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Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like?

Slashdot reader dryriver writes: Imagine this. You are an AI running on the latest machine learning hardware, like Nvidia’s new Tensor cores for example, or perhaps a data center full of Xeons and EPYCs. You have lots of processing power, lots of RAM, run under Linux and — to make things more interesting — you […]

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Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests

Long-time Slashdot reader cold fjord writes: As seething discontent has boiled over in Iran leading to mass protests, protesters have taken to the streets and social media to register their discontent… The government has been closing schools and shutting down transportation. Now, as mass protests in Iran go into their third day there are reports […]

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Slashdot’s 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017

Slashdot’s most-visited story of 2017 was Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1, which was visited more than 212,000 times since it was published in Feburary. And our second- and third-most popular stories also came in February — both just one week before. FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To […]

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How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army’s Helicopter

“In September, Slashdot reported on an in-flight collision between an Army UA60 helicopter and a hobby drone over Staten Island,” writes Slashdot reader ElizabethGreene. “The NTSB has released its final report on the incident, blaming the drone pilot.” Ars Technica reports: After waiting 30 minutes, [drone-owner] Tantashov assumed there had been a mechanical malfunction and […]

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Louisana Police Bust an Infamous Nigerian Email Spam Scammer

MojoKid writes: You have probably at some point been contacted via email spam by someone claiming you are the beneficiary in a will of a Nigerian prince. As the scam goes, all you have to do is submit your personal information and Western Union some funds to process the necessary paperwork, and in return you […]

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Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding?

The CEO of Wireline — a cloud application marketplace and serverless architecture platform — is pushing for an open source development fund to help sustain projects, funded by an initial coin offering. “Developers like me know that there are a lot of weak spots in the modern internet,” he writes on MarketWatch, suggesting more Equifax-sized […]

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Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft

An anonymous reader quotes Fortune’s new report on blockchain: Demand for the technology, best known for supporting bitcoin, is growing so much that it will be one of the largest users of capacity next year at about 60 data centers that IBM rents out to other companies around the globe. IBM was one of the […]

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In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel

An anonymous reader quotes the Hollywood Reporter: Looking at the most-ordered comic books in the North American comic market, DC Entertainment had a particularly strong year, with seven of the top 10 issues of the year being published by the home of Superman, Batman and the Justice League… just three years ago, not one DC […]

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How Big Tech is Getting Involved in Your Health Care

Apple’s financing a study to see whether irregular heart rhythms can be detected with an Apple Watch. But that’s just the beginning, according to a New York Times article shared by Templer421: As consumers, medical centers and insurers increasingly embrace health-tracking apps, tech companies want a bigger share of the more than $3 trillion spent […]

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Neuro, Cyber, Slaughter: Emerging Technological Threats In 2017

“Wouldn’t it be nice if advances in technology stopped throwing new problems at the world? No such luck,” writes Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “Several emerging technological threats could — soon enough — come to rival nuclear weapons and climate change in their potential to upend (or eliminate) civilization.” Lasrick writes: In 2017, the cyber […]

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