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Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises [non-paywalled link]. A new report titled "Foundations" identifies the root cause -- "it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere" in the UK.
Housing exemplifies this malaise. Since the 1990s, homeownership among young British workers has halved while housing prices doubled. The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act effectively nationalized development rights, re
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When Melania Trump visited the US Capitol Monday to discuss the "Take It Down Act," she wore a tan three-piece suit and matching heels. Read more ›
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 848 points after the comments and the S&P 500 was down more than 2%. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump, alongside with TSMC CEO CC Wei, just announced in the White House that the company is investing $100 billion to expand its Arizona facility. Read more ›
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It's the latest warning from the Trump administration that it wants Big Tech left alone. Read more ›
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The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs. Read more ›
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Apple released iOS 18.4 beta 2 today, and it has even more new features than the first beta of iOS 18.4. There are updated emoji characters, a new app, and a bunch of other, smaller additions. New Emoji There are new emoji characters in iOS 18.4, including bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter. Prioritize Notifications In beta 1, Apple added a Prioritize Notifications feature.... Read more ›
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Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone. Read more ›
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Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends. Read more ›
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The Disney+ series would have continued Tiana's magical adventures in New Orleans. Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. – the world’s biggest chipmaker – will invest at least $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in the US. During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said the funding would go toward building two additional chip manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The $100 billion investment builds upon the $65 […] Read more ›
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"Over time, they are a tax on goods. I mean, the Tooth Fairy doesn't pay 'em!" Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett told CBS. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he’d include select cryptocurrency tokens in a “U.S. Crypto Reserve” — but what that actually means, and whether it will actually happen, is just about as clear as mud. In a TruthSocial post, Trump said he’d directed his advisers to “move forward” on creating a “Crypto Strategic Reserve,” and […] Read more ›
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Russia's seemingly fearsome T-14 Armata is impressive on paper, yet years later, the beastly battle tank has failed to live up to expectations. Read more ›
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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface. Read more ›
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After Friday's Oval Office clash with Trump and Vance, Zelenskyy said he's still "ready to sign" a deal with the US over Ukraine's mineral deposits. Read more ›
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Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python." It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real... Read more ›
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company's Gemini AI products to be in the office "at least every weekday" [non-paywalled source] and suggested "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times. The directive comes as Brin warned that "competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot," referring to artificial... Read more ›
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Inception, a Palo Alto-based AI company founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel diffusion-based large language model (DLM) that significantly outperforms traditional LLMs in speed and efficiency. "Inception's model offers the capabilities of traditional LLMs, including code generation and question-answering, but with significantly faster performance and reduced computing costs, according to the company," reports TechCrunch. From the report: Ermon hypothesized generating Read more ›
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North Korean hackers have executed the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, draining $1.5 billion from Dubai-based exchange Bybit by compromising its multisignature cold wallet system. The attackers stole over 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins without exploiting code vulnerabilities or infrastructure. Security researchers from Elliptic identified North Korean signatures in the subsequent laundering operations, consistent with the nation's ongoing cryptocurrency theft operations that fund its. Read more ›
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you're not really buying an ebook or video game. From a report: Wyden's letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to "ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed decisions and understand what ownership rights they are obtaining." Wyden wants the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same name to generate up to twenty-second-long cinematic... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up to occupy different roles; one acting as a receptionist of a hotel, another acting on... Read more ›
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Citigroup credited a client's account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank's attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues. Financial Times: The erroneous internal transfer, which occurred last April and has not been previously reported, was missed by both a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was approved to... Read more ›
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Amazon has introduced its first-ever quantum processor, dubbed Ocelot, designed specifically to reduce quantum error correction costs by up to 90% compared to existing approaches. The prototype chip uses "cat qubits" -- named after Schrodinger's cat thought experiment -- which intrinsically suppress certain types of quantum errors. Unlike conventional approaches that add error correction after designing the architecture, AWS built Ocelot with quantum error correction as the primary requirement. The... Read more ›
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A Disney employee's download of an AI image generation tool from GitHub led to a massive data breach in July 2024, exposing over 44 million internal Slack messages. The software contained infostealer malware that compromised Matthew Van Andel's computer [non-paywalled source] for five months, giving hackers access to his 1Password manager. The attackers used the stolen credentials to access Disney's corporate systems, publishing sensitive information including customer data, employee passport... Read more ›
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