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Sunday July 27, 2025. 01:34 PM
NBC News reports: Customers watched in disbelief as Florida police arrested a Chuck E. Cheese employee — in costume portraying the pizza-hawking rodent — and accused him of using a stolen credit card, officials said Thursday.... 'I grabbed his right arm while giving the...
'A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays,' reports the South China Morning Post, 'that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX's Starlink for valuable orbital resources.' Only 90 satellites have been launched into low...
The vulnerability-watching 'Zero Day Initiative' was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned...
At this weekend's Comic-Con, 'Excitement has been high over the sneak peeks at Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands,' reports CNET. (Nine Inch Nails has even recorded a new song for Tron: Ares.) A few highlights from CNET's coverage: The Coyote vs. Acme movie will hit theaters...
The 'Chief People Officer' of dataops company Astronomer resigned this week from her position after apparently being caught on that 'Kiss Cam' at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original ...
Saturday July 26, 2025. 11:34 PM
'Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage company,' reports Data Center Dynamics. 'The tech giant signed a long-term partnership with Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company's CO2 battery...
Since 2010 Stack Exchange has run all its sites on physical hardware in New Jersey — about 50 different servers. (When Ryan Donovan joined in 2019, 'I saw the original server mounted on a wall with a laudatory plaque like a beloved pet.') But this month everything moved to...
The world's best human chess player beat ChatGPT, reports Time magazine. Magnus Carlsen posted on X.com earlier this month that 'I sometimes get bored while travelling,' and shared screenshots of his conversations with ChatGPT after he beat the AI chatbot 'without losing a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Mashable: Google Gemini's coding agent hallucinated while completing a task and then deleted a bunch of code, a GitHub user claims. The frustrated vibe coder is Anuraag Gupta, who goes by anuraag2601 on GitHub. He shared a recent...
Remember asteroid 2024 YR4 (which at one point had a 1 in 32 chance of hitting Earth, before ending up at 'impact probability zero')? CNN reports that asteroid is now 'zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun.' 'But as scientists wait for it to...
What happens when you ask ChatGPT how to craft a ritual offering to the forgotten Canaanite god Molech? One user discovered (and three reporters for The Atlantic verified) ChatGPT 'can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various...
Tesla open its first diner/Supercharger station Monday in Los Angeles, reports CNBC — an always-open two-story restaurant serving 'classic American comfort food' next to 80-charging stalls surrounded by two 66-foot megascreens 'playing a rotation of short films,...
The 'Chief People Officer' of dataops company Astronomer resigned from her position this week after apparently being caught on the 'Kiss Cam' at a Coldplay concert with the company's CEO, reports the BBC. That CEO has also resigned, with Astronomer appointing their original...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A hacker managed to plant destructive wiping commands into Amazon's 'Q' AI coding agent. This has sent shockwaves across developer circles. As details continue to emerge, both the tech industry and Amazon's user base have...
'So far, all lifeforms on Earth have a phosphorous-based chemistry, particularly as the backbone of DNA,' writes longtime Slashdot reader bshell. 'In 2010, a paper was published in Science claiming that arsenic-based bacteria were living in a California lake (in place of...
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Driven by high temperatures in the Gulf, Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified from a Category 3 to Category 5 before making landfall in Southwest Florida on September 28, 2022. The deadly storm caught many by surprise and became...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: On the early evening of June 22, 2010, American tennis star John Isner began a grueling Wimbledon match against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut that would become the longest in the sport's history. The marathon battle lasted...
Pebble smartwatches are officially reclaiming their iconic name after Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky successfully recovered the Pebble trademark. 'Great news -- we've been able to recover the trademark for Pebble! Honestly, I wasn't expecting this to work out so easily,'...
Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao was a former OpenAI researcher known for his work on ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company's first AI reasoning model, o1. 'I'm excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the...
A recent Echelon firmware update has effectively bricked offline functionality for its smart gym equipment, cutting off compatibility with popular third-party apps like QZ and forcing users to connect to Echelon's servers -- even just to view workout stats. Ars Technica...
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