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Background BMW’s earlier concept cars featured a patchwork of custom‑shaped E Ink panels that wrapped the entire vehicle. While visually striking, that approac...

Overview A report sayshttps://www.mt.co.kr/industry/2026/04/22/2026042115433622701 that Samsung’s mobile division could post its first‑ever annual loss in 2026...

Overview Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32https://it.slashdot.org/~Himmy32 writes: Socket Security published an articlehttps://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-com...

Investment Overview Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion now and an additional $30 billion tied to performance mile...

Background South Korean police arrested a man accused of spreading an AI‑generated image of an escaped wolf, which reportedly misled authorities and disrupted...

Study Overview An anonymous reader quoted a report from 404 Media describing how researchers simulated a user displaying symptoms of schizophrenia‑spectrum psy...

Background A Michigan township voted to impose a one‑year moratorium on providing water to hyperscale data centers. The move is aimed at delaying a planned fac...

Arrest and Charges The Department of Justice announced that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, for allegedl...

New Personal-Service Connectors Anthropic is expanding Claude's app integrations beyond work tools, adding personal-service connectors such as Spotify, Uber, A...

Background The FCC has expanded its foreign‑made router banhttps://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/03/24/0435224/fcc-bans-imports-of-new-foreign-made-routers-citi...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: new gas projects linked to just 11 data‑center campuses around the United States have the potential to...

Background Apple has fixedhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/127002 a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after me...

Deal Approval Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have approved Paramount Skydance’s takeover bid, moving the massive Hollywood merger a step closer to complet...

Overview OpenAI released its new GPT‑5.5 model today, describing it as “the smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of...

Layoffs Overview Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. The...

Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from TechCrunch stating that the French government agency responsible for issuing and managing citizens' identit...

Voluntary Employee Buyout Program Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-pla...

New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses New York is suing Coinbasehttps://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attor...

Intel Lands Tesla as First Major Customer for 14A Chip Technology Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the EV maker plans to use Intel’s next‑generation 14A manu...

Background Ancient Slashdot reader hwstarhttps://news.slashdot.org/~hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: for the first time ever, more than 50 nations...

Research Findings > A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high‑spec gaming or extended...

Key Findings - 33.5 million children 46 % of those under 18 live in areas that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution. - 7 million...

Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: the Trump family’s World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire bac...

Introduction Sony AI's autonomous table‑tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top‑level human players. Reuters reported that Ace, crea...

Background Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a combination of contractor‑...

Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: > The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it...

Gates Foundation Review and Staff Reductions An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: > The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this ye...

Google announced two new tensor processing units TPUs for the “agentic era,” with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. “With the rise of AI...

Background A satirical but functional tool called Malus uses AI to create “clean‑room” clones of open‑source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionali...

Overview CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery technology, including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000 km 621‑mile driving range and an upgraded fast‑c...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The U.S. military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what...

Discovery NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen‑bearing compound similar in structure to DNA p...

Investigation Overview Federal authorities are reviewing a string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to sensitive U.S. aerospace and nuclea...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with th...

Investigation Overview Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAIhttps://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5793967/florida-openai-...

Overview Mozilla used an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to comb through Firefox's code. In Firefox 150, the team fixed 271 vulnerabilities...

Overview Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years, releasing six distinct system‑board versions sev...

Overview Firms such as Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, and others are reporting strong profits while simultaneously reducing headcount and automating more...

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Reuters reports that Meta plans to start collecting U.S.-based employees' mou...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: At Google, leaders are anxious about falling behind in the race to offer AI coding tools, especi...

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Cut Microsoft is cutting the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Passhttps://www.theverge.com/news/915928/micros...

Overview The International Energy Agency IEA reports that 2025 marked a turning point for global energy, with solar achieving the largest growth ever observed...

Overview Maryland is poised to become the first state in the United States to ban “surveillance pricing.” The practice involves companies using a shopper’s per...

Amazon expands partnership with Anthropic Amazon is expandinghttps://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute its partnership with Anthropic, agreeing t...

Video Overview NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out‑of‑this‑world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8× zoom. He noted, “I...

Overview Sony has announced that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year in order to continue using communication features such as...

Proposed Ban on Mobile Phones in Schools An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A ban on mobile phones in schools in England is to be introduce...

Background Alex Bores, a former Palantir employeehttps://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-new-york-state-representative-alex-bores/ and Democratic...