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Monday May 12, 2025. 06:00 PM
The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world's most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found. From a report: Rising...
Western Digital has made a strategic investment in German startup Cerabyte, a company developing nearly indestructible ceramic-based data storage technology. The partnership aims to accelerate commercialization of Cerabyte's ceramic-on-glass material, which the company...
Apple is weighing price increases for its fall iPhone lineup, a step it is seeking to couple with new features and design changes, according to WSJ, which cited people familiar with the matter. From the report: The company is determined to avoid any scenario in which it...
Evidence is mounting for 'a vast reservoir of liquid water' on Mars, according to a new article by Australian National University professor Hrvoje TkalÄiÄ and geophysics associate professor Weijia Sun from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, announcing their recently...
The United States and China said Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the tariffs [non-paywalled source] they have imposed on each other in an attempt to defuse the trade war threatening the world's two largest economies. From a report: In a joint...
Business Insider tells the story in three bullet points: - Big Tech companies depend on content made by others to train their AI models. - Some of those creators say using their work to train AI is copyright infringement. - The U.S. Copyright Office just published a report...
It's been a mobile-only game for decades. Then a little more than a week ago Infinity Nikkireleased its 1.5 update (which introduced multiplayer and customization options) and launched the game on Steam. But it 'didn't go over as planned,' writes the worker-owned gaming site ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: This morning, while summarizing an Apple 'product blitz' he expects for 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a 'mostly glass, curved iPhone' with no display cutouts for...
Fusion energy 'took one step closer to reality,' announced the University of Texas at Austin, as their researchers joined with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Group and 'solved a longstanding problem in the field' — how to contain high-energy...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that target the macOS version of AI-powered code-editing tool Cursor, reports The Hacker News: 'Disguised as developer tools offering 'the cheapest Cursor API,' these packages steal user credentials, fetch...
Sunday May 11, 2025. 11:02 PM
18 years ago Slashdot covered the creation of Spaceport America. Today Space.com hails it as 'the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world.' But engineer/executive director Scott McLaughlin has plans to grow even more. Already home to an array of commercial...
Whoop fitness trackers had promised free upgrades to anyone who'd been a member for at least six months — and then reneged. 'After customers began complaining, the company responded with a Reddit post, according to a report from TechCrunch: Now, anyone with more than 12...
OpenAI is currently in 'a tough negotiation' with Microsoft, the Financial Times reports, citing 'one person close to OpenAI.' On the road to building artificial general intelligence, OpenAI hopes to unlock new funding (and launch a future IPO), according to the article,...
'When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline,' writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). 'To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette —...
'A China-linked unnamed threat actor dubbed Chaya_004 has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in SAP NetWeaver,' reports The Hacker News: Forescout Vedere Labs, in a report published Thursday, said it uncovered a malicious infrastructure likely...
Fast Company's 'AI Decoded' newsletter makes the case that the first 'killer app' for generative AI... is coding. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at...
Exposure-management company Tenable recently discussed how the MCP tool-interfacing framework for AI can be 'manipulated for good, such as logging tool usage and filtering unauthorized commands.' (Although 'Some of these techniques could be used to advance both positive and...
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: The new Nintendo Switch 2 is almost here. Next month, eager fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular hybrid console. But before you line up (or frantically refresh your browser ...
'Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware,' reports Ars Technica, 'a strong indication that devices...
'The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized,' reports Kotaku: That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall...
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