Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got “superfloppy” formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a...

Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51. And there’s been other changes, reports Entrepreneur:In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company “AI-first.” In the memo, von Ahn announced...

After Artemis II’s astronauts returned to earth, “NASA has Artemis III in its sights,” reports the Associated Press:In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III’s yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are racing to have their company’s lander...

“A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor,” writes The Guardian:Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings....

Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews:Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland… Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based...

“From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold…” reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities. The 54,000-student drop was “the biggest one-year...

Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved “a short-term extension” of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but “failed to secure” the votes after “clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans’ privacy.”The warrantless...

Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins “have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them.”A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2)...

Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we’ve had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose “is not just another calorie.” It is a signal. It tells the liver to make fat and brace for a famine that never comes. That made sense for a bear fattening up on autumn berries. It makes less sense for a...

20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News as his parents drove him to federal prison in Connecticut. “I’m just scared,” he said, calling the whole situation “extremely sad.”Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what’s been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted...

Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called “Euro-Office”. But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. “They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license,” argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. (“The core issue here isn’t just about what the AGPL license states,...

Friday Anthropic’s CEO met with top U.S. officials and “discussed opportunities for collaboration,” according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, “as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology.” CNN notes the meeting happens at the same time Anthropic “battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its...

The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing “rebellion” against attention-hogging devices, citing “a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life.”D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of ” Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement,” making him a pillar of the...