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Monday September 29, 2025. 05:21 PM
The world's highest bridge opened in China on Sunday, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province. From a report: The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice...
What's the proper punishment for an illegal U-turn? If you're a human being in California, it's a fine of up to $234. If you're a robot, apparently, it's nothing at all. The San Francisco Standard: This injustice became apparent to many Facebook users Saturday night after a...
BrianFagioli writes: Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion buyout by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, marking the largest all-cash sponsor take-private deal ever. Shareholders will...
'Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time,' writes Business Insider, citing remarks from UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said during a recent episode of Nova's 'Particles of Thought' podcast. 'Our...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog Linuxiac: In a somewhat unexpected move, Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative aimed at developing a modern, standalone web browser...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Late last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story about an 'AI Stan Lee hologram' that would be appearing at the LA Comic Con this weekend. [Watch it in action here.] Nearly seven years after the famous Marvel Comics ...
'As awareness grows around the dangers of head trauma in sports, a small number of professional fighters and football players are turning to a psychedelic called ibogaine for treatment,' reports the Los Angeles Times. They note that the drug's proponents 'tout its ability to ...
The editors of the culture magazine n + 1 decry the 'well-funded upheaval' caused by a large and powerful coalition of pro-AI forces. ('According to the logic of market share as social transformation, if you move fast and break enough things, nothing can contain you...') 'An ...
'The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business...' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Now an unlikely new villain has been added to the list: theoretical physicists,' they write, saygin resentment of scientific authority figures 'is...
'Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin,' reports the Guardian, 'in the second nationwide vote on the issue.' In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding...
Sunday September 28, 2025. 10:37 PM
Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that 'Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not...
'Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK,' reports the BBC: The company said it would start notifying users in the coming weeks to let them choose whether to subscribe to its platforms if they wish...
IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers 'are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions,...
'Today's AIs are book smart,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart.' And that requires 'world models,' which are 'gaining momentum in frontier research ...
The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species 'began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.' It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species,...
Six months ago California had 48% more public and 'shared' private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports...
Paris-based AI giant Mistral 'is pushing to improve its models,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'by looking inside legacy enterprises that hold some of the world's last untapped data reserves....' Mistral's approach will be to form partnerships with enterprises to further...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering 'Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data': 'A provided data model may include a tree...
'We've decided to support image-based search,' announced the product manager for Firefox Search. Powered by the AI-driven Google Lens search technology, they promise the new feature offers 'a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) 'search...
Cristian Fleming paid around $70,000 for one of Fisker Ocean's electric mid-size crossover SUVs. Seven months later the company filed for bankruptcy in June of 2024, reports the Verge, 'having only delivered 11,000 vehicles.' 'Early adopters were left with cars plagued by...
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