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Sunday May 25, 2025. 06:27 PM
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...
Whether General Motors survives 'depends in part on whether its bets on battery technology pay off,' writes the Wall Street Journal. At $33,600 the company's Chevy Equinox is one of the cheapest EVs in America (only $5,000 more than the gas-powered model). 'But it also...
But it's still going to come in through the back door Comment As AI pilots within enterprises increasingly flame out, OpenAI is making a pivot to consumers, suggesting AI is more likely to sneak into the enterprise through users than walk in through the front door. But IT...
It’s the best time of year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and gear you’ll need for summer fun.
The wonders of a thin phone quickly disappear when you have to baby the battery life.
Besides pressure on Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook 'is facing off against two U.S. judges, European and worldwide regulators, state and federal lawmakers, and even a creator of the iPhone,' writes the Wall Street Journal, 'to say nothing of the cast of...
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.
A new era of 3D display technology is upon us, moving far beyond anything we’ve seen in the past.
'In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north...' remembers the BBC. [T]he Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each...
'Duolingo had been riding high,' reports Fast Company, until CEO Luis von Ahn 'announced on LinkedIn that the company is phasing out human contractors, looking for AI use in hiring and in performance reviews, and that 'headcount will only be given if a team cannot automate...
Doom: The Dark Ages just launched on May 15. But it's already received 'difficulty' balance changes 'that have made the demons of Hell even more dangerous than ever,' writes Windows Central: According to DOOM's official website Slayer's Club, these balance adjustments are...
It's like 'a USB-C port for AI applications...' according to the official documentation for MCP — 'a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools.' And now Microsoft has 'revealed plans to make MCP a native component of Windows,' reports...
Saturday May 24, 2025. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat shares this article from Deadline: Prime Video will not be renewing The Wheel of Time for a fourth season according to Deadline article. The decision, which comes more than a month after the Season 3 finale was released April 17,...
Jonathan L. Zittrain is a law/public policy/CS professor at Harvard (and also director of its Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society). He's also long-time Slashdot reader #628,028 — and writes in to share his new article in the Atlantic. Following on Anthropic's...
Wednesday Google security researchers published a preprint demonstrating that 2048-bit RSA encryption 'could theoretically be broken by a quantum computer with 1 million noisy qubits running for one week,' writes Google's security blog. 'This is a 20-fold decrease in the...
'Firefox's address bar just got an upgrade,' Mozilla writes on their blog: Keep your original search visible When you perform a search, your query now remains visible in the address bar instead of being replaced by the search engine's URL. Whereas before your address bar was ...
Michael Daniel also thinks Uncle Sam should increase help to orgs hit by ransomware INTERVIEW Uncle Sam's cybersecurity apparatus can't only focus on China and other nation-state actors, but also has to fight the much bigger damage from plain old cybercrime, says former...
Science magazine reports that hummingbird feeders 'have become a major evolutionary force,' according to research published this week in Global Change Biology. (At least for the Anna's hummingbird, a common species in the western U.S. Over just a few generations, their beaks ...
'What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors?' asks the University of Arizona. 'A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible.' In a...
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