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Sunday October 19, 2025. 01:34 PM
Microsoft said in a blog post this week that 'over half of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or ransomware... while attacks focused solely on espionage made up just 4%.' And Microsoft's annual digital threats report found operations expanding even more ...
Das Keyboard finally modernizes its mechanical keyboard, but makes a few crucial missteps that ruin the experience.
Google’s Gemini AI has offended my dog, but at least it can automatically turn the lights on for me.
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
The Guardian reports that atmospheric carbon dioxide 'soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows.' But what's more troubling is why: Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Gizmodo: It's been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he's been gone, he coined and popularized the term 'vibe coding' to describe the practice of farming out coding projects to ...
Repair Plan Underway to Restore Power at Ukrainian Nuclear Plant The Associated Press reports: Work has begun to repair the damaged power supply to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said Saturday. The repairs are hoped to end ...
Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shares an announcement from the U.S.-based nonprofit Consumer Reports: Protein powders still carry troubling levels of toxic heavy metals, according to a new Consumer Reports (CR) investigation. Our latest tests of 23 protein powders and...
Saturday October 18, 2025. 11:48 PM
'A new study published on Monday found that communications from cellphone carriers, retailers, banks, and even militaries are being broadcast unencrypted through geostationary satellites...' reports Gizmodo. 'The team obtained unencrypted internet communications from U.S....
It's the world's largest network of environmental groups, according to NBC News, with more than 1,400 members from roughly 160 countries. It meets once every four years. And in a vote Tuesday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature 'approved further exploration...
'Windows 10 is officially dead,' writes Slashdot user darwinmac, 'and the vultures are circling. Or maybe they are liberators, depending on your point of view.' Neowin reports: Of all the projects trying to poach Windows users, Zorin Group might be the most aggressive,...
'Earlier available only to the paying subscribers, the Comet browser now offers its core features to all users at no cost,' writes the Times of India. 'This includes AI-powered search, contextual recommendations, and integrated tools designed to streamline research and...
Concrete accounts for about 8% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, notes CNN. But a research team at the University of Pennsylvania just used a robotic 3D printer to construct a bridge with 'complex, lattice-like patterns' that are just as strong and durable — but with m...
The James Webb Space Telescope gets its highest resolution with the aperture masking interferometer (or AMI), 'a tiny piece of precisely machined metal that slots into one of the telescope's cameras,' according to a new article by Benjamin Pope, an associated math professor...
The U.S. government is shut down, but Kristi Noem is on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. The former South Dakota governor, who impressed Trump with her stupefying cruelty by killing a puppy because she hated it, just spent $172 million on two private jets for herself. —...
Canada's Prime Minister 'paused an electric-vehicle sales mandate that was set to take effect next year,' reports the Wall Street Journal, which argues a kind of retreat from electric-vehicle ambitions 'is spreading around the globe.' Even the U.K.'s Prime Minister 'has...
As reported in Christopher Hale (a political operative and writer who ran Catholic outreach for President Obama's 2012 campaign), Pope Leo XIV is weeks away from approving statutes that would vaporize Opus Dei as a unified organization. The group that gave us both Da Vinci...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the impacts of antifa’s designation as a domestic terrorist group as author Mark Bray faces new harassment from the far-right.
This mini trinket library is the most wonderful thing I've seen all week. The concept behind the mini trinket library is similar to that of the little free library boxes, where you take a book and leave a book. The difference is that the trinket library is for exchanging...
A defunct gas storage tank has been cosplaying as a jack-o'-lantern for 72 years. Smilin' Jack—yes, they named it—sits at an old Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California, where it spends eleven months being a completely unremarkable spherical container and one...
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