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Background Mac owners have long relied on tools such as CrossOver and the Game Porting Toolkit to run many Windows games on macOS. Hong Kong‑based GameSir, kno...
Legal Action Overview TP-Link is facing legal actionhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ from the state of Texas for allegedly...
Key Findings - AI adoption causally increases labour productivity by 4 % on average across the EU. - The productivity boost occurs without reducing employment...
AI Rewrite Specialist Initiative Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio's Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters a...
AI Displacement of White-Collar Workers Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this...
Origins Linus Torvalds released the first public snapshot, Linux 0.02, on October 5 1991 via a Finnish FTP server. The snapshot contained about 10,000 lines of...
Report An anonymous reader writes: Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont's Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 °F for the...
Bug Overview Microsoft has identified a bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot that has been summarizing confidential emails since late January. The issue bypasses data...
Background Ring’s AI‑powered Search Party featurehttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/11/1844232/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet link...
WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images throug...
Background An anonymous reader shares a reporthttps://mydigitaldive.com/lab-grown-meat-exists-nobody-wants-to-eat-it/. In 2013, scientists unveiled the first l...
Overview The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its earlier decision on Moderna's flu vaccine and agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna ann...
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country's flagship AI summithttps://www.reuters.com/world/ch...
Background: Solow's Productivity Paradox In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow observed a slowdown in productivity despite the rapid advancement o...
Study Overview A small double‑blind clinical trial found that a single intravenous dose of DMT produced rapid and clinically meaningful reductions in symptoms...
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6, the first upgrade to its mid‑tier AI model since version 4.5 arrived i...
Overview Apple is reportedly developing a suite of AI‑powered accessories—including smart glasses, a wearable pendant, and camera‑equipped AirPods—that will pa...
Background Discord’s recent global rollout of strict age‑verification checks has sparked backlash among users. The platform now requires a face scan or governm...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from The Washington Post noting that David Greene, a veteran public‑radio host who has anchored NPR’s “Morning E...
Proposal Overview A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user‑friendly, BSOD‑style experience....
Overview Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop and mobile too environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX‑like operating systems...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from Ars Technica: more than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company's customers a...
Lawsuit Overview A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely Chi...
It’s so stupid. Do you honestly believe this will happen, where real money is on the table? I am sure there’s nuance: he’s saying it could happen, I suppose, an...
