1096 posts from this source
Overview Within 24 hours of the first US‑Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters experienced severe navigation errors, with systems mistakenly in...
Seagate Mozaic 4+ HAMR Drives Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR‑based hard drives at up to 44 TB per drive, with production deployments alread...
Milestone Announcement Aptera Motors, “the little startup that could,” announced a key milestone: the completion of the first example of its flagship solar EV...
Background An anonymous reader shared a report from the Independent detailing a controversy surrounding the prediction‑market platform Kalshi. The platform all...
Background Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmfu...
China's First Homegrown Quantum Computing OS China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for...
Summary Ancient Slashdot reader alanwhttps://science.slashdot.org/~alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency ESA: > Last year, an approximately 60‑m...
Study Findings Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, according to a recent study reported by The Guardian. The research, which excludes the e...
Background The Supreme Court recently struck down the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act IEEPA【^...
Oura Acquires Doublepoint Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepointhttps://www.engadget.com/wearables/oura-buys-gesture-navigation-startup-doublepoint-163...
Overview An anonymous reader cites a report from Wired indicating that Apple has implemented technical restrictions that block iOS users in the United States f...
Background In a blog posthttps://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in Califo...
Overview Mozilla is working on a huge redesign for its Firefox browser, codenamed “Nova.” The new design will feature pastel gradients, a refreshed new‑tab pag...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Katrina Manson: The U.S. strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump mark the a...
The maintainers of the Python package chardet, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 thi...
Report Summary Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJohttps://yro.slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo shares a report from 404 Media: Privacy‑focused email provider Proton Mail pro...
Lawsuit Overview Hayden AI, a San Francisco‑based startup that builds spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has filed a lawsuit against its co‑founder...
Acquisition Details The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF‑1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the ca...
Case Summary A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and fined $50,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of Microsoft certificate‑of‑aut...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from 404 Media describing how Wikipedia editors have introduced new policies and restricted a number of contribu...
Discovery Overview An international team of scientists—including researchers from IBM, the University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and t...
Bill Overview A recently revised Senate authorization bill, co‑sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz, would extend the International Space Stat...
> An anonymous reader quotes a report from 80 Level: Microsoft has officially confirmed development of its next‑generation Xbox console, currently known interna...
Background The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a supply‑chain risk, ordering federal agencies and defense contractors to stop using its AI tools...
Mac Studio RAM Configuration Changes Apple has removed the 512 GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studiohttps://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/mac-studio-no-512gb-...
Incident Overview - Iranian state media reported that a drone strike targeted Amazon's data center in Bahrain, citing the company's support for the U.S. milita...
Background Major tech companies—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta—pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades need...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from TechCrunch: at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco on Wed...
Overview A new report PDF from the Center for Global Development—shared by schwit1 from Slow Boring—documents that most decentralized solar‑battery systems use...
Acquisition and Relaunch Former Humble Games executives have reacquired the publisher's catalog of more than 50 indie titles from Ziff Davis and relaunched the...
Overview The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2026‑22719https://www....
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: a novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates received a key fede...
Background A father has filed a wrongful‑death lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet, alleging that the Gemini AI chatbot contributed to his s...
Background Google is eliminating its traditional 30 % Play Store fee and introducing lower commissions, while also allowing alternative billing systems and mak...
Overview Sony is reportedly abandoning its recent push to bring major PlayStation games to PC and will instead keep most single‑player titles exclusive to the...
Background Effective January 1 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implement age verification. This is part of a br...
Summary Longtime Slashdot reader linuxwranglerhttps://tech.slashdot.org/~linuxwrangler writes: Dark Reading reportshttps://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/...
Microsoft spent much of the past week rejecting legitimate emails sent to Outlook.com, Live, and Hotmail accountshttps://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fu...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: TikTok will not introduce end‑to‑end encryption E2EE — the controversial privacy feature used by n...
Overview Apple announced the MacBook Neo, an all‑new, low‑cost Mac powered by the A18 Pro chip. Priced starting at $599, it begins shipping on Wednesday, March...
Overview Intel has formally unveiled its Xeon 6+ “Clearwater Foresthttps://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/library/advanced-process-technologies-for-da...
Introduction A new Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses are detected nearby. The app is available on the Go...
Qualcomm's Vision for 6G at Mobile World Congress At Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon argued that the coming 6 G networks will power an AI‑dr...
Update Overview OpenAI today updated its most popular ChatGPT model, debuting GPT‑5.3 Instant. The new version is designed to provide more accurate answers and...
Artemis II Launch Update NASA is targeting an April launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission after repairing a helium‑flow issue on the Space Launch S...
Overview Security researchers have identified a highly sophisticated iPhone exploitation toolkit called “Coruna.” The toolkit, which may have originated from a...
OpenAI is reportedly developing a code‑hosting platform that could compete with GitHub, according to a report by The Information on Tuesday. Reuters notes that...
Overview Google is accelerating Chrome's major release cadence from four weeks to two weeks, starting with version 153 on September 8. The goal is to give deve...
