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Sunday December 14, 2025. 11:00 AM
SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.…
Here’s everything you need to know about data privacy in sex toys and the apps that connect to them.
A January order blocking wind energy projects in America has now been vacated by a U.S. judge and declared unlawful, reports the Associated Press: [Judge Saris of the U.S. district court for the district of Massachusetts] ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys...
Ahead of its entry into the US, the European brand with an ex-Ferrari boss and decades of motorsport success has a new EV to take on Porsche and Polestar. WIRED tries it on for size.
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Due to the growing number of GNOME Shell extensions looking to appear on extensions.gnome.org that were generated using AI, it's now prohibited. The new rule in their guidelines note that AI-generated code will be...
The R programming language 'is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers,' says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, 'due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems.' But he says it 'continues to thrive at ...
This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). An anonymous reader shared this report...
This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making 'significant' contributions to software freedom): Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU...
'The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,' notes Inside Java. But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that 'Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.' This ...
Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:17 PM
A Utah-based startup announced last week it used AI to locate a 250-degree Fahrenheit geothermal reservoir, reports CNN. It'll start producing electricity in three to five years, the company estimates — and at least one geologist believes AI could be an exciting...
Choosing your browser 'is one of the most important digital decisions you can make, shaping how you experience the web, protect your data, and express yourself online,' says the Firefox blog. They've urged readers to 'take a stand for independence and control in your digital ...
Electrek reports: EV and battery supply chain research specialists Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that 2.0 million electric vehicles were sold globally in November 2025, bringing global EV sales to 18.5 million units year-to-date. That's a 21% increase compared to...
In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he'd found the whole photographic process 'really annoying.... I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the...
New England's last coal-fired power plant 'has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date,' reports the New Hampshire Bulletin. 'The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo: At the invitation-only Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, 'The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the...
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
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Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
Plus: Apple Fitness+ expands to new markets, it’s even easier to add photos to Aura’s digital frames, and the new Nocs speakers go heavy metal.
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