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Monday January 27, 2025. 09:34 AM
The EFF has complained that in general 'smart' products for babies 'collect a ton of information about you and your baby on an ongoing basis'. (For this year's 'worst in privacy' product at CES they chose a $1,200 baby bassinet equipped with a camera, a microphone, and a...
Epic late-night road trip would have been an awesome if not for a secret change of plans Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to the occasional failure, and we celebrate your escapes.…
TL;DR: Data storage is so much simpler when you have a 1TB Dual USB-C USB-A High-Speed Flash Drive, and it’s on sale for $69.97 (reg. $109) until February 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That cloud storage subscription is costing you a little more every month. You know what...
Bot manufacturers should think outside the box of humanoid form – unless those makers are Engineered Arts Interview The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo.…
'Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly,' reports the Associated Press, 'avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a...
At December's 'Microsoft Excel World Championship' in Las Vegas, 'finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,' writes the New York Times, 'as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400...
'An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,' reports the Financial Times, 'in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure...'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok's U.S. business, according to a...
Since launching in 2020, the nonprofit site RestofWorld.org has been covering tech news from 100 countries. And they've just announced the winners in their 2024 international photography contest. 'From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries...
Sunday January 26, 2025. 10:52 PM
For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was 'hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,' a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ('Two other victims were taken to...
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into 'the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints.' If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal ...
Earlier this month a major fire erupted at a California battery plant. But several factors contributed to its rapid spread, the fire district's chief told the Los Angeles Times: A fire suppression system that is part of every battery rack at the plant failed and led to a...
El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder's dominance in a...
The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to offer at least one computer science course to its students. 'This bill aligns Michigan with a majority of the country,' according to the state's announcement, which says the bill 'advances...
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which 'will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.' Wikipedia defines ACPI as 'an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a 'milestone' for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU's...
Stir with it, flip with it, cook with it—a Danish kitchenware studio has reinvented man’s OG tool.
Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.
A series from photographer Stefan Falke captures iconic views of New York City's boroughs both coming and going.
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: 'Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon,' CNN reported today. But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than Covid-19 originating in wild animal...
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