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America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push ift.tt/F50Bikd
America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push - Slashdot

America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push - Slashdot

Clocks "fall back" one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios. But the U.S. Congress "remains deadlocked about how...

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Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry ift.tt/KhQD8xs
Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry -...

Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry -...

Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren't...

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Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They'll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday ift.tt/xc2OMNw
Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They'll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday - Slashdot

Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They'll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday - Slashdot

"We've now replenished 90% of the stolen assets, and we're committed to covering the remaining 10%," Binance co-CEO Richard Teng posted on X, adding that "Our users will not bear the financial impact...

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Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets ift.tt/Ij2BnNe
Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets - Slashdot

Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn't Arrive on Prehistoric Comets - Slashdot

CNN reports: The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific...

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Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens ift.tt/4sQJBbx
Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens - Slashdot

Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens - Slashdot

BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people...

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French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax ift.tt/mzHi6s9
French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax - Slashdot

French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax - Slashdot

Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom's Hardware: France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per...

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NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope ift.tt/wn3u1Ud
NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope - Slashdot

NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope - Slashdot

The Hubble Space Telescope "will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s," reports Ars Technica. So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) "asking commercial compan...

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Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America's Nuclear Plants Since 2024 ift.tt/ciKSkEx
Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America's Nuclear Plants Since 2024 - Slashdot

Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America's Nuclear Plants Since 2024 - Slashdot

Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering "the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street." Dozens of unexplained drones...

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Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract ift.tt/WEtw9Mp
Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract - Slashdot

Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract - Slashdot

Earlier The Drive reported a police chief "had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the...

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Google's AI Overviews Lowered Reddit's Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29% ift.tt/fVNMwvl
Google's AI Overviews Lowered Reddit's Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29% - Slashdot

Google's AI Overviews Lowered Reddit's Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29% - Slashdot

Reddit's stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024. Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also...

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Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' ift.tt/geAE1vN
Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' - Slashdot

Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' - Slashdot

Meta's smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey "are requesting that Meta provide more information before...

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Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers ift.tt/X2drq0j
Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers - Slashdot

Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers - Slashdot

Boom Supersonic's plans to launch its Overture passenger jet by 2029 are facing growing doubts as the company pivots toward manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers. Ars Technica...

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Google's First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry ift.tt/wji3DfX
Google's First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry - Slashdot

Google's First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry - Slashdot

Google's first experimental space-based data center is operational after launching earlier this month, successfully running its Gemma 4 AI model aboard a satellite and generating a haiku about being...

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Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code ift.tt/R2uyaXb
Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code - Slashdot

Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Gen Z can't catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper,...

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Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era ift.tt/W2E7urR
Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era - Slashdot

Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era - Slashdot

In an opinion piece for 404 Media, Matthew Gault argues that Apple has entered its "slop era," abandoning its reputation for innovative hardware in favor of recycled ideas and questionable design...

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Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial ift.tt/VsWAdFn
Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial - Slashdot

Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial - Slashdot

Meta has reached an undisclosed settlement in another social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding a trial scheduled for next month and leaving Snap as the sole remaining defendant. Engadget reports: The...

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Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM ift.tt/H4SnWR8
Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM - Slashdot

Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM - Slashdot

"Looks like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world as a way of propping up his business plan, now that debt-ridden AI companies are...

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Thousands of 'Ghost Students' Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says ift.tt/WJSlXf0
Thousands of 'Ghost Students' Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says - Slashdot

Thousands of 'Ghost Students' Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says - Slashdot

The Justice Department has charged five people in a crackdown on "ghost student" fraud, in which scammers allegedly use stolen identities and AI to enroll fake students in colleges, complete course...

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US Tech Stocks See Sharp Falls As AI Spending Nears $1 Trillion ift.tt/PRqSGuN
US Tech Stocks See Sharp Falls As AI Spending Nears $1 Trillion - Slashdot

US Tech Stocks See Sharp Falls As AI Spending Nears $1 Trillion - Slashdot

U.S. technology stocks plunged for a second consecutive day on Friday as investors grew increasingly concerned about the enormous cost of artificial intelligence development and whether those...

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GM Reaches $220 Million Settlement Over Selling Drivers' Private Data ift.tt/SBnfyYR
GM Reaches $220 Million Settlement Over Selling Drivers' Private Data - Slashdot

GM Reaches $220 Million Settlement Over Selling Drivers' Private Data - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: General Motors will pay $220 million to 36 states to settle allegations that it illegally sold private driving behavior and location information...

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