Archive: June 2016

Getty / Futurism There’s a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make an extra buck by selling off the digital remains of their dead companies in the form of their employees’ Slack messages and emails. And now, there’s a whole ecosystem of decomposers that specialize in helping them make that happen, Forbes reports. Getting quality training data is half the battle with building an AI model, and fresh sources are

@ishisaka(Tadahiro ishisaka)Programming Notes November 12, 2026ProgrammingCloudAIEngineer0Posted at 2026-11-11 As usual, I’ll introduce a carefully curated selection of tech news and articles I found online today that personally caught my attention. I’d be happy to hear your opinions and any additional information in the comments. Programming Go The Microsoft builds of the Go language, “v1.27.4-1” and “v1.26.11-1,” which include security fixes, have been r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of Dowagiac. Beset by the 30 megawatt tech facility, residents in the otherwise quiet burg were forced to live under the relentless screech of a massive cooling operation, prompting a lawsuit over excessive noise. At the time, footage from a TikTok video — showing volume readings reaching 60 decibels

Meta / Futurism Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to be cracking down on creeps using them to record people without their consent, whatever measures it’s taking clearly aren’t working. After Meta announced this month that it would ban users using the glasses to film themselves harassing strangers, a recent investigation by Oligarch Watch still found hundreds of these videos on

In typical Meta fashion, the company’s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on the people in users’ lives. Nearly a month after its launch, researchers are digging into how Muse works. It turns out the AI agent will openly share internal files and instructions when users ask, offering a peek at how it operates. One of the somewhat unsettling details is an hourly process that instructs Muse to create and update “a pag

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for science—it is starting to reshape how science itself is practiced. A team at Manchester is exploring this transformation, analyzing how AI is changing the way researchers work, collaborate and make discoveries. Their project combines large-scale data analysis with on-the-ground case studies from labs across the U.K. and internationally. By analyzing millions of publicat

Published on September 3, 2026 at 3:01 p.m. Comment 7 𝕏 Print © Thomas Estimbre / 01net.com Hacked this summer and called out over its digital defenses, the state is spending big and enlisting Mistral's services to shore up its ministries. One detail complicates the picture: its own officials prefer ChatGPT. It has been a tough summer for the Directorate General of Public Finance. The hacking of the tax authority exposed the tax data of 678,000 individuals

Shutterstock / Antonello Marangi OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about her alarming ChatGPT interactions during the run-up to the mass killing. The AI company’s legal peril is growing: it’s now fighting more than 50 lawsuits alleging that extensive use

Everything about OpenAI see more The Chinese laboratories DeepSeek and Moonshot AI turned to responses from GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s advanced model, to train their latest versions, according to a report by The Information.The practice, known as distillation, helps reproduce the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) models with fewer computational resources. However, competitors’ use of proprietary systems has drawn criticism from American companies ami

Shutterstock / Futurism While a rising majority of workers in the take a negative attitude toward AI in the workplace, others are welcoming the tech with open arms — even going so far as to pay for AI services out of their own pockets. According to a recent workplace survey conducted by Deloitte and flagged by Reuters, workers in the UK are spending a collective $1.3 billion annually on generative AI for their jobs, without even expensing it. The survey is

People walk past screens at the LG Electronics booth during the CES tech show Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP Photo/Abbie Parr The world's largest tech showcase does not come without theatrics. Innovations and gadgets like a lollipop that sings to you as you consume it, a laundry-folding robot and a "smart" LEGO brick have stolen the spotlight so far at CES 2026. But underscoring this year's programming is a strong focus on an industry that

Google released its first Gemma 3 open models earlier this year, featuring between 1 billion and 27 billion parameters. In generative AI, the parameters are the learned variables that control how the model processes inputs to estimate output tokens. Generally, the more parameters in a model, the better it performs. With just 270 million parameters, the new Gemma 3 can run on devices like smartphones or even entirely inside a web browser. Running an AI mode

Nano Banana 2 is more accurately known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image—the previous Nano Banana models were based on the 3.0 branch. According to Google, the new release can deliver results similar to Nano Banana Pro but with the speed of the non-pro Flash variant. Google promises the new image generator will have more advanced world knowledge pulled from the Internet by the Gemini 3.1 LLM. This apparently gives it the necessary information to render objects wit

Shutterstock / Deemerwha studio The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the exact mechanics of how their basic building blocks of nodes or “neurons” function are an incomprehensible “black box,” even to the researchers who create them. But a new essay from AI researcher Nick Cammarata has stunned Silicon Valley by arguing the opposite. AI models aren’t impenetrable black boxes,

Published on October 22, 2026 at 08:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Health questions, confidences, gifts to prepare: ChatGPT can now make your most sensitive conversations disappear behind a four-digit code. Yet the lock has its blind spots, and one of them can erase everything. Since October 20, OpenAI has been rolling out “locked chats” in ChatGPT, from free accounts to Enterprise and Edu plans. The feature is reminiscent of the chat locking that WhatsApp h