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An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech-news blog Neowin: Apple appears to have temporarily prevented apps, including Replit and Vibecode, from pus...

It was 60 years ago when William Shatner — born in 1931 — portrayed Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek. Shatner turns 95 today — and celebrated by posting...

CNN looks at 'the Magic AI fitness mirror,' a new product 'watching you, and giving you feedback automatically,' while sometimes playing footage of a recorded p...

'Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated,' reports the Verge: After doing something similar in its G...

CNBC reports: Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company developing machines for 'doorstep delivery,' the company confirmed Thursday... It announced the...

'It is the talk of the town today — the loud boom, the flash of light in the sky experienced by a lot of folks across the Houston area this afternoon,' says a l...

'After nearly a decade of delays and industry skepticism, Tesla's electric big rig is finally rolling out of Nevada's Gigafactory for mass production starting s...

'We have removed all malicious artifacts from the affected registries and channels,' Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury posted today, noting that all the latest Triv...

'Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper,' writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin. 'That's e...

13 million people live in Moscow, reports CNN. But since early March the city 'has experienced internet and mobile service outages on a level previously unseen....

'Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain's first gene-edited crop,' reports the Telegraph: In an effort to...

China's orbital outpost Tiangong was completed in 2022 and is hosting up to three astronauts at a time, reports CNN. But meanwhile U.S. lawmakers are now signal...

ReactOS aims to be compatible with programs and drivers developed for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows. And Slashdot reader jeditobe...

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: According to the research firm Gartner, 50% of U.S. consumers say they would prefer to do business with brands that avoid u...

'The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of C...

Jeff Bezos 'is in early talks to raise $100 billion,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly captured a rare, early-stage breakup of comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS just days after it first began disintegrating. Phys.org...

schwit1 shares a report from the BBC: A French officer has reportedly revealed the location of an aircraft carrier deployed towards the Middle East after public...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued PDF a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial...

CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts. Longtime CBS New...

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft says it is finally listening to user complaints about Windows 11, promising a series of changes focused on performance, reliabili...

As energy prices soar from the Iran conflict, the International Energy Agency is urging governments to cut energy use by taking up measures like remote work and...

joshuark shares a report from Neowin: OpenAI is planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a singular desktop 'superapp.'...

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from CNN: The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth...

Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show 'Walker, T...

Amazon is reportedly developing a new AI-focused smartphone that doesn't rely as heavily on traditional apps. 'The phone is seen as a potential mobile personali...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started raising a 'lobster,' hoping that th...

BrianFagioli writes: Opera GX has officially landed on Linux, bringing its gamer-focused browser experience to Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE-based system...

AleRunner writes: 'China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island,...

Background A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures that would block Broadcom from termin...

Prediction Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that AI‑driven bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027. He explained that a bot performing a...

Background The UK regulator Ofcom fined 4chan nearly £520,000 about $700,000 for failing to implement age‑checks and to address illegal‑content risks under the...

Incident Overview For the second time in the past month, an AI agent went rogue at Meta – this time giving an engineer incorrect advice that briefly exposed se...

Background Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman and best known for his 2000 hit “Because I Got High,” was the subject of a police raid on his home in Augu...

!Android//a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/android_64.png !Google//a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/google_64.png Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google...

Meta partially reverses its decision on Horizon Worlds VR support Meta is partially reversing its earlier announcement to drop VR support for Horizon Worlds. T...

OpenAI announced its acquisition of developer‑tooling startup Astralhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/openai-to-acquire-developer-tooling-startup-astral.html to s...

Overview Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, “pushing the U.S. retail behemoth...

Background An anonymous reader quoted a Reuters report stating that Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 bill...

> BrianFagioli writes: A new iOS exploit chain called DarkSwordhttps://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/darksword shows how attackers can break into...

Background Trevor Milton, the pardoned founder of Nikola, is seeking $1 billion for AI‑powered autonomous planes through a new venture called SyberJet. In an i...

FBI Buying Location Data An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location historieshtt...

Background Cloudflare is appealing a 14.2 million‑euro finehttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/09/2052239/italy-fines-cloudflare-14-million-euros-for-refusing...

Google’s Stitch and “Vibe Design” With today’s latest Stitchhttps://stitch.withgoogle.com/ updates, Google is trying to make “vibe design” happenhttps://www.th...

> Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFoolhttps://it.slashdot.org/~UnknowingFool writes: > Users of Samsung PCs are reporting the inability to access the C: drive...

Overview > Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI‑generated content to protect consumers from disinformation and deepfakes, the government said on We...

Shutdown Details Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the ap...

> Longtime Slashdot reader internet‑redstarhttps://news.slashdot.org/~internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stockshttp...