Slashdot Stories for 2025

Another Starship Clone Pops Up In China 54
MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center 64
Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief 69
The Oscars Will Abandon Broadcast TV For YouTube In 2029 83
Meta 'Pauses' Third-Party Headset Program 22
Netflix To Add Soccer Video Game Based On FIFA World Cup Next Year 14
GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware 47
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 151
Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash, Promising Improved Intelligence and Efficiency 24
Browser Extensions With 8 Million Users Collect Extended AI Conversations 12
English Has Become Easier To Read 57
FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement 110
How We Ingest Plastic Chemicals While Consuming Food 67
Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million 15
Google Sues Alleged Chinese Scam Group Behind Massive US Text Message Phishing Ring 20
Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Links 33
Warner Bros Discovery Board Rejects Rival Bid From Paramount 24
OpenAI in Talks With Amazon About Investment That Could Exceed $10 Billion 39
Uber and DoorDash Try To Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping 208
Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans 53
The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show 57
Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult 32
EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars 152
Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China To Safeguard Billions In Revenue 54
Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt 71
Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents 121
Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code 24
Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title 19
Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History 43
Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply 72
MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian 43
Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy 48
US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight 112
Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch 80
McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry 26
High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second 106
Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses 39
The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down 113
Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI 114
Google's Real Estate Listings 'Experiment' Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8% 15
SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted 5
PayPal Applies To Become a Bank As US Loosens Regulatory Reins 24
Glaciers To Reach Peak Rate of Extinction In the Alps In Eight Years 24
Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wreaked Decades of Havoc 63
Lidar-Maker Luminar Files For Bankruptcy 30
Google Search Homepage Adds a 'Plus' Menu 21
China, Iran Are Having a Field Day With React2Shell, Google Warns 30
JPMorgan Steps Further Into Crypto With Tokenized Money Fund 26
Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop' 26
Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business 131
Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest 64
Verizon Refused To Unlock Man's iPhone, So He Sued the Carrier and Won 46
Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World 35
Cloudflare Reveals How Bots and Governments Reshaped the Internet in 2025 23
Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data 10
US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists 53
Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water 93
How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device? 73
Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy 75
LG's Software Update Forces Microsoft Copilot Onto Smart TVs 57
Security Researcher Found Critical Kindle Vulnerabilities That Allowed Hijacking Amazon Accounts 13
Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? 183
SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink 45
Roomba Maker 'iRobot' Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years 100
Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers 92
CEOs Plan to Spend More on AI in 2026 - Despite Spotty Returns 41
'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? 21
Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bots Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs 42
Entry-Level Tech Workers Confront an AI-Fueled Jobpocalypse 78
Polar Bears are Rewiring Their Own Genetics to Survive a Warming Climate 27
America Adds 11.7 GW of New Solar Capacity in Q3 - Third Largest Quarter on Record 55
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads 26
Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill 168
Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI 54
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules 139
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI-Generated Code 70
Is the R Programming Language Surging in Popularity? 42
System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS 23
'Free Software Awards' Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory 5
Applets Are Officially Going, But Java In the Browser Is Better Than Ever 61
Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs 50
Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online 33
The World's Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025 169
How a 23-Year-Old in 1975 Built the World's First Handheld Digital Camera 28
More of America's Coal-Fired Power Plants Cease Operations 117
Rust in Linux's Kernel 'is No Longer Experimental' 90
Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables 161
Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech 64
Ukrainians Sue US Chip Firms For Powering Russian Drones, Missiles 118
Arizona City Rejects Data Center After Lobbying Push 43
Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices By 50% For DIY Laptops 30
Doom Studio id Software Forms 'Wall-To-Wall' Union 32
US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales 63
Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text 6
Bill Gates' Daughter Secures $30 Million For AI App Built In Stanford Dorm 40
Google Translate Expands Live Translation To All Earbuds On Android 10
The Data Breach That Hit Two-Thirds of a Country 4
New Kindle Feature Uses AI To Answer Questions About Books - And Authors Can't Opt Out 41
Arkansas Becoming 1st State To Sever Ties With PBS, Effective July 1 118
Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub 13
Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers 62
'Apple Tax is Dead in the USA' 100
China Leads Research in 90% of Crucial Technologies - a Dramatic Shift this Century 135
The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps 33
Washington Post's AI-Generated Podcasts Rife With Errors, Fictional Quotes 35
Hollywood Director Found Guilty of Blowing $11 Million Netflix Budget on Crypto and Ferraris 43
Major Automakers Say China Poses 'Clear and Present Threat' To US Auto Industry 163
Reddit Launches High Court Challenge To Australia's Under-16s Social Media Ban 54
SEC Gives DTCC OK to Tokenize Stocks In Move To Blockchain 19
Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The Wonder Material Powering a Medical 'Revolution' 29
TerraUSD Creator Do Kwon Sentenced To 15 Years Over $40 Billion Crypto Collapse 30
97% of Buildings On Earth 3D-Mapped 34
Over 10,000 Docker Hub Images Found Leaking Credentials, Auth Keys 18
VMware Kills vSphere Foundation In Parts of EMEA 19
Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States 129
UC Berkeley Professor Uses Secret Camera To Catch PhD Candidate Sabotaging Rival 62
Rivian Goes Big On Autonomy, With Custom Silicon, Lidar, and a Hint At Robotaxis 29
Disney Says Google AI Infringes Copyright 'On a Massive Scale' 42
Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App 18
Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst 29
New York Becomes First State To Require Disclosure of AI Performers in Ads 24
Uber Pulls Back From Electric Cars, Slashing Incentives for Drivers 35
GPT-5.2 Arrives as OpenAI Scrambles To Respond To Gemini 3's Gains 65
College Campuses Have Become a Front Line in America's Sports-Betting Boom 39
The Game Awards Are Losing Their Luster 25
Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit 204
AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans 30
Disney Puts $1 Billion Into OpenAI, Licenses 200+ Characters for AI-Generated Videos and Images 42
Opera Wants You To Pay $20 a Month For Its AI Browser 43
US Could Ask Foreign Tourists For Five-Year Social Media History Before Entry 270
New OpenAI Models Likely Pose 'High' Cybersecurity Risk, Company Says 32
Sperm Donor With Cancer-Causing Gene Fathered Nearly 200 Children Across Europe 72
NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter 43
ChatGPT Is Apple's Most Downloaded App of 2025 20
Operation Bluebird Wants To Relaunch 'Twitter' For a New Social Network 83
Google Faces Fines Over Google Play If It Doesn't Make More Concessions 21
India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content 10
Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Chip Designer Ventana Micro Systems 17
Ubuntu Will Have Native AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC Libraries In Next LTS Release 6
Adobe Integrates With ChatGPT 20
Cable Channel Subscribers Grew For the First Time In 8 Years Last Quarter 21
Wells Fargo CEO Says More Job Cuts Coming at the Bank as AI Prompts 'Efficiency' 39
Democrats Warn Their Party May Try To Unravel Any Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Deal 206
Amazon Changes How Copyright Protection is Applied To Kindle Direct's Self-Published Ebooks 15
HDMI Forum Continues To Block HDMI 2.1 For Linux, Valve Says 127
Meta's New AI Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company 27
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ 56
Nvidia Builds Location Verification Tech That Could Track Where Its AI Chips End Up 24
AI Slop Ad Backfires For McDonald's 56
Rubio Orders Diplomats To Return To Using Times New Roman Font 201
RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes 30
In a Major New Report, Scientists Build Rationale For Sending Astronauts To Mars 99
'Food and Fossil Fuel Production Causing $5 Billion of Environmental Damage an Hour' 121
OpenAI Joins the Linux Foundation's New Agentic AI Foundation 18
Netflix Faces Consumer Class Action Over $72 Billion Warner Bros Deal 49
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras? 147
More People Crowdfunded Basic Needs In 2025, GoFundMe Report Shows 37
Congress Quietly Strips Right-To-Repair Provisions From US Military Spending Bill 88
Millions of Australian Teens Lose Access To Social Media As Ban Takes Effect 137
Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength As Market Grows Weary of Spending 59
2025 Will Be World's Second or Third-Hottest Year on Record, EU Scientists Say 43
Microsoft 365 Prices Rising For Businesses and Governments in July 2026 27
The Inevitable Shape of Cheap Online Retail 15
How Pokemon Cards Became a Stock Market For Millennials 55
Microsoft To Invest $17.5 Billion in India 25
What Happens When an 'Infinite-Money Machine' Unravels 78
Xbox Is Bleeding Out 42
The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable 39
'Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection' 145
Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable 82
India's Aviation Crisis Is All About Too Big to Tame 28
Science Journal Retracts Study On Safety of Monsanto's Roundup 44
Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 85
Claude Code Is Coming To Slack 11
Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy For Users 48
193 Cybercrims Arrested, Accused of Plotting 'Violence-As-a-Service' 19
Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut 95
More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters 123
Taiwan Cries Censorship As Government Bans Rednote 38
IBM To Buy Confluent For $11 Billion To Expand AI Services 20
Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland 46
Meta Pledge To Use Less Personal Data For Ads Gets EU Nod, Avoids Daily Fines 17
Lenovo's Next Gaming Laptop May Have a Rollable OLED Screen That Stretches Ultrawide 13
Social Media's Relentless Shopping Machine Has Created an Army of Debt-Laden Buyers 113
China's Growth Is Coming at the Rest of the World's Expense 50
Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends 66
How the Dollar-Store Industry Overcharges Cash-Strapped Customers While Promising Low Prices 108
Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026 44
Japan Issues Tsunami Warning After Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake 28
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions 95
The Accounting Uproar Over How Fast an AI Chip Depreciates 61
Paramount Skydance Launches Hostile Bid For WBD After Netflix Wins Bidding War 66
Amazon Pitches AI Tools as Co-Workers While Axing Jobs 32
Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel for Nuclear Reactors 43
Was the Airbus A320 Recall Caused By Cosmic Rays? 75
All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage 117
Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity? 48
Why Meetings Can Harm Employee Well-Being 72
EU Urged to Soften 2035 Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars 109
College Students Flock To A New Major: AI 71
No Rise in Radiation Levels at Chernobyl, Despite Damage from February's Drone Strike 145
OpenAI Insists Target Links in ChatGPT Responses Weren't Ads But 'Suggestions' - But Turns Them Off 28
How Home Assistant Leads a 'Local-First Rebellion' 100
Why Gen Z is Using Retro Tech 62
Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? 58
New FreeBSD 15 Retires 32-Bit Ports and Modernizes Builds 32
Homebrew Can Now Help You Install Flatpaks Too 7
Many Privileged Students at US Universities are Getting Extra Time on Tests After 'Disability' Diagnoses 238
Is Ruby Still a 'Serious' Programming Language? 80
New Jolla Phone Now Available for Pre-Order as an Independent Linux Phone 45
The Anxieties of Full-Body MRI Scans (Not Covered by Insurance) 75
Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny? 144
Google Must Limit Its 'Default Search' Contracts to One Year, Judge Rules 6
Woman Hailed As a Hero For Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses On Subway 154
A 1950s Material Just Set a Modern Record For Lightning-fast Chips 14
Aptera's Solar-Powered EVs Take Another Step Toward Production 32
Why These Parents Want Schools to Stop Issuing iPads to Their Children 48
Could Netflix's Deal for Warner Bros. Fall Apart? 54
The AI Boom Could Increase Prices for Phones and Tablets Next Year 45
Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death 82
'Rage Bait' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2025 58
Meta Confirms 'Shifting Some' Funding 'From Metaverse Toward AI Glasses' 22
OpenAI Has Trained Its LLM To Confess To Bad Behavior 78
Blackest Fabric Ever Made Absorbs 99.87% of All Light That Hits It 53
AI Led To an Increase In Radiologists, Not a Decrease 62
Trump Wants Asia's 'Cute' Kei Cars To Be Made and Sold In US 206
Chinese-Linked Hackers Use Backdoor For Potential 'Sabotage,' US and Canada Say 10
Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless 12
India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking 24
The New York Times Is Suing Perplexity For Copyright Infringement 68
Cloudflare Says It Blocked 416 Billion AI Scraping Requests In 5 Months 43
Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. In $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal 73
Why One Man Is Fighting For Our Right To Control Our Garage Door Openers 126
QuickTime Turns 34 20
Contractors With Hacking Records Accused of Wiping 96 Government Databases 54
AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming 41
AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better Than Political Ads 107
Satellite Captures the First Detailed Look At a Massive Tsunami 10
Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found In NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples 42
Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill 78
RoboCop Statue Rises In Detroit 36
US Probes Reports Waymo Self-Driving Cars Illegally Passed School Buses 19 Times 96
Microsoft Faces New Complaint For Unlawfully Processing Data On Behalf of Israeli Military 53
Plane Crashed After 3D-Printed Part Collapsed 99
Russia Blocks Roblox, Apple's FaceTime 51
EU Hits Meta With Antitrust Probe Over Plans To Block AI Rivals From WhatsApp 3
Bending Spoons Buys Eventbrite For $500 Million 23
Microsoft 'Mitigates' Windows LNK Flaw Exploited As Zero-Day 25
RAM Is So Expensive, Samsung Won't Even Sell It To Samsung 87
30% of Doctors In UK Use AI Tools In Patient Consultations, Study Finds 80

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