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Saturday December 6, 2025. 09:49 PM
'Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date,' reports Science Daily. 'This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy...
'A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational,' reports Politico, 'after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found.' [T]he large steel structure 'lost...
To build three-wheeled, solar electric vehicles, Aptera has now launched its 'validation' vehicle assembly line, reports the San Diego Business Journal. 'The validation line will set a technical foundation for the company's eventual low-volume assembly line, ensuring that...
What happened when a school in Los Angeles gave a sixth grader an iPad for use throughout the school day? 'He used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles,' reports NBC News. His mother has now launched a coalition of parents...
What happened when a school in Los Angeles gave a sixth grader an iPad for use throughout the school day? 'He used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles,' reports NBC News. His mother has now launched a coalition of parents...
While Netflix hopes to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion, CNBC reports a senior official in America's federal government said the administration was viewing the deal with 'heavy skepticism. And that's not the only hurdle: On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal...
CNN's prediction for 2026? 'Any device that uses memory, from phones to tablets and smartwatches, could get pricier.' But will it be a little or a lot? The article cites an analysis from multinational strategy/management consulting firm McKinsey & Company which found...
Linus Torvalds recently defended Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death during a video with Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, where the two built a PC together. It's FOSS reports: In that video, Sebastian discussed Torvalds' fondness for ECC (Error Correction Code). I am...
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from the BBC: Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year. ...
Meta has officially confirmed it is shifting investment away from the metaverse and VR toward AI-powered smart glasses, following a Bloomberg report of an up to 30% budget cut for Reality Labs. 'Within our overall Reality Labs portfolio we are shifting some of our investment ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confession, in which the model...
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: Engineers at Cornell University have created the blackest fabric on record, finding it absorbs 99.87 percent of all light that dares to illuminate its surface. In this case, the Cornell researchers dyed a white merino...
Despite predictions that AI would replace radiologists, healthcare systems worldwide are hiring more of them because AI tools enhance their work, create new oversight tasks, and increase imaging volumes rather than reducing workloads. 'Put all that together with the context...
sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for 'tiny cars' to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, ...
U.S. and Canadian cybersecurity agencies say Chinese-linked actors deployed 'Brickstorm' malware to infiltrate critical infrastructure and maintain long-term access for potential sabotage. Reuters reports: The Chinese-linked hacking operations are the latest example of...
Friday December 5, 2025. 11:22 PM
Meta is acquiring AI wearable startup Limitless, maker of a pendant that records conversations and generates summaries. 'We're excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,' a Meta spokesperson said in a statement....
India is weighing a proposal to mandate always-on satellite tracking in smartphones for precise government surveillance -- an idea strongly opposed by Apple, Google, Samsung, and industry groups. Reuters reports: For years, the [Prime Minister Narendra Modi's] administration ...
The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement, accusing the AI startup of repackaging its paywalled reporting without permission. TechCrunch reports: The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed...
Cloudflare says it blocked 416 billion AI scraping attempts in five months and warns that AI is reshaping the internet's economic model -- with Google's combined crawler creating a monopoly-style dilemma where opting out of AI means disappearing from search altogether. Tom's ...
Netflix is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in an $82.7 billion deal that gives it HBO, iconic franchises, and major studio infrastructure. 'Warner Bros. shareholders will receive $27.75 a share in cash and stock in Netflix,' notes Bloomberg. 'The total equity value of the deal ...
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