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[33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Check out Shift, the best new browser for managing all your apps. [34]Click HERE to Download Shift for Free One window for everything you do on the internet. The first browser to integrate your web apps into one seamless experience. [35]× 175367335 story [36]AI [37]'I'm Not Just Spouting Shit': iPod Creator, Nest Founder Fadell Slams Sam Altman [38](techcrunch.com) [39]9 Posted by msmash on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:00PM from the bring-in-the-popcorn dept. iPod creator and Nest founder Tony Fadell [40]criticized OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and warned of AI dangers during TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco this week. "I've been doing AI for 15 years, people, I'm not just spouting shit. I'm not Sam Altman, okay?" Fadell said, drawing gasps from the audience. Fadell, whose Nest thermostat used AI in 2011, called for more specialized and transparent AI systems instead of general-purpose large language models. He cited a University of Michigan study showing AI hallucinations in 90% of ChatGPT-generated patient reports, warning such errors could prove fatal. "Right now we're all adopting this thing and we don't know what problems it causes," Fadell said, urging government regulation of AI transparency. "Those could kill people. We are using this stuff and we don't even know how it works." apply tags__________ 175367019 story [41]AI [42]Amazon Delays AI-Powered Alexa Upgrade Amid Technical Challenges [43](bloomberg.com) [44]7 Posted by msmash on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:22AM from the tough-luck dept. Amazon has postponed the rollout of its AI-enhanced Alexa voice assistant [45]to 2025, a significant setback in its race to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The delay underscores Amazon's challenges in modernizing Alexa's decade-old architecture, which relies on rigid command-response patterns rather than advanced language models. Further reading: [46]Alexa, Where's My Star Trek Computer? apply tags__________ 175367101 story [47]IT [48]300% Price Hikes Push Disgruntled VMware Customers Toward Broadcom Rivals [49](arstechnica.com) [50]43 Posted by msmash on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:40AM from the things-getting-worse dept. After [51]closing a $69 billion deal to buy virtualization technology company VMware a year ago, Broadcom wasted no time ushering in big changes to the ways customers and partners buy and sell VMware offerings -- and [52]many of those clients aren't happy. ArsTechnica: To get a deeper look at the impact that rising costs and overhauls like the end of VMware perpetual license sales have had on VMware users, Ars spoke with several companies in the process of quitting the software due to Broadcom's changes. Here's what's pushing them over the edge. For some, VMware prices more than tripled under Broadcom Broadcom closed its VMware acquisition in November 2023, and by December 2023, the company announced that it would stop selling perpetual VMware licenses. VMware products were previously sold under 8,000 SKUs, but they have now been combined into a few bundle packages. Additionally, higher CPU core requirements per CPU subscription have made VMware more expensive for some reseller partners. "As on-premises virtualization projects move from [enterprise license agreements] and perpetual licenses to new bundling, socket-to-core ratios, and consumption models, the costs and pricing can increase two or three times," Gartner's 2024 Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies report that released in June reads. Numerous VMware customers I spoke with said their VMware costs rose 300 percent after Broadcom's takeover. Some companies have cited even higher price hikes -- including AT&T, which claimed that Broadcom proposed a 1,050 percent price hike. AT&T is suing Broadcom over perpetual license support and says it has looked into VMware alternatives. apply tags__________ 175366919 story [53]Medicine [54]Weight-Loss Surgery Down 25% as Anti-Obesity Drug Use Soars [55](harvard.edu) [56]58 Posted by msmash on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:00AM from the closer-look dept. A new study examining a large sample of privately insured patients with obesity found that use of drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy as anti-obesity medications more than doubled from 2022 to 2023. During that same period, there was [57]a 25.6% decrease in patients undergoing metabolic bariatric surgery to treat obesity. From a report: The study, by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Brown School of Public Health, is published in JAMA Network Open. "Our study provides one of the first national estimates of the decline in utilization of bariatric metabolic surgery among privately insured patients corresponding to the rising use of blockbuster GLP-1 RA drugs," said senior author Thomas C. Tsai, a metabolic bariatric surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Using a national sample of medical insurance claims data from more than 17 million privately insured adults, the researchers identified patients with a diagnosis of obesity without diabetes in 2022-2023. The study found a sharp increase in the share of patients who received glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1 RAs, during the study period, with GLP-1 RA use increasing 132.6% from the last six months of 2022 to the last six months of 2023 (from 1.89 to 4.41 patients per 1,000 patients). Meanwhile, there was a 25.6% decrease in use of bariatric metabolic surgery during the same period (from 0.22 to 0.16 patients per 1,000 patients). Among the sample of patients with obesity, 94.7% received neither form of treatment during the study period (while 5% received GLP-1 RAs and 0.3% received surgery). Compared to patients who were prescribed GLP-1 RAs, patients who underwent surgery tended to be more medically complex. apply tags__________ 175364279 story [58]Facebook [59]Meta AI Surpasses 500 Million Users [60](engadget.com) [61]17 Posted by [62]BeauHD on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:00AM from the you'll-have-to-take-his-word-for-it dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Last month at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta AI was "on track" to become the most-used generative AI assistant in the world. The company has now passed a significant milestone toward that goal, with Meta AI [63]passing the 500 million user mark, Zuckerberg revealed during the company's latest earnings call. The half billion user mark comes just barely a year after the social network first launched its AI assistant last fall. Zuckerberg said the company still expects to become the "most-used" assistant by the end of 2024, though he's never specified how the company is measuring that metric. Zuck said that AI-driven improvements in feed and video recommendations have led to an 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and 5% increase on Instagram this year. Advertisers have also leveraged the company's AI tools to generate over 15 million ads in just the past month. Separately, Meta's Threads app is gaining over a million new sign-ups daily, with nearly 275 million total monthly users. apply tags__________ 175364165 story [64]Communications [65]Arecibo Collapsed Because of Engineering Failures That Inspectors Failed To Spot [66](behindtheblack.com) [67]55 Posted by [68]BeauHD on Thursday October 31, 2024 @06:00AM from the would-you-look-at-that dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Behind the Black: According to [69]a new very detailed engineering analysis into the causes of the collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2020, the failure was caused first by a surprising interaction between the radio electronics of Arecibo and the traditional methods used to anchor the cables, and second by a [70]failure of inspections to spot the problem as it became obvious. The surprising engineering discovery is illustrated [[71]here (PNG)]. The main antenna of Arecibo was suspended above the bowl below by three main cables. The figure shows the basic design of the system used to anchor the cable ends to their sockets. The end of the cable bunches would be inserted into the socket, spread apart, and then zinc would be poured in to fill the gap and then act as a plug and glue to hold the cables in place. According to the report, this system has been used for decades in many applications very successfully. What the report found however was at Arecibo over time the cable bunch and zinc plug slowly began to pull out of the socket, what the report labels as "zinc creep." This was noted by inspectors, but dismissed as a concern because they still believed the engineering margins were still high enough to prevent failure at this point. In fact, this is exactly where the structure failed in 2020, with the first cable separating as shown [72]in August 2020. The second cable did so in a similar manner [73]in November 2020. The report concluded that the "only hypothesis the committee could develop that provides a plausible but unprovable answer to all these questions and the observed socket failure pattern is that the socket zinc creep was unexpectedly accelerated in the Arecibo Telescope's uniquely powerful electromagnetic radiation environment. The Arecibo Telescope cables were suspended across the beam of 'the most powerful radio transmitter on Earth.'" apply tags__________ 175364457 story [74]Earth [75]Record Levels of Heat-Related Deaths in 2023 Due To Climate Crisis, Report Finds [76](theguardian.com) [77]95 Posted by msmash on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:30AM from the worrisome-signs dept. Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have [78]reached record levels, according to a landmark report. The Guardian: The Lancet Countdown's [79]ninth report on health and the climate breakdown reveals that people across the world face unprecedented threats to their health from the rapidly changing climate. "This year's stocktake of the imminent health threats of climate inaction reveals the most concerning findings yet," warned Dr Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown at University College London. "Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change. The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach." The report finds that in 2023, extreme drought lasting at least one month affected 48% of the global land area, while people had to cope with an unprecedented 50 more days of health-threatening temperatures than would have been expected without the climate crisis. As a result, 151 million more people faced moderate or severe food insecurity, risking malnutrition and other harm to their health. apply tags__________ 175364227 story [80]Nintendo [81]Nintendo Made a Music Streaming App For Video Game Soundtracks [82]18 Posted by [83]BeauHD on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:00AM from the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dum dept. Nintendo has announced a mobile app called [84]Nintendo Music, which [85]lets users listen to classic video game soundtracks from Nintendo games spanning the last few decades, including Splatoon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda. According to The Verge, the app is available on iOS and Android but only Switch Online subscribers will be able to stream the tunes. From the report: The app features curated playlists themed around games, moments, moods, or characters, though you can also build your own. It also supports streaming as well as downloading tracks for offline listening. Curiously, it includes a spoiler feature that lets you filter out tracks that, somehow, might spoil a game you haven't played or finished yet. And if you just want some Hyrule white noise, the app also lets you "loop songs or extend select tracks to 15, 30, or 60 minutes for uninterrupted listening." Here's [86]a list of all the regions the app will be available in. apply tags__________ 175364079 story [87]Robotics [88]Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Executes Autonomous Automotive Parts Picking [89](techcrunch.com) [90]55 Posted by [91]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:30PM from the they-grow-up-so-fast dept. In a [92]new video published today, Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas is [93]shown moving engine parts between bins without any human assistance. TechCrunch reports: Boston Dynamics is quick to note that the actions are being performed autonomously, without "prescribed or teleoperated movements." [...] Boston Dynamics notes, "The robot is able to detect and react to changes in the environment (e.g., moving fixtures) and action failures (e.g., failure to insert the cover, tripping, environment collision) using a combination of vision, force, and proprioceptive sensors." In addition to the autonomously executed tasks, the video showcases impressive adaptive -- and strong -- actuators, as the robot pivots at its waist. The action minimizes movements, saving precious seconds in the process. apply tags__________ 175364417 story [94]Facebook [95]Mark Zuckerberg Says a Lot More AI Generated Content is Coming To Fill Up Facebook and Instagram Feeds [96]67 Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:30PM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept. First we had friends. Then we had influencers. And if Mark Zuckerberg is correct, the next big thing in our social media feeds [97]will be AI generated content. Lots of it. Fortune: Zuckerberg described our future feeds during Facebook-parent company Meta's third quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, describing it as a natural evolution. "I think were going to add a whole new category of content which is AI generated or AI summarized content, or existing content pulled together by AI in some way," the Meta CEO said. "And I think that that's gonna be very exciting for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads, or other kinds of feed experiences over time." Zuckerberg touted the company's Llama large language model and the success of products it powers, such as the Meta AI chatbot that is now used by more than 500 million users every month. But Llama will increasingly play a role across Meta's business, Zuckerberg said, including tools for business customers and advertisers. As AI tools become more widespread, AI content will proliferate within social media feeds. Such feeds are actively being worked on inside Meta, Zuckerberg noted. "It's something we're starting to test different things around." "I don't know if we know what's exactly going to work really well yet, but some things are really promising," he added. "I have high confidence that over the next several years, this will be one of the important trends and one of the important applications." apply tags__________ 175364125 story [98]Businesses [99]Siemens To Buy Altair For $10.6 Billion In Digital Portfolio Push [100](yahoo.com) [101]5 Posted by [102]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:50PM from the significant-synergies dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Siemens will [103]buy Altair Engineering for $10.6 billion, the American engineering software firm [104]said on Wednesday, as the German company seeks to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing industrial software market. The offer price of $113 per share represents a premium of about 18.7% to Altair's closing price on Oct. 21, a day before Reuters first reported that the company was exploring a sale. The deal for Michigan-based Altair is Siemens's biggest acquisition since Siemens Healthineers bought medical device maker Varian Medical Systems for $16.4 million in 2020. [...] The transaction is anticipated to add to Siemens' earnings per share in about two years from the deal's closing, which is expected in the second half of 2025. It will also increase Siemens' digital business revenue by about 8%, adding approximately 600 million euros ($651.36 million) to the company's digital business revenue in fiscal 2023. The transaction would have a revenue impact of about $500 million per year in the mid-term and more than $1 billion per year in the long term, Siemens said. apply tags__________ 175363997 story [105]Privacy [106]Colorado Agency 'Improperly' Posted Passwords for Its Election System Online [107](gizmodo.com) [108]73 Posted by [109]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:10PM from the not-a-good-look dept. For months, the Colorado Department of State [110]inadvertently exposed partial passwords for voting machines in a public spreadsheet. "While the incident is embarrassing and already fueling accusations from the state's Republican party, the department said in [111]a statement that it 'does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado's elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted,'" reports Gizmodo. From the report: Colorado NBC affiliate station 9NEWS [112]reported that Hope Scheppelman, vice chair of the state's Republican party, revealed the error in a mass email sent Tuesday morning, which included an affidavit from a person who claimed to have downloaded the spreadsheet and discovered the passwords by clicking a button to reveal hidden tabs. In its statement, the Department of State said that there are two unique passwords for each of its voting machines, which are stored in separate places. Additionally, the passwords can only be used by a person who is physically operating the system and voting machines are stored in secure areas that require ID badges to access and are under 24/7 video surveillance. "The Department took immediate action as soon as it was aware of this, and informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which closely monitors and protects the [country's] essential security infrastructure," The department said, adding that it is "working to remedy this situation where necessary." Colorado voters use paper ballots, ensuring that a physical paper trail that can be used to verify results tabulated electronically. apply tags__________ 175363957 story [113]Businesses [114]Microsoft Reports Big Profits Amid Massive AI Investments [115]18 Posted by [116]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @07:34PM from the would-you-look-at-that dept. Ars Technica's Samuel Axon reports on Microsoft's [117]quarterly earnings: Some investors have been uneasy about the company's aggressive spending on AI, while others have demanded it. During this quarter, Microsoft reported that it spent $20 billion on capital expenditures, nearly double what it had spent during the same quarter last year. However, the company satisfied both groups of investors, as it revealed it has still been doing well in the short term amid those long-term investments. The fiscal quarter, which covered July through September, [118]saw overall sales rise 16 percent year over year to $65.6 billion. Despite all that AI spending, profits were up 11 percent, too. The growth was largely driven by Azure and cloud services, which saw a 33 percent increase in revenue. The company attributed 12 percent of that to AI-related products and services. Meanwhile, Microsoft's gaming division continued to challenge long-standing assumptions that hardware is king, with Xbox content and services posting 61 percent increased year-over-year revenue despite a 29 percent drop in hardware sales. [...] The company attributed 53 points of that to the recent [119]$69 billion Activision acquisition. apply tags__________ 175363015 story [120]Games [121]Steam Games Must Fully Disclose Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat On Store Pages [122](gamingonlinux.com) [123]43 Posted by [124]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:40PM from the more-transparent dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gaming On Linux: Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now [125]need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages. In the Steamworks Developer post Valve [126]said: "We've heard from more and more developers recently that they're looking for the right way to share anti-cheat information about their game with players. At the same time, players have been requesting more transparency around the anti-cheat services used in games, as well as the existence of any additional software that will be installed within the game." Developers with games already on Steam will also need to do this, as it's not just for new games coming up for release, and it is also part of the release process now too. So Valve will be doing checks on games to ensure the notices are there and correct. However, it's only being forced for kernel-level anti-cheat. If it's only client-side or server-side, it's optional, but Valve say "we generally think that any game that makes use of anti-cheat technology would benefit from letting players know". apply tags__________ 175362989 story [127]The Internet [128]Call of Duty's Massive Filesize Drives Peak Internet Usage [129](theverge.com) [130]56 Posted by [131]BeauHD on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:02PM from the internet-history dept. Comcast says the [132]latest installment of Call of Duty, released on October 25th, [133]resulted in a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last week. The ISP says it's the company's "biggest weak in internet history." The Verge reports: It's not really possible to quantify that further, given Comcast didn't provide any specific numbers -- either about how many customers were downloading the game or how big their downloads were. [134]Ranging between 84.4GB for the PlayStation version and 102GB for the PC edition Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is, in the grand tradition of Call of Duty games, a hefty download. It can be as much as 300GB if players choose to go ahead and download Modern Warfare II and III and all the associated content packs and languages, as Activision [135]explained in June. The announcement underscores "just how restrictive its 1.2TB data cap can be in 2024," notes The Verge. "For any players who did download the whole massive 300GB package, they'll have wiped out a huge chunk of their 1.2TB Xfinity data cap in one fell swoop." "If they used their internet as normal otherwise, that could put them right up against or even blow past that cap. Given that my family used nearly 800GB last month without any notably large game downloads, it wouldn't be that hard at all." apply tags__________ [136]« Newer [137]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [138]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Windows on ARM is poised to take off. Who is going to be the ARM CPU supplier of choice for Windows? (*) Qualcomm ( ) Mediatek ( ) Samsung ( ) Broadcom ( ) Other (state in comments) ( ) Cowboy Neal's Chips R Us (BUTTON) vote now [139]Read the 48 comments | 3820 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. Windows on ARM is poised to take off. 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