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Wednesday June 18, 2025. 08:28 AM
Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions Google has been testing a new way for websites to ask permission to access sensitive browser controls, such as the microphone and camera, despite longstanding...
France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket.…
Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Time Magazine: While AI could offer transformative benefits, without proper safeguards it could facilitate nuclear and biological threats and cause 'potentially irreversible harms,' a new report commissioned by California Governor...
In response to escalating tensions with Israel, Iran has begun throttling internet access, with plans to disconnect from the global internet entirely to prevent Israeli cyberattacks. The Iranian government also urges citizens to delete WhatsApp -- one of the country's most...
The U.S. Senate has approved the GENIUS Act with a 68-30 final vote that 'saw a huge surge of Democrats joining their Republican counterparts,' reports CoinDesk. What the bill sets out to do is create the first federal regulatory framework for U.S. stablecoins, requiring...
President Trump will extend the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. operations by another 90 days, marking the third extension since taking office. The extension aims to prevent a TikTok ban while negotiations with potential buyers like Oracle and Project Liberty...
Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy Amazon staff on Tuesday got an email from their CEO advising that some of them will probably be replaced by bots.…
An anonymous reader shares a report: the rise in China of open technology, which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian state. If the party's patience with open-source fades, and it decides to exert control, that could hinder both the...
Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the...
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
In a memo to employees on Tuesday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the company's corporate workforce will shrink in the coming years as it adopts more generative AI tools and agents. 'We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people ...
Little agents everywhere Salesforce is raising prices for a bunch of its products and claims that increasing integration with AI justifies the increased bills, even after one of its own researchers recently said that AI agents are often underdelivered on basic CRM tasks.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The Spanish government has said that the national grid operator and private power generation companies were to blame for an energy blackout that caused widespread chaos in Spain and Portugal earlier this year. Shortly after...
Tuesday June 17, 2025. 11:30 PM
Facebook announced it will soon share all videos as reels by default, regardless of their length or orientation. 'Up until now, users have been able to share both video posts and reels,' notes TechCrunch. From the report: The company is also renaming the 'Video' tab on its...
Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce Amazon Web Services hit a major multi-factor authentication milestone, achieving 100 percent MFA enforcement for root users across all types of AWS accounts.…
TL;DR: Use code SCAN to get the iScanner for $15 off for its lowest price ever: $24.99 (reg. $199.90). If you're tired of tearing your home apart for your most important documents, scrambling through messy drawers and attics, it's time to get a scanner. — Read the rest The...
Honda has successfully conducted a surprise launch and landing test of its prototype reusable rocket as part of its plan to achieve suborbital spaceflight by 2029. Reuters reports: Honda R&D, the research arm of Japan's second-biggest carmaker, successfully landed its...
Last night's Daily Show was a doozy. A lot happened over the weekend: political assassinations in Minnesota, a pathetic military birthday parade for the Cheeto-In-Chief, missiles and bombs lobbed to and fro between Israel and Iran and that little matter of the military being ...
They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true A coalition of House and Senate Democrats has sent an aggressive letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp questioning whether the controversial data intelligence biz is breaking federal law by...
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