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Alphabet's 100-Year Sterling Bond Sale Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100‑year bondhttps://www.ft.com/content/3260bc45-e09e-45a7-ae30-e55effbaf29b,...

Discord Age Verification Rollout Discord announced that starting next month it will roll out global age verification. All accounts will default to a “teen‑appr...

Overview The blog OMG Ubuntu reports that a new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been quietly introduced. The key difference is that it now uses a dua...

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar “Self‑Growing City” Over Mars Project Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a “self‑growing city” on...

Overview As Super Bowl Sunday comes to a close, the National Football League NFL is challenging innovators to improve the facemask on football helmets to reduc...

Background “How Chinese is your car?” asks the Wall Street Journal^1. Modern vehicles are packed with internet‑connected widgets, many of which contain Chinese...

Incident Overview A delivery drone operated by Amazon crashed into an apartment building in Texas. Witnesses reported hearing the hum of the drone before its p...

The first “AI” Super Bowl, as noted by a tech/business writer at Slate, puts AI company advertisements front and center—even as consumers insist to surveyorshtt...

Announcement The mailing list for the North American Network Operators' Group discusses Internet infrastructure issues like routing, IP address allocation, and...

Incident overview 'They were crouched down like turkeys peeking over the balcony,' the county sheriff told Ars Technica.^1 A half hour past midnight on Septemb...

Overview Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland reports that the world’s biggest football game has arrived in Silicon Valley, prompting a bored programmer to la...

Background Long‑time Slashdot reader schwit1https://www.slashdot.org/~schwit1 shared an article from the Associated Press discussing China’s energy mix in 2025...

Discovery A spectacular trove of fossils discovered in a cave on New Zealand's North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species...

Overview An Asian cyber‑espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical‑infrastructure organizatio...

History of RHIC Early achievements - 2001 – Brookhaven Lab produced, for the first time, collisions of gold nuclei at a center‑of‑mass energy of 200 GeV per nu...

Overview After decades of urging us to exercise more, recent research suggests we’ve been thinking about physical activity the wrong way. Guidelines from the U...

Overview Fortune reports a “watershed moment” in the United States nuclear power industry. Meta’s SMR Partnership In January, Meta partnered with Bill Gates’ T...

Overview Anthropic's latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, has identified more than 500 previously unknown high‑severity security flaws in open‑source libraries wi...

Introduction Has the rise of hyper‑addictive digital technologies really shattered our attention spans and driven books out of our culture? Maybe not, argues s...

Hearing Overview Waymo surprised U.S. lawmakers during a Senate hearing on autonomous vehicles and their safety and oversight. Sen. Ed Markey D‑MA asked what h...

Background Despite urgent pleas to Americans to save the honeybees, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes that “it was all based on a fallacy.” Honeybe...

Recent Price Movement - Last Sunday Bitcoin fell 13% in three days, reaching $76,790【sourcehttps://slashdot.org/story/26/02/01/2146224/bitcoin-drops-40-in-four...

Announcement Mozilla’s executive in charge of Firefox explained that while many users want genuinely useful AI tools, “We’ve heard from many who want nothing t...