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Saturday December 13, 2025. 06:34 PM
In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he'd found the whole photographic process 'really annoying.... I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the...
New England's last coal-fired power plant 'has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date,' reports the New Hampshire Bulletin. 'The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo: At the invitation-only Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, 'The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the...
In April 2022, artist Steph Maj Swanson asked an AI image generator to produce something as far from Marlon Brando as possible. After a couple of iterations, the system started generating the same woman over and over: an older figure with hollow eyes and triangular patches...
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
This laid-back ride comes with an almost bewildering array of power modes and riding styles. Just make sure you obey the law.
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
Plus: Apple Fitness+ expands to new markets, it’s even easier to add photos to Aura’s digital frames, and the new Nocs speakers go heavy metal.
I’ve been reviewing smart lighting for years. Here are tips on how to prep, what to choose, and the smart lights that work best in each room.
CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar British Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite...
Instagram is awash with Asian firms showing how they can remake old Broncos, Defenders, and other whole classic cars—better and much cheaper than in the US.
A former Chinese official who fled to the U.S. says Beijing has used advanced surveillance technology from U.S. companies to track, intimidate, and punish him and his family across borders. ABC News reports: Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Dozens of Ukrainian civilians filed a series of lawsuits in Texas this week, accusing some of the biggest US chip firms of negligently failing to track chips that evaded export curbs. Those chips were ultimately used to...
Chandler, Arizona unanimously rejected a proposed AI data center despite heavy lobbying from Big Tech interests and former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Politico reports: The Chandler City Council last night voted down a request by a New York developer to rezone land to build a data...
Framework Computer raised DDR5 memory prices for its Laptop DIY Editions by 50% due to industry-wide memory shortages. Phoronix reports: Framework Computer is keeping the prior prices for existing pre-orders and also is foregoing any price changes for their pre-built laptops ...
id Software employees voted to form a wall-to-wall union with the CWA, covering all roles at the Doom studio. 'The vote wasn't unanimous, though a majority did vote in favor of the union,' notes Engadget. From the report: The union will work in conjunction with the...
The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of that experiment, and to decide whether the time had come to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. government will require artificial intelligence vendors to measure political 'bias' to sell their chatbots to federal agencies, according to a Trump administration statement (PDF) released on Thursday. The...
The pro-Russian CyberVolk group resurfaced with a Telegram-based ransomware-as-a-service platform, but fatally undermined its own operation by hardcoding master encryption keys in plaintext. The Register reports: First, the bad news: the CyberVolk 2.x (aka VolkLocker)...
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