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Monday August 4, 2025. 09:24 PM
Plastics are a 'grave, growing and under-recognised danger' to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a 'plastics crisis,' it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Indian IT sector has operated for decades under the dominance of major firms TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT. The historical growth of these companies was tightly coupled with the U.S. economy through a strong 'multiplier effect,' where ...
Google released a 30-second Pixel 10 ad today that mocks Apple's year-long delay in delivering promised AI improvements to Siri on iPhone 16 devices. The ad suggests users could 'just change your phone' if they purchased a device for a feature that's been 'coming soon for a...
Major cloud storage providers maintain unclear policies about deleting user data after subscription cancellations, Wired reports, with deletion timelines ranging from six months to indefinite preservation. Apple reserves the right to delete iCloud backups after 180 days of...
Delta Air Lines has walked back previous statements about individualized pricing after lawmakers questioned the airline's AI-assisted dynamic pricing model. In November, Delta president Glen Hauenstein told investors the company would have pricing 'available on that flight,...
Microsoft announced last month that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited vulnerabilities in SharePoint to breach hundreds of companies and government agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. The company...
AI startup Perplexity is deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots, according to a Cloudflare report published Monday. When Perplexity's declared crawlers...
Fujifilm has raised prices on cameras and lenses across its lineup, with price hikes reaching into the hundreds of dollars. From a report: Among the hikes is an increase to the price of Fuji's ultra-popular X100VI from $1,599 to $1,799. The capable X-T5 has gone from $1,699...
The management consulting industry is facing potential disruption as AI companies enter the advisory business and traditional firms struggle to maintain growth. McKinsey, approaching its 100th anniversary, reduced its workforce by 5,000 employees since late 2023 while its...
The Associated Press investigates whether tech industry layoffs are really being caused by AI. Their conclusion? 'The reality is more complicated...' 'We're kind of in this period where the tech job market is weak, but other areas of the job market have also cooled at a...
'Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a crypto billionaire and five other people to the final frontier on Sunday,' reports Space.com: The mission — known as NS-34, because it was the 34th overall flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle — lifted off from the company's West...
Disney 'cloned' Dwayne Johnson when filming a live-action Moana, reports the Wall Street Journal, using an AI process that they were ultimately afraid to use: Under the plan they devised, Johnson's similarly buff cousin Tanoai Reed — who is 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds — would...
Napster's latest AI pivot 'is the latest in a series of attempts by various owners to ride its brand cachet during emerging tech waves,' Fast Company reported in July. In March, it sold for $207 million to Infinite Reality, an immersive digital media and e-commerce company,...
NBC News reports that in the U.S., many recent graduates looking to enter the labor force 'are painting a dire picture of their job search.' NBC News asked people who recently finished technical school, college or graduate school how their job application process was going,...
'Hyundai sold 79,543 vehicles in the U.S. last month,' reports the EV news site Electrek — Hyundai's best July ever, and 15% higher than last year. 'The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids...' Hyundai said that electrified vehicle...
Started in 1984, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest. And yesterday 2025's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded — with 23 new winners announced in a special four-and-a-half-hour livestreamed ceremony! Programmers submitted their...
Sunday August 3, 2025. 10:55 PM
Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize...
IBM's legendary Model M keyboard was sturdy and solid. But 'What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the Model M and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts?' asks long-time Slashdot reader uninet. Writing for the long-running tech blog Open for Business,...
America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays,...
The Chinese government 'has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices...' reports the Washington Post. '[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing ...
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