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Sunday June 29, 2025. 12:00 PM
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test.
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Smithsonian magazine: Last year, Australian scientists picked up a mysterious burst of radio waves that briefly appeared brighter than all other signals in the sky. Now, the researchers have discovered the blast didn't come from a...
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Bcachefs 'pitches itself as a filesystem that 'doesn't eat your data',' writes the open source/Linux blog It's FOSS. Although it was last October that Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet was restricted from participating in the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle (after...
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Technology writer Matthew Hutson (also Slashdot reader #1,467,653) looks at a new kind of self-improving AI coding system. It rewrites its own code based on empirical evidence of what's helping — as described in a recent preprint on arXiv. From Hutson's new article in IEEE...
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'I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital,' a man told his wife, after experiencing what Futurism calls a 'ten-day descent into AI-fueled delusion' and 'a frightening break with reality.' And a San Franci...
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Saturday June 28, 2025. 11:39 PM
Designated as a foreign terrorist group by multiple countries, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel fiercely defends its transnational organized crime syndicate. 'A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records,' reports Reuters, 'and...
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'Duolingo stock fell for the fourth straight trading day on Wednesday,' reported Investor's Business Daily, 'as data shows user growth slowing for the language-learning software provider.' Jefferies analyst John Colantuoni said he was 'concerned' by this drop — saying it...
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Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.
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On the International Space Station, air has been slowly leaking out for years from a Russia-controlled module, reports CNN. But recently 'station operators realized the gradual, steady leak had stopped. And that raised an even larger concern.' It's possible that efforts to...
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Bloomberg reports: By the time Jessica Lindsey's customers accuse her of being an AI, they are often already shouting. For the past two years, her work as a call center agent for outsourcing company Concentrix has been punctuated by people at the other end of the phone...
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Prime Day falls on July 8-11, but we've already found great deals on WIRED-tested products—from Apple Watches to Amazon Devices—at some of their lowest prices ever.
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'A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app's drivers and passengers,' reports the Guardian: Research by academics at New York's Columbia Business School...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from WebProNews: The Linux world is abuzz with news of XLibre, a fork of the venerable X11 window display system, which aims to be an alternative to X11's successor, Wayland. Much of the Linux world is working to adopt Wayland, the...
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After past damage to undersea cables, Denmark will boost their surveillance of Baltic Sea/North Sea waters by deploying four uncrewed surface vessels — about 10 meters long — that are equipped with drones and also AI, reports Euronews. The founder/CEO of the company that...
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'Mercedes-AMG is transitioning away from the four-cylinder plug-in hybrid powertrain,' reports Car and Driver, 'and back towards the inline-six and V-8 powertrains more traditionally associated with the brand.' That isn't to say that AMG had a change of heart concerning the...
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Watch out for supply chain hacks especially interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.…
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Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.
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This no-frills manual standing desk converter reliably rises and falls.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could...
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There are obvious trade-offs to buying a mattress in-store and online. But your decision may come down to key details of a brand’s warranty.
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