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Tuesday December 9, 2025. 10:03 AM
Environmental activists just delivered Congress the most aggressive ultimatum yet against America’s AI revolution. More than 350 pro-environment organizations from all 50 states coordinated a massive campaign demanding lawmakers immediately halt new AI data center...
When I reviewed Amazon Q Developer in 2024, I noted that it was able to generate whole functions in common programming languages with only a few fixes. It was useful for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks as you type. It could also scan...
Amazon’s Nova 2 announcement at AWS re:Invent 2025 is exactly the type of AI offering we expected from AWS and, frankly, exactly what should make thoughtful architects nervous. Nova 2 is positioned as a frontier-grade model, tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock. It’s...
A long-awaited change has landed in Instagram, providing users of the social media platform with a new way to share other people’s stories to their own timeline. Instagram has stood apart from other social platforms in a number of ways, but notably in the lack of option...
In apps, there are some changes which are gamechangers, others which are aesthetically pleasing, others still which sit somewhere else. Such is the latest change visible in the newest beta version of the Android edition of WhatsApp. We have already seen various color and...
Anthropic is bringing Claude Code directly into Slack, letting developers spin up coding sessions from chat threads and automate workflows without leaving the app. TechCrunch reports: Previously, developers could only get lightweight coding help via Claude in Slack -- like...
Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure as can be and properly backed up.…
Chipzilla doesn’t need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner Intel will explore manufacturing some chips in India’s first fab after forming an alliance with Indian mega-corp Tata.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Since online genealogy services began operating, millions of people have sent them saliva samples in hopes of learning about their family roots and discovering far-flung relatives. These services also appeal to law ...
Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.…
IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a release that it sees Confluent as a natural fit for its hybrid cloud and AI...
Europol's GRIMM taskforce has arrested nearly 200 people accused of running or participating in 'violence-as-a-service' schemes where cybercrime groups recruit youth online for real-world attacks. 'These individuals are groomed or coerced into committing a range of violent...
The Trump administration will allow Nvidia to resume selling H200 chips to China, but only if the U.S. government takes a 25% cut. Axios reports: Trump said on Truth Social that he'll allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips -- the generation of chips before its current,...
'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account Google plans to add a second Gemini-based model to Chrome to address the security problems created by adding the first Gemini model to Chrome.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been...
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Taiwan's government has ordered a one-year block of a popular, mainland Chinese-owned social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as The Little RedNote, citing its failure to cooperate with authorities over fraud-related concerns....
IBM is buying Confluent for $11 billion in a major push to own real-time data streaming infrastructure essential for enterprise AI workloads. It marks Big Blue's biggest acquisition since Red Hat in 2019. Bloomberg reports: The AI boom has touched off billions of dollars in...
It's hard to believe it's real, and I'm not talking about the uncanny AI world of McDonalds' new Christmas ad, but the fact of its existence. The ad's theme is how terrible Christmas is, and it depicts various mishaps and accidents ruining the holiday. — Read the rest The po...
Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature’s most amazing design - the brain Interview Naveen Rao founded AI businesses and sold them to Intel and Databricks. He’s now turned his attention to satisfying AI's thirst for power and believes his new...
Firefox 146 has been released with native fractional scaling support on Wayland -- finally giving Linux users crisp UI rendering. Other new additions include GPU process improvements on macOS, developer-focused CSS features, and broader access to Firefox Labs. Phoronix...
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