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Britain is moving toward major nuclear power commitments after years of delays, as government officials acknowledge they can no longer postpone critical energy infrastructure decisions. The U.K. Treasury has exhausted options for delaying nuclear power choices, Politico reported this week, citing sources within Whitehall and the nuclear industry.
The urgency stems from Britain's aging nuclear infrastructure, where five power plants currently supply 15% of the country's total energy needs but face shutdown
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Tesla's registrations in the West Coast state fell more than 20% in the second quarter compared to the previous year, according to new data. Read more ›
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Stephen Colbert's latest "Late Show" monologue was all about Trump and Epstein. Read more ›
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Almost every aspect of using the Google Home speakers and app is frustrating, but I keep coming back to it. Read more ›
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You have eight days to decide what to do with student loans enrolled in SAVE, before they begin accruing interest. Read more ›
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Here's how much Amazon pays key roles like data scientists and financial analysts amid AI-driven workforce changes. Read more ›
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Kyiv said the French fighter, one of six in its air force, was performing a flight mission but was not shot down by Russian fire. Read more ›
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Proton launches a new AI assistant called Lumo that puts the emphasis firmly on the security and privacy of your sensitive information. Read more ›
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Three very important tariff-related stories loom over the US economy this month. The first is that, after a few weeks of relative quiet, President Donald Trump is once again threatening to raise tariffs on a whole raft of other nations. According to the New York Times, “Trump has threatened 25 trading partners with punishing levies […] Read more ›
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This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts. Read more ›
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Meta is adding some of its teen safety features to Instagram accounts featuring children, even if they're ran by adults. While children under 13 years of age aren't allowed to sign up on the social media app, Meta allows adults like parents and managers to run accounts for children and post videos and photos of them. The company says that these accounts are "overwhelmingly used in benign ways," but they're... Read more ›
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A marathon runner with persistent pain visited a Lisbon longevity clinic for affordable body scans. She saved $500 compared to New York City prices. Read more ›
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For years, crypto firms complained about being “debanked” in the US. Under the Trump administration, a group of fintechs is rolling out the red carpet. Read more ›
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Even though it has some compromises, I still love the Cherry XTRFY K5V2 keyboard. Read more ›
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Amazon is closing its artificial intelligence lab in Shanghai due to rising U.S.-China tensions, according to the Financial Times. Wang Minjie, a scientist at the lab, said on the WeChat social networking app that the team was “being dissolved due to strategic adjustments amid US-China tensions” ... Read more ›
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The Starlink Mini satellite dish is now even better thanks to the $119 LinkPower 1 power bank from PeakDo. The battery locks securely to the back of SpaceX's smallest terminal and provides over 4.5 hours of uninterrupted Internet connectivity. The LinkPower's battery can also charge simultaneously over USB-C from your car, solar generator, or solar […] Read more ›
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Drop the donut. This nifty trick for making fluffy poached eggs in the microwave is all you need to hit your morning protein goal. Read more ›
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Samsung might finally leave behind 45W charging behind for good for its Galaxy S Ultra flagships. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages -- including from chat apps such as Signal -- images, location histories, audio recordings, contacts, and more. In a report shared exclusively with TechCrunch, mobile cybersecurity company Lookout detailed the hacking tool called Massistant, which the company said... Read more ›
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ABC News reports that Ukrainian drones struck Moscow last night — over 100 of them — closing all four of Moscow's international airports and diverting at least 134 planes. And Ukrainian commanders estimate that drones now account for 70% of all Russian deaths and injuries, according to the BBC — which means attacks on the front line are filmed, logged, and counted. "And now put to use too, as the... Read more ›
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Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and even disabling the doors in the facility. "Or, as described by the hacking collective (per Google translate), they 'deeply penetrated' the drone manufacturer 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization and denazification,'" reports The Register. From the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP -- a Northamptonshire transport company -- is just one of tens of thousands of UK businesses that have been hit by such attacks. Big names such as M&S, Co-op and Harrods have all been... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader bobdevine shares a report from OSTechNix: For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It's a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community. While many might think of Linux as a niche choice, this new data shows a significant shift is happening. According to the latest StatCounter Global Stats for June 2025, Linux... Read more ›
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Hackers are hiding malware inside DNS records, allowing malicious code to bypass security defenses that typically monitor web and email traffic. DomainTools researchers discovered the technique being used to host Joke Screenmate malware, with binary files converted to hexadecimal format and broken into chunks stored in TXT records across subdomains of whitetreecollective[.]com. Attackers retrieve the chunks through DNS requests and reassemble them into executable malware. The method exploits a blind... Read more ›
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San Francisco-based startup Orchid Health "screens embryos for thousands of potential future illnesses," reports the Washington Post, calling it "the first company to say it can sequence an embryo's entire genome of 3 billion base pairs." It uses as few as five cells from an embryo to test for more than 1,200 of these uncommon single-gene-derived, or monogenic, conditions. The company also applies custom-built algorithms to produce what are known... Read more ›
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Felix Baumgartner has died. He was 56. In 2012 Slashdot extensively covered the skydiver's "leap from the edge of space." ABC News remembers it as a Red Bull-financed stunt that involved "diving 24 miles from the edge of space, in a plummet that reached a speed of more than 500 mph." Baumgartner recalled the legendary jump in the documentary, "Space Jump," and said, "I was the first human being outside... Read more ›
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Cancer death rates in the U.S. have fallen by approximately one-third since the 1990s when adjusted for age, according to data cited in a new analysis of global cancer trends. The decline represents a steady, year-over-year reduction that began in the early 1990s and continues across developed countries. Prevention efforts have contributed substantially to the decline. Reduced smoking rates in wealthy nations prevented more than 3 million cancer deaths since... Read more ›
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Twitter co-founder/Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn't just vibe coding new apps like Bitchat and Sun Day. He's also "invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could ultimately transform the social media landscape," reports TechCrunch," funding the projects through an online collective formed in May called "andOtherStuff: [T]he team at "andOtherStuff" is determined not to build a company but is instead operating... Read more ›
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