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AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up To Eliminate ‘Dead Zones’ Across US

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have agreed in principle to form a joint venture (JV) aimed at reducing U.S. mobile dead zones through satellite connectivity, especially in rural areas and during emergencies when ground networks fail. Here are three of the customer benefits listed by the JV (as highlighted by Droid Life): Fewer coverage gaps: Will nearly eliminate dead zones in the U.S. currently...

Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

A growing number of writers are leaving Substack for alternatives most people haven’t heard of like Ghost, Beehiiv, Patreon, and Passport. The reason, writes The Verge’s Emma Roth, is the “platform’s increased focus on social features as well as a pricing model that puts a chokehold on their business.” From the report: Sean Highkin, the creator of the NBA-focused publication The Rose Garden...

Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

A Bitcoin holder reportedly recovered 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000 with the help of Anthropic’s Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they changed their wallet password while “stoned” and forgot it, unable to regain access for more than 11 years. Tom’s Hardware reports: After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks ago, the user dumped their entire college...

Princeton Will Supervise Exams For First Time In 133 Years Because of AI

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Princeton University will soon require exams to be supervised for the first time in 100 years — all thanks to students using artificial intelligence to cheat. For 133 years, the Ivy League school’s honor code allowed students to take exams without a professor present, but on Monday, faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person...

US Clears H200 Chip Sales To 10 China Firms

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week. […] Before U.S. export curbs tightened,...

Cerebras, A.I. Chip Maker, Rises 89% in Market Debut

Yesterday at 19:16 PM, via New York Times

Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.

Anthropic Forms $200 Million Partnership With the Gates Foundation

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to “commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years.” “This commitment is central to Anthropic’s efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not,” the company...

Leading Crypto Card Bitget Wallet Card Launches Ride Cashback Campaign Across Latin America

Yesterday at 18:38 PM, via Tech Financials

San Salvador, El Salvador  – Bitget Wallet Card, a top crypto debit card for everyday spending, today announced the launch of its Ride Cashback Campaign across Latin America. Running from April to May 2026, the campaign rewards eligible users with cashback on qualifying ride-hailing transactions, bringing real-world crypto card utility to one of the region’s […]

Craig Venter obituary

Yesterday at 18:33 PM, via The Guardian

Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNA

At the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February 2001, the geneticist Craig Venter performed a remarkable piece of scientific barnstorming. Human beings possess far fewer genes than science had ever realised, he announced. We have about 30,000, far lower than...

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