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Tuesday August 5, 2025. 03:45 AM
Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday. From a report: The web giant already does this sort of thing for non-essential workloads like processing YouTube vids, which it moves to datacenters where power is ...
Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, has been getting a boost from AI coding assistants, according to Tiobe. In the Tiobe index for July 2025, Python scored a rating of 26.98%, the highest ever in the monthly index, ...
Disney scrapped plans to use a deepfake of Dwayne Johnson in Moana and an AI-generated character in Tron: Ares due to concerns over bad publicity and legal ownership. Ultimately, the studio decided the potential PR and copyright risks weren't worth the convenience. Deadline...
'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms Updated Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and said that antivirus engines did not initially flag the code as...
Rivian has filed a federal lawsuit in Ohio to challenge a state law preventing it from selling electric vehicles directly to consumers, arguing the rule is anti-competitive and outdated. The law currently protects legacy dealerships while allowing Tesla a special carve-out,...
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…
Fermi America is planning to build a colossal AI datacenter complex in Amarillo, Texas, powered by up to six gigawatts of nuclear energy. According to The Register, the company has selected Hyundai to support the deployment of the 'HyperGrid,' describing it as the 'world's...
Reality TV actor turned Transportation Secretary and acting NASA chief Sean Duffy is set to announce plans for the US to beat China and Russia's partnership and build the first lunar nuclear reactor. The reactor directive orders the agency to solicit industry proposals ...
If you've ever wondered how history's monsters sold concentration camps to the public, it wasn't with cackling villainy – it was with bland bureaucratic language about 'protective custody' and 'maintaining public order.' DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, following that...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CyberScoop: North Korean operatives seeking and gaining technical jobs with foreign companies kept CrowdStrike busy, accounting for almost one incident response case or investigation per day in the past year, the company said in its...
Monday August 4, 2025. 11:40 PM
Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day' SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit ...
Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from TechCrunch: Sarah Murray recalls the first time she saw an artificial model in fashion: It was 2023, and a beautiful young woman of color donned a Levi's denim overall dress. Murray, a commercial model herself, said it ...
ICE agents aren't the only ones disguised in masks as they terrorize the public — eight people were maced on a Manhattan subway by a man sporting a camouflage ski mask. Four of the victims were hospitalized. The suspect — a man in his thirties — attacked a crowd of...
TL;DR: Great back-to-school laptop: 71% off this refurbished Lenovo Chromebook! Limited supplies available. The school year's about to start, which means it's time to play the annual game of 'How long will this device survive?' If you're shopping for a laptop that won't...
A Maryland Quaker school just proved that 'Friends' is the most ironic part of its name. As reported in The Washington Post, Sandy Spring Friends School — which recently begged alumni for $15 million to keep its doors open – is pursuing a single mother for $27,000 in tuitio...
Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users, 'up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth,' reports CNBC. From the report: The figure spans all ChatGPT artificial intelligence products -- free, Plus Pro,...
One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. 'You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast,' he says. The 31-year-old...
Remember when Philz Coffee was a converted liquor store in the Mission, serving up mint mojito coffee to hipsters who thought they were supporting a plucky local business? Well, the company that built its brand on 'Better Days' just served its loyal employees a Grande cup of ...
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