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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...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Martin Wimpress has announced the availability of Ubuntu MATE 25.04. The new version, which recevies nine months of support, marks the tenth anniversary of the Ubuntu MATE project as an official Ubuntu flavour. ...
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked...
Nairobi police nabbed two Belgian teenagers for wildlife piracy. Apparently they were caught with 5,000 ants—not in their pants but packed in test tubes at a guest house where they were staying. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, 19, told a judge they were just collecting...
Does this sound familiar? It’s Wednesday night, you’re scrolling through rows and rows of movies and shows, nothing catches your eye, and suddenly it’s 25 minutes later, and you still haven’t picked something to watch. Netflix may have come up with an interesting new solution...
OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to Engadget, This means that users can upload sketches or diagrams, for example, and even if they are of...
During Meta's antitrust trial this week, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. From a report: Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called ...
Researchers have detected what appears to be the strongest ever sign of life on another planet. The researchers from the University of Cambridge and colleagues announced this week that a massive planet named K2-18b, located 120 light-years from Earth, contained chemical signa...
At least six people, including students, were rushed to the hospital this afternoon after a shooter opened fire at Florida State University. The gunman started shooting inside the university's Student Union around noon, reports NBC News, and the campus went into lockdown...
Data lake vendor Onehouse on Thursday released Open Engines, a new capability on its platform which it says provides the ability to deploy open source engines on top of open data. Available in private preview, it initially supports Apache Flink for stream processing, Trino...
As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Vietnam is rushing approval of a new Trump resort and buying Starlink as part of a plan to stave off Trump's tariffs. Negotiating new trade deals takes time, and just buying some more US-made goods, while kissing Trump's posterior, is a...
The future of Google's advertising business is at stake after a federal judge found the company illegally monopolized parts of it.
Canonical has announced the arrival of Ubuntu 25.04 -- 'Plucky Puffin.' This latest interim release introduces a number of updates across the desktop, as well as developer tools, and improved hardware support, with a focus on boosting performance and improving the user...
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