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Threads has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, reports TechCrunch, citing Mark Zuckerberg's comments on a company earnings call. That means Threads grew by 9.4% in roughly 90 days: That's an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta...
The Open Source Initiative is joining 'a global community of contributors' for GitHub's annual event 'honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects.' And the theme of the 4th Annual 'Maintainer Month' will be: securing Open Source: Throughout the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Facebook's loosening of its content moderation standards early this year got lots of attention and criticism. But a new study suggests that it might matter less what is taken down than when. The research finds...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this excerpt from a new article in Science magazine: At first, astronomers knew of only one cosmic scenario that fit the bill for the violent formation of 'jewelry shop' elements [gold and sliver]: the collision of two ultra-dense stellar...
Remember when U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen's Houthis? A recent photo of a high-level cabinet meeting caught Waltz using a 'less-secure Signal app...
Clean your house without the restraint of a power cord with these cordless stick vacuums.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 (source paywalled; alternative source) who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract...
This is the best robot vacuum we’ve tested, and it scored a rare 10 out of 10.
With unrivaled performance, a versatile triple-camera setup, and a fun modular accessory system, Nothing's CMF Phone 2 Pro reinvents the idea of a budget smartphone. But there's a catch.
The Chinese automaker's new model has a big range, lightning quick charging, and is super cheap—but it's a new pure vision-based autonomous driving system very similar to Tesla’s.
Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…
In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet.
President Donald Trump has ended the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed Temu, Shein, and other online retailers to send packages from China to the US valued under $800 duty-free.
Plus: France blames Russia for a series of cyberattacks, the US is taking steps to crack down on a gray market allegedly used by scammers, and Microsoft pushes the password one step closer to death.
A 25-year-old from Santa Clarita has pleaded guilty to hacking a Disney employee's computer using malware disguised as an AI art tool, stealing over 1 terabyte of confidential Disney data and threatening to leak it under the guise of a fake Russian hacktivist group. Variety...
Plus: Philips Norelco has an AI-powered shaver, and Wiz’s Sync Box is an affordable synced lighting alternative for your TV.
A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but...
Astronomers may have found the best candidate yet for the elusive Planet Nine: a mysterious object in infrared sky surveys taken 23 years apart that appears to be more massive than Neptune and about 700 times farther from the sun than Earth. Space.com reports: [A] team led...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its ...
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