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How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)
- 3 Dec 25, 11:41pm -
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
- 24 Nov 25, 3:17am -
Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025
Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025
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Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
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LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
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ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
ProWritingAid VS Grammarly: Which Grammar Checker is Better in (2022) ?
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  • newAI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
    People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.  A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated…
    - 8 hours ago 13 May 26, 1:09pm -
  • newThe Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft
    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup called Varda Space Industries is betting that th…
    - 14 hours ago 13 May 26, 7:10am -
  • newA plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial
    Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing.…
    - 16 hours ago 13 May 26, 5:00am -
  • World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
    World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology Review editors and reporters for a subscriber-on…
    - 1 day ago 12 May 26, 11:22am -
  • The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything
    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist A few months before he won the Nobel Pri…
    - 2 days ago 12 May 26, 7:10am -
  • Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that…
    - 2 days ago 11 May 26, 12:35pm -
  • Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
    Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications o…
    - 3 days ago 11 May 26, 8:33am -
  • Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance
    In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strate…
    - 3 days ago 11 May 26, 8:00am -
  • Innovation abounds in device charging
    The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and connectors, slow to perform and prone to overheating, t…
    - 3 days ago 11 May 26, 8:00am -
  • The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2
    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard…
    - 3 days ago 11 May 26, 7:10am -

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  • newMan Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence
    A man accused of stealing hard drives containing unreleased Beyonce music, tour plans, and other materials from a rental car in Atlanta has pleaded guilty and accepted a five-year sentence, including two years in custody. Slashdot Bruce66423 shares a…
    - 3 hours ago 13 May 26, 6:00pm -
  • newSOLAI Launches $399 Solode Neo Linux AI Computer
    BrianFagioli writes: SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows. The compact system ships with an Intel N150 processor, 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 12…
    - 4 hours ago 13 May 26, 5:00pm -
  • newSoftware Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language…
    - 5 hours ago 13 May 26, 4:00pm -
  • newWindows Update Is Getting Automatic Rollbacks For Faulty Drivers
    Microsoft is adding a Windows Update feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can automatically roll back faulty drivers to a previously known-good version without waiting for hardware makers or users to fix the problem manually. PCWorld r…
    - 6 hours ago 13 May 26, 3:00pm -
  • newFragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports:…
    - 7 hours ago 13 May 26, 2:00pm -
  • newLinkedIn Planning To Lay Off 5% of Staff In Latest Tech-Sector Cuts
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans…
    - 8 hours ago 13 May 26, 1:00pm -
  • newKDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
    The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and…
    - 9 hours ago 13 May 26, 12:00pm -
  • newHarvard Votes On Limiting 'A' Grades
    Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A's per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A gr…
    - 10 hours ago 13 May 26, 11:00am -
  • newMeta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company's recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets s…
    - 11 hours ago 13 May 26, 10:00am -
  • newCERN Open Sources Its KiCad Component Libraries
    Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: CERN, a longtime Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad ("KEE-kad"), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional ele…
    - 15 hours ago 13 May 26, 6:00am -
  • newWhy Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?
    fjo3 shares a report from Phys.org: Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading…
    - 19 hours ago 13 May 26, 2:00am -
  • newSam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Mus…
    - 22 hours ago 12 May 26, 10:30pm -
  • South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits
    South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post th…
    - 1 day ago 12 May 26, 6:00pm -
  • Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students' Stolen Data
    Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, says it reached an agreement with the hackers who stole 3.5 terabytes of student and university data. The company says it received "digital confirmation" that the information w…
    - 1 day ago 12 May 26, 5:00pm -
  • Amazon Employees Are 'Tokenmaxxing' Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools
    An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based…
    - 1 day ago 12 May 26, 4:00pm -

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Demi Moore says Hollywood has to 'find ways' to work with AI, not fight it
Demi Moore says Hollywood has to 'find ways' to work with AI, not fight it
- 8 hours ago 13 May 26, 12:30pm -
Why this Hollywood director thinks AI can save L.A. film jobs
Why this Hollywood director thinks AI can save L.A. film jobs
- 16 hours ago 13 May 26, 5:00am -
Trump-Xi summit in Beijing: What's at stake
Trump-Xi summit in Beijing: What's at stake
- 1 day ago 12 May 26, 5:10pm -
EBay rejects GameStop's $56-billion takeover offer
EBay rejects GameStop's $56-billion takeover offer
- 1 day ago 12 May 26, 3:34pm -
Oversight chair seeks information from OpenAI's Sam Altman about potential financial conflicts
Oversight chair seeks information from OpenAI's Sam Altman about potential financial conflicts
- 2 days ago 11 May 26, 7:21pm -
Fears of an AI breakthrough force the U.S. and China to talk
Fears of an AI breakthrough force the U.S. and China to talk
- 3 days ago 11 May 26, 5:00am -

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