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'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025(2025-12-06 10:00:12)

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from the BBC: Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year. It is a term that descri...
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Meta Confirms 'Shifting Some' Funding 'From Metaverse Toward AI Glasses'(2025-12-06 05:00:04)

Meta has officially confirmed it is shifting investment away from the metaverse and VR toward AI-powered smart glasses, following a Bloomberg report of an up to 30% budget cut for Reality Labs. "Within our overall Reality Labs portfolio we are shifting some of our investment from Metaverse toward AI...
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OpenAI Has Trained Its LLM To Confess To Bad Behavior(2025-12-06 00:00:10)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model explains how it carried out a...
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Trump Wants Asia's 'Cute' Kei Cars To Be Made and Sold In US(2025-12-05 20:00:10)

sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for th...
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Cloudflare Says It Blocked 416 Billion AI Scraping Requests In 5 Months(2025-12-05 15:00:03)

Cloudflare says it blocked 416 billion AI scraping attempts in five months and warns that AI is reshaping the internet's economic model -- with Google's combined crawler creating a monopoly-style dilemma where opting out of AI means disappearing from search altogether. Tom's Hardware reports: "The b...
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