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Meta Platforms’ job cuts at its Reality Labs division this past week, where it let go about 10% of the unit, were the first of what could be another wave of layoffs at big tech companies this year. But that doesn’t mean big tech workforces are going to shrink much, if at all.
If history is any guide, future layoffs will only result in temporary reductions in the workforces of big tech companies before employee numbers start to grow again. That’s what has happened in the past couple of years, when Meta, Alp
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Elon Musk wants Tesla to iterate new AI accelerators faster than AMD and Nvidia. This can be done, but with caveats. Read more ›
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A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their cows, milk quality improved within days and feed costs dropped dramatically. Backed by years of MSU research, the crop is helping farmers replace expensive supplements with something they can grow themselves. Demand has surged, and many believe it could reshape the dairy industry. Read more ›
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Rockstar has helped a terminally ill fan play GTA 6 ahead of its November release date. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the first one introduced. The security patch was stopping some systems from shutting down or hibernating properly, and also preventing some users […] Read more ›
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Memory chip shortage set to spread well beyond the confines of datacenters and computers Read more ›
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Some of the most powerful people will be coming to Davos this week by private jet. But its closest airport is quieter due to airspace restrictions. Read more ›
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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Acer has filed three separate patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, taking the unusual step of hauling the nation's largest wireless carriers into federal court. The suits, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, claim the companies are using Acer-developed cellular networking technology without paying for the privilege. Acer says it tried to negotiate licenses for years but reached a dead end, arguing it... Read more ›
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The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE. Read more ›
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Linux can now handle Adobe Creative Cloud-era installers thanks to a series of patches built by PhialsBasement, an open-source developer who has fixed longstanding HTML and JavaScript rendering issues, alongside XML parsing errors in Wine. This enables Photoshop 2021 and even 2025 to run on the platform "butter smooth." Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism: China has unveiled an extremely powerful "hypergravity machine" that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth's regular gravity. The futuristic-looking machine, called CHIEF1900, was constructed at China's Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) at Zheijang University in Eastern China, and allows researchers to study how extreme forces affect various materials, plants, cells, Read more ›
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Institutions are increasingly betting on bitcoin's bullish moves and moving away from sophisticated 'arbitrage' bets. Read more ›
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A modder in China has come up with an ingenious solution to combine all three consoles into one device that shares as much with modern tech as it does with ancient tradition. Read more ›
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I was sometimes worried about my kids' safety as an urban mom, but Chicago gave my children access to parks, museums, and learning opportunities. Read more ›
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After selling my longtime home at nearly 70, I paid off debt, traveled the world, and rediscovered confidence and creativity. Read more ›
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A computer historian has documented the moment a 1974 kit computer successfully ran its first ever program – in 2016. Altair 8800 kit needed a new PSU. Read more ›
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The average fund invested in China in 2025 made close to 18%, according to Hedge Fund Research. Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he's headed to Davos this week to "draw a clear line between democratic capitalism and crony capitalism." Read more ›
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Energy abundance, open-source models and manufacturing strengths will push Beijing into first place Read more ›
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Many Android OEMs are copy and pasting Apple's flat edges and curved corners, and that's just lazy. Read more ›
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A new VHS Combo TV is on its way for folks who want to ‘Binge-watch like it’s 1999.’ 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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In November, a young robotics startup called Gradient began interviewing applicants for an engineering internship at the Palo Alto, Calif.–based company. But after talking to a half-dozen of them, the startup decided to ditch its plan to add interns. Why exactly? “Not worth our time,” said J.X. Mo, 23, Gradient’s co-founder. While some of the applicants had seemed promising, “none of them would be cracked enough for us to hire... Read more ›
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Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. “WE HAVE A PROBLEM,” it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that allow trucking companies to monitor drivers and send alerts about crashes and other safety issues. In August, the dashcams recorded a string of collisions, but customers never received the alerts. Read more ›
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OpenAI is Microsoft’s most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoft’s cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAI’s archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropic’s top customers and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500 million a year for Anthropic AI to power Microsoft products, according to a person with direct knowledge. At the same... Read more ›
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One month before Google paid $4.8 billion for Intersect Power, the tech giant had a message for federal energy regulators: They should fast-track approvals for data centers that supply some of their own power. Intersect does just that, producing power for data centers to allow them to operate without relying entirely on the grid. Google’s purchase of Intersect is the first step by a major tech company to acquire a... Read more ›
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Last November, during one of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s five visits to Taiwan last year, he and CC Wei, CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., met with reporters. Wei told the assembled media that Huang had come to ask for more chips, to which Huang, standing next to him, replied: “Yes!” Huang wasn’t the only U.S. tech executive making such requests. In recent months, Broadcom, which places manufacturing orders with... Read more ›
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday announced a record capital expenditure between $52 billion and $56 billion for 2026, as it tries to ease the capacity constraint on its production facilities. About 70% to 80% of the spending will go to manufacturing equipment for ... Read more ›
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BitGo, a crypto custody firm, said Monday it’s launching its initial public offering, seeking to raise as much as $201 million at a valuation of up to $1.96 billion. The company began pitching the shares to investors today, meaning they will likely start trading within the next two weeks. BitGo ... Read more ›
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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeek’s founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... Read more ›
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The revenue picture for AI startups is brightening, a bit. In just seven months, annualized revenue at “AI native” companies selling AI models or apps has doubled, from $15 billion to more than $30 billion, according to an analysis of 32 companies from The Information’s Generative AI Database.One problem: OpenAI and Anthropic make up nearly 85% of that revenue, while the top 10 companies by revenue—OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Cognition, ElevenLabs,... Read more ›
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