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Tuesday August 5, 2025. 04:31 AM
Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead.…
Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday. From a report: The web giant already does this sort of thing for non-essential workloads like processing YouTube vids, which it moves to datacenters where power is ...
Disney scrapped plans to use a deepfake of Dwayne Johnson in Moana and an AI-generated character in Tron: Ares due to concerns over bad publicity and legal ownership. Ultimately, the studio decided the potential PR and copyright risks weren't worth the convenience. Deadline...
'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms Updated Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and said that antivirus engines did not initially flag the code as...
Rivian has filed a federal lawsuit in Ohio to challenge a state law preventing it from selling electric vehicles directly to consumers, arguing the rule is anti-competitive and outdated. The law currently protects legacy dealerships while allowing Tesla a special carve-out,...
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…
Fermi America is planning to build a colossal AI datacenter complex in Amarillo, Texas, powered by up to six gigawatts of nuclear energy. According to The Register, the company has selected Hyundai to support the deployment of the 'HyperGrid,' describing it as the 'world's...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CyberScoop: North Korean operatives seeking and gaining technical jobs with foreign companies kept CrowdStrike busy, accounting for almost one incident response case or investigation per day in the past year, the company said in its...
Monday August 4, 2025. 11:40 PM
Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day' SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit ...
Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from TechCrunch: Sarah Murray recalls the first time she saw an artificial model in fashion: It was 2023, and a beautiful young woman of color donned a Levi's denim overall dress. Murray, a commercial model herself, said it ...
Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users, 'up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth,' reports CNBC. From the report: The figure spans all ChatGPT artificial intelligence products -- free, Plus Pro,...
One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. 'You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast,' he says. The 31-year-old...
Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid' Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…
Plastics are a 'grave, growing and under-recognised danger' to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a 'plastics crisis,' it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Indian IT sector has operated for decades under the dominance of major firms TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT. The historical growth of these companies was tightly coupled with the U.S. economy through a strong 'multiplier effect,' where ...
PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on...
Google released a 30-second Pixel 10 ad today that mocks Apple's year-long delay in delivering promised AI improvements to Siri on iPhone 16 devices. The ad suggests users could 'just change your phone' if they purchased a device for a feature that's been 'coming soon for a...
Major cloud storage providers maintain unclear policies about deleting user data after subscription cancellations, Wired reports, with deletion timelines ranging from six months to indefinite preservation. Apple reserves the right to delete iCloud backups after 180 days of...
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