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Seamus Blackley's Comments Seamus Blackley, one of the original founders of Xbox who helped convince Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to back a console project mor...
Incident Summary A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft...
Overview DVD and Blu‑ray sales have been in freefall for years, but the decline is slowing considerably as Gen Z buyers turn to physical media, driving a measu...
Background The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when it is ripped off a surface—a fingernails‑on‑a‑chalkboard noise most people try not to think about—i...
Details An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesdayhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigatio...
Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking servicehttps://www.engadget.com/transportation/uber-previews...
HP has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 % of the cost of materialshttps://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/hp_inc_q1_2026/ needed to build a PC, up from b...
Apple's forthcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro models—the company's first-ever laptops to support touch input—will feature the iPhone's Dynamic Island at the cent...
Battery Installations in 2025 The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30 % increa...
Background Grace Bell was born without a viable uterus due to Mayer‑Rokitansky‑Küster‑Hauser MRKH syndrome, a condition that affects roughly one in every 5,000...
Background Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue shared a now‑viral post on X describing an incident with an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting throug...
Overview New datacentre projects in Great Britain are projected to demand more electricity than the country's current peak consumption, according to the energy...
Report Highlights An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, Cr...
Background Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a deadline of Friday evening to provide the military unfettered access to its AI mode...
Background More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers—distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools i...
Report Overview An anonymous reader shares a report that Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have authored a pap...
Background Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix‑li...
Background Discord announced plans to implement age verification globally starting next month. The rollout would require users to submit a face scan or governm...
Investigation into Pavel Durov Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for “abetting terrorist activitieshttps://www.ft.com/conten...
New AI Controls Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global “AI kill switch” that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser’s AI f...
A team of researchers working at Quantinuum in the United Kingdom and QuSoft in the Netherlands has now developed a quantum algorithm that solves a specific sam...
Record Installations in 2025 U.S. battery storage installations hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025. According to the U.S. Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from The Guardian: when two men knocked on Ida Huddleston’s door in May, they carried a contract worth more than...
Background In her first major interview as Microsoft’s new gaming chief, Asha Sharma outlined her vision for the Xbox platform. She stepped into the role after...
Overview Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in the classic Outlook desktop email client for some users. The bu...
Background A 7,000‑word “doomsday” thought experimenthttps://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800‑point drop in the Do...
Stablecoin proposal for Gaza An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Officials working with Donald Trump's “Board of Peace” are exploring...
Overview OpenAI has formed a multi‑year Frontier Alliancehttps://openai.com/index/frontier-alliance-partners/ with four consulting heavyweights to accelerate e...
Panasonic Hands Over TV Production to Skyworth Panasonic is transferring the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its televisions to Shenzhen‑based Skyworth,...
Background Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip‑making machine to turn out up to 50 % mor...
IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Mondayhttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualty-shares-are-tanking-on-anthropic-cobol-threat.html after Ant...
Linus Torvalds has reflected on his professional mortality in a self‑deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the...
Despite AI's progress in building complex software, the ubiquitous PDF remains something of a grand challenge—a format Adobe developed in the early 1990s to pre...
Overview U.S. artificial‑intelligence startup Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies set up more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts with its Claude AI model to...
Takeover Interest An anonymous reader shares a report: PayPal, the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interesthttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...
Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem—clouds, which both reflect sunl...
Study Overview A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS examined how people who regularly cause problems or make life d...
Overview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as “...
The narrative that AI spending has been singlehandedly propping up the U.S. economy—a claim that captivated Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington over the...
Overview In August 2025, TypeScript surpassed both Python and JavaScript to become the most‑used language on GitHub for the first time ever, according to GitHu...
Background A surprisingly ravenous black hole from the early universe is breaking two major expectations, according to Live Sciencehttps://www.livescience.com/...
Background When one company asked job applicants to submit a video answering a question, most of the 300 responses were “eerily similar,” reports the Washingto...
Background This week Raspberry Pi saw its stock price surge more than 60 % above its early‑February low before giving up some gains at the end of the week. Reu...
Background Russia's domestic intelligence agency claimed Saturday that Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front...
Overview Fossil fuels produce NO₂, which is linked to asthma attacks, bronchitis, and higher risks of heart disease and stroke, according to the EV news site E...
Background Long‑time Slashdot reader theodp writes: > Jeopardy time. > A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild...
Background Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha‑Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project aimed at securing the open source supply chai...
Overview Long‑time Slashdot reader fahrbot‑bothttps://hardware.slashdot.org/~fahrbot-bot reports that researchers have developed a robotic hand capable of skit...
