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25 Years Ago Today: A PlayStation Shopping Frenzy - But Would Microsoft's Xbox Make It Obsolete?
25 years ago today on Slashdot...
Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the
crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released PlayStation 2 consoles (and games). "500,000 lucky members of the American gaming public are sneaking a few minutes of playing Madden 2001, Tekken...
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Are Network Security Devices Endangering Orgs With 1990s-Era Flaws?
Critics question why basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections are "being exploited remain prevalent in mission-critical codebases maintained by companies whose core business is cybersecurity," writes CSO Online. Benjamin Harris, CEO of cybersecurity/penetration testi...
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Slashdot Reader Mocks Databricks 'Context-Aware AI Assistant' for Odd Bar Chart
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks' "context-aware AI assistant":
If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO's claims that Amazon Q Code Transformation A...
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Student Handcuffed After School's AI System Mistakes a Bag of Chips for a Gun
An AI system "apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm," reports the Guardian, "and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed."
Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police of...
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EA Partners With Company Behind Stable Diffusion To Make Games With AI
Electronic Arts (EA) has partnered with Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, to co-develop generative AI tools aimed at accelerating game development. "I use the term smarter paintbrushes," Steve Kestell, Head of Technical Art for EA SPORTS said in the announcement. "We are giving our creative...
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