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The Workers Who Lost Their Jobs To AI(2025-06-01 05:00:08)

"How does it feel to be replaced by a bot?" asks the Guardian — interviewing several creative workers who know: Gardening copywriter Annabel Beales "One day, I overheard my boss saying to a colleague, 'Just put it in ChatGPT....' [My manager] stressed that my job was safe. Six weeks later,...
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Brazil Tests Letting Citizens Earn Money From Data in Their Digital Footprint(2025-06-01 00:00:04)

With over 200 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by population. Now it's testing a program that will allow Brazilians "to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint," according to RestOfWorld.org — "the first such nationwide initiative in the world." The gov...
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'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk(2025-05-31 20:00:09)

Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current "advanced" LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with several "tools" (code the A...
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What's in the US Government's New Strategic Reserve of Seized Crytocurrencies?(2025-05-31 15:00:04)

In March an executive order directed America's treasury secretary to create two stockpiles of crypto assets (to accompany already-existing "strategic reserves"of gold and foreign currencies). And the Washington Post notes these new stockpiles would include "cryptocurrency seized by federal agencies ...
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Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Robot Designs(2025-05-31 10:00:12)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SiliconANGLE: Hugging Face has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp....
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