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Bitcoin’s recent slide below $100K has made the market a bit uneasy, and altcoins have felt the pressure too. Yet for many experienced investors, this is a temporary step back and therefore an opportunity to buy the dip. Right now, a few projects are standing out as solid altcoins to buy: Digitap ($TAP), Mobu ($MOBU), […]
It’s been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And “The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python’s familiar lead,” writes TechRepublic. “C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose some ground, and C# moves sharply upward, narrowing the gap with Java to...
The renewal backlog is close to being cleared, a backup printer is on the horizon, and there are early signs that a legal dispute over a new printer will not drag on beyond January 2026.
After a long wait, XRP ETFs are set to debut on Wall Street. However, analysts believe this might be another case of “sell the news.” Instead, whales are accumulating LTC, contributing to the surge in the Litecoin price and Digitap ($TAP), hailed as the best crypto to buy now. LTC, also having its own ETF […]
Slashdot reader spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring...
“Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message,” reports BGR:Google said it’s bringing suit against Lighthouse, an impressively large operation that allegedly provides tools customers can buy to set up their own specialized phishing scams. All told, Google estimates that Lighthouse-affiliated scams in the U.S. have stolen...
The dream of quantum computers has been hampered by the challenge of error correction, writes the Harvard Gazette, since qubits “are inherently susceptible to slipping out of their quantum states and losing their encoded information.” But in a newly-published paper, a research team “combined various methods to create complex circuits with dozens of error correction layers” that “suppresses...
A new “cold war” between America and China is “pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of superintelligent AI systems misaligned with human values…” “Both countries are driven as much by fear as by hope of progress. “In Washington and...
“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”Over the course ofthe last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, whilecontinuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentagegrowth rates than they had in years prior. EV sales used to grow...
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a useragent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler) was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate. I followed the URL and discovered this is what Meta uses to gather premium,human-generated content to train its LLMs....
An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath: Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios’ Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn’t have many — which is why it may be surprising to hear that a group of players are reverse-engineering the game and...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ’50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop...
Dogecoin has returned to traders’ attention after major holders quietly added billions of tokens within a short window. The accumulation comes during a period of muted market movement, prompting questions about whether larger players are positioning early. At the same time, Tapzi’s presale has been gaining steady traction, attracting buyers who are looking for the […]
The search for the cheapest meme coin to buy can be misleading if you judge a token only by its low entry price. Many coins stay cheap because they lack structure, traction, or any real path forward. The projects that actually break out are the ones showing measurable progress long before they hit exchanges. That’s […]
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led tocharges of lying to federal authorities.And now a former Air Force intelligence officer “has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent,” reports CNBC, “by falsely claiming that her estranged astronaut wife illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the International Space Station for six...
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“The International Energy Agency’s latest outlook signals that oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century,” reports CNBC, “reflecting a sharp tonal shift from the world’s energy watchdog and raising further questions about the future of fossil fuels.”In its flagship World Energy Outlook, the Paris-based agency on Wednesday laid out a scenario in which demand for oil...
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