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An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has a long history of being criticized for coming up with clunky product names, and for changing them so often it's hard for customers to keep up. The company's own employees once joked in a viral video that the iPod would have been called the "Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 XP Human Ear Professional Edition with Subscription" had it been created by Microsoft. The latest gripe among some employees and customers: The company's tendency to slap "Copilot" on everything.
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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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It sounds like only Trump voters would be eligible for Hawley's theoretical rebate. Read more ›
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Since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic Party has been in a panic over how it can win back more voters. Ideas have so far included Democratic officials going on podcasts, finding their own Joe Rogan, and growing facial hair. But when it comes to actual issues Democratic voters […] Read more ›
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A third of student-loan borrowers from for-profit colleges are behind on payments. Trump's Education Department is issuing a warning. Read more ›
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Ukraine has new mobile complexes to keep its F-16s moving while Russia hunts them. That sort of dispersal is something the West is looking at, too. Read more ›
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Google says that password autofills can soon be protected with your biometrics in Chrome for Android Read more ›
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Xbox Game Pass made Microsoft almost $5bn in annual revenue last year, proving the company is in a healthy state despite last month's shock layoffs. Read more Read more ›
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Developers are growing increasingly frustrated with AI coding tools that produce deceptively flawed solutions, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey of over 49,000 programmers worldwide. The 2025 survey exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and satisfaction: while 84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, their trust has cratered. Only 33% trust AI accuracy today, down from 43% last year. The core problem isn't broken code... Read more ›
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Here's a step-by-step guide to using the Heroic Game Launcher to play your Epic Games Store library on a Steam Deck. Read more ›
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The flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam hit trouble over Wyoming and diverted to Minneapolis so injured passengers could be treated. Read more ›
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Last year, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24 FE in September and released it in October, but the timeline will be different for its successor. Samsung has now confirmed that the Galaxy S25 FE will launch earlier in the year than its predecessor did. Unfortunately, the company hasn't given us a specific date or even a launch month to think of. Samsung Galaxy S24 FE So we have to assume that... Read more ›
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Opendoor, Kohl's, and Wendy's are among the new crop of meme stocks, giving their bosses a chance to turn good vibes into cash. Read more ›
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To find out more about the relationship between caffeine and dehydration, I reached out to experts. Read more ›
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Honor is expected to launch its Magic V Flip 2 soon, and a new rumor from China suggests it will launch in August. As per the tip, Honor will redesign the external display with its dual cameras now housed in identically sized cutouts. For reference, last year’s Magic V Flip sported vertically aligned camera cutouts with the primary 50MP sensor housed inside a larger cutout than the 12MP ultrawide lens.... Read more ›
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Amid the deadlock on the front lines, Ukraine's elite soldiers are finding other ways to cause problems for Russia. Read more ›
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I heard concerns from some Costco workers that the early shopping hours would be difficult, but so far, the idea seems to be working well. Read more ›
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Phoenix Grace grew up thinking more space meant more happiness, but living in 2,900 square feet stressed her out. She downsized and is finally happy. Read more ›
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A cyber-espionage campaign exploiting vulnerable Microsoft server software has escalated to deploying ransomware against victims, Microsoft said, marking a significant shift from typical state-backed data theft operations to attacks designed to paralyze networks until payment is made. The campaign by a group Microsoft calls "Storm-2603" has compromised at least 400 organizations, according to Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm Eye Security, quadrupling from 100 victims cataloged over the weekend. The Nati 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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A Chinese inventor with no medical training is charging cancer patients $20,000 to inject highly concentrated chlorine dioxide -- a toxic bleach solution -- directly into their tumors, and is working with a former pharmaceutical executive to bring the unproven treatment to the United States, Wired reports. Xuewu Liu uses injections containing 20,000 parts per million of chlorine dioxide, significantly higher than the 3,000 ppm concentrations typically found in oral... 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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