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Wikipedia's Ban on Generative AI Wikipedia has banned the use of generative AI to write or rewrite articles, stating that it “often violates several of Wikiped...

Announcement Ancient Slashdot reader wiredoghttps://news.slashdot.org/~wiredog writes: Tracy Kidderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Kidder, author of 'The S...

Background Chinese authorities have barred two Manus executives from leaving the country while investigating whether Meta's reported $2 billion acquisition of...

Background Researchers at the CERN particle‑physics laboratory have successfully transported antiprotons in a lorry across the lab’s main site. This feat, the...

Overview Reddit is rolling out human‑verification checks for accounts that exhibit bot‑like behavior, while also labeling approved automated accounts that prov...

Event Overview Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering t...

The 1996 Varginha Incident Thirty years after the alleged 1996 “ET of Varginhahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident” encounter, debate continues...

Fuel surcharge details The U.S. Postal Service plans to impose its first‑ever fuel surcharge on packages, adding an 8 % fee starting in April as it grapples wi...

Background New submitter haroldbassethttps://news.slashdot.org/~haroldbasset reports that Canada’s Immigration Department rejected an applicant because the dut...

Supreme Court Decision The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a major internet provider could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online....

Stephen Colbert To Write Next “Lord of the Rings” Movie An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Stephen Colbert already has a new job lined up for when h...

Case Summary A jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction case, ruling that design features such as infinite scroll and algorit...

Overview Meta lost a child‑safety trial in New Mexico after a jury found that its platforms failed to adequately protect children from exploitation and misled...

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist Focus Features is releasing The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist in theaters on March 27. If you’re even...

Summary > Longtime Slashdot reader cusco writes: A private company in China has developed hypersonic missiles that cost the same as a Tesla Model X. This missi...

Summary Astronomers have an answer for a long‑running mystery in astrophysics: why the growth of supermassive black holes is much lower today than in the past....

Overview NASA is reportedly halting work on the lunar Gateway in favor of a more direct push to build a lunar base. The new plan would cost tens of billions of...

Background Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from individuals suspected of breaching the wide‑ranging National Security Law NSL. The...

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, “a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one...

Overview Google is expanding Android Automotive from the infotainment screen into the broader non‑safety “brain” of software‑defined vehicles. In a blog postht...

Background OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its generative‑AI video creation platform it launchedhttps://slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/2122253/openai-launches-sora-...

Overview Arm unveiled its first self‑developed data‑center chip, the AGI CPU, designed for handling agentic AI workloads. The chip was built in partnership wit...

New Claude Feature: Computer Use Anthropic is testing a new Claude feature that lets users send a request from their phone and have the AI carry it out directl...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: a new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a sel...

Layoffs Announcement Epic Games is cutting more than 1,000 jobs as usage of its flagship title, Fortnite, falls. “The layoffs aren't related to AI,” CEO Tim Sw...

Summary New submitter the_skywisehttps://mobile.slashdot.org/~the_skywise shares a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Mond...

Background An appeals court invalidated the Biden‑era Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to punish Intuit for allegedly deceptive ads that pitched TurboTax as...

Canonical joins the Rust Foundation Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper investment in the Rust programming language a...

Incident Overview Last week, hackers launched a cyberattack on an Iowa company called Intoxalock that left some drivers unable to start their court‑mandated br...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: the Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore win...

Overview Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he understands the concerns about “AI slop” with DLSS 5 but insists the feature preserves a game’s underlying geometry an...

Bill Introduction Senators Adam Schiff D‑CA and John Curtis R‑UT introduced a bipartisan bill PDF on Monday that would prohibit prediction‑market platforms Kal...

Expansion to the Bay Area Wing is expandinghttps://wing.com/news/wing-drone-delivery-bay-area its drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area. The dro...

Apple is reportedly preparing to add search ads to Apple Maps, and it could start rolling out to users by the summer, reports AppleInsider, citing sources from...

Growing Interest in Affordable Chinese EVs Many U.S. consumers are increasingly interested in lower‑cost Chinese electric vehicleshttps://www.reuters.com/world...

CEO AI Agent An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone inside and outside his company to eventually have...

Background Walmart tested OpenAI’s Instant Checkout, allowing users to purchase roughly 200,000 products directly inside ChatGPT without visiting Walmart’s web...

Report Computershack shares a report from NBC News: Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of adult‑content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer at the age of 43, the co...

Partnership Overview Uber is aggressively partnering with multiple robotaxi companies to avoid a future dominated by Waymo or Teslahttps://www.businessinsider....

Reddit exploring identity verification An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Reddit may add an extra step before creating an account and posting....

GrapheneOS Refuses to Comply with Age‑Verification Laws An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardwarehttps://www.tomshardware.com/software/operati...

Microsoft account requirement debate Microsoft announced it is addressing common Windows 11 complaints, but the question remains: will the mandatory Microsoft...

Overview Walmart is rolling out digital price tags to replace the old paper ones, planning to implement them in all U.S. stores by the end of 2026. CNBC report...

A man crossing the street one San Francisco night spotted a self-driving car — and decided to confront its passenger, 37-year-old tech worker Doug Fulop. The Ne...

'Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas' reports a local news station: Musk announced on Saturday night du...

A new bill proposed in California 'goes after big tech companies' writes Semafor. Supported by Y Combinator, Cory Doctorow , and the nonprofit advocacy group Fi...

An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech-news blog Neowin: Apple appears to have temporarily prevented apps, including Replit and Vibecode, from pus...