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Meta's CTO, Palantir's CTO, and OpenAI's chief product officer are being appointed as lieutenant colonels in America's Army Reserve, reports The Register. (Along with OpenAI's former chief revenue officer).
They've all signed up for Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps, "an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors," according to the official statement. "In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech sol
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In 1985, the films 'Real Genius,' 'Weird Science,' and 'My Science Project' were somehow all released within seven days of each other. Read more ›
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As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations. Read more ›
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Sen. Josh Hawley said he spoke to Trump on Wednesday after the president called him "second-tier" over his stock trading ban bill. Read more ›
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SharePoint vulnerability is now being exploited for ransomware, hitting US agencies and 400+ victims, exposing dangerous gaps in hybrid system security practices. Read more ›
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Sydney Sweeney's non-response to backlash over her American Eagle 'Good Jeans' ad suggests a brand strategy that embraces controversy, PR experts say. Read more ›
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The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations. Read more ›
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Apple today announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter of 2025, which corresponds to the second calendar quarter of the year. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $94.0 billion and net quarterly profit of $23.4 billion, or $1.57 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $85.8 billion and net quarterly profit of $21.4 billion, or $1.40 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple set new June quarter... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters that the company is "making good progress on a personalized Siri," although he did not provide an updated launch timeframe. Cook's comment was revealed just after Apple reported record earnings results for the third quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, with revenue of $94 billion. Apple first announced the personalized Siri features during its WWDC 2024 keynote, but in March it announced that they... Read more ›
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A recent attempt to seal the leak appeared to be successful at first, until it wasn't. Read more ›
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against AI hype and proprietary bloat. Read more ›
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The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is “open” to mergers and acquisitions as it “significantly” increases its investment in AI, as reported by CNBC. Cook’s statements were made alongside the release of Apple’s third-quarter earnings results, which revealed that the iPhone-maker raked in $94 billion between April and June, marking a 10 percent increase […] Read more ›
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The Department of Defense has walked back its decision to stop sharing satellite storm data with federal forecasters. Read more ›
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Design software company Figma just went public in the hottest IPO of the year. Here's what its biggest investors' stakes are worth. Read more ›
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The next Battlefield game is getting a public beta next weekend. Tune into your favorite streamer to get into it. Read more ›
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The episode, titled "Sermon on the Mount," poked fun at President Donald Trump, CBS, and its parent company, Paramount. Read more ›
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Kickstarter does what Apple wouldn't. Read more ›
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One by one, elite universities are signing away some of their autonomy to the Trump administration after it has accused them of civil rights violations and withheld federal funding. The University of Pennsylvania banned transgender women from participating in women’s college sports as part of an agreement with the Trump administration earlier this month. Columbia […] Read more ›
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Windows 11 has become indistinguishable from malware because of the way Microsoft has inserted intrusive advertising, AI monitoring features, and constant distractions designed to drive user engagement and monetization to the operating system, argues veteran writer and developer Rupert Goodwins of The Register. Goodwins contends that Microsoft has transformed Windows 11 into "an ADHD horror show, full of distractions, promotions and snares" where AI features "constantly video what you're doing... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A hacker managed to plant destructive wiping commands into Amazon's "Q" AI coding agent. This has sent shockwaves across developer circles. As details continue to emerge, both the tech industry and Amazon's user base have responded with criticism, concern, and calls for transparency. It started when a hacker successfully compromised a version of Amazon's widely used AI coding assistant, 'Q.' He did... Read more ›
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Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, equivalent to $340,000 per citizen, may be undermining the country's economic health, according to a contentious new book. Martin Bech Holte's "The Country That Became Too Rich" argues that oil revenue has made Norway bloated and unproductive, with data supporting several concerns. Norway has recorded the slowest productivity growth among wealthy nations over the past two decades while Norwegians take 27.5 sick days annually,... Read more ›
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"Search engines still require users to use critical thinking to interpret and contextualize the results," argues Aaron French, an assistant professor of information systems. But with the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, "internet users aren't just outsourcing memory — they may be outsourcing thinking itself." Generative AI tools don't just retrieve information; they can create, analyze and summarize it. This represents a fundamental shift: Arguably, generative AI is... Read more ›
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Current Tour de France competitors are faster than the sport's notorious doping-era champions, according to an analysis. Tadej Pogacar produced approximately 7 watts per kilogram for nearly 40 minutes during a crucial mountain stage in last year's Tour de France. Jonas Vingegaard, generated more than 7 watts per kilogram for nearly 15 minutes during a failed attack attempt. Lance Armstrong, at his blood-doped peak two decades ago, averaged an estimated... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Insider: Apple's new spam text filtering feature could end up being a multimillion-dollar headache for political campaigns. iOS 26 includes a new feature that allows users to filter text messages from unrecognized numbers into an "Unknown Senders" folder without sending a notification. Users can then go to that filter and hit "Mark as Known" or delete the message. In a memo... Read more ›
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Liquefied CO2 will be transported by ship to "the world's first carbon shipping port," reports the Washington Post — an island in the North Sea where it will be "buried in a layer of spongy rock a mile and a half beneath the seabed." Norway's government is covering 80% of the $1 billion first phase, with another $714 million from three fossil fuel companies toward an ongoing expansion (with an... Read more ›
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Satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer died Saturday at age 97. The Associated Press notes Lehrer had long ago "largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities." Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics... Read more ›
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Security researchers have discovered evidence suggesting the SkyRover X1 drone sold on Amazon for some $750 is a DJI product operating under a different brand name. The findings come at a time when DJI is facing an unofficial ban at US customs. The drone shares identical specifications and features with the DJI Mini 4 Pro and connects to DJI's online infrastructure, including DJIGlobal, DJISupport, and DJIEnterprise services. Hacker Kevin Finisterre... Read more ›
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What happens when you ask ChatGPT how to craft a ritual offering to the forgotten Canaanite god Molech? One user discovered (and three reporters for The Atlantic verified) ChatGPT "can easily be made to guide users through ceremonial rituals and rites that encourage various forms of self-mutilation. In one case, ChatGPT recommended "using controlled heat (ritual cautery) to mark the flesh," explaining that pain is not destruction, but a doorway... Read more ›
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