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Google Tries Funding Short Films Showing 'Less Nightmarish' Visions of AI
"For decades, Hollywood directors including Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron and Alex Garland have cast AI as a villain that can turn into a killing machine," writes the Los Angeles Times. "Even Steven Spielberg's relatively hopeful A.I.: Artificial Intelligence had a pessimistic edge to its vision of...
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FreeBSD: 'We're Still Here. (Let's Share Use Cases!)'
31 years ago FreeBSD was first released. But here in 2025, searches for the Unix-like FreeBSD OS keep increasing on Google, notes the official FreeBSD blog — and it's at least a two-year trend. Yet after talking to some businesses using (or interested in using) FreeBSD, they sometimes found th...
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Why the iPhone's Messages App Refuses Audio Messages That Mention 'Dave & Buster's'
Earlier this month app developer Guilherme Rambo had a warning for iPhone users:
If you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who's also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name "Dave and Buster's", the message will never be received.
In case y...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT O3 Caught Sabotaging Shutdowns in Security Researcher's Test
"OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands," according to a new article by long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli.
"A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company's ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down."
The results are raising eyebrows ac...
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Does the World Need Publicly-Owned Social Networks?
"Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?" asks an opinion piece in Spain's El Pais newspaper.
It argues it's necessary because social media platforms "have consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies, with a business model that consists of violating our privacy in search...
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