Proposals to slap a wealth tax on the world’s super-rich could yield $250 billion a year to tackle the climate crisis and address poverty and inequality, but would affect only a small number of billionaire families, Brazil’s climate chief has said. Ministers from the G20 group of the world’s biggest Read more…
“The linked article is pretty much a press release, but it’s still interesting to see the promise of exoskeletons starting to infiltrate the mass market,” writes longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam. “These rigs cost $5,000, weigh only a few pounds, and go for multiple hours on a charge.” Gizmodo reports: With Read more…
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Meta’s machine-learning model for detecting prompt injection attacks — special prompts to make neural networks behave inappropriately — is itself vulnerable to, you guessed it, prompt injection attacks. Prompt-Guard-86M, introduced by Meta last week in conjunction with its Llama 3.1 generative model, is intended “to help developers detect and respond Read more…
According to new report, password manager Dashlane has seen a 400 percent increase in passkey authentications since the beginning of the year, “with 1 in 5 active Dashlane users now having at least one passkey in their Dashlane vault. Over 100 sites now offer passkey support, though Dashlane says the Read more…
Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet engines during airport take-offs. But more than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because Read more…