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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...
Background The deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business included an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors—Oracle...
Background California experienced its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, as reported by the Washington Posthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tec...
Study Findings > A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claimhttps://nerds.xyz/2026/03/foxit-ai-productivity-st...
Background In June, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller issued a statement asserting that Texans have a “God‑given right to know what’s on their plate” a...
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20 % or more of the company, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. The c...
Discovery of Lost Episodes Longtime Slashdot reader tsuliga reports that two previously lost episodes of Doctor Who have been found. The original episodes were...
Senate Approval of AI Chatbots An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: a top Senate administrator on Monday gave aides the green light to...
Background Meta plans to remove end-to-end encryption E2EE from Instagram direct messages by May 8, 2026. “Very few people were opting in to end‑to‑end encrypt...
Helium Facility Shutdown in Qatar Iranian drone strikes shut down a major helium facility in Qatar, removing about 30 % of global helium supply and raising con...
Flashback AI services may not stay cheap for long, as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are currently subsidizing usage to rapidly grow market share. As thes...
After running a Reddit clone for a couple of months, the Digg beta shut down again. The website now displays a splash memo from CEO Justin Mezzell, blaming the...
Overview BrianFagiolihttps://science.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partneredhttps://www.backbl...
Delay of Meta’s Next AI Model Meta has delayed the release of its next major AI modelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-ai-model-delaye...
Live Nation Slack Messages An anonymous reader quotes a report from Pitchfork: Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice and Live Nation reached a sett...
Background Apple will cut its App Store commission in China from 30 % to 25 % starting March 15, with the Small Business and Mini‑App rates dropping from 15 %...
Background Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank‑fraud case using facial‑recogn...
Background Milan prosecutors have requested a trial for Amazon’s European unit and four of its managers over alleged tax evasion worth around $1.38 billion, ac...
Benchmark Overview > Early benchmarks show the A18 Pro‑powered MacBook Neo beating every current x86 CPU in single‑core Cinebench performance, including chips...
Benchmark Overview Early benchmarks show the A18 Pro‑powered MacBook Neo beating every current x86 CPU in single‑core Cinebench performance, including chips fr...
Case Overview A witness in a London High Court case was caught using smart glasses connected to his phone to receive real‑time coaching while giving evidence d...
Microsoft Supports Anthropic in DOD Supply‑Chain Risk Dispute Joshua RKhttps://slashdot.org/~joshuark shares a report from Reuters: Microsoft has filed an amic...
Details Google says it will finally release Chrome for ARM64 Linux in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the company's full browser to a platform that has ex...
Announcement Shantanu Narayen announced he will step down as CEO of Adobe once a successor is appointed, ending an 18‑year tenure. He will remain board chair a...
Overview Apple's new MacBook Neo is described as “easier to repair than other modern MacBooks,” according to Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham. The laptop intro...
Overview Perplexity AI has introduced a Personal Computer agent system that can run on a local machine—such as a Mac mini—giving its AI agents access to a user...
Overview sinijhttps://tech.slashdot.org/~sinij shares a report from Car and Driver that Honda is making a monumental shift in its business plans. The automaker...
New Visualizations in Claude Conversations Anthropic updated Claude so it can automatically generate charts, diagrams, and other interactive visualizations dir...
Ask Maps Chatbot Google Maps is rolling out its biggest update in more than a decade, introducing a Gemini‑powered chatbot and a new “Immersive Navigation” int...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Atlassian plans to cut 1,600 jobs or a 10th of its global workforcehttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/atlassian-...
Emergency Measures Across Asia Asian governments are implementing emergency measures such as four‑day workweeks and work‑from‑home mandates to cope with a fuel...
EU Commission chief calls reduction of nuclear sector a strategic mistake An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Reducing Europe's nuclear energy se...
Key Findings - A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year【sourcehttps://www.pewresearch.org/short...
GFiber and Astound Broadband to Join Forces GFiber a.k.a. Google Fiber and Astound Broadband announced that they plan to merge in a deal backed by infrastructu...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: In a paper published last month in the journal The Anatomical Record, researchers offer...
Overview Researchers have uncovered a takedown‑resistant botnet of roughly 14,000 routers and other network devices, primarily Asus models, that have been cons...
Xbox Mode Rollout In April, Microsoft will roll out a full‑screen “Xbox mode” to all Windows 11 PCs—including laptops, desktops, and tablets. This feature expa...
Background Grammarly has disabled its Expert Review featurehttps://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents after backlash from writers whose names were used to present AI‑...
Incident Overview A Swiss e‑voting pilot was suspended after officials were unable to decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys required to unlock them failed...
Overview An anonymous reader cites an Ars Technica report that Binance is suing The Wall Street Journal WSJ for defamation. The lawsuit is seen as an effort to...
Overview Nvidia is preparing to launch an open‑source AI agent platform called NemoClaw, designed to compete with OpenClawhttps://it.slashdot.org/story/26/03/0...
Overview YouTube is expanding its AI deep‑fake detection tools to a pilot group of politicians, government officials, and journalists. The new feature lets eli...
Background Chinese authorities have moved to restrict state‑run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI applications on office computers....
Overview Meta will begin charging advertisers a 2‑5% “location fee” to offset digital services taxes imposed by several European countries, including the UK, F...
Funding Advanced Machine Intelligence AMI, a new Paris‑based startup co‑founded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced that it has raised mo...
Background Valve is facing a new consumer class‑action lawsuit two weeks after New York sued the video‑game company for “letting children and adults illegally...
Background Van Allen Probe A is a 1,300‑pound 600 kg NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts. It and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, were...
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...
