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Friday April 18, 2025. 02:00 AM
In a landmark decision, a US District Judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized the ad tech market. A federal judge in Virginia has found that the tech giant established “monopoly power” for two online advertising markets: publisher ad servers and ad exchanges...
TL;DR: If you're sick of counting sheep, try out the SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking True Wireless Earbuds to help you get some rest. They're now only $25.99 (reg. $34) for a limited time. Why settle for silence when you could fall asleep to your favorite playlists, podcasts,...
HP has agreed to a $4 million settlement over allegations of deceptive pricing practices on its website, including falsely inflating original prices for computers and accessories to create the illusion of steep discounts. Ars Technica reports: Earlier this month, Judge P....
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Xubuntu project has released Xubuntu 25.04, an interim release which features the latest applications from Xfce, GNOME and MATE. 'Xubuntu 25.04, code-named 'Plucky Puffin', is a regular release and will be...
Microsoft has introduced BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the largest-scale 1-bit AI model to date with 2 billion parameters and the ability to run efficiently on CPUs. It's openly available under an MIT license. TechCrunch reports: The Microsoft researchers say that BitNet b1.58 2B4T is...
Remember when Florida promised its new 'papers please' law wouldn't target American citizens? Meet Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old Georgian who made the rookie mistake of being born in America while brown. As reported in Raw Story, he got nabbed during a traffic stop...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: In its most aggressive attack against offshore wind yet, the Trump administration halted the $5 billion Empire Wind 1, already under construction off New York's coast. Norwegian developer Equinor announced yesterday that it...
Thursday April 17, 2025. 11:51 PM
Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.86 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District...
The Smarter Kings of Deliria R.U. Sirius & Phriendz by R.U. Sirius & Various Bands In the cyberdelic daze of the early 1990s, Mondo 2000 was the publication-of-record for the emerging digital counterculture. Founded by our dear pal RU Sirius, it was not just a magazine (with...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
Google is offering all U.S. college students a free year of its Gemini Advanced AI tools through its Google One AI Premium plan, as part of a push to expand Gemini's user base and compete with ChatGPT. It includes access to the company's Pro models, Veo 2 video generation,...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Lubuntu project has released Lubuntu 25.04, an interim release which will receive nine months of support. The distribution's 25.04 release is one focused on transition and gradual changes as the project...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ubuntu Studio team has announced the release of Ubuntu Studio 25.04 which offers a range of creative and multimedia tools. The project's latest release features the Plasma desktop, version 3.0 of the GNU...
TL;DR: Pick up drone photography with two 4K drones, the Ninja Dragon Phantom Eagle PRO 4K and the Ninja Dragon Blade K Drone, now just $139.99 (reg. $299). Does the warmer weather make you want to find a new outdoor hobby? — Read the rest The post Get outside with this...
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from the Associated Press: Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the...
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on between providers trying to explain this week’s two-hour outage of Zoom’s American service. On its website, Zoom says its zoom.us domain wasn’t available on Wednesday because of a “communications error” between Zoom’s...
After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely...
Fyre Festival 2, the hypothetical sequel to an infamous original so underplanned and oversold it led to a wire fraud conviction and jail time for front man Billy McFarland, has been 'postponed.' The BBC's George Wright reports that the event has been 'thrown into doubt'—as ...
Synology's upcoming Plus Series NAS systems will restrict full functionality to users who install the company's self-branded hard drives, Tom's Hardware is reporting, marking a significant shift in the consumer NAS market. While third-party drives will still work for basic...
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