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Amazon Imposes 3.5% Fuel Surcharge For Many Online Merchants An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its...

Collaboration Overview IBM and Arm are teaming up to let Arm‑based software run on IBM Z mainframeshttps://www.networkworld.com/article/4153722/ibm-arm-team-up...

Raspberry Pi 4 3 GB Launch and Price Increases AmiMoJohttps://hardware.slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo reports from Phoronix that Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet ag...

Overview Google announced the release of Gemma 4, the latest generation of its open‑weight AI models. While previous Gemini models were only available under Go...

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work Even on NASA's Artemis II missionhttps://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/01/2250202/nasa-...

Overview Nvidia has begun rolling out a beta feature that automatically compiles game shaders while a PC is idle. While it won’t eliminate shader compilation t...

Overview Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33 % share【https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Background An anonymous reader cites a report from Gizmodo noting that OpenAI has been active in lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. However, the comp...

Snowpack Collapse Across the American West Scientists say extreme March heat caused an unusually rapid collapse of snowpack across the American West, leaving m...

SpaceX IPO Filing Reuters reports that SpaceX has confidentially filed for a U.S. IPOhttps://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-registers-take-r...

Artemis II Mission Overview NASA's Artemis II mission launched four astronauts on a round‑trip flight around the Moon, marking humanity's first crewed lunar vo...

When Ubisoft shut down the servers for The Crew without warning, players were left with a game they had already paid for that could no longer be played. Consume...

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both fun...

Announcement In classic Cloudflare fashion, the CDN provider unveiled an actual, “not a joke” product. Today, the company announced EmDash – an open‑source “sp...

Background In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country's schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing,...

Background OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after Nextcloud forked the OnlyOffice editors into a new project called Euro‑Office, accordi...

Background Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leakhttps://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/03/31/172257/claude-codes...

Overview Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said hospitals could already replace many radiologists with AI for some imaging tas...

Incident Overview An anonymous reader quoted a report from Wired: an unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Bai...

Background MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Biohttps://www.r3-bio.com/ has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long‑term vision b...

Incident Overview A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after experiencing an unexplained “anomaly.” According to Scientific American, the cause appears to...

> An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networkshttps://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-goes-vpns-gre...

Production Shift Polestar and Volvo are ending Polestar 3 production in Chengdu, China, and consolidating all output of the electric SUV at Volvo’s plant in So...

Layoffs Overview Oracle announced that it laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it accelerates spending on AI infrastructure projects, both internally...

EU Energy Chief Calls for Remote Work and Reduced Travel A top EU official is urging Europeans to work from home, drive less, and cut air travelhttps://www.pol...

Feature Overview Google is rolling outhttps://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-account-username-change/ a feature in the U.S. that...

Background A global ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on Monday after members of the World Trade Organization WTO c...

Background Australia is preparing possible court action against major social media platformshttps://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/australia-inv...

Grady Martin writes: A security researcher has leakedhttps://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963 a complete repository of source code for Anthropic's fl...

Overview Euro-Office is a new open‑source project supported by several European companies that aims to offer a truly open, transparent and sovereign solution f...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: the Trump administration on Monday issued a long‑awaited proposed rule to open up retirement plans...

Overview Researchers at the University of Waterloo propose a “quadratic quantum gravity” framework that could explain the universe’s rapid early expansion with...

Study Overview Researchers discovered that common nitrile and latex laboratory gloves can shed stearate particles that closely resemble microplastics. This con...

Background Andrea Marinoni and colleagues at the University of Cambridge observed that the energy required to operate data centres has been rising steadily and...

Announcement Microsoft is reportedly shifting Windows 11 app development back toward fully native appshttps://www.techspot.com/news/111872-microsoft-plans-100-...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the U.S. Space Force officially took owner...

Overview Samsung is reportedly planning to roll out AirDrop‑style file sharing for older Galaxy phones via a Quick Share update. Early reports suggest the feat...

Background OkCupid and its parent company Match Group settled an FTC case dating back to 2014. The case alleged that the dating app shared users' photos and ot...

fjo3 shares a report from France 24: Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments b...

Background Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries as part of its effort to gather material for large‑lan...

Overview Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional “tips” into GitHub pull requests. Neowin claims that more than 1.5 million PRs have been affecte...

Background For the “foreseeable future,” Sony says it has stopped accepting new orders for most of its CFexpress and SD memory card lines due to an ongoing mem...

AI as the New Narrative for Mass Layoffs An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradit...

Overview The company aims to embed biometric data and blockchain‑based age‑verification directly into disposable vape cartridges. Partnership Wired reports on...

Apple’s Early Days – An Oral History Fast Company’s Harry McCracken has published an extensive 11,000‑word oral history celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary. T...

Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State The Wall Street Journal reports that Rivian “just won a years‑long battle w...

Background Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark casehttps://meta.slashdot.org/story/26/03/25/1745232/meta-and-youtube-found-negli...

Argument for Charging Access > “It’s time to charge for access,” argues a new opinion piece at The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com. > Begging billion‑dolla...