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Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Amazon's ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tues...
Tony Hoare, the Turing Award‑winning pioneer who created the Quicksorthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logichttps://en.wikiped...
Background Fully homomorphic encryption FHE allows computation on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. The major drawback has been performance: FHE can b...
Background Last November, Amazon sued Perplexity, demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases for users o...
Overview Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever‑richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. A fourth line item is now creeping i...
Overview AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company will also hire...
Background Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies, which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subject...
OpenAI’s Shift Away from Oracle Expansion OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data‑center partnership with Oracle because newer generations...
Background In May 1986, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich wrote a utility called Enhancer for the Apple II personal computer. The utility, written in 6502 m...
Acquisition Details - Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit‑like social network designed for AI agents. Source: Axioshttps://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/m...
Overview German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency ATT system, arguing that it unfairly r...
Potential Sale of SUSE Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open‑source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, ro...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: > This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco,...
Investigation Overview The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed poss...
Overview A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch thousands of mirror‑bearing satelliteshttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satelli...
Introduction An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services. This is the plan bein...
Vibe Coding for Future Galaxy Phones Samsung is exploring the idea of “vibe coding” for upcoming Galaxy devices, a feature that would let users describe app or...
Layoffs Overview Electronic Arts has laid off staff across multiple Battlefield studioshttps://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-across-all-battlefield-st...
Settlement Overview Live Nation reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that avoids breaking up its dominant live‑events empire with Ticketmas...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: AI‑based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user's compute...
Overview Qualcomm and Arduino have unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, an AI‑focused single‑board computer designed for robotics and edge systems. According to the...
Overview Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Trump administration labeled the company a “supply chain risk” and canceled its government cont...
Background 'If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?' That was the rhetorical question The Verge's Sean Hollister asked when he reviewedhttps://w...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts,...
