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Monday December 22, 2025. 12:00 PM
Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?
The billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE had deep impacts on Tesla’s bottom line. But Elon Musk was still able to turn his attention to SpaceX.
Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future.
'It's all fixed,' says that Apple developer who was locked out of his Apple Account after redeeming a compromised Apple Gift Card. 'A lovely man from Singapore, working for Apple Executive Relations, who has been calling me every so often for a couple of days, has let me...
Hamstrung by lawsuits, the state can’t officially keep its goal to ban new gas-powered car sales by 2035. But it’s going to keep trying.
Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty Feature Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, claims Cristina Caffarra, a competition expert and a driving force behind the Eurostack...
Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is in Chapter...
Total operational capacity just keeps rising Hyperscale datacenter operators nearly tripled their spending on infrastructure over the past three years in response to the AI craze, while the amount of operational capacity added each quarter has increased by 170 percent, with...
Mousey wouldn’t work, wah-wah-wah Who, Me? Welcome to Christmas week at The Register, an occasion we’ll celebrate with another installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of workplace mistakes and mischief.…
They call it 'the business-impersonator scam'. And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the...
SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea's government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.…
Tuesday the White House faces a deadline to decide 'whether Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies poses a national security threat,' reports Bloomberg. But their article notes it's 'a decision with the potential to ground thousands of machines deployed by police and fire...
In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of 'Energy Dome' as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing 'large amounts...
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares through third-party app ...
Sunday December 21, 2025. 11:34 PM
PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more Infosec In Brief Google will soon end its “Dark Web Report”, an email service that alerts users when their personal information appears on the internet’s dark...
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland wonders if 'gifts for geeks' is the next big consumer demographic: For this year's holiday celebrations, Hallmark made a special Christmas tree ornament, a tiny monitor displaying screens from the classic video game 'Oregon Trail.'...
'On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them,' reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Independent notes that 'Without working traffic lights, the...
'Perhaps no group of fans, industry workers, and consumers is more intense about AI use than gamers....' writes New York magazine's 'Intelligencer' column: Just this month, the latest Postal game was axed by its publisher, which was 'overwhelmed with negative responses' from ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the site It's FOSS: Linux gives you plenty of ways to install software: native distro packages, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, source builds, even curl-piped installers. The catch is that each one solves a different problem, yet none of...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last September, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org pledged to engage 25 million K-12 schoolchildren in an 'Hour of AI' this school year. Preliminary numbers released this week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition showed that [halfway...
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