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Science/Tech

Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro

Yesterday at 22:04 PM, via Slashdot

Analyst Ben Thompson, sharing the experience of watching an NBA game on the Vision Pro: When I started the broadcast [on Apple Vision Pro’s immersive view of the Bucks vs. Lakers NBA game] I had, surprise surprise, a studio show, specially tailored for the Apple Vision Pro. In other words, there was a dedicated camera, a dedicated presenter, a dedicated graphics team, etc. There was even a...

Mercedes Temporarily Scraps Its Level 3 ‘Eyes-off’ Driving Feature

Yesterday at 21:22 PM, via Slashdot

Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an “eyes off” conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US. From a report: As first reported by German publication Handelsblatt, the revised S-Class will not have the Level 3 system when it arrives at the end of this month. Mercedes was one of the first automakers to offer a Level 3 driving system to its...

Verizon To Stop Automatic Unlocking of Phones as FCC Ends 60-Day Unlock Rule

Yesterday at 20:44 PM, via Slashdot

The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement to unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network. From a report: The change will make it harder for people to switch from Verizon to other carriers. The FCC today granted Verizon’s petition for a waiver of the 60-day unlocking requirement. While the...

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem – Too Many Data Centers

Yesterday at 20:04 PM, via Slashdot

America’s largest power-grid operator, PJM, which delivers electricity to 67 million people across a 13-state region from New Jersey to Kentucky, is approaching a supply crisis as AI data centers in Northern Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” consume electricity at an unprecedented rate. The nonprofit expects demand to grow by 4.8% annually over the next decade. Mark Christie, former chairman of...

Anthropic Invests $1.5 Million in the Python Software Foundation and Open Source Security

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via Slashdot

Python Software Foundation: We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation’s work, with an emphasis on Python ecosystem security. This investment will enable the PSF to make crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI)...

Scott Adams, Creator of the ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68

Yesterday at 18:20 PM, via Slashdot

Scott Adams, who kept cubicle denizens laughing for more than three decades with Dilbert, the bitingly funny comic strip that poked fun at the absurdity of corporate life, died Tuesday. He was 68. From a report: His death was tearfully revealed by his first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, at the start of Real Coffee With Scott Adams. In May, he said on the podcast that he had been diagnosed with...

JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Backfire on Consumers and Economy

Yesterday at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

JPMorgan Chase’s chief financial officer Jeremy Barnum pushed back hard on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates, calling the measure “very bad for consumers” and “very bad for the economy” during a call with reporters. The proposed one-year cap, which Trump has said he wants implemented starting January 20, sent banking stocks tumbling last...

Salesforce Announces the General Availability of Slackbot – Your Personal Agent for Work

Yesterday at 17:54 PM, via Tech Financials

AI has changed our personal lives, answering any question, unleashing our creativity, and delivering tailored insights with a simple prompt. But in the workplace, AI hasn’t yet been so transformative — bogged down by unintuitive interfaces, fragmented across multiple teams and tools, beset by hallucinations and inconsistency, and lacking the context that the workplace demands. […]

The Top Strategies for Crypto Sports Betting in 2026

Yesterday at 17:47 PM, via Tech Financials

Crypto sports betting in 2025 continues to grow as digital currencies reshape how people place wagers on their favorite games. The mix of blockchain technology and sports betting creates faster transactions, stronger privacy, and new ways to manage risk. This article explains how to use smart strategies to stay ahead and make better decisions in […]

Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging

Yesterday at 17:29 PM, via Slashdot

Moxie Marlinspike, the engineer who created Signal Messenger and set a new standard for private communications, is now trialing Confer, an open source AI assistant designed to make user data unreadable to platform operators, hackers, and law enforcement alike. Confer relies on two core technologies: passkeys that generate a 32-byte encryption keypair stored only on user devices, and trusted...

The SABC TV licence escape clause

Yesterday at 16:59 PM, via MyBroadband

Here’s how South African households can become exempt from paying TV licence fees when they still have a TV.

Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices

Yesterday at 16:44 PM, via Slashdot

Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division as the company redirects resources away from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and smartphone features. The cuts amount to roughly 10% of Reality Labs’ 15,000-person workforce, according to an internal post from CTO Andrew Bosworth reviewed by Bloomberg. Reality Labs has lost more than...

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Yesterday at 16:20 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell”.

Studies claiming to...

Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash

Yesterday at 16:06 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft announced Tuesday what it calls a “community first” initiative for its AI data centers, pledging to pay full electricity costs and reject local property tax breaks following months of growing opposition from residents facing higher power bills. The announcement in Washington, D.C. marks a clear departure from past practices; Microsoft has previously accepted tax abatements for data...

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