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Turing Award Announcement On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery ACM—the world’s largest society of computing professionals—announced that Dr. C...

ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, years‑long concerns about Microsoft’s GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it because...

Background Musi, a free music‑streaming app with tens of millions of iPhone downloads, built its service by playing music from YouTube rather than striking its...

Background Science.org reports that the fictional astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian survives on Mars by growing potatoes in lunar‑like soil with the aid of...

Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers Nvidia unveiledhttps://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/space-computing its Vera Rubin Sp...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media, written by Jason Koebler. Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have atte...

Background Arizona has filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the company of operating an illegal gambling business. The complaint alleges that, despi...

Background Residents in rural Ohio are pushing a constitutional amendment to ban large data centers over 25 megawatts. The effort is driven by concerns about:...

Since deep‑learning super‑sampling DLSS launched on 2018's RTX 2080 cardshttps://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/08/20/2112209/nvidia-unveils-powerful-new-rtx-20...

Background An anonymous reader quoted a Wall Street Journal report describing a growing feud between the tech world and Wall Street over business software. Soc...

Overview Samsung is reportedly ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just months after its launch, likely due to high production costs and limited supply. The d...

Nvidia's $1 Trillion AI Chip Projection An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers—mostly technica...

> 'There are countless upgrades you could make to your gaming setup,' writes PC Gamer's Jacob Ridley. 'A wireless this, a bigger that, a faster thing. But how d...

SEC proposal to make quarterly reporting optional The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly preparing a proposal to make quarterly earnings rep...

Background Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five nucleobases — the key building blocks of DNA and RNA. This strengthens the idea that asteroids may...

Proposals to Shield Polluters Republican lawmakers in multiple states and in Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability a...

Overview The Champlain Hudson Power Expresshttps://chpexpress.com/project-overview/, a $6 billion, 339‑mile buried transmission line, will soon deliver Canadia...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid...

Background More than 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go players have helped train a visual mapping system developed by Niantic. The technology is now bei...

Overview During today's Nvidia GTC keynote, the company introduced NemoClaw, a security‑focused stack designed to make the autonomous AI agent platform OpenCla...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Times of Israel by journalist Emanuel Fabian: > On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the cit...

Lawsuit Overview Encyclopedia Britannica has suedhttps://tmsnrt.rs/4sowXqI OpenAI, alleging its AI models were trained on nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles a...

Overview Apple has quietly announcedhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-airpods-max-2-powered-by-h2/ the AirPods Max 2, featuring improved...

Deal Overview AI infrastructure company Nebius signed a deal to provide up to $27 billion in AI computing capacity to Meta over the next five years, including...

Background Spending on data‑center projects in the United States has exploded, surpassing offices for the first time at the end of last yearhttps://www.bloombe...

Background A German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as “QLED” when they “do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLE...

Development of the Animated Reboot An animated reboot of Firefly is in early development at 20th Television Animation, with Nathan Fillion involved. The projec...

Pilot Project Overview > “A new type of battery storage is about to be deployed on the Midwestern grid for the first time,” reports Electrekhttps://electrek.co...

Starting in September, even Android developers not in Google’s Play Store will be required to register with Google to distribute their apps in Brazil, Singapore...

Background In 2024 Anthropic was sued over claims it infringed copyrights when training LLMshttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/20/1524250/authors-sue-anthrop...

Investment Overview The UK's science minister announced a five‑year, £2.5 billion investment in nuclear fusion, according to the Times of London【https://www.th...

Background Slashdot reader SysEngineerhttps://www.slashdot.org/~SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work and wants to pick a single system‑on‑a‑chip SoC architecture...

Linux gaming “has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does,” according to the Android site XDA Developer...

Overview NBC News investigates North Korea's wide‑ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in...

New Venture Overview Uber co‑founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining, a...

Background He's 'the most famous anonymous man in the world,' suggests Reuters. Investigating Banksy's artworks in a bombed Ukrainian village and other clues i...

Study Overview Emerging evidence indicates that agential AI might validate or amplify delusional or grandiose content, particularly in users already vulnerable...

There's a surprise in a new documentary about the infamous 1967 Bigfoot film shot by Roger Patterson, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newly uncovered...

Background While AI CEOs worry governments might nationalize AIhttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/07/2058213/ai-ceos-worry-the-government-will-nationalize-ai...

Background Wikipedia describes Freenet as “a peer‑to‑peer platform for censorship‑resistant, anonymous communication,” released in 2000. Both Freenet and some...

Introduction Long‑time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and various start‑ups for a New Yor...

Overview America’s first large‑scale offshore wind project is now complete. The 62‑turbine, 800 MW Vineyard Wind farm will generate enough clean energy to powe...

Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel, — especially wit...

Background “Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” wr...

What are plug‑in balcony solar panels? Plug‑in, or “balcony,” solar panels can be hung out a window or set up in a backyard. They channel energy from the sun s...

Background A few developers discovered a way to turn the increasingly mediocre Amazon Echo Show devices into friendly, useful open computers. The co‑founder of...

Background 'The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change,' reports MacRumors: > On the U.S. English version of the new MacBook Air and...

Background System76 CEO Carl Richell recently met with the Colorado state senator who co‑authored the state’s age‑verification bill for operating systems. Afte...