Slashdot Stories for 2026

Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 27
Wine 11.0 Released 25
JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome/Chromium Code 17
Apple Bundles Creative Apps Into a Single Subscription 13
Taiwan Issues Arrest Warrant for OnePlus CEO for China Hires 13
EV Roadside Repairs Easier Than Petrol or Diesel, New Data Suggests 107
Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro 66
Mercedes Temporarily Scraps Its Level 3 'Eyes-off' Driving Feature 46
Verizon To Stop Automatic Unlocking of Phones as FCC Ends 60-Day Unlock Rule 20
America's Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem - Too Many Data Centers 61
Anthropic Invests $1.5 Million in the Python Software Foundation and Open Source Security 10
Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68 381
JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Backfire on Consumers and Economy 144
Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging 34
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices 38
Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash 33
Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans 42
Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane 58
You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000 48
EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution 145
European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth 17
Viral Chinese App 'Are You Dead?' Checks On Those Who Live Alone 53
Even Linus Torvalds Is Vibe Coding Now 54
Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages 3
Should AI Agents Be Classified As People? 80
Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division 33
Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines 49
How Markdown Took Over the World 60
Microsoft Pulls the Plug On Its Free, Two-Decade-Old Windows Deployment Toolkit 33
Norway Reaches 97% EV Sales as EVs Now Outnumber Diesels On Its Roads 199
China is Geoengineering Deserts With Blue-Green Algae 41
Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today 47
Revolutionary Eye Injection Saved My Sight, Says First-Ever Patient 10
Why It Is Difficult To Resize Windows on MacOS 26 95
Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds 79
Apple Partners With Google on Siri Upgrade, Declares Gemini 'Most Capable Foundation' 26
US President Calls for 10% Credit Card Interest Cap, Banks Push Back 309
Cloudflare Threatens Italy Exit After $16.3M Fine For Refusing Piracy Blocks 50
Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026 32
Linux Hit a New All-Time High for Steam Market Share in December 27
Ubisoft Closes Game Studio Where Workers Voted to Unionize Two Weeks Ago 151
How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs? 36
Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge 40
Finnish Startup IXI Plans New Autofocusing Eyeglasses 44
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage' 105
How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth's Atmosphere? 48
Walmart Announces Drone Delivery, Integration with Google's AI Chatbot Gemini 20
Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over 'Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories' 37
Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach 13
China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation 44
That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History 19
Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End 'Enshittification' 90
C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE 187
Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days 90
Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math 32
Four More Tech Bloggers Are Switching to Linux 197
AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives 32
AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find 39
Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago 41
China's 'Artificial Sun' Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible 32
Meta Announces New Smartglasses Features, Delays International Rollout Claiming 'Unprecedented' Demand' 30
Medical Evacuation from Space Station Next Week for Astronaut in Stable Condition 43
More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores 57
How the Free Software Foundation Kept a Videoconferencing Software Free 16
French-UK Starlink Rival Pitches Canada On 'Sovereign' Satellite Service 45
Scientists Tried To Break Einstein's Speed of Light Rule 72
Meta Signs Deals With Three Nuclear Companies For 6+ GW of Power 28
AI Models Are Starting To Learn By Asking Themselves Questions 82
AI Is Intensifying a 'Collapse' of Trust Online, Experts Say 60
Intel Is 'Going Big Time Into 14A,' Says CEO Lip-Bu Tan 24
Microsoft May Soon Allow IT Admins To Uninstall Copilot 41
Google: Don't Make 'Bite-Sized' Content For LLMs If You Care About Search Rank 22
CES Worst In Show Awards Call Out the Tech Making Things Worse 41
Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver 12
Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS 39
Microsoft Windows Media Player Stops Serving Up CD Album Info 59
Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom 48
The Golden Age of Vaccine Development 118
America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza 141
Amazon's New Manager Dashboard Flags 'Low-Time Badgers' and 'Zero Badgers' 51
Torvalds Tells Kernel Devs To Stop Debating AI Slop - Bad Actors Won't Follow the Rules Anyway 53
Craigslist at 30: No Algorithms, No Ads, No Problem 45
iOS 26 Shows Unusually Slow Adoption Months After Release 61
Amazon Wants To Know What Every Corporate Employee Accomplished Last Year 65
Send To Kindle from Microsoft Word is Discontinued 11
Why Care About Debt-to-GDP? 121
Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows 61
Fusion Physicists Found a Way Around a Long-Standing Density Limit 37
Ultimate Camouflage Tech Mimics Octopus In Scientific First 12
Some Super-Smart Dogs Can Learn New Words Just By Eavesdropping 51
YouTube Will Now Let You Filter Shorts Out of Search Results 51
Lawsuit Over OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Can Head To Trial, US Judge Says 32
Illinois Health Department Exposed Over 700,000 Residents' Personal Data For Years 14
Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' To Gmail That Summarizes Emails 46
French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses 'Cloudflare-First' Defense 34
Microsoft Turns Copilot Chats Into a Checkout Lane 41
Wi-Fi Advocates Get Win From FCC With Vote To Allow Higher-Power Devices 35
The Gap Between Premium and Budget TV Brands is Quickly Closing 57
Iran in 'Digital Blackout' as Tehran Throttles Mobile Internet Access 45
'The Downside To Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work' 39
TV Makers Are Taking AI Too Far 53
Former Google CEO Plans To Singlehandedly Fund a Hubble Telescope Replacement 40
Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google 31
Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas 59
Germany's Dying Forests Are Losing Their Ability To Absorb CO2 39
China Hacked Email Systems of US Congressional Committee Staff 40
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? 109
Disney+ To Add Vertical Videos In Push To Boost Daily Engagement 49
LEGO Says Smart Brick Won't Replace Traditional Play After CES Backlash 30
SteamOS Continues Its Slow Spread Across the PC Gaming Landscape 30
Rubin Observatory Spots an Asteroid That Spins Fast Enough To Set a Record 18
How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation 153
Japan's Nuclear Watchdog Halts Plant's Reactor Safety Screening Over Falsified Data 33
AI Chip Frenzy To Wallop DRAM Prices With 70% Hike 92
Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides 36
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Encouraging Users To Connect Their Medical Records 38
California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys 22
JPMorgan Chase Reaches a Deal To Take Over the Apple Credit Card 35
Bose Open-Sources Its SoundTouch Home Theater Smart Speakers Ahead of End-of-Life 22
Warner Bros Rejects Revised Paramount Bid, Sticks With Netflix 31
Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control 148
New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol 114
Samsung's Rolling Ballie Robot Indefinitely Shelved After Delays 8
The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV 53
How Aviation Emissions Could Be Halved Without Cutting Journeys 118
Microsoft Cancels Plans To Rate Limit Exchange Online Bulk Emails 17
Logitech Caused Its Mice To Freak Out By Not Renewing a Certificate 68
Dell Walks Back AI-First Messaging After Learning Consumers Don't Care 50
'Everyone Hates OneDrive, Microsoft's Cloud App That Steals Then Deletes All Your Files' 161
Polymarket Refuses To Pay Bets That US Would 'Invade' Venezuela 135
South Korea's President Identifies a New Enemy: Baldness 32
Founder of Spyware Maker PcTattletale Pleads Guilty To Hacking, Advertising Surveillance Software 3
Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets 55
An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho 42
Creator of Claude Code Reveals His Workflow 54
Discord Files Confidentially For IPO 26
NYC Wegmans Is Storing Biometric Data On Shoppers' Eyes, Voices and Faces 26
Utah Allows AI To Renew Medical Prescriptions 34
Nvidia Details New AI Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes 11
Google Will Now Only Release Android Source Code Twice a Year 18
Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads 50
Intel Is Making Its Own Handheld Gaming PC Chips At CES 2026 17
Study Casts Doubt on Potential For Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa 22
Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level 56
Lego Unveils Smart Bricks, Its 'Most Significant Evolution' in 50 years 11
Elite Colleges Are Back at the Top of the List For Company Recruiters 23
HarperCollins Will Use AI To Translate Harlequin Romance Novels 31
Many Schools Don't Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore 143
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow 53
HP Pushes PC-in-a-Keyboard for Businesses With Hot Desks 89
'NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court' 38
Razer Thinks You'd Rather Have AI Headphones Instead of Glasses 21
Microsoft Office Is Now 'Microsoft 365 Copilot App' 99
Stratechery Pushes Back on AI Capital Dystopia Predictions 51
VW Brings Back Physical Buttons 57
Dell Admits It Made a Huge Mistake When It Abandoned XPS 48
Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas At CES 38
The Nation's Strictest Privacy Law Goes Into Effect 45
'Godfather of SaaS' Says He Replaced Most of His Sales Team With AI Agents 54
Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension 9
Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years 171
Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain 22
GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default 107
Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam 32
Amazon's AI Assistant Comes To the Web With Alexa.com 7
SanDisk Says Goodbye To WD Blue and Black SSDs, Hello To New 'Optimus' Drives 30
VSCode IDE Forks Expose Users To 'Recommended Extension' Attacks 6
UK Government's New Pension Portal Operator Tells Users To Wait for AI Before Complaining 27
Google To Kill Gmail's POP3 Mail Fetching 92
Microsoft is Slowly Turning Edge Into Another Copilot App 38
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down 44
'The College Backlash is a Mirage' 93
Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas 55
Samsung's CES Concepts Disguise AI Speakers as Turntables and Cassette Players 13
People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service 109
Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero 125
Samsung Co-CEO Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices Will 'Inevitably' Impact Smartphone Costs 27
As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked 65
2025 Ends With Release of J. R. R. Tolkein's Unpublished Story 16
Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX 152
39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data 43
North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names 53
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles? 150
Fleischer Studios Criticized for Claiming Betty Boop is Not Public Domain 23
'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste 68
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 63
Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents 57
Trump Organization's $499 Smartphone Delayed Again, Now Until the End of January 85
Archboot Adds COSMIC Desktop as a New Install and Rescue Option 4
Furiosa's Energy-Efficient 'NPU' AI Chips Start Mass Production This Month, Challenging Nvidia 25
The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly 142
Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK - Thanks to Google's Algorithm? 38
New Tesla Video Shows Tesla Semi Electric Truck Charging at 1.2 MW 178
What Happened When Alaska's Court System Tried Answering Questions with an AI Chatbot? 63
Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled 25
Has Microsoft Discontinued Offline Activation of Windows? 99
The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro - But ChatGPT and Perplexity Disagree 205
SpaceX Lowering Orbits of 4,400 Starlink Satellites for Safety's Sake 39
Could AI Bring Us Four-Day Workweeks? 94
Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights After U.S. Attack on Venezuela 180
Interference With America's GPS System 'Has Grown Dramatically' 31
Jobs Vulnerable to AI Replacement Actually 'Thriving, Not Dying Out', Report Suggests 42
After Half a Decade, the Russian Space Station Segment Stopped Leaking 39
NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can't Read Clocks 251
Economic Inequality Does Not Equate To Poor Well-Being or Mental Health, Massive Meta-Analysis Finds 127
Dell's XPS Brand May Return Just a Year After Being Retired, Report Claims 16
Microsoft CEO: Time To Move 'Beyond the Arguments of Slop vs Sophistication' 98
MTV's Music-Only Channels Go Off the Air 51
Google AI Overviews Put People at Risk of Harm With Misleading Health Advice 69
Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work 32
AMD Closes in on Intel in Latest Steam Hardware Survey 58
Reading is a Vice 124
A Decade of BBC Question Time Data Reveals Imbalance in Journalist Guests 94
'Results Were Fudged': Departing Meta AI Chief Confirms Llama 4 Benchmark Manipulation 32
Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies 31
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prints Final Newspaper, Shifts To All-Digital Format 31
How Nokia Went From iPhone Victim To $1 Billion Nvidia Deal 21
ASUS Announces Price Hikes Starting January 5 37
Australia's Biggest Pension Fund To Cut Global Stocks Allocation on AI Concerns 29
No Standard iPhone 18 Launch This Year, Reports Suggest 49
IDC Estimates Apple Shipped Just 45,000 Vision Pros Last Quarter 57
Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours 56
'The Cult of Costco' 168
Iran Offers To Sell Advanced Weapons Systems For Crypto 71
'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure' 233
DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship 275
Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'I Got Rhythm' Into the Commons 36
European Space Agency Acknowledges Another Breach as Criminals Claim 200 GB Data Haul 23
The Man Taking Over the Large Hadron Collider 29
You Can't Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head 66
Waymos Are Now Coming For Your Coveted San Francisco Parking Spots 59
UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space 56
NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts 37
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good For You 96
Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years 55
Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87 19
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity 78

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