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Monday April 7, 2025. 09:34 AM
Brain rot — the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on a phone — afflicts 'plenty of people,' writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URL here.] He's suffering from it too — 'These days, it's tough to even finish a book.' But is...
Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers Mozilla plans to make life easier for developers of Firefox browser Add-ons, aka extensions, by reducing the burden of presenting custom consent dialogs to those installing extensions.…
Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.…
Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike Exclusive Microsoft published inaccurate price lists for some of its products on, of all days, April the 1st.…
'Gen Z is rediscovering Tumblr — a chaotic, cozy corner of the internet untouched by algorithmic gloss and influencer overload...' writes Fast Company, 'embracing the platform as a refuge from an internet saturated with influencers and algorithm fatigue.' Thanks to Gen Z, the...
PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more Asia In Brief Asian nations and tech companies are trying to come to terms with the USA’s new universal import tariffs and additional...
'U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening,' reports Yahoo Finance, 'after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend...' The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday, Reuters reports. (And those tariffs will be approved ...
PLUS: Google re-patches Quick Share flaws; Critical Cisco flaw exploited; WordPress plugin trouble; and more Infosec in Brief How did journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number end up in a Signal group chat? According to The Guardian, US national security adviser Mike...
'Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room...' Satya Nadella posted on X.com, 'and are interviewed by Copilot!' As part of Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft CEO Nadella joined former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a funny two-minute video (also...
Nuclear fusion — which releases four times the energy of fission — could theoretically happen sooner in space than on earth, reports CNN. 'And it could help spacecraft achieve speeds of up to 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) per hour — more than the fastest object ever...
Sunday April 6, 2025. 11:40 PM
It was already the best-selling videogame of all time, notes the Hollywood Reporter. And A Minecraft Movie just had the biggest opening ever for a video game movie adaptation. WIth a production budget of $150 million, it earned in $157 million in just its first weekend in...
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K...
It's 'a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,' Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. 'For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.' Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on...
It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.' (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's earlier 'Snow Leopard' upgrade to 'Leopard' OS — an upgrade that's 'all about how little it added and how much it took away'.)...
'I started working on Voyager in 1977,' the Voyager mission's project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. 'It was my first job out of college.' 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager...
Tinder 'is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,' notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI's...
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This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.
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