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Google CEO Largely Avoids Discussing AI In Stanford Commencement Speech ift.tt/7W13TbR

Google CEO Largely Avoids Discussing AI In Stanford Commencement Speech - Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University's 2026 commencement address, but despite leading one of the companies at the center of the AI boom, he spent very little...

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Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million ift.tt/Ks7wkCU

Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million in a divisive referendum...

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Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read? ift.tt/QZKFx3Y

Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read? - Slashdot

Futurism reports: in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an...

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IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills ift.tt/H1DJL9T

IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills - Slashdot

"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is...

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US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production ift.tt/GnxbXZW

US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed...

"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The strongest reaction was...

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Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds ift.tt/JHIG4Dg

Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds - Slashdot

"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Most people don't...

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Microsoft Updates Six Windows' Apps. 'Photos' Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default) ift.tt/nrVHoGY

Microsoft Updates Six Windows' Apps. 'Photos' Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default) -...

Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin. Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator,...

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UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains ift.tt/3SfHegF

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains - Slashdot

UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register — but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscie...

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As 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth ift.tt/nuid0Pa

As 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth -...

Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first film that will be...

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Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off? ift.tt/ks4wF0P

Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off? - Slashdot

"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI,"...

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Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot ift.tt/JQ7DU9E

Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot - Slashdot

Phoronix reports: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old...

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How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI ift.tt/s7kWOfl

How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI - Slashdot

America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM: It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the...

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Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension ift.tt/C80WJOf

Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension - Slashdot

"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court...

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Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months ift.tt/eVC5czU

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months - Slashdot

The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there's more bad news, reports CNBC." "Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July...

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Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032) ift.tt/QFKleIX

Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032) - Slashdot

Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that "Between 2029 and 2032,...

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UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence ift.tt/Ir57kTA

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence - Slashdot

The Sunday Times reports: A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a "number of cases". Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was...

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How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras ift.tt/yj0lmSu

How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras - Slashdot

A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate... Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a...

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Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models ift.tt/PqbTi8e

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models - Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration's decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy...

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Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform' ift.tt/0PgQtkZ

Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform' - Slashdot

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with...

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GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries ift.tt/8iC7Mrb

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries -...

"Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid," argues The Washington Post's editoral board, arguing that GM's latest moves "offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints...

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