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Thursday November 13, 2025. 08:00 AM
For the first time, astronomers captured the shockwave of a supernova bursting through the surface of a dying red supergiant star, revealing a surprisingly symmetrical, grape-shaped explosion. Space.com reports: Seeing this moment in detail has previously been elusive...
Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven’t Systems Approach When my colleague and co-author Bruce Davie delivered his keynote at the SIGCOMM conference, he was asked a thought-provoking question: How should we think about educating the next...
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Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry A semi-autonomous humanoid robot said to be Russia’s first such machine has fallen over within seconds of facing the public for the first time.…
Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Production is now underway at Toyota's new $13.9 billion battery plant in North Carolina, the company's first outside Japan. After the first batteries rolled off the production line at its new facility in Liberty, North...
Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday. 'The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film 'Rocky,' before it suddenly lost its balance and fell,' reports the BBC. 'Assistants could ...
Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News reports: The new country tune, 'Walk my Walk' by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales ...
Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance Atlassian twice marked Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs off-limits for production purposes, but recently relented and now uses the processors to power thousands of server instances...
The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters. To train them, it's not just building bigger, more efficient datacenters – it's started...
Waymo is rolling out robotaxi rides that use freeways across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix for the first time -- 'a critical expansion for the company that it says will reduce ride times by up to 50%,' reports TechCrunch. From the report: That stat could help...
Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it OpenAI on Wednesday introduced GPT-5.1, an AI model update that's 'warmer,' more conversational, and slightly more willing to blurt out unwelcome observations about sex, violence, and mental...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on a U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York. The facilities, which will be designed to support the...
Longtime Slashdot reader hadleyburg writes: For a user with an Android phone and who's happy to stick within the Google ecosystem, an Android tablet might seem like the more obvious choice over an iPad. Of course, iPads are a lot more popular, and asking about Android...
Wednesday November 12, 2025. 11:40 PM
Valve is ready to rejoin the VR hardware race with the Steam Frame, a lightweight standalone SteamOS headset that can run games locally or stream wirelessly from a PC using new 'foveated streaming' tech. It's set to launch in early 2026. Ars Technica reports: Powered by a...
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright infringement lawsuit by the New York Times and other news...
But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it Need to fly domestically, but want to leave your passport or driver's license at home? Apple has you covered, as long as you're using an iOS device and traveling between or within one of the dozen or so states that...
600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.…
OpenAI today released GPT-5.1, an update to its flagship model line. The update includes two versions: GPT-5.1 Instant, which OpenAI says adds adaptive reasoning capabilities and improved instruction following, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which adjusts its processing time based on ...
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