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Monday May 26, 2025. 12:30 PM
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who claims they have nothing to hide.
Save on bedding, meal kits, speakers, and more this Memorial Day weekend.
With $5.3 million in funding and Meta’s former AR boss on its team, AllFocal Optics is looking to revolutionize the screens in car heads-up displays—and it's coming for smart glasses too.
Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New analysis suggests collision with a neutron star may have caused it.
Life in a corporate aquarium didn’t go swimmingly Who, Me? Another Monday has arrived, bringing with it the chance for work-in-progress meetings at which managers will recite corporate clichés with astounding sincerity. Which is why The Register always opens the week with ...
31 years ago FreeBSD was first released. But here in 2025, searches for the Unix-like FreeBSD OS keep increasing on Google, notes the official FreeBSD blog — and it's at least a two-year trend. Yet after talking to some businesses using (or interested in using) FreeBSD, they...
But pauses tech-adjacent threat to slap all Euro-imports with 50 percent duties World War Fee US president Donald Trump has threatened a tariff that would apply only to Apple, and appears to have referred to the European Union’s treatment of American tech companies as part ...
It's America's biggest box office for a Memorial Day weekend ever, reports Variety. And it's been more than a decade since this many Americans went to see a movie during a three-day weekend... Families turned out in force for Disney's live-action 'Lilo & Stitch' remake,...
PLUS: Interpol kills more malware; GoDaddy settles in awful infosec case; Giant stolen creds DB exposed Infosec In Brief Secrets of the Trump administration may have been exposed after a successful attack on messaging service TeleMessage, which has been used by some...
Earlier this month app developer Guilherme Rambo had a warning for iPhone users: If you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who's also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name 'Dave and Buster's', the message will never...
PLUS: Original emoji retired; Xiaomi's custom silicon; Pakistan dedicates 2,000 MW to AI and crypto Asia In Brief China last week approved rules that will see Beijing issue identity numbers that netizens can use as part of a federated identity scheme that will mean they can...
AI's downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work,' reports the New York Times. 'Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced... The new approach to coding at many companies has, in...
'OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands,' according to a new article by long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli. 'A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company's ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down.' The results...
Sunday May 25, 2025. 11:22 PM
Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today. The story so far... Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 2023, he'd created a new...
'I am a huge fan of Star Wars,' opines an article from the gaming Aftermath. 'As every Star Wars fan knows, being a Star Wars fan means you hate Star Wars as much as you love it.' But fortunately there's Going Rogue and Galactic — two tabletop games 'inspired' by the Star...
Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency Feature If you've been following AI development over the past few years, one trend has remained constant: bigger models are usually smarter, but also harder to run.…
'Do we need publicly-owned social networks to escape Silicon Valley?' asks an opinion piece in Spain's El Pais newspaper. It argues it's necessary because social media platforms 'have consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies, with a business model that consists of...
Around the world fungal infections kill an estimated 2.5 million people a year, notes a report from CNN. But new research predicts that certain species of infection-causing Aspergillus fungi could spread into new areas as the earth's temperature rises. ('The study, published ...
Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world Computex Every time I attend Taiwan's Computex exhibition I'm bewildered by the dozens of vendors selling unremarkable keyboards and mice.…
A year ago, the original creator of SerenityOS posted that 'for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird, a new web browser that started as a simple HTML viewer for SerenityOS.' So it became a stand-alone project that 'aims to render the modern web...
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