LinkedIn To Launch Audio Events Later This Month

The live, Clubhouse-like audio feature LinkedIn confirmed it was working on last year will debut later this month in beta as part of the com...

AI's 6 Worst-Case Scenarios

"Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?" asks IEEE Spectrum: Hollywood's worst-case scen...

Open Source Developer Intentionally Corrupts His Own Widely-Used Libraries

"Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using...

Amazon Joins Lockheed Martin and Cisco to Send Alexa to Space, Offers NASA Tours for SchoolKids

"Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon?" quips GeekWire. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: This week brought news that Am...

Museum Announces Highest Resolution Ever for an Image of a Painting

Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch "can now be viewed on computers everywhere in ultra high definition," writes The Hill....

Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and ...

Amid Facebook Controversies, Meta's Head of PR 'Leaves a Company on Fire'

Gizmodo writes that "It's hard to blame someone for running away from a burning building. The same can be applied to Silicon Valley...