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Monday March 25, 2024. 07:01 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing AI chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative AI developers from startups to Microsoft, OpenAI and Google parent Alphabet. Almost as important to its...
Atlas VPN informed customers on Monday that it will discontinue its services on April 24, citing technological demands, market competition, and escalating costs as key factors in the decision. The company said it will transfer its paid subscribers to its sister company,...
Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last week. From a report: At least three proposed class...
The U.K. government has blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K. voters. From a report: In a statement to lawmakers in Parliament on Monday, U.K. deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden attributed the 2021 data breach at...
FrankOVD shares a report: Here's a paragraph from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple in full: 'In addition to degrading the quality of third-party messaging apps, Apple affirmatively undermines the quality of rival smartphones. For example, if an iPhone user messages...
Dave Plummer, a former Microsoft developer, has shared the story behind the Format drive dialog box in Windows, which has remained unchanged for nearly three decades. According to Plummer, the dialog box was created as a temporary solution during the porting of code from...
Boeing announced a major leadership overhaul Monday, with CEO Dave Calhoun set to step down at the end of 2024 amid mounting pressure from airlines and regulators over quality and manufacturing issues. Chairman Larry Kellner will also resign and depart the board at Boeing's...
Boeing announced a major leadership overhaul Monday, with CEO Dave Calhoun set to step down at the end of 2024 amid mounting pressure from airlines and regulators over quality and manufacturing issues. Chairman Larry Kellner will also resign and depart the board at Boeing's...
Boeing announced a major leadership overhaul Monday, with CEO Dave Calhoun set to step down at the end of 2024 amid mounting pressure from airlines and regulators over quality and manufacturing issues. Chairman Larry Kellner will also resign and depart the board at Boeing's...
In a state where housing is expensive to build, to rent, or to buy — and not especially energy efficient — can a big blue robot make a difference? The Boston Globe reports on Reframe Systems, one of the companies 'trying robots to make construction more efficient' — in this...
The European Union has launched investigations into Apple, Meta and Google under its sweeping new digital-competition law, adding to the regulatory scrutiny large U.S. tech companies are facing worldwide. From a report: The suite of probes [Editor's note: the link may be...
In 2019 Los Angeles film/TV producer Brian Morrison painted Blockbuster's logo onto an old newspaper box — and then filled it up with used DVDs. 'The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction,' reports the New York Times — aided at times by social media — 'and...
The Los Angeles Times checks in on America's largest dam-removal project, which they say is now 'revealing a stark landscape that had been underwater for generations.' 'A thick layer of muddy sediment covers the sloping ground, where workers have been scattering seeds and...
The Baffler says a new publishing house launched earlier this month 'brings Silicon Valley-style startup disruption to the business of books.' Authors Equity has 'a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network of freelancers,' and like a handful of other publishers 'is ...
Sunday March 24, 2024. 11:34 PM
'It's a bad day for bugs,' joked TechCrunch on Wednesday. 'Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code...' And then the same day, BleepingComputer reported that GitHub 'introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up...
'If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to 'put you on some kind of list,' your concern may be more than warranted,' writes Mashable: In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names,...
Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shared an announcement from the University of California San Diego. The school's researchers teamed with materials-science company Algenesis to show 'that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level — in under sev...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google's 'Be Internet Awesome' curriculum, and 1.25...
Gizmodo reports that increased activity on the Moon 'may affect the unique radio silence on the lunar far side, an ideal location for radio telescopes to pick up faint signals from the cosmic past.' This week, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) held the first...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Register: Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised U.S. defense organizations, UK government agencies, and hundreds of other...
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