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Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 07:27
Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing

On Call Some working weeks are full of achievements, and others miserably unproductive. Here at The Register, we always make sure that if nothing else we produce a fresh instalment of On Call, the column that recounts readers' tales of delivering top-notch tech support.…

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FDA Plans To Phase Out Animal Testing Requirements

Slashdot - Fri, 2025-04-11 07:00
The Food and Drug Administration says it would begin phasing out animal testing requirements for antibody therapies and other drugs and move toward AI-based models and other tools it deems "human-relevant." Axios: The FDA said it would launch a pilot program over the next year allowing select developers of monoclonal antibodies to use a primarily non-animal-based testing strategy. Commissioner Marty Makary in a statement said the shift would improve drug safety, lower research and development costs and address ethical concerns about animal experimentation.

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VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 06:28
A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October

VMware has revealed another big upgrade is on the way, this time for its vSphere Foundation suite.…

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AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows

Slashdot - Fri, 2025-04-11 05:20
Some of the best AI models today still struggle to resolve software bugs that wouldn't trip up experienced devs. TechCrunch: A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft's R&D division, reveals that models, including Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI's o3-mini, fail to debug many issues in a software development benchmark called SWE-bench Lite. The results are a sobering reminder that, despite bold pronouncements from companies like OpenAI, AI is still no match for human experts in domains such as coding. The study's co-authors tested nine different models as the backbone for a "single prompt-based agent" that had access to a number of debugging tools, including a Python debugger. They tasked this agent with solving a curated set of 300 software debugging tasks from SWE-bench Lite. According to the co-authors, even when equipped with stronger and more recent models, their agent rarely completed more than half of the debugging tasks successfully. Claude 3.7 Sonnet had the highest average success rate (48.4%), followed by OpenAI's o1 (30.2%), and o3-mini (22.1%).

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The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 05:01
Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too

The Brian-Eno-composed sound played by Windows 95 when booted has been added to the US Library of Congress’s list of nationally significant recordings.…

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Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 03:07
Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam

In February, Elon's Musketeers at President Trump's cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the billionaire wants to build.…

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Russian Cable Attacks 'Threaten To Cut Off World's Internet'

Slashdot - Fri, 2025-04-11 03:00
Military chiefs at Nato have been warned of global internet blackouts following a string of suspected Russian attacks on subsea cables. From a report: Telecoms companies including Vodafone, O2 owner Telefonica and Orange have written to UK, EU and Nato officials warning that a rise in sabotage incidents was putting critical services at risk. In an open letter, they wrote: "The repercussions of damage to subsea cables extend far beyond Europe, potentially affecting global internet and power infrastructure, international communications, financial transactions and critical services worldwide." It comes after a spike in incidents relating to fibre optic cables on seabeds that carry huge volumes of data, voice and internet traffic between countries. More than 500 cables carry around 95pc of all international data, while their remote location makes them difficult and costly to monitor. At least 11 subsea cables have been damaged in the Baltic Sea since October 2023 and similar outages have been reported in the North Sea. The incidents have fuelled fears of sabotage by hostile actors, with more than 50 Russian ships observed in areas of high cable density in the Baltic Sea. The UK is monitoring the Russian spy ship Yantar amid concerns that it is mapping critical underwater infrastructure. Concerns have also been raised about Chinese sabotage following a number of incidents around Taiwan.

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Microsoft is About To Launch Recall For Real This Time

Slashdot - Fri, 2025-04-11 01:45
Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders. From a report: This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. Microsoft originally intended to launch Recall alongside Copilot Plus PCs last June, but the feature was delayed following concerns raised by security experts. The company then planned to launch it in October, but that got pushed as well so that the company could deliver "a secure and trusted experience."

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Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 01:10
Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan

Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.…

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Fintech Founder Charged With Fraud After 'AI' Shopping App Found To Be Powered By Humans in the Philippines

Slashdot - Fri, 2025-04-11 00:18
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a "universal" checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. From a report: Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising a $38 million Series A in 2021 led by Renegade Partners. Nate said its app's users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ's Southern District of New York alleges. Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online "without human intervention," except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app's actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.

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Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-04-11 00:13
Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

Cloud Next Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that includes AI to help developers to prototype and build apps without writing every line of code themselves.…

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Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-04-10 20:48
LLM query caching also lands soon

The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.…

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Data Centres Will Use Twice as Much Energy By 2030

Slashdot - Thu, 2025-04-10 20:30
The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a report from the International Energy Agency published today. The primary culprit? AI. Nature: The report covers the current energy footprint for data centres and forecasts their future needs, which could help governments, companies, and local communities to plan infrastructure and AI deployment. IEA's models project that data centres will use 945 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2030, roughly equivalent to the current annual electricity consumption of Japan. By comparison, data centres consumed 415 TWh in 2024, roughly 1.5% of the world's total electricity consumption. The projections largely focus on data centres, which also run computing tasks other than AI. Although the agency estimated the proportion of servers in data centres devoted to AI. They found that servers for AI accounted for 24% of server electricity demand and 15% of total data centre energy demand in 2024.

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OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-04-10 19:48
Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'

OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage allegedly inflicted on the AI super-lab.…

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US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware derailed ops

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-04-10 18:03
Props for the transparency though

US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.…

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OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Memory To Draw on Full Conversation History

Slashdot - Thu, 2025-04-10 18:00
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory functionality to include references from all past conversations. The system now builds upon existing saved memories by automatically incorporating previous interactions to deliver more contextually relevant responses for writing, learning, and advisory tasks, the startup said Thursday. Subscribers can disable the feature through settings or request memory modifications directly in chat. Those already opted out of memory features won't have past-chat references enabled by default. Temporary chats remain available for interactions that users prefer to keep isolated from memory systems. The update is rolling out immediately to Plus and Pro subscribers, excluding users in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and other European markets.

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Satellite phone tech coming to your phone this year – but who pays for it?

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-04-10 17:03
Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance

This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite phone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions.…

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Meta Says Llama 4 Targets Left-Leaning Bias

Slashdot - Thu, 2025-04-10 17:00
Meta says in its Llama 4 release announcement that it's specifically addressing "left-leaning" political bias in its AI model, distinguishing this effort from traditional bias concerns around race, gender, and nationality that researchers have long documented. "Our goal is to remove bias from our AI models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue," the company said. "All leading LLMs have had issues with bias -- specifically, they historically have leaned left," Meta stated, framing AI bias primarily as a political problem. The company claims Llama 4 is "dramatically more balanced" in handling sensitive topics and touts its lack of "strong political lean" compared to competitors.

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China To Restrict US Film Releases

Slashdot - Thu, 2025-04-10 16:00
Hours after Donald Trump imposed record 125% tariffs on Chinese products entering the US, China has announced it will further curb the number of US films allowed to screen in the country. From a report: "The wrong action of the US government to abuse tariffs on China will inevitably further reduce the domestic audience's favourability towards American films," the China Film Administration said in a statement on Thursday. "We will follow the market rules, respect the audience's choice, and moderately reduce the number of American films imported." The move mirrors the potential countermeasure suggested by two influential Chinese bloggers earlier in the week, warning that "China has plenty of tools for retaliation." Both Liu Hong, a senior editor at Xinhuanet, the website of the state-run Xinhua news agency, as well as Ren Yi, the grandson of former Guangdong party chief Ren Zhongyi, posted an identical proposal involving a heavy reduction on the import of US movies and further investigation of the intellectual property benefits of American companies operating in China. China is the world's second largest film market after the US.

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Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

TheRegister - Thu, 2025-04-10 15:57
Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'

Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.…

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