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Overview Deezer reports that AI‑generated songs now make up 44 % of all new uploads to its platform, with nearly 75,000 such tracks arriving each day and more...
Background After a Supreme Court of the United States ruling in February 2026, many tariffs imposed by the Trump administration were declared illegal because t...
Summary Engadget reports that Palantir posted on X a summary of CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska’s 2025 book The Technological Republic. The summary reads...
Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand, whose wool running shoes were once the sneaker du jour among the tech crowd, announced...
Background Axios reports that the NSA is using Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview modelhttps://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentagon despit...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: > The winning runner at a Beijing half‑marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50...
Complaints About Amazon Drone Delivery The New York Post reports that Amazon’s automated drone delivery service has drawn criticism for dropping packages from...
Zoom partners with Sam Altman's iris‑scanning company for human verification Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris‑scanning identity company formerl...
Overview > The Brave browser “has introduced Brave Origin, a stripped‑down version of its browser that removes built-in monetization features like Rewards and...
Overview After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 is “running out of power,” according to NPR. The spacecraft relies on a radioisotope thermoelectric generato...
Interview with Nobel Laureate David Gross Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundam...
United States - In October and through November, U.S. EV sales hit their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, according to Time. - First...
Background NBC News reports on a 16‑person clinical trial of personalized messenger RNA vaccineshttps://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-va...
Lawsuit Overview Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators, alleging that numerous posts are defamatory. The fi...
Background 'Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device...
HP Anyware Discontinuation HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. > 'Maintenance...
Infinity Vision Overview Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled Infinity Vision. As reported by Kotakuhttps://kotaku.com/disney...
Overview The Associated Press examines the small‑but‑growing “rebellion” against attention‑hogging devices, citing a growing body of literature that urges peop...
Background Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. While the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and reached 50 million daily active users,...
Artemis III Mission Overview After Artemis II's astronauts returned to Earth, NASA has Artemis III in its sights, reports the Associated Press: In a mission re...
Trailer Release A trailer has been releasedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oem19BTzlDw for the first film to star an authorised generative‑AI version of a majo...
Report Summary Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris‑based Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit TCU from a salvage yard in Poland....
Background From 2008 to 2024, the number of four‑year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold, according to the Washington Post. In 2025, computer...
Background The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA, permits U.S. officials to monitor phone ca...
Overview More than 30 WordPress plugins have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to sites running them. The backdoor was plant...
Background 20‑year‑old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News while his parents drove him to a federal prison in Connecticut. “I’m just scared,” he said,...
Thunderbolt Overview Mozilla's email subsidiary MZLA Technologies introduced Thunderbolt, an open‑source AI client designed for organizations that prefer to ru...
Amazon's newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biol...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32...
Newly unsealed records in California's antitrust case against Amazon allegedly show the company pressured third-party sellers to raise prices on rival sites lik...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: An agreement with the Philippines to establish a high-tech industrial hub is the Trump adminis...
Announcement Reed Hastings is stepping down from Netflix's board in Junehttps://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/reed-hastings-is-leaving-netflix-after...
Intel has launched a new budget‑focused Core Series 3 processor line for lower‑cost laptops – “Intel’s response to budget CPUs that are appearing in laptops lik...
Study Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean‑dwelling anima...
Background Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of Copilot+ Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neura...
OpenAI’s Codex Update OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent‑like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Code. The update...
Background BrianFagiolihttps://linux.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli writes: The developers behind Linux Mint say the project is rethinking its release strategy and...
IEA Warning on Jet Fuel Shortage The head of the International Energy Agency warned that Europe may have only “six weeks or so” of jet fuel left if oil supplie...
Report Summary An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defensehttps://www.reuter...
Background IPv6 was dismissed early on as a headache‑inducing, hard‑to‑implement complication that would hardly ever gain any traction — despite offering 2^128...
Release Overview Anthropic releasedhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Claude Opus 4.7, describing it as its strongest generally available model. Th...
Overview The EU says a new age‑verification app is technically ready and could let users prove they are old enough to access restricted online content without...
Overview An anonymous reader quoted a report from UploadVR about a group of independent researchers who built a device that can artificially induce smell using...
Upgrade Overview Some Japanese bullet trains will soon support premium private suites this October, featuring windows with embedded 5G antennas for steadier on...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain’s record renewable...
