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Wednesday June 25, 2025. 09:00 AM
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.Org: In new research published by scientists studying fission yeastâ'a single-celled organism surprisingly similar to human cellsâ'researchers found that caffeine affects aging by tapping into an ancient cellular energy system. A...
Fork that - 5k+ times Anthropic says it won't fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt the AI agent to send customer data to an attacker's email, among other...
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). The challenge with many of the current benchmarks is that they are widely...
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist from Queens, surged to a convincing win over former governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City's Democratic primary election. 44% of Democrats chose Mamdani as their first pick in the ranked-choice vote, enough to make victory ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A massive data center for Meta's AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps. Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland,...
Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that...
The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: Huawei's chairman Xu Zhijun -- aka Eric Xu -- has called out China's enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) installations. Speaking at last week's Mobile World Congress event in Shanghai, Xu shared his views on the telecommunications ...
Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: Firefox 140 just landed. Some user-facing features include: Vertical Tabs: You can now keep more -- or fewer -- pinned tabs in view for quicker access to important windows. Just drag the divider to resize your pinned tabs section....
Tesla’s robotaxi service just debuted in Austin, boosting the company’s stock by 8% as CEO Elon Musk declared the rollout a major success. But early videos from test rides revealed troubling on-road behavior. Shortly after the launch, footage emerged showing Tesla’s...
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics On-Device, a new language model that enables robots to perform complex tasks locally without internet connectivity. TechCrunch reports: Building on the company's previous Gemini Robotics model that was released in March, Gemini...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft is planning to cut jobs in the company's Xbox gaming business, as early as next week. I first reported in Notepad earlier this month that Microsoft was planning Xbox layoffs 'potentially by the end of the month,'...
Enterprise users of leading large language models are at risk of making private information public, according to a new study on the data collection and sharing practices of organizations such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft that reveals they are collecting sensitive data and...
Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10 Video On Monday, Elon Musk proudly launched his often-promised Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, but early videos shot by riders show how far the service lags behind Waymo.…
Waymo and Uber have launched a robotaxi service in Atlanta, allowing users to book autonomous rides through the Uber app across a 65-square-mile area. They will not yet travel on highways or to the airport. CNBC reports: The vehicles feature Waymo's driverless technology,...
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.2.0, the latest version of the company’s general purpose, statically typed language perhaps best known as a rival to Java for JVM and Android development. The update previews context parameters, stabilizes guard conditions, and offers...
Microsoft has released a modern, open-source version of its classic MS-DOS Editor -- built with Rust and compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's now simple called 'Edit.' Ars Technica reports: Aside from ease of use, Microsoft's main reason for creating the new...
Tuesday June 24, 2025. 11:30 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Transport Topics: A ship that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month has sunk. The vessel was abandoned in the middle of the pacific -- about 360 miles from land -- after a blaze. It was carrying about 3,000 vehicles of...
Lenovo has introduced its most advanced Chromebook yet. The tech company has teamed up with Google to introduce the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, a powerful laptop designed to deliver next-level AI performance right out of the box. This launch signals Google’s most ambitious...
The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law.…
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name 'Big Balls' online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.
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