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AI-Generated Romance Fiction: An Emerging Issue The romance genre—long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e‑books to self...
Google assured it would not commercialize a product under the same name — then filed a trademark application in Tonga I guess a trademark beats “assurance”? Tha...
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...
Overview Apple is preparing to allow voice‑controlled AI apps from other companies in CarPlay, according to Bloomberghttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-plans...
Overview The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center MassCEC announced a first‑of‑its‑kind program that provides free electric‑vehicle EV chargers to selected reside...
Moltbook, Reddit, and The Great AI‑Bot Uprising That Wasn’t !AI//a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/ai_64.png !Robotics//a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/robot_64.png !Social Networks//...
Overview About 4% of all public commits on GitHub are now being authored by Anthropic's Claude Codehttps://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inf...
New York FAIR News Act An anonymous reader shares a report: a new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI‑generated...
Issue Overview Neocities founder Kyle Drake has spent weeks trapped in Microsoft's automated support loop after discovering that Bing quietly blocked all 1.5 m...
Background Waymo's robotaxis have accumulated at least 24 safety violations involving school buses in Austin since the start of the 2025 school year. A volunta...
Recent AI‑themed releases Hollywood’s recent attempts to build entertainment around artificial intelligence have consistently underperformed or outright floppe...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Republicans' tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon's tax bill, new government filings show. The company says it ran a $1.2 bi...
Memory prices across DRAM, NAND and HBM have surged 80 to 90 % quarter‑over‑quarter in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Memory Price Tracker...
Heroku Update Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a 's...
Starbucks has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into AI and automation -- testing robots that take drive-through orders, virtual assistants that help...
China's decades-old network of elite high-school 'genius classes' -- ultra-competitive talent streams that pull an estimated 100,000 gifted teenagers out of reg...
The New York Times lists other reasons a company lays off people. 'It didn't meet financial targets. It overhired. Tariffs, or the loss of a big client, rocked...
Phoronix reports: Chris Mason, the longtime Linux kernel developer most known for being the creator of Btrfs, has been working on a Git repository with AI revie...
'Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day...' writes Ars Technica. 'However, 8K never proved...
The EU 'has switched on parts of its homegrown secure satellite communications network for the first time,' reports Bloomberg, calling it part of a €10.6 billio...
'Most Go developers are now using AI-powered development tools when seeking information e.g., learning how to use a module or toiling e.g., writing repetitive b...
Talks 'are at a standstill' for Anthropic's potential $200 million contract with America's Defense Department, reports Reuters citing several people familiar wi...
The Wall Street Journal says that Meta 'might be reaping some of the richest benefits from the AI boom so far.' Meta's revenue grew 22% year over year in 2025 t...
October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, 'The world's largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000...' Bloomberg reports, 'dropping...
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, will be adding spaces for electric vehicle charging to parking lots in 19 different states, reports MLive: The move follo...
