On April 27th, 2026 with 2 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding,...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 8 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Notepad++ has finally made its way to macOS, and this time it is not through a compatibility layer. A new community-driven port brings the...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 3 comments
China has blocked Meta's planned $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the deal withdrawn after months of scrutiny from both Beijing and...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 32 comments
GitHub said in a blog post today that it is moving Copilot to usage-based billing starting June 1. Base subscription prices will remain the same but premium...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 8 comments
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is ending revenue-sharing payments to OpenAI (paywalled; alternative source) and making the partnership non-exclusive. "The...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 194 comments
California's proposed billionaire tax appears headed for the November ballot after backers said they gathered more than 1.5 million signatures, well above the...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 52 comments
"There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States," says Andy Hunter, the founder/CEO of Bookshop.org.
Fast Company...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 36 comments
Public stock exchanges "appear to be warming to climate tech startups," reports TechCrunch. "Or at least some of them."
This week, nuclear startup X-energy...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 21 comments
"California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Connecticut, Oregon and Washington have all passed comprehensive right-to-repair regulations," reports CNBC,...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 92 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres:
Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 15 comments
Are AI agents already facing Indirect Prompt Injection attacks? Google's Threat Intelligence teams searched for known attacks that would target AI systems...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 117 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg:
More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 56 comments
"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde:
I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 39 comments
How will Apple change in September under its new CEO — former hardware chief John Ternus? The blog Geeky Gadgets is already expecting "significant...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 60 comments
Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:
[I]t's selling quickly...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 34 comments
In March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the moon-orbiting "Lunar Gateway" space station was being "paused" to focus instead of missions to...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 46 comments
The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing "brain breaks" in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, "including...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 45 comments
It's "the curious case of... the Pokémon Go pro who celebrated too hard," reports the gaming news site Aftermath. It all started on the first weekend in...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 24 comments
The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 22 comments
The AI industry is largely failing to ask a key design question, argues theoretical neuroscientist/cognitive scientist Vivienne Ming. Are their AI products...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 219 comments
America's National Science Board (NSB) "was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation," writes the Washington Post, "in an...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 74 comments
After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune:
14-year-old in...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 28 comments
Colorado's "age-attestation" bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 135 comments
There's a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 37 comments
Microsoft released the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 92 comments
"Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers," reads the pull request.
And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 50 comments
It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's...
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Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget!
