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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 15:21:39 JST Slashdot :verified:

GNU's 40th Anniversary: the FSF's Meeting with Old and New Friends https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/10/15/0132244/gnus-40th-anniversary-the-fsfs-meeting-with-old-and-new-friends?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. GNU's 40th Anniversary: the FSF's Meeting with Old and New Friends - Slashdot
  
  Devin Ulibarri, the Free Software Foundation's outreach and communications coordinator, writes up an event he describes as meeting with some old and new friends: On Sunday, October 1, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) hosted a hackday to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the GNU Project. Folk...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 15:14:46 JST Slashdot :verified:

Rust-Based 'Resources' is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/10/15/2121237/rust-based-resources-is-a-new-modern-system-monitor-for-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Rust-Based 'Resources' is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader shared this article from the Linux blog OMG! Ubuntu: The System Monitor app Ubuntu comes with does an okay job of letting you monitor system resources and oversee running processes — but it does look dated... [T]he app's graphs and charts are tiny, compact, and lack the gl...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 20:39:31 JST Slashdot :verified:

ChatGPT Is Being Used To Declassify Redacted Government Docs https://slashdot.org/story/23/10/13/2034249/chatgpt-is-being-used-to-declassify-redacted-government-docs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. ChatGPT Is Being Used To Declassify Redacted Government Docs - Slashdot
  
  Last month, OpenAI launched GPT-4 with vision (GPT-4V), allowing the chatbot to read and respond to questions about images. One of the many ways AI users are using this new feature is to decode redacted government documents on UFO sightings. "ChatGPT-4V Multimodal decodes a redacted government docum...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 20:39:19 JST Slashdot :verified:

Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/13/2047226/tesla-releases-official-api-documentation-to-support-third-party-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 20:37:05 JST Slashdot :verified:

OpenAI Has Quietly Changed Its 'Core Values' https://slashdot.org/story/23/10/12/195231/openai-has-quietly-changed-its-core-values?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. OpenAI Has Quietly Changed Its 'Core Values' - Slashdot
  
  ChatGPT creator OpenAI quietly revised all of the "Core values" listed on its website in recent weeks, putting a greater emphasis on the development of AGI -- artificial general intelligence. From a report: CEO Sam Altman has described AGI as "the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as ...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 23:28:33 JST Slashdot :verified:

HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/10/1550210/http2-zero-day-exploited-to-launch-largest-ddos-attacks-in-history?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History - Slashdot
  
  wiredmikey writes: A zero-day vulnerability named 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' has been exploited by malicious actors to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in internet history. One of the attacks seen by Cloudflare was three times larger than the record-breaking 71 million reque...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 23:28:31 JST Slashdot :verified:

RISC-V Group Says Restrictions on Open Technology Would Slow Innovation https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/10/1438255/risc-v-group-says-restrictions-on-open-technology-would-slow-innovation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. RISC-V Group Says Restrictions on Open Technology Would Slow Innovation - Slashdot
  
  The chief executive of RISC-V International says that possible government restrictions on the open-source technology will slow down the development of new and better chips, holding back the global technology industry. From a report: The comments come after Reuters last week reported that a growing g...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 23:16:35 JST Slashdot :verified:

GNOME Merge Requests Opened To Drop X11 Session Support https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/10/2139213/gnome-merge-requests-opened-to-drop-x11-session-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. GNOME Merge Requests Opened To Drop X11 Session Support - Slashdot
  
  "A set of merge requests were opened to drop X.ORG (X11) from GNOME desktop," writes Slashdot reader motang. Phoronix reports: This merge request would remove the X11 session targets within gnome-session: "This is the first step towards deprecating the x11 session, the systemd targets are removed, ...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 13:06:33 JST Slashdot :verified:

Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/10/09/1914250/decomposing-language-models-into-understandable-components?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Decomposing Language Models Into Understandable Components - Slashdot
  
  AI startup Anthropic, writing in a blog post: Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training, millions or billions of parameters are updated to make the model better at tasks, and by the end, the model is capable of a dizzying array of behaviors. We u...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 13:06:29 JST Slashdot :verified:

Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Run On ARM Instead of X86 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/09/217214/europes-first-exascale-supercomputer-will-run-on-arm-instead-of-x86?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Run On ARM Instead of X86 - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from ExtremeTech: One of the world's most powerful supercomputers will soon be online in Europe, but it's not just the raw speed that will make the Jupiter supercomputer special. Unlike most of the Top 500 list, the exascale Jupiter system will rely on ARM cores i...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 13:06:26 JST Slashdot :verified:

Mastodon Actually Has 407K More Monthly Users Than It Thought https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/09/2135224/mastodon-actually-has-407k-more-monthly-users-than-it-thought?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought - Slashdot
  
  A network connectivity error caused Mastodon to severely undercount its users. According to founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, the decentralized social network actually has 407,814 more monthly active users than it had been reporting previously. "The adjustment also included a gain of 2.34 million regist...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 18:30:29 JST Slashdot :verified:

Greg Kroah-Hartman Chastises Critic, Says Linux Foundation Strongly Supports Kernel Developers https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/10/08/0131214/greg-kroah-hartman-chastises-critic-says-linux-foundation-strongly-supports-kernel-developers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Greg Kroah-Hartman Chastises Critic, Says Linux Foundation Strongly Supports Kernel Developers - Slashdot
  
  It started when Linux blogger Bryan Lunduke complained about how the Linux Foundation was reducing the six-year long-term support (LTS) window for the Linux kernel to two years. Lunduke argued that the Foundation seemed more interested in funding compliance best practices — as well as artifi...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 18:30:26 JST Slashdot :verified:

OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/10/08/0414238/openai-to-release-its-python-sdk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK - Slashdot
  
  "OpenAI has unveiled the Beta version of its Python SDK," reports Analytics India Magazine, "marking a significant step towards enhancing access to the OpenAI API for Python developers." The OpenAI Python library offers a simplified way for Python-based applications to interact with the OpenAI API,...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 16:00:48 JST Slashdot :verified:

Los Angeles is Using AI To Predict Who Might Become Homeless and Help Before They Do https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/10/04/1848201/los-angeles-is-using-ai-to-predict-who-might-become-homeless-and-help-before-they-do?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. Los Angeles is Using AI To Predict Who Might Become Homeless and Help Before They Do - Slashdot
  
  Los Angeles is housing more people than ever, and building lots more low-income housing, yet it can't keep pace with this ever-rising number of people who end up in cars, tents and shelters. "It's a bucket with a hole in it, so we've got to do something ... to fill that hole," says Dana Vanderford, ...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 10:40:35 JST Slashdot :verified:

GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/09/30/0416229/gnu-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary - Slashdot
  
  Wednesday the Free Software Foundation celebrated "the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement," with an announcement calling it "a turning point in the history of computing. "Forty years later, GNU and free software are even more relevant. While s...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 06:16:15 JST Slashdot :verified:

OpenAI Announces GPT-4 https://slashdot.org/story/23/03/14/1732200/openai-announces-gpt-4?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. OpenAI Announces GPT-4 - Slashdot
  
  After months of rumors and speculation, OpenAI has announced GPT-4: the latest in its line of AI language models that power applications like ChatGPT and the new Bing. From a report: The company claims the model is "more creative and collaborative than ever before," and "can solve difficult problems...
Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 07:21:11 JST Slashdot :verified:

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit https://slashdot.org/story/23/02/28/2058230/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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1. OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit - Slashdot
  
  OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. From a report: OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization by Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, among other tech leaders. In its founding statement, the ...

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