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Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar ‘Balcony’ Panels?

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Plug-in (or “balcony”) solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home’s electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave while “displacing electricity that otherwise would come in from the grid…” But what’s holding up their adoption in America?For the panels to become...

Gaming Site Editor Jailbreaks an Amazon Echo Show

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers,” writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versions of the devices and tested their instructions, partly to escape the full-screen ads Amazon began showing late last year, and also to overwrite...

Should Keycaps Use Text or Glyphs for Delete, Return, Tab, Caps Lock, and Shift?

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change,” reports MacRumors:On the U.S. English version of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps now have glyphs on them. On previous-generation models, these keys are labeled with text instead… Given the U.S. English keyboard layout is the default option for MacBook Air,...

System76 CEO Sees ‘Real Possibility’ Colorado’s Age-Verification Bill Excludes Open-Source

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Last week System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized age-verification laws for operating systems — but he now sees a “real possibility” Colorado’s law might exclude open-source. Phoronix reports that the System76 CEO met with the state Senator who co-authored Colorado’s bill, and then posted on X.com that the Senator “suggested excluding open source software from the bill.” Richell: This appears...

US Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee For Brokering TikTok Deal

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

The deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors — which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake — “paid the Treasury Department about $2.5 billion when the deal closed in January,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “and are set to make several additional payments...

How a Species Evolved Fast Enough to Save Itself from Extinction

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California’s scarlet monkeyflower “found that many rapidly evolved… allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebound from decline.””The fact that certain organisms are able to adapt just because of genetics that are already present is a great source of hope,”...

AI’s Productivity Boost? Just 16 Minutes Per Week, Claims Study

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli:According to research cited in Foxit’s State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end users say AI tools make them feel more productive, the actual time savings shrink dramatically once people account for reviewing and validating...

U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans “have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.” But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon — and is suing Texas...

Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been...

New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people

A new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people.

A summary of existing evidence on artificial intelligence-induced psychosis was published last week in the Lancet Psychiatry,...

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimagine our relationship with nature

In 2018, the ecologist and writer Suzanne Simard was conducting research in the forested Caribou Mountains of western Canada when a thunderstorm rolled in. She was...

How to Watch March Madness 2026

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via Wired

Tune in to watch the men’s and women’s teams fight to win the 2026 NCAA Division I Basketball championship.

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