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Best Buy Discount Codes: Up to 60% Off

Today at 07:00 AM, via Wired

Find the latest Best Buy promo codes and offers, including 10% back in rewards for new cardmembers and free 2-day shipping with My Best Buy Plus, here at WIRED.

Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead’s neurotoxicity meant the metal was banned as an additive in petrol more than 25 years ago. The research by academics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst began by analysing...

Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity...

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. “The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S,” reports Ars Technica. “In ‘early 2027,’ support will also be extended to the RDNA2 architecture, which includes the...

Bitwarden Scrubs ‘Always Free’ and ‘Inclusion’ Values From Its Website

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

Bitwarden appears to be undergoing a quiet shift in leadership and messaging. Its longtime CEO and CFO have stepped down, while the company has removed “Always free” from a prominent password-manager page and replaced “Inclusion” and “Transparency” in its GRIT values with “Innovation” and “Trust.” Fast Company reports: In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role,...

The Era of 15GB Free Gmail Storage Is Ending

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Android Authority reports: While the company didn’t mention which regions are impacted, user reports from yesterday were mostly from African countries. That said, if Google’s tests prove successful, this could possibly become the norm for new...

Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly’s appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games’ grassroots game preservation movement and comes over the objections of industry lobbyists...

OpenAI Now Wants ChatGPT To Access Your Bank Accounts

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI is previewing a feature that lets ChatGPT Pro users connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid, allowing the chatbot to analyze spending, subscriptions, balances, portfolios, debt, and major financial decisions. “More than 200 million people are already going to ChatGPT every month with finance questions — from budgeting to tips on how to cut back on spending,” OpenAI said in its...

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

ArXiv says it will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing AI-generated slop, such as hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in the manuscript. “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific...

Ice vests or daily cold showers could help people lose weight, study finds

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers say daily exposure to cold activates brown fat and could help speed up body’s burning of calories

Wearing an ice vest or taking daily cold showers could help people lose weight, according to researchers.

Despite the growing popularity of cold-water swimming and freezing plunges, to date there is minimal data on the health benefits of cold exposure. But a study of 47 adults with...

The Chinese App That Puts Instagram to Shame

Yesterday at 18:52 PM, via Wired

In the ancient city of Dali, I saw firsthand how RedNote has evolved from a lifestyle platform into the tool that powers the country’s tourism industry.

Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: A group of Michigan lawmakers has introduced a bill in Congress that would effectively place a permanent ban on Chinese connected vehicles from being sold in the United States. While an executive order signed by Joe Biden in early 2025 already imposed heavy restrictions, the new bill would codify and expand on the ban, as first...

Honda Retreats To Hybrids After Failed EV Bet Triggers Record $9 Billion Loss

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda admitted it was “unable to deliver products that offer value for money better than that of new EV manufacturers, resulting in a...

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