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Tuesday June 3, 2025. 11:48 PM
Something pretty wild just happened in New York City, and you probably didn’t even hear it… literally. You see, a fully electric aircraft just landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport, making history as the first of its kind to touch down at any of the three major ...
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report: A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to his role in a 'swatting' ring that targeted dozens of public officials, including a former US president. Going by the aliases 'Plank,' 'Jonah' and 'Cypher,'...
'It appears as though Meta (aka: Facebook's parent company) and Yandex have found a way to sidestep the Android Sandbox,' writes Slashdot reader TheWho79. Researchers disclose the novel tracking method in a report: We found that native Android apps -- including Facebook,...
TL;DR: I jumped ship and grabbed lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2024 for $129.97 (reg. $149.99) while it's still on sale. It's the best decision I've made this year. Okay, real talk: it's 2025 and I am done with subscriptions. I mean, come on. Between Netflix, Spotify,...
Fvwm3, the venerable, solid, configurable, no-nonsense window manager for X, has been updated: fvwm3 1.1.3 has been released. While the version number indicates that this is a minor release, there’s one reason why 1.1.3 is actually a much bigger deal than the version number...
Generative AI (genAI) is enhancing worker value and productivity, not replacing people — and that’s true even for roles that are vulnerable to automation, according to new new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Analysis by PwC of nearly 1 billion job ads...
Meta plans to fully automate ad creation using artificial intelligence by the end of next year. The move, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, could upend the traditional advertising world and redefine how businesses, big and small, promote themselves online. The tech...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Latin Times: A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots....
Snowflake (Nasdaq:SNOW) has announced its intent to acquire US-based cloud-based PostgreSQL database provider Crunchy Data for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to offer developers an easier way to build AI-based applications by offering a PostgreSQL database, to be dubbed...
The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney anticipated his company's battle with Apple would create 'fireworks,' but he never expected Fortnite to disappear from the iOS App Store for nearly five years. When Epic deliberately violated App Store rules in 2020 by inserting its own payment...
TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.…
Microsoft cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years, underscoring the tech industry's efforts to trim costs even as it plows billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. From a report: More than 300 employees were told their positions had been...
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default...
Snowflake is hoping to win business with a new tool for migrating old workloads, SnowConvert AI, that it claims can help enterprises move their data, data warehouses, business intelligence (BI) reports, and code to its platform without increasing complexity. Powered by...
It has taken just three years for the GenAI generation of AI to reach the level of use the Internet itself took 23 years to achieve, says legendary US investor Mary Meeker in her latest Trends report. That’s why, unless Apple has viable plans we don’t yet know about,...
T-Mobile announced Tuesday it will expand its fiber internet service to more than 500,000 households nationwide, offering three symmetrical speed tiers with five-year price locks starting June 5th. The plans range from 500 Mbps at $80 monthly to 2 Gbps at $110 monthly, with...
The billionaires buying New Zealand bunkers to live luxuriously in the aftermath of global nuclear war probably should have read Mark Lynas's new book, Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It, before they bought their Kiwi citizenship, writes Oliver Bullough...
Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a 'whole new architecture,' but as with many a Muskian proclamation,...
The second season of Disney+ streaming prequel to a prequel, 'Andor,' was fantastic. 'Rogue One' was my favorite Star Wars movie. I could not get enough of it when it was released, and I was unsurprised when Andor was announced. Admittedly, I was worried that landing the...
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