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Sen. Mark Kelly and three Democratic colleagues urged appropriations leaders to block funding for moving space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to Houston, arguing the transfer would waste taxpayer money, risk permanent damage, and restrict public access. The relocation, pushed by Texas senators Cornyn and Cruz under a new law, carries an estimated cost of nearly $400 million. Ars Technica reports: "Why should hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars be spent just to je
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Deloitte blamed economic headwinds and geopolitical tensions for its first decline in UK revenue since the financial crisis. Read more ›
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Leaving the nest feels different as an only child. Now, I'm getting to see who my parents are without me — and I'm so proud. Read more ›
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Reporter Marisa Kabas, founder of The Handbasket, posted on Bluesky today that more than 1.7 million subscribers canceled their paid Disney streaming plans between September 17 and September 23. The total allegedly includes subscriptions to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. That falloff reportedly marked a 436 percent increase over the usual churn rate for the service. We’ve reached out to Disney+ for comment on this claim. Disney also chose to increase... Read more ›
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In total, YouTube will pay $24.5 million to settle the suit brought by President Donald Trump. Read more ›
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Ukraine's navy said the modified anti-ship weapon struck the Elektrodetal plant in Karachev at a range of 150 miles. Read more ›
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Your Pixel Watch could soon warn you about high blood pressure, just like the Apple Watch. Read more ›
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The latest MX Master 4 is like the popular MX Master 3, but with haptics. It's still a really great productivity mouse. Read more ›
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Qovery, a French SaaS platform that automates DevOps and makes application deployment effortless on any cloud, has raised €11.3 million in Series A funding to accelerate expansion in the region, scale its team and advance its AI-driven product innovation. The round was led by IRIS, with participation from Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, Irregular Expressions, ... Read more ›
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Store managers at closing Starbucks locations could receive up to 26 weeks of severance as the chain shutters about 1% of its corporate-owned US stores. Read more ›
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New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding another layer of strangeness to this mysterious lunar region. Read more ›
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Trump said on Monday that Zohran Mamdani "won't be getting any" federal funding to fulfill his campaign promises if elected mayor. Read more ›
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Logitech updates its MX Master 4 flagship mouse with haptic feedback and a quick, customizable Action Ring shortcut circle. Read more ›
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"The competitive reality is that the Chinese are the 700-pound gorilla in the EV industry," Ford CEO Jim Farley said. Read more ›
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Amsterdam’s GreenShift, a cloud computing company, has secured funding to support its platform and growth. Investors express support for the team and the company’s focus on efficiency and performance. Amsterdam-based GreenShift, an AI technology company focused on sustainable cloud computing, has raised €2.35M in a Convertible Loan Agreement (CLA) round. The investment was led by ... Read more Read more ›
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MrBeast runs his media operations in Greenville, North Carolina, and has a trial period for some new hires to test living in the college town. Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based HyET Solaris, a company specialised in ultra-lightweight solar foils, has secured €60M in growth capital from UK investors Aequitas Carbon Ltd and Abbeydale Partners LLP. Aequitas Carbon is a UK-based investment firm focused on breakthrough energy and materials technologies that support the global energy transition. Maarten Scholten, Operating Partner at Aequitas Carbon Ltd, comments, ... Read more Read more ›
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Meta has rolled out Vibes, an endless feed of AI-generated videos within its Meta AI app and meta.ai website. Users can create short-form synthetic videos from scratch or remix existing AI content from the feed, adding music and adjusting styles before redistributing the artificial output to Instagram, Facebook Stories and Reels. The feed promises to become "more personalized over time" as it learns user preferences for machine-generated content. Meta positioned... Read more ›
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Six months ago California had 48% more public and "shared" private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports — and announced this week that there's now 68% more EV charger ports than the number of gasoline nozzles statewide. "Thanks to the state's ever-expanding charger network, 94% of... Read more ›
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U.S. tech workers must sacrifice work-life balance to compete with China's workforce, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned. Speaking on the All-In podcast, Schmidt said China's tech sector operates on "996" schedules -- 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week -- despite the practice being outlawed in 2021. He criticized remote work as particularly harmful for young employees who miss learning opportunities from in-person office interactions. âoeIf... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced kids to stay home, educators flocked to VMware, and thousands of school districts adopted virtualization. The technology became a solution for distance learning during the pandemic and after, when events such as bad weather and illness can prevent children from physically attending school. However, the VMware being sold to K-12 schools today differs from the VMware... Read more ›
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After the nonprofit Ruby Central removed all RubyGems' maintainers from its GitHub repository, André Arko — who helped build Bundler — wrote a new blog post on Thursday "detailing Bundler's relationship with Ruby Central," according to this update from The New Stack. "In the last few weeks, Ruby Central has suddenly asserted that they alone own Bundler," he wrote. "That simply isn't true. In order to defend the reputation of... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader whoever57 writes: Birmingham City Council, the largest such entity in Europe, has been declared effectively bankrupt. There are a couple of reasons for this, but one of them is a disastrous project to replace the city's income management system using Oracle. The cost of this has risen to $230 million, while the initial estimate was $24 million. There was a failed rollout of the new system earlier... Read more ›
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Neon Mobile, now the No. 2 social networking app in Apple's U.S. App Store, pays users up to $30 per day to record their phone calls and sell the data to AI companies. The app claims to only capture one side of a call unless both parties use Neon, but its terms grant sweeping rights over recordings. TechCrunch reports: The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a money-making tool offering... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from ICO Bench: As of September 1, 2025, banks across Vietnam are closing accounts deemed inactive or non-compliant with new biometric rules. Authorities estimate that more than 86 million accounts out of roughly 200 million are at risk if users fail to update their identity verification. The State Bank of Vietnam has also introduced stricter thresholds for transactions: - Facial authentication is mandatory... Read more ›
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United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket launched 27 more Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon from Cape Canaveral, bringing the constellation's total to 129 in orbit. By the end of the year, Amazon expects over 200 satellites will be deployed, with commercial service starting in several countries by early 2026. Spaceflight Now reports: This is the third batch of production satellites launched by ULA and the fifth overall for the growing... Read more ›
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"Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin," reports the Guardian, "in the second nationwide vote on the issue." In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding pollsters who had forecast stronger support for the "yes" vote. Turnout was 49.55%, higher than expected... [V]oters rejected an earlier version of the e-ID in 2021, largely over... Read more ›
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