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Friday August 8, 2025. 09:00 AM
Ancient Slashdot reader Epeeist shares a report from The Guardian: The newest version of the maglev train is capable of traveling at 600km/h (about 370mph). However, the train's engineers have wrestled with the problem of the shock waves which occur as the train exits the...
Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? Opinion You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online...
Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby Institutions in the North of England are being left out of the government's Global Talent Fund (GTF), designed to attract top scientific brains from abroad to come and work in Britain.…
Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment The US Air Force wants to blow up two Tesla Cybertrucks.…
A new connector may be on the cards, too The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has confirmed that version 8.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) specification will allow up to 256 gigatransfers per second, which equates to up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally in a x16 configuration.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some of the first reviews ever written for the original Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. have been digitized and published by the Video Game History Foundation. The reviews appeared in Computer Entertainer, an early...
Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year The $500 billion Stargate project that aims to build a network of AI datacenters around the globe is off to a slow start, but its main backer – Japan’s SoftBank – isn’t...
Duolingo's decision to go 'AI-first' sparked backlash from users, but the company's second quarter earnings result tell a different story. Quarterly revenue exceeded expectations, stock surged nearly 30%, and daily active users grew 40% year-over-year. TechCrunch reports:...
Despite dwindling global market share, retreat from key regions like Europe, and halting in-house production, Sony insists its Xperia smartphone line remains 'very important' to its business. 9to5Google reports: During Sony's latest financial results presentation this week,...
A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…
Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.
Amazon Web Services has struck a deal with the U.S. government to provide up to $1 billion in cloud service discounts through 2028. CNBC reports: The agreement is expected to speed up migration to the cloud, as well as adoption of artificial intelligence tools, the General...
That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right? OpenAI unveiled its most capable model yet on Thursday with the launch of GPT-5.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure -- as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces...
Thursday August 7, 2025. 11:30 PM
Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing to crack down on HBO Max password sharing by the end of 2025, with 'aggressive' enforcement and messaging starting next month. Deadline reports: JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery said on the company's...
You may be familiar with white noise, but what about pink noise, or brown noise? WIRED’s sleep expert walks you through the rainbow of benefits for bedtime.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: In an interview, Lansweeper, an IT asset discovery and inventory company, revealed to ZDNET that, in its analysis of over 15 million identified consumer desktop operating systems, it found that Linux desktops currently account...
Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw...
President Trump is set to sign an executive order opening up 401(k) retirements plans to alternative assets, like private equity, real estate, and cryptocurrency. The move has the potential to unlock trillions in new investment for asset managers outside of stocks, bonds,...
What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you? The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …
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