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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a stable lunar landing without crashing. The craft is carrying various NASA-funded experiments, including a "vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet (3 meters) below the surface," reports the Associated Press. There's also "a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust -- a scourge for NASA's long-ago Apollo moonwalkers, who got it.
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Elon Musk is wielding a chainsaw at DOGE. Management experts call it 'comically clumsy.' Read more ›
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Sales of the electric truck, which had a torturous production ramp and launched at a higher price tag than expected, have been underwhelming. Read more ›
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Lenovo hasn’t even released its futuristic laptop with a rollable screen, but it’s rejigged all those parts into a whole new thing for MWC in Barcelona. Officially called the ThinkBook codename Flip AI PC Proof of concept (no typos), the laptop uses the same flexible OLED in its rollable, revealed earlier. However, instead of disappearing inside its chassis, the display folds outwards. This allows what is normally a 13-inch panel... Read more ›
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Turkish Airlines and Emirates are among the carriers that have continued operating flights to Russia since the Ukraine invasion three years ago. Read more ›
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific discovery using the observatory. Read more ›
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Several lawmakers are bringing federal workers fired by the Trump administration to the president's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Read more ›
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Alta is building AI sales agents that handle prospecting, outreach, and scheduling. It raised $7 million from investors using this pitch deck. Read more ›
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Your 2024 tax bill and your first estimated quarterly tax payment of 2025 are both due on April 15. Read more ›
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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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Dolly Parton met Carl Dean outside a laundromat on the day she moved to Nashville in 1964. Two years later, they tied the knot. Read more ›
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Russia said it hired 440,000 soldiers in 2024, exceeding its annual goal. Ukraine warned that it expects Moscow's success to continue into 2025. Read more ›
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After a monthlong delay, President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Read more ›
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China's new agriculture-focused tariffs on US imports shows Beijing isn't in a hurry to reach a deal on the trade war. 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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Vilnius-based myTU, an AI-powered and cloud-first digital bank, has secured a €10 million Series A, surpassing its initial €9 million target in an oversubscribed round – valuing the company at over €35 million. The round was completed by existing shareholders increasing their stakes and two new strategic investors, both long-term business partners of myTU. myTU ... Read more ›
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Nothing officially announced its mid-range duo, the Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro. The two devices share many similarities and are based on the same platform, but as the name implies, the Pro version adds a couple of extra features, better cameras and a different design. Nothing Phone (3a) Pro Starting with the Phone (3a) Pro, the handset is built around a 6.77-inch OLED panel protected by Panda Glass.... Read more ›
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Monster Hunter Wilds has sold over 8m units in just three days, setting a new record for Capcom as its fastest selling game. Read more Read more ›
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Apple’s iPhone 16e earned a respectable repairability score in iFixit’s latest report. Read more ›
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We plonked our butts on these electric and nonelectric toilet seats to see which cleaned best. 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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It's a feature-length film "rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender," reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow "the manifestation of Blender's mission, where a small, independent team with a limited budget is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide, and achieve recognition with over... 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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