Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Medal Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth 21
Medal California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar 152
Pareto's Economic Theories Used To Find the Best Mario Kart 8 Racer 5
Apple Acquires Datakalab, a French Startup Behind AI and Computer Vision Tech 1
Huawei Wants To Take Homegrown HarmonyOS Phone Platform Worldwide 29
Gaming Giant Embracer Group Is Splitting Into Three Companies 7
EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design 19
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 11
Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs 54
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 54
Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries 24
Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo 24
Chinese Flying Taxi Sector Claims Global Lead Thanks To Regulatory Support 32
Medal Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE 128
Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories 36
Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants 96
AI Needs So Much Electricity That Tech Companies Are Getting Into Energy Business 45
Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation' 100
Marketing Cancer Drugs To Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality 32
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say 32
How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems 67
Medal What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet? 176
Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 110
Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable 53
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Just Sent Its Last Message Home 24
GPT-4 Can Exploit Real Vulnerabilities By Reading Security Advisories 66
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud 28
Medal Medal Should Automakers Feel Threatened by China's Exports of Electric Cars? 288
LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 58
How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa 63
Medal EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 107
Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles 20
Medal Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion 77
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 87
Volla Successfully Crowdfunds a Privacy-Focused Tablet on Kickstarter 32
Medal Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? 170
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 13
The Legendary Zilog Z80 CPU Is Being Discontinued After Nearly 50 Years 78
Medal Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power: Coal 57
Red Hat Upgrades Its Pipeline-Securing (and Verification-Automating) Tools 10
Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds 74
'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 19
British Columbia Bans Level 3 and Above Autonomous Cars 83
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 21
Medal Medal NASA Veteran Behind Propellantless Propulsion Drive Announces Major Discovery 257
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story 23
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Firefox Nightly Expands To Linux On ARM64 4
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki Considers Taking Company Private 20
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly 106
A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World 27
EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two 'Forever Chemicals' 34
Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype 42
Microsoft's VASA-1 Can Deepfake a Person With One Photo and One Audio Track 13
Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Cut 60,000 Jobs in First Layoffs in 20 Years 51
Porn Sites Face Strict EU Rules, Commission Says 36
Meta's Not Telling Where It Got Its AI Training Data 25
Microsoft Does Not Want You To Use iPerf3 To Measure Network Performance on Windows 59
Medal Medal Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace' 257
Samsung Shifts To Emergency Mode With 6-day Work Week for Executives 85
Medal Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts 154
Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store 53
Chinese Cities Are Sinking Rapidly 68
Medal FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure 116
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Reddit Is Taking Over Google 85
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 63
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 35
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Medal Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 144
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 18
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp 12
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 15
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 38
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 84
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions 19
Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text - With a Twist 41
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 29
Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance 22
Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams 12
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years 23
Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support 60
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight 69
Medal Medal Google Terminates 28 Employees For Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract 263
Inside Amazon's Secret Operation To Gather Intel on Rivals 17
Medal Medal Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac? 437
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
Medal Medal Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 307
TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes' 10
Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare 57
Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute 36
AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU 11
Medal Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 123
Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack 14
What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill? 63
AI Computing Is on Pace To Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 49
Medal Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 123
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name 17
Amazon Cloud Unit Kills Snowmobile Data Transfer Truck Service 35
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 35
Medal Dropbox CEO Says Employees Appreciate Remote Work More Than Cushy Office Perks 149
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report For 2024 Q1 10
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 40
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
NASA Confirms That Debris From ISS Crashed Into Florida Home 57
Medal Medal Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 507
State Tax Officials Are Using AI To Go After Wealthy Payers 105
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 17
'Crescendo' Method Can Jailbreak LLMs Using Seemingly Benign Prompts 46
ISPs Can Charge Extra For Fast Gaming Under FCC's Internet Rules, Critics Say 29
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 58
Medal Medal Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick 196
A New Generation Is Uncovering the Tiny Doodles Left By Engineers On Old Microchips 25
Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images To Be Made Offense in UK 125
A Crypto Wallet Maker's Warning About an iMessage Bug Sounds Like a False Alarm 3
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Change Healthcare's Ransomware Attack Costs Edge Toward $1 Billion So Far 17
Apple Opens Web Distribution Option for iOS Devs Targeting EU 35
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation 48
Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot 19
Microsoft Takes Down AI Model Published by Beijing-Based Researchers Without Adequate Safety Checks 49
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100
NASA Says New Plan Needed To Return Rocks From Mars; Current Mission Design Can't Deliver Before 2040 65
Baidu Says AI Chatbot 'Ernie Bot' Has Attracted 200 Million Users 7
Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million 34
Medal Medal YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Now Includes Third-Party Apps 204