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dimanche 28 décembre 2025, 23:40
Regardless of who ends up owning Warners Bros., 'the outlook for theatrical movies is dimming,' writes a Wall Street Journal tech columnist, noting that this year's U.S. box office of $8.3 billion (as of December 25) 'is a bit below last year's and well below prepandemic...
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Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the 'festive artwork' shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, 'made on MacBook Pro.' Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease the season...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian: A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter's cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege... Her father...
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Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino 'isn't imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards,' (according to Mitch Stoltz, EFF director for competition and IP litigation). While Adafruit's managing editor Phillip...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician said he learned of...
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Laptop makers are facing record-setting memory prices next year. The site Notebookcheck catalogs how different companies are responding: Sources told [Korean business newspaper] Chosun Biz that some manufacturers have signed preliminary contracts with Samsung, Micron, and SK ...
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The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of 'digital sovereignty': The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European ...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis by a South...
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'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year...
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An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a...
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samedi 27 décembre 2025, 23:34
Phoronix reports on 'an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list' proposing 'a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows...' Modern Standby is a low-power mode on...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining ...
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NVIDIA has been 'gradually dropping support for older videocards,' notes Hackaday, 'with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed.' 'What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a ...
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Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already 'designed to handle dark traffic signals,' and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four-way stops. But while ...
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The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers 'enriched' license pages with 'relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support'. So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause and 2-clause), and GNU...
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The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
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The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear plant 'was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,' CNN remembers. But this week Japanese authorities 'have approved a decision to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant,' reports CNN, 'which has sat...
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An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that 'many' of his colleagues in physics 'have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human.' And it's a mystery that: - 'Challenges basic assumptions physicists have held for...
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