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Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law

Today at 02:20 AM, via Slashdot

Bluesky has blocked access to its service in Mississippi rather than comply with a new state law requiring age verification for all social media users. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s...

Meta Set To Unveil First Consumer-Ready Smart Glasses With a Display, Wristband

Today at 01:40 AM, via Slashdot

At its upcoming Connect conference next month, Meta is rumored to unveil its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, alongside a neural wristband controller. The $800 device, codenamed Hypernova, will be able to show simple visual content like texts and support AI assistant interactions. CNBC reports: Connect is a two-day conference for developers focused on virtual reality,...

Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China’s Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month’s SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond’s early-bug-notification program. The software behemoth gives some software vendors early bug disclosures under...

Waymo Granted First Permit To Being Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC

Today at 00:20 AM, via Slashdot

Waymo has received its first permit from the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, marking the city’s first official rollout of self-driving car trials. The program will initially deploy up to eight vehicles with safety drivers through late September, with the potential to extend and expand into other boroughs. CNBC...

Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Google has signed a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta worth over $10 billion, making it the second major partnership after a recent agreement with OpenAI. The deal will see Meta rely on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its massive AI data center buildout, as the company ramps up capital spending into the tens of billions. The Information (paywalled) first reported the deal.

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The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official

Yesterday at 23:54 PM, via Wired

The $8.9 billion investment gives the US government a roughly 10 percent equity stake in Intel.

Record Solar Growth Keeps China’s CO2 Falling in First Half of 2025

Yesterday at 23:40 PM, via Slashdot

Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024. From a report: The CO2 output of the nation’s power sector — its dominant source of emissions — fell by 3% in the first half of the year, as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand. The new...

4chan Refuses To Pay UK Online Safety Act Fines

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won’t pay a proposed fine by the UK’s media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act. According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a 20,000-pound fine “with daily penalties thereafter” for as long as the site...

Workers Need Better Protections From the Heat

Yesterday at 22:20 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Expect record-breaking temperatures to change the workplace, the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today in a new report. When workers don’t have adequate protections from heat stress, their health and productivity suffer. It’s a risk employers and lawmakers have to take more seriously if they want to keep...

Europe Is Losing

Yesterday at 21:30 PM, via Slashdot

Europe’s share of global economic output has fallen from 33% to 23% since 2005 while its space launch capacity has nearly collapsed, launching just four rockets this year compared to over 100 for the United States and 40 for China. The continent’s economic stagnation spans 15 years — likely the longest streak since the Industrial Revolution according to Deutsche Bank calculations — with...

Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says

Yesterday at 20:50 PM, via Slashdot

President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. Reuters: The development follows a meeting between CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Trump earlier this month that was sparked by Trump’s demand for the Intel chief’s resignation...

Default Microsoft 365 Domains Face 100-Email Daily Limit Starting October

Yesterday at 20:14 PM, via Slashdot

Organizations still using default Microsoft 365 email domains face severe throttling starting this October. The restrictions target the onmicrosoft.com domain that Microsoft 365 automatically assigns to new tenants, limiting external messages to 100 recipients per day starting October 15. Microsoft blames spammers who exploit new tenants for quick spam bursts before detection. Affected...

Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI To Power Revamped Siri

Yesterday at 19:33 PM, via Slashdot

Apple is in early discussions about using Google Gemini to power a revamped version of the Siri voice assistant, marking a key potential step toward outsourcing more of its artificial intelligence technology. From a report: The iPhone maker recently approached Alphabet’s Google to explore building a custom AI model that would serve as the foundation of the new Siri next year, according to...

Eskom breakdowns milestone

Yesterday at 19:17 PM, via MyBroadband

Eskom’s unit breakdowns have dropped below a level last seen in December 2020.

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