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Saturday July 26, 2025. 12:30 PM
These specialty blades—cutlass-shaped mini machetes made for chopping grilled and smoked meats—aren’t a necessary addition to your grill game. But they’re fun, and they get the job done.
'So far, all lifeforms on Earth have a phosphorous-based chemistry, particularly as the backbone of DNA,' writes longtime Slashdot reader bshell. 'In 2010, a paper was published in Science claiming that arsenic-based bacteria were living in a California lake (in place of...
A network of local officials in Italy want to turn their cities into laboratories for the vehicles of tomorrow in the hope of catching up with the US and China.
Plus: Google Photos lets you convert images to videos, Microsoft has a 5G Surface, and Palmer Luckey asks if you’d buy a US-made laptop.
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Driven by high temperatures in the Gulf, Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified from a Category 3 to Category 5 before making landfall in Southwest Florida on September 28, 2022. The deadly storm caught many by surprise and became...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut that would become the longest in the sport's history. The marathon battle lasted...
AI may be steam rolling its way into the workforce, but it’s not for everyone. A new survey finds that 22% of professionals feel compelled to adopt AI in work situations where they lack confidence — so much so that 16% have admitted to pretending to use the technology....
Pebble smartwatches are officially reclaiming their iconic name after Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky successfully recovered the Pebble trademark. 'Great news -- we've been able to recover the trademark for Pebble! Honestly, I wasn't expecting this to work out so easily,'...
Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao was a former OpenAI researcher known for his work on ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company's first AI reasoning model, o1. 'I'm excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the...
A recent Echelon firmware update has effectively bricked offline functionality for its smart gym equipment, cutting off compatibility with popular third-party apps like QZ and forcing users to connect to Echelon's servers -- even just to view workout stats. Ars Technica...
A dating safety app designed to protect women has exposed the very users it promised to shield. Tea, which recently topped Apple's App Store charts, suffered a data breach that leaked 13,000 verification photos and government IDs of its female users, as reported by NBC News. ...
A wedding prank backfired when a bride arranged to have her blindfolded groom unknowingly remove a garter from a male groomsman's leg instead of hers, leaving their marriage in crisis from day one. As reported in a Reddit post on r/AITAH, what was intended as a lighthearted...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama's prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with 'completely made up' case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco...
Walking 7,000 steps daily — not the often-cited 10,000 — can significantly reduce risks of heart disease, cancer, and dementia, new research reveals. An analysis of 57 studies found that people who walk 7,000 steps per day reduce their risk of death from any cause by 47% ...
Becoming friendlier to desktop users is one of the goals of the FreeBSD project at the moment, as we recently saw with the new ability to install a full KDE Plasma desktop environment during FreeBSD’s initial installation. This is just one small piece of a larger effort,...
Developer Terence Eden created an eerie digital version of Cold War-era numbers stations using nothing but built-in browser features and 1KB of JavaScript code. His creation speaks random numbers and words in various languages with unsettling pitch and speed variations. The...
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Sasha Levin, a respected developer and engineer at Nvidia, has proposed a patch series aimed at formally integrating AI coding assistants into the Linux kernel workflow. The proposal includes two major changes. First, it...
'Bad art succeeds where good art fails,' might be the lesson from Sarah Jones's fascinating exploration of Thomas Kinkade's cultural impact in Dissent Magazine. In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a...
The U.S. Department of Energy has greenlit four federal sites for private sector AI datacenters and nuclear-powered energy projects, aligning with Trump's directive to fast-track AI infrastructure using government land. 'The four that have been finalized are the Idaho...
Friday July 25, 2025. 11:50 PM
Walmart is revamping how artificial intelligence supports its business by replacing dozens of standalone AI tools with four integrated “super agents” aimed at enhancing the experience for customers, employees, engineers, and suppliers. After deploying numerous AI agents...
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