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Monday September 29, 2025. 12:59 AM
PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more! Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
'Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin,' reports the Guardian, 'in the second nationwide vote on the issue.' In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding...
Sunday September 28, 2025. 10:37 PM
Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that 'Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not...
'Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK,' reports the BBC: The company said it would start notifying users in the coming weeks to let them choose whether to subscribe to its platforms if they wish...
IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers 'are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions,...
'Today's AIs are book smart,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart.' And that requires 'world models,' which are 'gaining momentum in frontier research ...
The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species 'began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.' It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species,...
With over a decade of experience in reviewing gaming laptops, here's my rundown of what to consider before pulling the trigger.
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
Six months ago California had 48% more public and 'shared' private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports...
Proton Pass has gone from bare-bones to full-featured, and it’s ready to take on the competitive password manager landscape.
Paris-based AI giant Mistral 'is pushing to improve its models,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'by looking inside legacy enterprises that hold some of the world's last untapped data reserves....' Mistral's approach will be to form partnerships with enterprises to further...
Google offers a free, lightweight operating system that essentially turns any machine into a Chromebook. It's a great way to keep an aging computer in service longer.
With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn’t make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet it’s near impossible not to love it.
The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.
The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office Comment Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's 'my way or the highway' approach to the issue threatens to do ...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering 'Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data': 'A provided data model may include a tree...
'We've decided to support image-based search,' announced the product manager for Firefox Search. Powered by the AI-driven Google Lens search technology, they promise the new feature offers 'a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) 'search...
Cristian Fleming paid around $70,000 for one of Fisker Ocean's electric mid-size crossover SUVs. Seven months later the company filed for bankruptcy in June of 2024, reports the Verge, 'having only delivered 11,000 vehicles.' 'Early adopters were left with cars plagued by...
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