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FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY 2026, 19:13

Science/Tech

Is rate really everything?

Today at 08:34 AM, via ITWeb

The wrong leasing partner can silently erode value through hidden costs, outdated technology, rigid terms, onerous return processes and minimal sustainability benefits, says Marcelle Steyn, strategic sales lead at InnoVent.

New DStv owner has a secret weapon

Today at 07:09 AM, via MyBroadband

Canal+’s strategy for competing with Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video: “If you can’t beat them, sell them.”

Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The UK could introduce a universal basic income (UBI) to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said. “Bumpy” changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be “some sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs that go...

Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data

Today at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

Comcast’s attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn’t stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and other business lines like Peacock and theme parks. Ars Technica reports: The Q4 net loss is more than the 176,000 loss predicted by analysts,...

Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada

Today at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it sounds like like a good idea to ditch Bill C-11 and turn Canada into a “Disenshittification Nation” and go into the business of...

Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective

Today at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling. The Verge reports: Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to...

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

Today at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys, called Bondus, because they offered an AI chat feature that lets children talk to the toy like a kind of machine-learning-enabled imaginary friend. But she knew Thacker, a security...

AI use in breast cancer screening cuts rate of later diagnosis by 12%, study finds

Today at 01:30 AM, via The Guardian

Swedish study of 100,000 women found higher rate of early detection, suggesting potential to support radiologists

The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind.

Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI...

Google’s Project Genie Lets You Generate Your Own Interactive Worlds

Today at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

Google is letting outsiders experiment with DeepMind’s Genie 3 “world model” via Project Genie, a tool for generating short, interactive AI worlds. The caveat: it requires a $250/month AI Ultra subscription, is U.S.-only, and has tight limits that make it more of a tech demo than a game engine. Engadget reports: At launch, Project Genie offers three different modes of interaction: World...

Nvidia GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux

Today at 00:40 AM, via Slashdot

NVIDIA has officially launched a native GeForce NOW client for Linux as a Flatpak, giving Linux gamers access to cloud-rendered RTX gaming. Phoronix reports: While confined to a Flatpak, for now NVIDIA is just “officially” supporting it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. Granted, thanks to Flatpak it should run on other non-Ubuntu distributions too but in terms of the official support and where...

County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security

Today at 00:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Dan Goodin: Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at...

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