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Switzerland Approves Digital ID In Narrow Vote, UK Proposes One Too
"Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin," reports the Guardian, "in the second nationwide vote on the issue."
In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding pollsters who had forecast stro...
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Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?
IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers "are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions, they'll chat with an LL...
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Mistral's New Plan for Improving Its AI Models: Training Data from Enterprises
Paris-based AI giant Mistral "is pushing to improve its models," reports the Wall Street Journal, "by looking inside legacy enterprises that hold some of the world's last untapped data reserves...."
Mistral's approach will be to form partnerships with enterprises to further train existing models on...
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Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data":
"A provided data model may include a tree specification th...
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Firefox Will Offer Visual Searching on Images With AI-Powered Google Lens
"We've decided to support image-based search," announced the product manager for Firefox Search. Powered by the AI-driven Google Lens search technology, they promise the new feature offers "a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) 'search what you see'."
With just ...
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