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Tuesday July 1, 2025. 10:17 AM
Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms Microsoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users 'don't go far enough,' according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill.…
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Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.…
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'For-profit companies are pushing the narrative that they can do space inexpensively,' writes Slashdot reader RUs1729 in response to an opinion piece from SpaceNews. 'Their track record reveals otherwise: cutting corners won't do it for the foreseeable future.' Here's an...
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Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.…
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Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week.…
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America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Four teams of humanoid robots took each other on in Beijing [on Saturday], in games of three-a-side powered by artificial intelligence. While the modern game has faced accusations of becoming near-robotic in its...
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Google has signed a deal to purchase 200 megawatts of future fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, despite the energy source not yet existing. 'It's a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power that is still years...
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: NASA is coming to Netflix. No, not a drama or sci-fi reboot. The space agency is actually bringing real rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and even views of Earth from space directly to your favorite streaming service....
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After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
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Thousands of Norwegians briefly believed they had won massive Eurojackpot prizes after a manual coding error by Norsk Tipping mistakenly multiplied winnings by 100 instead of dividing. The Register reports: Eurojackpot, a pan-European lottery launched in 2012, holds two...
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Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022...
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Oracle has signed a landmark $30 billion annual cloud deal -- nearly triple the size of its current cloud infrastructure business -- with revenue expected to begin in fiscal year 2028. The deal was disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday without the customer being named....
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Automattic has put its plan to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress on hold, with CEO Matt Mullenweg citing a shift in focus toward features users are actively requesting. 'I still want to do it,' Mullenweg says. 'It's just cleaner. But right now, we're not working on it.'...
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HP is developing a 'PCFax' system similar to CarFax for used cars that securely collects and stores detailed device usage and health data at the firmware level to extend the life of PCs and reduce e-waste. A team of HP experts outlines the system in a recent IEEE Spectrum...
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Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.…
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Freelance workers using AI tools are earning significantly more than their counterparts, with AI-related freelance earnings climbing 25% year over year and AI freelancers commanding over 40% higher hourly rates than non-AI workers, according to new data from Upwork. The...
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Monday June 30, 2025. 11:21 PM
It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word' ai-pocalypse For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. …
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