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Saturday November 8, 2025. 08:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from Marine Insight: The world's largest cargo sailboat, Neoliner Origin, completed its first transatlantic voyage on 30 October despite damage to one of its sails during the journey. The 136-metre-long vessel had to rely...
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'Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them,' writes Ars Technica, citing a lengthy report from Reuters. Reuters reports that Meta 'for at least...
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Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from Linuxiac: The Japanese branch of Mozilla's Support Mozilla (SUMO) community — responsible for localizing and maintaining Japanese-language support documentation for Firefox and other Mozilla products (consisting of Jap...
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American multinational freight company UPS 'has grounded its fleet of MD-11 aircraft,' reports the Guardian, 'days after a cargo plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Kentucky. The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday's crash in Louisville....
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UPDATE (11/9): America's Federal Aviation Administration has now grounded all U.S. MD-11 and MD-11F aircrafts after Tuesday's crash 'because the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design,' according to...
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'Maybe you've heard that artificial intelligence is a bubble poised to burst,' writes a Washington Post technology columnist. 'Maybe you have heard that it isn't. (No one really knows either way, but that won't stop the bros from jabbering about it constantly.)' 'But I can...
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An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more...
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Plus: Motorola has new Moto G phones, Canon’s R6 III mirrorless has a 32-MP sensor, and Teenage Engineering’s Riddim n’ Ting looks gorgeous.
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Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car, period.
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Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.
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If you’re going to suffer, make sure it’s worth the effort. We consulted fitness experts to help you maximize your ice bath.
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Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade' interview Digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their...
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Even though you can’t see it, fine particulate matter from woodsmoke and industrial pollution can cause everything from heart attacks and diabetes to brain damage.
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Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining 'neural data' and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. 'There is no control,' said Unesco's chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. 'We have to inform the ...
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Ford wants you to stash it in your belt buckle, but there’s absolutely no need to be lugging around a bulky fob. Trouble is, phone-as-a-key tech could be superseded before it even gets going.
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At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's 'legendary approach to quality control.' While the robustness of Windows...
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New submitter semper_statisticum shares a report from the Independent: Lego is releasing its first-ever Star Trek-inspired model -- with an incredible recreation of the signature ship from the '80s TV series. Made from 3,600 pieces, the [first-ever] Star Trek inspired Lego...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Vanguard feels and smells like a new RV. It has long, gray banquettes that convert into bunks, a microwave cleverly hidden under a counter, a functional steel sink with a French press and crockery above. A weird ...
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Collins Dictionary has named 'vibe coding' its 2025 word of the year -- a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for when a user makes an app or website by describing it to AI rather than writing programming code manually. The term, which is confusingly made up of two words, was...
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