The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now
SpaceX is significantly reducing Falcon 9 launches from Florida this year, ending the Space Coast's decade-long run as…
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Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts
President Trump awarded the four-member Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive…
Read at source →Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?
alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried…
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Join siguimi.com →New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update
Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m.…
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States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state…
Read at source →OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over a hundred tech companies -- including OpenAI, Anthropic,…
Read at source →Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts
Australia's official music charts will no longer accept songs that are largely or entirely AI-generated, requiring…
Read at source →Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%
Apple is raising Apple TV's U.S. price to $14.99 per month, up from $12.99, while the annual plan jumps from $99 to…
Read at source →Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke…
Read at source →Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ditched their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal, ending a deal…
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Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling
Roblox is restricting games that reward younger players for endlessly consuming autoplaying media feeds. The new…
Read at source →US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly considering…
Read at source →Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats
Google is adding an "Expert Intelligence" feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users…
Read at source →Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities
Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source),…
Read at source →Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing?
An anonymous reader quotes a report fro SFGATE: From "rizz" to "meat proxy," words and phrases have fallen in and out…
Read at source →AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps as the AI data center boom contributes to a broader memory…
Read at source →OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent
Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new "Persistent mode" for Codex that would let the agent keep working until…
Read at source →Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or "Throw Away the Key Encryption," that rotates video…
Read at source →Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing…
Read at source →Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment
Longtime Slashdot reader dhartshorn writes: Foreign-produced "bulk power" equipment is now effectively banned, and the…
Read at source →Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers
Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import…
Read at source →Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9…
Read at source →Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive…
Read at source →How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart
Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an "AI native" restructuring plan…
Read at source →More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through…
Read at source →Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight…
Read at source →Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial…
Read at source →OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, "offering the…
Read at source →China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing…
Read at source →Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands…
Read at source →Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the…
Read at source →Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, bringing the team behind the popular open-source DuckDB database into AWS. "The…
Read at source →Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most…
Read at source →Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms
Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, which is due at the end of September. Phoronix…
Read at source →Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy
China has imposed new restrictions on AI companion services over concerns they can foster "emotional dependence or…
Read at source →Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after…
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