Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where … Read more
TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) don’t deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray model—where business logic lives entirely in prompts—creates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, … Read more
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on tasks involving math, physics, and science. And this latest open model is turning heads for apparently quickly catching up to OpenAI. For example, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks and tests, … Read more
Apple provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate version of iOS 18.3 today, and with it comes release notes confirming what’s new. While we knew about several of the features that are in the update, there are some lesser known tweaks and bug fixes. The update adds new Visual Intelligence features for … Read more
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Netflix has announced that it’s raising prices for its subscription plans in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina. All plans will see changes, including both the ad-supported and ad-free options. According to the most recent earnings report, the basic plan with ads will go up from $6.99 to $7.99 per month. The standard ad-free plan … Read more
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In a significant advancement for the field of drug delivery, researchers have developed a new technique that addresses a persistent challenge: scalable manufacturing of nanoparticles and microparticles. This innovation, led by Nathalie M. Pinkerton, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at … Read more
Getty The government is to make digital versions of a range of official documents available via a dedicated app and a digital wallet, as part of what ministers say is an attempt to bring interactions with the public “in tune with modern life”. Veteran cards and driving licences will be the first to be incorporated … Read more
UBM TechWeb unveiled details of the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that will take place from March17 to to March 21 in San Francisco. Ashley Corrigan, conference manager and head of content for GDC, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the theme of GDC 2025 will be connecting the world, with … Read more
Google/ZDNET Google has done a pretty good job with accessibility features on Pixel phones for the past few years. With TalkBack, display customizations, Simple View, and more, Google’s flagship phones have come a long way. But the accessibility doesn’t stop there. If you have vision impairments and like to take photos, the Guided Frame feature … Read more