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Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies — which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. “After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future,” reports Ars Technica. “The reason: concerns about the safety of...
Go off-grid camping for a long weekend with my favorite portable power station from Anker. It’s on sale.
Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.
Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...
The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE are a great pairing for anyone with a Galaxy phone.
Epic Games said it had to increase the price as the cost of running the game had “gone up a lot”
Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: “We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery that will be leveraged by both defenders and...
The aerospace company said the delay would not prevent it from meeting its 2026 sales goal of about 500 Max jets.
X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. Axios reports: The deal brings Moltbook’s creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Meta did not disclose Moltbook’s purchase price. The deal is expected to...
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride home.
The 600kg Van Allen probe A will re-enter Tuesday evening, with most of it burning before reaching Earth’s surface
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Parts of a giant Nasa satellite will crash to Earth on Tuesday evening, the US space agency is warning – but the chance of being struck is extremely low.
According to the US military’s Space Force, the...
German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system, arguing it unfairly restricts access to advertising data while allowing Apple to remain the central gatekeeper — without subjecting its own apps to the same restrictions. If Germany’s antitrust authority does rule against Apple, the company could face fines of up to 10%...
We want to hear how artificial intelligence helps you with tasks like meal prep, translation and planning a trip.
Cape Town-based research technology company Yazi has raised its first institutional funding round from 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), the early-stage venture firm that originated inside Allan Gray, as enterprises and development organisations increasingly adopt WhatsApp as a channel for customer and population research. Founded in 2022 by Timothy Treagus (CEO) and Mzwandile Sotsaka (CTO), Yazi […]
Private equity firm EQT AB is reportedly exploring a sale of SUSE that could value the open-source Linux pioneer at up to $6 billion, roughly doubling the valuation since EQT took the company private in 2023. Reuters reports: EQT “has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the sources, who requested anonymity...