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Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it...
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
If you’re hitting the trail or even just camping in the backyard this summer, make sure you have the right accessories on hand. For instance, this Outdoor Flashlight with Flame Simulator & 2400mAh Powerbank not only gives you a flashlight when the sun goes down, but it adds a...
Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.…
Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.…
Working out just isn’t the same when you don’t have music. But wired headphones can be a serious pain when you’re trying to break a sweat. So, get a pair of wireless headphones like the Mercato Open-Ear Bluetooth Headphones while they’re on sale. These open-ear headphones...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly ...
The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access...
In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft reported a 30% drop in Xbox console sales, after reporting a 30% drop last April. 'It blamed the nosedive on a 'lower volume of consoles sold' during the start of 2024,' reports Kotaku. From the report: In February,...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating that ISPs offer $15 broadband plans to low-income families. Ars Technica reports: The ruling (PDF) is a loss for six trade...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: A new campaign tracked as 'Dev Popper' is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). The developers are asked to perform...
Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? Kettle This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the ongoing AI obsession will pay off for these mega corporations.…
The free tax filing pilot from the IRS that rolled out in 12 states last month saved filers an estimated $5.6 million in tax preparation fees for federal returns, said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. CNBC reports: This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed...
Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA's history of STS-109, which he claims 'is a lie' - although that may be a slight exaggeration.…
Tobias Mann reports via The Register: Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now...
More like Robot Rock, am I right? (Sorry.) These are some of the best dust busters around, and they’re cheaper than usual.
Stacking the deck – we've heard of it Leaders of the world's most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department's new advisory group.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Darktrace is set to go private in a deal that values the U.K.-based cybersecurity giant at around $5 billion. A newly formed entity called Luke Bidco Ltd., formed by private equity giant Thoma Bravo, has tabled an all-cash ...
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