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Monday July 28, 2025. 10:31 AM
Up to £925M on table as government pushes ahead with project likely to be a decade late The UK government is talking to tech suppliers to provide handsets for the country's emergency services' voice and data network, in a procurement which could be worth up to £925 million ...
This vibrating and thrusting dildo is not for the faint of heart.
Measuring earth's position (or 'geodesy') requires using telescopes that track radiation from distant black holes. Their signals 'pass cleanly through the atmosphere and we can receive them during day and night and in all weather conditions,' writes a senior scientist at the ...
And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels Who, Me? Returning to work on Monday morning can feel like a mistake, which is why The Register welcomes readers back to their desks with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we ...
Star Wars creator George Lucas made his first Comic-Con appearance ever on Sunday. The Hollywood Reporter describes the scene: Thousands waited hours just to get inside, chanted 'Lu-cas, Lu-cas!' while they waited, and then gave a wild standing ovation as the filmmaker took...
Long-time Slashdot reader drinkypoo writes: GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with Steam, and the big news is that it supports NTSYNC by default on supported platforms. That means amd64 systems whose ...
Plus, leak site for BlackSuit seized, Tea spilt, and avoid crime if you've got a famous dad Infosec in brief A computer intrusion hit the US spy satellite agency, but officials insist no classified secrets were lost - just some unclassified ones, apparently.…
Satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer died Saturday at age 97. The Associated Press notes Lehrer had long ago 'largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities.' Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of...
Long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that can rival Nvidia's most advanced offering, even though the company faces U.S. export restrictions. The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public...
Long-time Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that can rival Nvidia's most advanced offering, even though the company faces U.S. export restrictions. The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public...
Sunday July 27, 2025. 11:48 PM
California researchers planned a multimillion-dollar test of salt water-spraying equipment that could one day be used to dim the sun's rays — over a 3,900-square mile are off the west coasts of North America, Chile or south-central Africa. E&E News calls it part of a...
Proton VPN reported a 1,400 percent hourly increase in signups over its baseline Friday — the day the UK's age verification law went into effect. For UK users, 'apps with explicit content must now verify visitors' ages via methods such as facial recognition and banking info,'...
'Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results,' argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, 'internet users aren't just outsourcing memory ...
From the Adafruit blog: Greg Technology (aka Greg Sadetsky) on YouTube demonstrates a version of Chocolate Doom where opponent characters can be cut, copied, and pasted at will to add a bit more fun to the game. Obviously this means you can paste in your attackers multiple...
Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps 'raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets,' reports Forbes. That haul makes it 'the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year...
Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to 'the world's first carbon shipping port,' reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be 'buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed.' Norway's government is covering 80% of the...
In 1995's online world, AOL existed mostly beside the internet as a 'walled, manicured garden,' remembers Fast Company. Then along came AOHell 'the first of what would become thousands of programs designed by young hackers to turn the system upside down' — built by a high...
It doesn’t matter what you’re watching or where, this new mini LED TCL pushes the boundaries of budget beauty.
NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... 'I grabbed his right arm while giving the...
The case of the improbably well-endowed rat Biomedical visualization specialists haven't come to terms with how or whether to use generative AI tools when creating images for health and science applications. But there's an urgent need to develop guidelines and best practices ...
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