Amazon just pulled off one of the quieter strategic pivots in tech, rebranding its Project Kuiper satellite network to simply "Leo" while simultaneously scrubbing all mentions of affordability from its messaging. The move signals a clear shift from serving...
The Buzz■The Verge launches comprehensive dad gift guide featuring 30 products across all price ranges■Guide includes tech essentials like Apple AirPods Pro 3 ($249) and practical items like cast iron skillets ($18)■Features emerging tech like AI-powered Brisk It smoker...
As winter heating bills surge across America, a growing number of homeowners are mining bitcoin to keep warm. The concept turns cryptocurrency's notorious energy consumption into a dual-purpose solution - generating digital currency while heating homes through mining rig...
Google just rolled out scheduled actions for Gemini, bringing the AI assistant up to speed with OpenAI's ChatGPT in the automation game. Both platforms now let paid subscribers set up recurring tasks - from daily weather reports to weekly...
It's been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And "The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python's familiar lead," writes TechRepublic. "C...
A new "cold war" between America and China is "pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models," reports the Wall Street Journal, "including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of...
An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath:
Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios' Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players,...
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog's machine at an unreasonable rate.
I followed the...
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led to
charges of lying to federal authorities.
And now a former Air Force intelligence officer "has pleaded guilty to lying...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you're waiting for the cable guy, and they said 'between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show...
