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Waymo is rolling out robotaxi rides that use freeways across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix for the first time -- "a critical expansion for the company that it says will reduce ride times by up to 50%," reports TechCrunch. From the report: That stat could help attract a whole new group of users who need to travel between the many towns and suburbs within the greater San Francisco Bay Area or quicken commutes across the sprawling Los Angeles and Phoenix metro areas. Using freeways is also essential.
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Congress voted to reopen the government, setting up an end to the longest government shutdown in US history. Read more ›
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It's Valve time. The Bellevue-based firm is making three hardware announcements today, including a new Steam Machine mini PC that it claims is more than six times as powerful as the Steam Deck, a revised Steam Controller with more mainstream appeal, and the Steam Frame, a new standalone VR headset that marks the debut of SteamOS on ARM mobile chips. All three are due to arrive in early 2026. Read... Read more ›
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Valve has made a trio of hardware announcements today, including a standalone VR headset with unique tech for streaming games called Frame, a revised and more mainstream Steam Controller, and even a revival of the old Steam Machine concept: a tiny gaming PC that brings your Steam game library to your living room. Read more Read more ›
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The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. Read more ›
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The longest shutdown in US history ended Wednesday, but it could take time for airports, benefit programs, and federal workers' finances to recover. Read more ›
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Preliminary data on this year’s carbon emissions reinforces the fact that we need to act as fast as possible to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Read more ›
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The White House DOGE was right: the penny has been a drain on the economy and should have been phased out long ago. Read more ›
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Google will allow 'experienced users' to install Android apps made by unverified developers. Read more ›
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Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve's original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine. I flew to Valve's headquarters to try the company's new PC-based game console, alongside a brand-new Steam Controller and the new Steam […] Read more ›
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'Conan the Conqueror (Berzerker)' was created in 1967 for a Robert E. Howard paperback cover and is now revered as a masterpiece of fantasy art. Read more ›
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Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday. "The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film 'Rocky,' before it suddenly lost its balance and fell," reports the BBC. "Assistants could then be seen scrambling to cover it with a cloth -- which ended up tangling in the process." Developers of Aldol blamed poor... Read more ›
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Treasury Secretary Bessent's comments came after President Donald Trump said he would lower some tariffs. Read more ›
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Eric Sim, 55, says building up one's competencies, appeal, trustworthiness, and social capital will help one to secure a job. Read more ›
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The government minted the final one-cent coin in Philadelphia, though billions remain in circulation. Read more ›
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The new $40 Starlink plan is a great deal. But first, it has to be available where you live. Read more ›
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The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted. Read more ›
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It's not a "GameCube" per se, but Valve's Steam Machine will bring your Steam library to your living room. Read more ›
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Duffy said he was concerned about the "dedication" and "patriotism" of controllers who stopped working before missing their pay. Read more ›
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FFmpeg, the open source multimedia framework that powers video processing in Google Chrome, Firefox, YouTube and other major platforms, has called on Google to either fund the project or stop burdening its volunteer maintainers with security vulnerabilities found by the company's AI tools. The maintainers patched a bug that Google's AI agent discovered in code for decoding a 1995 video game but described the finding as "CVE slop." The confrontation... Read more ›
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The FBI has subpoenaed popular Canadian domain registrar Tucows, demanding information about the owner of archive[dot]today, a popular archiving site used to bypass paywalls and avoid sending traffic to original publishers. The subpoena states it relates to a federal criminal investigation but provides no details about the alleged crime. Archive.today posted the document on X the same day. The site, also known as archive.is and archive.ph, started in the early... Read more ›
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"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being recoverable." Long-time Slashdot reader bobdevine says the tape will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum. More from The Register: The... Read more ›
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A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That's when he... Read more ›
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A former Business Analyst reportedly filed a class action lawsuit claiming that for years, hundreds of remote employees at Bank of America first had to boot up complex computer systems before their paid work began, reports Human Resources Director magazine: Tava Martin, who worked both remotely and at the company's Jacksonville facility, says the financial institution required her and fellow hourly workers to log into multiple security systems, download spreadsheets,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services,... Read more ›
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New submitter benramsey writes: The PHP Foundation has launched a search for its next executive director. The Executive Director serves as the operational leader of the PHP Foundation, defining its strategic vision and translating it into reality while managing day-to-day operations and serving as the primary bridge between the Board, staff, community, and sponsors. While the programming language PHP is over 30 years old, the PHP Foundation was only created... Read more ›
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In a recent article published in the New York Times, author Casey Michael Henry argues that today's tech industry keeps borrowing dystopian sci-fi aesthetics and ideas -- often the parts that were meant as warnings -- and repackages them as exciting products without recognizing that they were originally cautionary tales to avoid. "The tech industry is delivering on some of the futuristic notions of late-20th-century science fiction," writes Henry. "Yet... Read more ›
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AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and up to $200,000... Read more ›
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Apple has launched the iPhone Pocket, a knitted bag designed to hold iPhones. The limited edition collaboration with Japanese designer Issey Miyake costs $229.95 for the crossbody version. A shorter version is priced at $149.95. Apple said the 3D-knitted design was inspired by "a piece of cloth" and was born from the idea of creating an additional pocket for any iPhone and small everyday items. Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design director at... Read more ›
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