security Concerns

Australia Will Not Force Adult Websites To Bring In Age Verification Due To Privacy and Security Concerns - Slashdot

The federal government of Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to concerns around privacy and security of the t...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF

Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF - Slashdot

"Terraform, arguably the most popular Infrastructure as Code products, has been forked after the parent company HashiCorp changed its license f...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Call of Duty Will Use AI To Moderate Voice Chats

Call of Duty Will Use AI To Moderate Voice Chats - Slashdot

Activision has partnered with a company called Modulate to moderate voice chats using an AI technology called ToxMod. According to The Verge, the t...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online

Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Tw...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Microsoft Is Discontinuing Visual Studio For Mac After Major Overhaul

Microsoft Is Discontinuing Visual Studio For Mac After Major Overhaul - Slashdot

Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac, committing to security updates and platform update compatibility for the next 12 months. 9to5Mac ...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

MTA Website 'Feature' Lets You Track Subway Riders' Locations

MTA Website

Slash_Account_Dot shares a report from 404 Media, written by cybersecurity journalist Joseph Cox: In the mid-afternoon one Saturday earlier this mo...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

EPA Removes Federal Protections For Most of the Country's Wetlands

EPA Removes Federal Protections For Most of the Country

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country