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Electric Vehicle Sales Are Booming In South America

Today at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of Chancay, north of Lima. The Chinese-built megaport has halved trans-Pacific shipping times just as Chinese manufacturers...

Google Is Collecting Troves of Data From Downgraded Nest Thermostats

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging into the backend, security researcher Cody Kociemba found that the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats...

Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps

Today at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure’s global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. The attack came from the Aisuru botnet,...

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week

Today at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That’s thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its cultural impact, to...

NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids

Today at 00:40 AM, via Slashdot

NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia’s incoming law (SB 854) will...

The 4 Things You Need for a Tech Bubble

Today at 00:09 AM, via Wired

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, guest Brian Merchant walks us through a historical framework he used to analyze whether AI fits the classic signs of an economic bubble—and what that means for all of us.

Tech Giants’ Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure, and Alphabet’s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms’ market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc’s Digital...

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ is Expanding Fast, and That Should Worry Everyone

Yesterday at 23:20 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he’s worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like...

Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto

Yesterday at 22:41 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation’s oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter. The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school’s...

Is Video Watching Bad for Kids? The Effect of Video Watching on Children’s Skills

Yesterday at 22:01 PM, via Slashdot

Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental consequences. With a bunching identification strategy, we find that an additional hour of daily video consumption has a...

6 Best Altcoins to Buy Now: Maximize Gains With These Explosive Crypto Picks in 2025

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Tech Financials

What if now is the moment when the next wave of meme coins kicks off? With meme coins exploding and speculative momentum roaring, one name stands out: MoonBull ranks among the best altcoins to buy. Alongside Hyperliquid, BullZilla, La Culex, Apeing Coin, and Binance Coin, the scene is buzzing, and MoonBull’s live presale is gaining serious traction. Expect […]

AI Use in ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’ Draws Fire From US Lawmaker

Yesterday at 20:40 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon Valley, took aim at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after buyers noticed the popular shooter contains a significant amount of...

Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren’t Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs

Yesterday at 20:01 PM, via Slashdot

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, which operates publishing labels including GTA-maker Rockstar Games and 2K, said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade. From a report: “I think it’s moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed,” Zelnick told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “But if you define...

UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services

Yesterday at 19:21 PM, via Slashdot

The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms to hackers is unlikely to stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing. From a report: The proposal, announced by the Home Office in July, is designed to deter cyber criminals by making it clear any attempt to blackmail regulated companies such as...

Global Web Freedoms Tumble

Yesterday at 18:41 PM, via Slashdot

Global internet freedom declined for a 15th consecutive year, according to Freedom House’s annual report. Semafor: “Always grim reading,” this year’s is particularly sobering, Tech Policy Press noted, with the lowest-ever portion of users living in countries categorized as “free.” Conditions declined in 27 of the 72 countries assessed, with those in Kenya — where anti-corruption protests were...

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared

Yesterday at 18:04 PM, via Slashdot

Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished. The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites deployed “cancel-rebook” strategies, the Atlantic writes. These platforms would monitor hotel rates after securing initial...

Bitcoin’s 2025 Forecast Widens: Wall Street Targets Range From $120K to $170K

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Tech Financials

After Bitcoin’s sharp “10.11 crash” and the additional shock from the U.S. government shutdown in November, market sentiment has become extremely fragile. What is even more concerning is the widening divide between institutional analysts and professional traders. Galaxy Digital recently slashed its year-end price target from $185,000 to $120,000, while JPMorgan remains firmly bullish,...

‘Better and cheaper’: the case for prostate cancer screening among black men

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Decision over routine PSA testing is due at end of this month, though some feel the supporting data is unclear

Junior Hemans was having a routine health check in 2014 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, at the age of 51. He knew there was an increased risk of the disease in black men so asked to have a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, which was not initially included.

“And when I...

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