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lundi 30 juin 2025, 20:50
TorrentFreak spotlights VP.net, a brand-new service from Private Internet Access founder Andrew Lee (the guy who gifted Linux Journal to Slashdot) that eliminates the classic 'just trust your VPN' problem by locking identity-mapping and traffic-handling inside Intel SGX...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said he regrets telling the media that 'WordPress.org just belongs to me personally' during a new interview about his company's legal dispute with hosting provider WP Engine. The comment has been 'taken out of context so many times' and...
China's transition to digital payments has reached the point where physical cash has nearly vanished from daily commerce, with WeChat and Alipay now handling transactions from supermarkets to public transportation across the world's second-largest economy. Many businesses no ...
Microsoft's new AI diagnostic system achieved 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to 20% for human doctors, while reducing costs by 20%, according to company research published Monday. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator queries multiple leading AI models including...
Avantare writes: Microsoft Authenticator houses your passwords and lets you sign into all of your Microsoft accounts using a PIN, facial recognition such as Windows Hello, or other biometric data, like a fingerprint. Authenticator can be used in other ways, such as verifying ...
Companies deliberately design customer service friction to discourage refunds and claims, according to research into a practice academics call 'sludge.' The term, coined by legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein and economist Richard H. Thaler in their updated version of 'Nudge,'...
Apple plans to release a cheaper MacBook powered by the A18 Pro chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro line, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The laptop will be priced below $999 -- first time for a MacBook Air -- and go into production in late 2025 or early 2026 on the new...
A founding member of the Xbox team says she believes Xbox hardware is 'dead' and that Microsoft appears to be planning a 'slow exit' from the gaming hardware business. Microsoft recently announced partnerships with external hardware companies including the ROG Xbox Ally,...
Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after a disagreement over unauthorized sales, meaning the e-commerce company missed out on the recent debut of Nintendo's Switch 2 -- the biggest game console launch of all time. From a report: The Japanese company stopped...
'Earth's ozone layer blocks the Sun's shortest wave radiation, called UV-C, which is so damaging to cells in high doses that it's a go-to sterilizer in hospitals,' writes Slashdot reader sciencehabit. 'UV-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether...
'Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations,' reports Newsweek, 'after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's digital services tax on U.S. technology companies.' The development follows President Donald Trump's announcement on...
Mitch Kapor dropped out of MIT's business school in 1979 — and had soon cofounded the pioneering spreadsheet company Lotus. He also cofounded the EFF, was the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and is now a billionaire (and an VC investor at Kapor Capital). 45 years...
'Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch,' reports the Guardian, 'to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.' Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG)...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 'consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them, researchers say.' The effect is especially pronounced for offerings perceived to be riskier buys, ...
What happens if you track how much heat enters Earth's atmosphere and how much heat leaves? You discover that Earth's energy budget 'is now well and truly out of balance,' three climate researchers write at The Conversation: Our recent research found this imbalance has more...
dimanche 29 juin 2025, 23:34
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit — and they're having some fun with it. They've just announced a summer fundraiser, 'and that means the GNU Press Shop is open!' From now until July 28, you can buy your FSF gear at the GNU Press shop. First and foremost, there's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech news site The Register: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming...
Just four weeks after an early June flight to the edge of space, Blue Origin has again carried six more passengers there and back again, reports CBS News, noting that the 10-minute ride was Blue Origin's 13th flight 'out of the discernible atmosphere.' The New Shepard...
'The potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI...' writes Wired, arguing that there's an AI backlash that 'keeps growing strong.' 'The pushback from the creative...
The problem? 'Companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results,' reports 9to5Mac. And 'Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google's AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit.' Huffman has confirmed to the...
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