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samedi 16 août 2025, 19:34
Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: Volkswagen is offering a subscription model for extra horsepower on its ID.3 electric cars. Want to bump your ride from the standard 201 bhp to the full 228 bhp? That will be about £16.50 per month or £165 per year, or a one-time £649 "lifeti...
Puerto Rico expects 93 different power outages this summer, reports the Washington Post. But they also note that 'roughly 1 in 10 Puerto Rican homes now have a battery and solar array for backup power' which have also 'become a crucial source of backup power for the entire...
ChatGPT now has nearly 700 million weekly users, OpenAI says. But after launching GPT-5 last week, critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, reports CNBC, 'ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers.' Yet GPT-5 was always about...
Last month, Python 'reached the highest ranking a programming language ever had in the TIOBE index,' according to TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen. 'We thought Python couldn't grow any further, but AI code assistants let Python take yet another step forward.' According to recent...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Drug treatment can help people newly diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to reduce their risk of substance misuse, suicidal behavior, transport accidents and criminality, a study suggests. These...
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Take note of the name: ReHMGB1. A new study pinpoints this protein as being able to spread the wear and tear that comes with time as it quietly travels through the bloodstream. This adds significantly to our understanding of...
Scientists in Svalbard warn Arctic glaciers are in 'terminal' decline, with microbe-driven biological darkening accelerating ice melt and potentially triggering major climate feedback loops. The Guardian reports: Recent research implicates snow and ice-dwelling microbes in...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScientificAmerican: After a brain stem stroke left him almost entirely paralyzed in the 1990s, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book about his experiences -- letter by letter, blinking his left eye in response to a...
Sam Altman's brain-chip venture is exploring the idea of genetically altering brain cells to make better implants. 'The company, which has been referred to as Merge Labs, is looking at an approach involving gene therapy that would modify brain cells,' reports Bloomberg. 'In...
South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of Yubin Archive, a Telegram-based 'pirate library' that grew to over 330,000 members by sharing textbooks, workbooks, lectures, and exam prep materials under the banner of 'eliminating educational inequality.' TorrentFreak ...
Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break, introducing a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, new ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 cryptographic algorithms, OpenGL WoW64 thunk generation, and expanded Windows Runtime metadata support. The ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The United States' practice of installing location trackers in chip shipments at risk of diversion to China reflects the 'instincts of a surveillance empire,' China's state-run media outlet Xinhua said in a commentary...
Croatia has extended its digital nomad visa from one year to up to three years, allowing non-EU residents and their close family members to live and work remotely in the country. CNBC reports: A digital nomad visa is a short-term permit that allows individuals to stay in a...
New data from Digital Content Next shows Google's AI Overviews are linked to notable drops in publisher referral traffic, with surveyed sites seeing year-over-year declines between 1% and 25%. From a report: Digital Content Next (DCN), which counts the New York Times, Conde...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: In a sharp rebuke to the anti-electrification agenda in the US, global EV sales are up 27% over last year, with some legacy automakers -- but not all -- indicating the potential for a successful transition to electric...
vendredi 15 août 2025, 23:21
WIRED identified 120 YouTube channels creating AI-generated celebrity confrontation/rage-baiting videos using still images and artificial voiceovers (rather than deepfake technology). One channel, Talk Show Gold, accumulated 88,000 subscribers with a fake Mark Wahlberg and...
New Zealand citizens leaving the country have hit the highest levels in 13 years, with more than a third of those emigrating aged under 30 years as unemployment rises and economic growth remains soft. From a report: Data released by Statistics New Zealand on Friday showed...
VP.NET has released the source code for its Intel SGX enclave on GitHub, allowing anyone to build the enclave and verify its mrenclave hash matches what's running on the servers. This takes 'don't trust, verify' from marketing to reality, making privacy claims testable all...
An anonymous reader writes: Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distro packed with tools for sysadmins, system rescue, and network diagnostics, is shutting down. This comes not long after Intel's Clear Linux also reached the end of the road. Kaisen offered multiple desktop...
New research suggests exposure to some common Pfas or 'forever chemical' compounds causes changes to gene activity, and those changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease. From a report: The findings are a...
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