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US Congressman Ro Khanna has responded to Activision Blizzard's AI use in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, highlighting the need for AI regulations in the United States of America. Read more
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In the latest headache-inducing update, there are now dubious figures surrounding this ultra-dubious phone. Read more ›
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Motive Technologies, a seller of AI-powered dashcams to trucking companies, is delaying the marketing of its initial public offering, which was supposed to begin on Monday, three people close to the company said. It could delay its roadshow another week, two of the people said. They didn’t describe the exact reasons, but one person called it a “technical issue” rather than a case of Motive pulling the offering for good.... Read more ›
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Our neighbors to the north are slashing tariffs on Chinese EVs as tensions with the U.S. continue to rise. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from the Washington Times: Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff [back to 6.1%] on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports... Read more ›
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The final stage of launch preparations officially kicks off tomorrow. Read more ›
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Hunter's new 'Star Trek' captain is taking the Riker maneuver to a whole new level of chair-clambering. Read more ›
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California's Attorney General sent a cease-and-desist letter to xAI to prevent Grok from continuing to create sexualized deepfake images of children. Read more ›
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X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seemed to... Read more ›
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OpenAI says that it won't serve ads based on sensitive topics like mental health or politics. Read more ›
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Here come another influx of refugees to competing sites like Threads and Bluesky. Read more ›
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A new study from Cornell and University of Toronto researchers has found that polyester microfibers shed from synthetic clothing during laundry can interfere with cherry tomato plant development [non-paywalled source] when these particles accumulate in agricultural soil. Plants grown in contaminated soil were 11% less likely to emerge, grew smaller and took several days longer to flower and ripen. Household laundry is a leading source of this contamination. Treated sewage... Read more ›
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Canada has agreed to drastically reduce its tariffs on imported Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1 percent as part of a new deal between the two countries. In return, China will be reducing tariffs on Canadian canola seeds from 84 percent to about 15 percent. The move is a break from the United States, which maintains a 100 percent tariff on EVs from China, effectively banning them in the... Read more ›
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This little power station can keep your stuff topped up, plus you can save some cash on solar panels. Read more ›
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“I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk. He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but he's still an idiot.” Read more ›
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As frustrating as it is that governments and businesses are running roughshod over our online freedoms, at least we have plenty of good VPNs to choose from to keep us protected online. There are so many fast, intelligently designed, full-featured and affordable services on the market that the biggest problem is picking one. For any use case, you can bet at least two providers will be neck-and-neck for first place.On... Read more ›
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Netflix made streaming movies at home a big part of its pitch. Now, as it tries to buy Warner Bros. and its giant movie business, things are changing. Read more ›
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Jenny Xiao, who founded Leonis Capital in 2021, said AI needs more investors who understand frontier AI technology. Read more ›
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When Cyberpunk 2077 was sort of relaunched with its 2.0 update and the Phantom Liberty expansion, female V took over as the face of the game. More than two years later, and with the RPG still selling well and attracting new players, that hasn't changed. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon has released the first official image of Sophie Turner as Lara Croft, ahead of the release of its Tomb Raider T.V series. Read more Read more ›
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It's gone. In case you didn't know, the servers for BioWare's multiplayer game Anthem have been switched off, rendering this online game no longer playable. For all intents and purposes, Anthem no longer exists. Read more Read more ›
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BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on. Read more Read more ›
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Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is still trucking along, and with an ambitious 2026 roadmap to boot, while development on the third game continues. More shocking, though, is the apparent tease that The Division 1 is making a return for its 10th anniversary. Read more Read more ›
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What would the great Russian novel look like as a video game? If Dostoyevsky or Gogol had lived to dabble in Unity, what would be the result? The answer might well be Pathologic 3; or, to be more precise, the series of Pathologic games, since their daunting individual thematic and narrative complexity is in part a consequence of how they stand in relation to one another. Read more Read more ›
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Polish digital game-shop GOG has built a business out of restoring classic games - those built for a different era of computers that have been rendered no longer playable. It has been finding a way to bring old classics back since it began operating 17 years ago. But in that time things have changed. New games released during that period became modern classics in their own right and found their... Read more ›
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As X/Twitter owner Elon Musk moves Grok's widely condemned AI image manipulation feature to paid-only and users flood the "town square" with thousands of sexualised images, Epic Games boss said that senators calling for the removal of X from the Apple and Google stores are trying to "censor all of their political opponents". Read more Read more ›
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EA has stressed to its community that "the values of The Sims are unchanged" as we head into 2026. Read more Read more ›
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