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Saturday April 5, 2025. 12:30 PM
Plus: Another DOGE operative allegedly has a history in the hacking world, and Donald Trump’s national security adviser apparently had way more Signal chats than previously known.
A new study shows bonobos can combine vocal calls in ways that mirror human language, producing phrases with meanings beyond the sum of individual sounds. 'Human language is not as unique as we thought,' said Dr Melissa Berthet, the first author of the research from the...
Plus: Samsung debuts its Galaxy Tab S10 FE tablets, Ooni has bigger gas-powered pizza ovens, and Traeger solves a griddle riddle.
A completely new Rolex, the most complicated wristwatch ever made, pieces that survive impacts of 10,000 g’s, and “magic ceramic”—the annual gathering of the watch world delivered big-time in 2025.
While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.
Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon, during Christmas 2032, has more than doubled.…
SpaceX's Fram2 mission returned safely after becoming the first crewed spaceflight to orbit directly over Earth's poles. From a report: Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who is the financier of this mission, the Fram2 crew has been free-flying through orbit since...
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious plan to create 1 million hectares of new rice farms in eastern Merauke Regency faces strong criticism from scientists who have warned it will fail due to unsuitable soils and climate. Military 'food brigades' are currently...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a world filled with 'vibe coding,' Zach Yadegari, teen founder of Cal AI, stands in ironic, old-fashioned contrast. Ironic because Yadegari and his co-founder, Henry Langmack, are both just 18 years old and still in...
Web crawlers collecting training data for AI models are overwhelming Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged...
Software engineer and longtime Slashdot reader, Dmitry Grinberg (dmitrygr), shares a recent project they've been working on: 'an interactive-speed Linux on a tiny board you can easily build with only 3 8-pin chips': There was a time when one could order a kit and assemble a...
Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won't be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with...
Midjourney's new V7 image model features a revamped architecture with smarter text prompt handling, higher image quality, and default personalization based on user-rated images. While some features like upscaling aren't yet available, it does come with a faster, cheaper...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has...
Friday April 4, 2025. 11:40 PM
Google has introduced Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model built on its Gemini platform and tailored for cybersecurity. BetaNews reports: Sec-Gemini v1 is built on top of Gemini, but it's not just some repackaged chatbot. Actually, it has been tailored with security in...
Shock and ore, 北京-style Beijing has responded to the Trump administration's latest round of import taxes with retaliatory tariffs and new restrictions on rare earth minerals.…
For the second time, President Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. operations by 75 days. The TikTok deal 'requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed,' said Trump in a post on his Truth Social platform. The extension...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen -- a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit -- not only had no law degree, but ...
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
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