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Lenovo Teases Solar-Powered and Foldable-Screen Laptops in Latest Concepts
Lenovo demonstrated "a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power," reports CNBC, emphasizing that "These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available."
But "Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, has a history of showing off imag...
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What Happened When Conspiracy Theorists Talked to OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo?
A "decision science partner" at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists:
Researchers have struggled for decades to develop techniques to weaken th...
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Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users' systems "into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads," writes The Hacker News.
Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled "coordinated, unauthorized music downloa...
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Watch 'Blue Ghost' Attempt Its Landing on the Moon
Watch the "Blue Ghost" lunar lander attempt its moon landing.
The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while "The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after..."
Success is not guaranteed... [B]roadly speaking, about half...
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27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in...
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