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After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth.…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life
Opinion China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were this week reportedly overheard chatting about the possibility that organ transplants might help them achieve immortality.…
No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease
Hands on Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
A startup called Job Bolt has created AI avatars that conduct job interviews. The Register couldn't help but give it a try and can report that it's an unnerving experience.…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety
The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.…
US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia.…
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like
Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons
The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.…
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware
interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. …