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A software engineer discovered that his newly purchased Bosch 500 series dishwasher locks basic functionality behind cloud connectivity, reigniting concerns about internet-dependent home appliances. Jeff Geerling found that features like rinse cycle, delayed start and eco mode on his $1,000 dishwasher require connecting to WiFi and creating an account with "Home Connect," Bosch's cloud service.
Geerling criticized the approach as potentially part of planned obsolescence, noting that without a current subs
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he predicts a "swift shift" back to DEI in hiring practices, critiquing companies for abandoning it. Read more ›
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Meta on Thursday announced a new friends-only tab, which Mark Zuckerberg called "phase one of bringing back OG Facebook." Read more ›
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Elon Musk said in an interview that his White House role has been "disadvantageous" for his companies, pointing to recent attacks against Tesla. Read more ›
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Supporters of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are organizing an answer to widespread "Tesla Takedown" protests planned for this weekend. Read more ›
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John Moore delivered mail for the post office for 31 years before retiring. He now delivers flowers part-time and has avoided using his savings. Read more ›
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After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings. Read more ›
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Hollywood writers, producers, and talent reps tell Business Insider they feel a chill on liberal themes in programming. Read more ›
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. Read more ›
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AMC A-list is just one of many movie theater subscriptions fans are using to save money while seeing as many films as possible. Read more ›
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All nine of the Supreme Court justices are lawyers. All of them have friends and law school classmates in private practice. All of them sit at the apex of a legal system that depends on lawyers to brief judges on the matters those judges must decide. Many of them were themselves litigators at large law […] Read more ›
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At Legalweek, the legal industry's annual gathering of thousands of lawyers, artificial intelligence took the stand for a closer examination. Read more ›
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The best, most exciting action movies on Netflix, including "Mad Max: Fury Road," "Kraven the Hunter," "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," "Beverly Hills Cop," "The Union," and "Dune: Part Two." Read more ›
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The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married, WIRED has learned. Read more ›
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A divorced boomer started buying homes in the 1980s. She only regrets not keeping past properties to use as rentals and pass down to her daughter. Read more ›
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Elon Musk announced in a post on X that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, had acquired the social media platform in an all-stock deal. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has purchased X, according to a post shared by Musk. Besides their similar names and owner, the companies are already connected through xAI's chatbot Grok, which is integrated into X. X was acquired by xAI through an all-stock transaction. "The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)," Musk writes. "xAI and X’s futures are intertwined." The companies... Read more ›
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The Anker Nebula Capsule 3 is on sale for $379.99 at Amazon, marking a 24% discount on its $500 list price. Read more ›
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Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase used a quantum computer from Honeywell's Quantinuum to generate and mathematically certify truly random numbers -- an advancement that could significantly enhance encryption, security, and financial applications. The breakthrough was validated with help from U.S. national laboratories and has been published in the journal Nature. From a report: Between May 2023 and May 2024, cryptographers at JPMorgan wrote an algorithm for a quantum computer to generate random numbers,... Read more ›
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Infinite Reality, a 3D technology company, has acquired Napster for $207 million, the companies announced Tuesday. The deal aims to transform the once-notorious music sharing service into a metaverse platform. Napster, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, was the first major peer-to-peer file-sharing application before legal battles forced its closure in 2001. Since 2016, it has operated as a subscription streaming service. Infinite Reality plans to create... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid. Last week, a person named 'rose87168' claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes companies will eventually need fewer software engineers as AI continues to transform programming. "Each software engineer will just do much, much more for a while. And then at some point, yeah, maybe we do need less software engineers," Altman told Stratechery. AI now handles over 50% of code authorship in many companies, Altman estimated, a significant shift that's happened rapidly as large language models have... Read more ›
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Reuters reported this week that several U.S. national security agencies "have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks..." The plan was led by the president's National Security Council (NSC) and involved at least seven national security agencies working with European allies to disrupt plots targeting Europe and the United States, seven former officials who participated in the working groups told Reuters... [S]ince Trump took... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader Required Snark shared this article from Phys.org: In the realm of science fiction, [sun-energy capturing] Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against gravitational forces and would thus be torn apart. Now a scientist from Scotland, UK has shown that certain configurations of these objects near a two-mass system can be stable against such fractures...... Read more ›
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Was the cutting of undersea cables part of a larger pattern? Russia and its proxies are accused by western officials of "staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago," reports the Associated Press. That includes cyberattacks and committing acts of sabotage/vandalism/arson, as well as spreading propaganda and even plotting killings, according to the article. ("Western intelligence agencies uncovered what they said... Read more ›
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The president of Signal defended the messaging app's security on Wednesday after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen's Houthis. For a report: Signal's Meredith Whittaker did not directly address the blunder, which Democratic lawmakers have said was a breach of U.S. national security. But she described the app as the "gold standard in private... Read more ›
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Fortune reports that over 4 million Gen Zers are currently not in education, employment, or training (NEET), with experts blaming a broken educational system and "worthless degrees" for failing to deliver on promises of career readiness. From the report: While some Gen Zers may fall into this category because they are taking care of a family member, many have become frozen out of the increasingly tough job market where white-collar... Read more ›
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Computer maker Dell's staff numbers have fallen by 25,000 in the last two years. In its latest 10-K filing, published on Tuesday, the company said that it had about 108,000 global employees as of January 31, 2025. In February 2024, that number was 120,000, marking a 10% annual reduction in the workforce. From a report: Looking back two years, Dell's head count stood at 133,000, meaning that since February 2023,... Read more ›
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