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AT&T Sues California In Bid To Stop Offering Traditional Phone Service

22 May at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AT&T on Wednesday filed suit (PDF) against California officials seeking a court order declaring it does not have to continue offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers as it vowed to spend $19 billion on modern telecom services. California requires the U.S. wireless carrier to spend $1 billion annually to maintain a...

Melanoma skin cancer cases in UK hit record level, analysis finds

22 May at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Cancer Research UK figures show number diagnosed with most serious form of skin cancer has risen above 20,000 for first time

The number of cases from the most serious form of skin cancer have reached a record high across the UK, according to analysis by a leading cancer charity.

Melanoma cases in the UK have risen above 20,000 for the first time ever, with 20,980 people being diagnosed with the...

Thousands of Zillow Listings In Chicago Have Vanished

22 May at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Thousands of Chicago-area Zillow and Trulia listings disappeared after Midwest Real Estate Data cut off Zillow’s access to its feed, “in the latest escalation of a legal battle with Lisle-based Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED),” reports the Chicago Sun-Times. “The fight is over MRED’s private listing network, where homes for sale are shared among real estate professionals. And MRED followed...

Vivaldi 8.0 Arrives With ‘Most Significant Design Overhaul’ In Browser’s History

22 May at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser’s “most significant design overhaul” yet, featuring a new unified, edge-to-edge interface, six preset layouts, and deeper customization across tabs, toolbars, panels, and themes. The company is also taking a swipe at rivals chasing questionable AI features. Neowin reports: After updating to version 8.0, Vivaldi will present you with the ability to...

Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge

21 May at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

Trump called off a planned AI executive order just hours before a signing ceremony because he said he was worried the framework could slow America’s lead over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told reporters. The Associated Press reports: The order would have established a framework for the...

Flipper One Could Be the Ultimate Linux Cyberdeck

21 May at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget and more like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up. Unlike Flipper Zero, which focuses on offline protocols like RFID and Sub-1 GHz radio, Flipper One is all about networking, modular hardware, SDR experimentation, local AI, and upstream...

US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes

21 May at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware and related technologies. According to Reuters, citing a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to distribute the...

Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets For Fans

21 May at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Spotify is launching “Reserved,” a new feature that will set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifies as an artist’s most dedicated fans based on streams, shares, and other activity. “Getting concert tickets today can feel like a race you’re set up to lose,” Spotify wrote in a post on Thursday. “You show up at the right time, refresh endlessly, and still miss out. Too often,...

Waymo Pauses Atlanta Service As Its Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Floods

21 May at 19:02 PM, via Slashdot

Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. It follows a similar pause in San Antonio that prompted a recent software recall (PDF) over flood avoidance. TechCrunch reports: Waymo admitted that it hadn’t finished developing a “final remedy” for avoiding flooded areas when it issued its software recall last week. Instead, the...

New weight-loss shot appears to outperform other obesity drugs on market

21 May at 18:50 PM, via The Guardian

Eli Lilly says participants in a sizable trial of retatrutide lost much more weight compared to other weight-loss drugs

A new weight-loss drug has helped participants in a sizable trial lose much more weight than other obesity drugs already on the market – up to an average of 28% of their body weight – Eli Lilly announced on Thursday.

The Indiana-based pharmaceutical company in a press...

Microsoft Hires Analyst With Influential Video Game Blog To Fix Xbox

21 May at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft has hired games analyst and investor Matthew Ball as Xbox’s new chief strategy officer. With a long track record of analyzing the video game market and industry’s biggest shifts, Ball’s background could help Xbox rethink its hardware and console strategy at a moment when competition is tougher than ever. Engadget reports: Ball is a venture capitalist and tech industry consultant with...

The workplace In 2026: Why Building A Human-Centric Internal Culture Matters More Than Ever

21 May at 17:57 PM, via Tech Financials

In today’s ever-evolving workplace, culture is often understood as little more than the odd team-building exercise organised by HR or dismissed as a corporate buzzword. However, for leading South African organisations operating in 2026, culture is the internal architecture that dictates a company’s resilience, growth, and survival. A robust internal culture is built from the […]

US-DATA Expands Global Data Annotation Services for AI, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Projects

21 May at 17:41 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA — US-DATA helps companies turn raw images, videos, audio and text into high-quality datasets for training, testing and improving AI models. US-DATA, a data annotation company specializing in machine learning and computer vision projects, announces the expansion of its international data labeling services for companies developing AI products, automation systems, neural networks […]

OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem

21 May at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because this isn’t the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim. Seven months ago, the AI giant’s former VP Kevin Weil...

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