Overview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as “...
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Background A surprisingly ravenous black hole from the early universe is breaking two major expectations, according to Live Sciencehttps://www.livescience.com/...
Background This week Raspberry Pi saw its stock price surge more than 60 % above its early‑February low before giving up some gains at the end of the week. Reu...
A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has prompted NASA to delay the Artemis II moon mission. Rather than March 6, the launch is now targeted for April...
Overview Fossil fuels produce NO₂, which is linked to asthma attacks, bronchitis, and higher risks of heart disease and stroke, according to the EV news site E...
Overview Samsung is expanding its Galaxy AI ecosystem by adding Perplexity as a selectable assistant. Users of the upcoming Galaxy S26 will be able to invoke P...
Background Long‑time Slashdot reader theodp writes: > Jeopardy time. > A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Spiegel for the site. As preparation for the interview, I spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks r...
Overview Imagine a 280‑unit apartment complex with no on‑site leasing office and no human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced...
Background On Friday, Amazon published a blog post to address inaccuracies in a Financial Times report that claimed the company's AI tool Kiro caused two outag...
Former Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice at the State Department on September 26, 2023. | Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images Donald Trump threatened that there would...
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Fun vibes. Okay-ish photos. Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There’s been a surge of interest over the last few years in inexpensive digital cameras....
It's easier than ever to test for sexually transmitted infections at home. We break down whether or not you should....
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Rocket Exhaust and Ozone Depletion Atmospheric scientist Laura Revell University of Canterbury, New Zealand presented research showing that rocket exhaust can...
You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query, or by switching search engines altogether....
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Next month, the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon, causing the Moon to take on an eerie reddish hue....
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Overview The UK Post Office’s interim CTO is leading the effort to remove and replace Fujitsu’s Horizon system, described by Computer Weekly as “the error‑ridd...
How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long‑time Slashdot reader BrendaEMhttps://ask.slashdot.org/~BrendaEM? Say you want separate Windows and L...
Case Overview Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend's house in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning a firefighte...
Background The consumer movement Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott protested Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew in 2024 PC Gamer...
Background Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who had rejected the code it produced. The human operator of that AI later revealed...
Overview Since its inception over half a century ago, the Peace Corps has engaged more than 240,000 Americans in projects across 142 countries. New Initiative:...
Background Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K‑12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Found...
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Overview Berlin‑based T2 Linux developer René Rebe long‑time Slashdot reader ReneR announced that the Xorg display server now restores its XAA acceleration arc...
Overview Slashdot reader BrianFagiolihttps://games.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli reports that The Salvation Army has launched what it calls the world's first digi...
Background CNN reports on a 13,000‑year‑old glacier in a Romanian cave, where scientists say a bacterial strain they thawed and analyzed is resistant to 10 mod...
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Introduction Can being “very online” really affect our brains, asks the Washington Posthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/ar-AA1WJ9Ya? Research Findings...
The suspect in the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Jesse Van Rootselaar, was raising alarms among employees at OpenAI months before the shooti...
Overview I've always wanted to go skydiving. Aerial_Knight's DropShot, from indie developer Aerial_Knight, lets me live out that dream—at least in a safe, virt...
Dino Dating Service Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples. When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not...
Flunking the Test A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don’t work. Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the...
From pins to mascots to Swatch watches, memorabilia from the Milano Cortina Games is showing up on sites like eBay and Vinted....
By typing simple, text‑based commands into Windows PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft Store—all without the typical ads or clu...
From disappointments to scandals to Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ silver medal, figure skating brought some of the biggest surprises of the Milano Cortina Games...
