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Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:00 AM
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...
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...
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)...
Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates' youngest daughter, has raised $30 million for the AI shopping app she built in her Stanford dorm room with classmate Sophia Kianni. The app is called Phia and is pitched as a way to simplify price comparison and secondhand shopping. 'Its AI-powered...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google has increasingly moved toward keeping features locked to its hardware products, but the Translate app is bucking that trend. The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble with support for any...
Friday December 12, 2025. 11:22 PM
Online retailer Coupang, often called South Korea's Amazon, is dealing with the fallout from a breach that exposed the personal information of more than 33 million accounts -- roughly two-thirds of the country's population -- after a former contractor allegedly used...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has quietly added a new AI feature to its Kindle iOS app -- a feature that 'lets you ask questions about the book you're reading and receive spoiler-free answers,' according to an Amazon announcement. The company says the feature,...
joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps last month, and now they're missing from the shows...
Berlin's regional parliament has passed a far-reaching overhaul of its 'security' law, giving police new authority to conduct both digital and physical surveillance. From a report: The CDU-SPD coalition, supported by AfD votes, approved the reform of the General Security and ...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has almost entirely upheld a scathing April ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction meant to open up iOS App Store payments in its long-running legal battle against Epic Games. A three-judge panel affirmed that...
China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that 'significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a country's national interests,' according to a technology tracker run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) -- an independent think-tank. Nature: ...
A new study of roughly 80,000 bachelor's degree recipients from a large urban public college system finds that characteristics of a graduate's first job can explain nearly two-thirds of the otherwise-unexplained earnings gap between students from low-income and high-income...
The Washington Post's top standards editor Thursday decried 'frustrating' errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a report: Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out...
Carl Rinsch, the director behind the 2013 Keanu Reeves film '47 Ronin,' has been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was meant to fund a science fiction series called 'Conquest,' which the streaming company ultimately cancelled in 2021 after Rinsch...
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