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Monday March 31, 2025. 05:30 PM
France's competition authority has fined Apple 150 million euros ($162 million) for abusing its market dominance through its App Tracking Transparency system, ruling the privacy initiative unfairly disadvantages app developers. The watchdog determined that requiring...
Microsoft has announced that it's overhauling its Blue Screen of Death error message in Windows 11. From a report: The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified screen that looks a lot more like the black screen you see...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer,...
California has 11.3% of America's population — but bought 30% of America's new zero-emission vehicles. That's according to figures from the California Air Resources Board, which also reports 1 in 4 Californians have chosen a zero-emission car over a gas-powered one... for...
The Certification Authority/Browser Forum 'is a cross-industry group that works together to develop minimum requirements for TLS certificates,' writes Google's Security blog. And earlier this month two proposals from Google's forward-looking roadmap 'became required...
'The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged,' writes Phoronix, 'but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request.' The new 'hdrtest' code is for the Intel Xe kernel driver and is around trying to help...
'Microsoft built things. It broke things.' That's how the Seattle Times kicks off a series of articles celebrating Microsoft's 50th anniversary — adding that Microsoft also gave some people 'a lucrative retirement early in their lives, and their own stories to tell.' What...
What happens when you ask Copilot to 'write a program that can be run on an iPhone 16 to select 15 random photos from the phone, tint them to random colors, and display the photos on the phone'? That's what TouchDevelop did for the long-discontinued Windows Phone in a 2013...
The U.S. and China 'are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker,' the Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday, adding that 'Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries.' 'The time has come for robots,' Nvidia's chief executive said at a conference in March, ...
Sunday March 30, 2025. 11:17 PM
Slashdot reader jrnvk writes: The Verge is reporting that Microsoft will soon make it harder to run the well-publicized bypassnro command in Windows 11 setup. This command allows skipping the Microsoft account and online connection requirements on install. While the command...
The giant financial news site Bloomberg 'has been experimenting with using AI to help produce its journalism,' reports the New York Times. But 'It hasn't always gone smoothly.' While Bloomberg announced on January 15 that it would add three AI-generated bullet points at the...
As Rust approaches its 10th anniversary, 'there is an important piece of documentation missing that many other languages provide,' notes the Rust Foundation. While there's documentation and tutorials — there's no official language specification: In December 2022, an RFC was...
A former Facebook director of global policy recently published 'the book Meta doesn't want you to read,' a scathing takedown of top Meta executives titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. But Wednesday RestofWorld.org published...
The New York Times notes that white-collar workers have faced higher unemployment than other groups in the U.S. over the past few years — along with slower wager growth. Some economists wonder if this trend might be irreversible... and partly attributable to AI: After...
'After a long run, Google is sunsetting two of its signature Nest products,' reports PC World: Google has just announced that it's discontinuing the 10-year-old Nest Protect and the 7-year-old Nest x Yale lock. Both of those products will continue to work, and — for now —...
Cloud providers like the security of running things in virtual machines 'at scale' — even though VMs 'are not known for having fast cold starts or a small footprint...' noted Microsoft's Open Source blog last November. So Microsoft's Azure Core Upstream team built an open...
'Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps — many of which are explicit — being stored online without password protection,' reports the BBC, 'leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists.' And the images weren't limited to...
Samsung teased its 'AI Vision Inside' refrigerators at January's CES tradeshow. (Its internal sensors can now detect 37 different fresh ingredients and 50 processed foods, generating lists for your cellphone or a screen on your refrigerator's door.) But the refrigerators are ...
'I've been dreaming of this moment for 20 years,' says Aptera co-CEO Steve Fambro. Aptera's solar-powered electric car just drove 300 miles on a single charge. 'We're one step closer to a future where every journey is powered by the sun,' Aptera says in their announcement....
Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth's bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago,' reports CNN. 'But where did that organic material come from...?' Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in...
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