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OpenAI's Next Big AI Effort GPT-5 is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive(2024-12-22 06:00:07)

"From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5..." reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But "OpenAI's new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn't clear when — or if — it'll work." "There ...
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Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage(2024-12-22 03:00:02)

Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data. . The outage had started Sunday December 15...
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Scientists Build a Nuclear-Diamond Battery That Could Power Devices for Thousands of Years(2024-12-22 00:00:06)

The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience: The diam...
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Luigi Mangione's Ghost Gun Was Only Partially 3D-Printed(2024-12-21 21:00:02)

"More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world's most high-profile alleged killer," Wired wrote this month: For the community o...
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T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs(2024-12-21 18:00:13)

Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed "Sky's the Limit!", delivering a massive update for this highly portable source-b...
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