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Sunday July 13, 2025. 05:34 AM
An anonymous reader shared this report from Jalopnik: On July 2, the 88th anniversary of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced an expedition [which will launch in November] to confirm whether or not the wreckage of her plane has been...
Lucid Motors set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an electric car on a single charge, covering a distance of 749 miles (about 1,205 km), reports New Atlas. 'In doing so, Lucid broke the 1,045-km (649-mile) record previously achieved by the Mercedes-Benz...
'Firefox is dead to me,' wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols last month for The Register, complaining about everything from layoffs at Mozilla to Firefox's discontinuation of Pocket and Fakespot, its small market share, and some user complaints that the browser might be becoming ...
Saturday July 12, 2025. 11:34 PM
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shared this report from Nerds.xyz: NVIDIA just put out a new security notice, and if you're running one of its powerful GPUs, you might want to pay attention. Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that Rowhammer attacks, which are ...
Robinhood's stock hit is up more than 160% for 2025, reports CNBC, and the trading platform's own stock hit an all-time high on Friday. But 'Despite its stellar year, the online broker is facing several headwinds...' Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened a formal...
It killed tens of millions of people in 14th century Europe,' CNN reports, though 'today, it's easily treated with antibiotics.' And yet 'A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday.' Plague is rare to humans, with on average...
'Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday,' reports CNBC, 'prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes.' The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according...
China 'accounts for more than half of global coal use,' reports Asia Times, 'even as it builds the world's largest solar-panel and EV industries.' Much of the world's solar gear is made on fossil power. The International Energy Agency finds that 'coal generates over 60% of...
Bitcoin 'vaulted to a fresh all-time high Friday, breaking above $118,000,' reports Yahoo Finance: Year to date, the token is up roughly 21%, buoyed in part by crypto-friendly policies from the Trump administration, including the establishment of a strategic bitcoin reserve...
The advocacy group Free Press on Friday blasted America's Federal Communications Commission chief 'for an order that rips net neutrality rules off the books, without any time for public comment, following an unfavorable court ruling,' reports the nonprofit progressive news...
Slashdot reader hcs_$reboot shared this report from NPR: A pair of switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were set to 'cutoff' moments before the crash of Air India Flight 171, according to a preliminary report from India's Air Accident Investigation Bureau...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Contrary to popular belief, using cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools slowed down experienced software developers when they were working in codebases familiar to them, rather than supercharging their work, a new study...
Major space industry players -- including SpaceX, Boeing, and Blue Origin -- are urging Congress to maintain funding for the TraCSS space traffic coordination program, warning that eliminating it would endanger satellite safety and potentially drive companies abroad. Under...
In June 2025, solar power became the leading source of electricity in the EU for the first time, surpassing nuclear and wind, while coal hit a record low. CBC reports: Solar generated 22.1 percent of the EU's electricity last month, up from 18.9 percent a year earlier, as...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it with someone asking ...
Stanford researchers have developed a blood-based AI tool that calculates the biological age of individual organs to reveal early signs of aging-related disease. The Mercury News reports: The tool, unveiled in Nature Medicine Wednesday, was developed by a research team...
joshuark writes: A Russian basketball player, Daniil Kasatkin, was arrested on June 21 in France at the request of the United States as he allegedly is part of a network of hackers. Daniil Kasatkin, aged 26, is accused by the United States of negotiating the payment of...
iFixit has harsh words for Nintendo's $85 Switch 2 Pro controller, calling it a 'piss-poor excuse for a controller' due to its difficult repairability, use of outdated drift-prone joysticks, and poor internal accessibility. The Verge reports: Opening the controller requires...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase has told financial-technology companies that it will start charging fees amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars for access to their customers' bank account information -- a move that threatens to upend...
OpenAI's planned acquisition of Windsurf has fallen apart. Instead, Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and parts of its R&D team to join DeepMind and focus on agentic coding for Gemini. Google will not acquire Windsurf but will receive a...
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