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BrianFagioli writes: Google has quietly retired the ZetaSQL name and rebranded its open source SQL analysis and parsing project as GoogleSQL. This is not a technical change but a naming cleanup meant to align the open source code with the SQL dialect already used across Google products like BigQuery and Spanner. Internally, Google has long called the dialect GoogleSQL, even while the open source project lived under a different name.
By unifying everything under GoogleSQL, Google says it wants to reduce co
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Join the global sugarcane community in Delhi to shape the future of sustainable agriculture. Bonsucro Global Week 2026, the flagship event for sustainability in the sugarcane sector, will take place in Delhi, India, from Monday 9th – Friday 13th March 2026. This premier global event convenes sugarcane producers, civil society, brands, and stakeholders from across the supply […] Read more ›
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"I really didn't think I could lose weight anymore, being in midlife and perimenopause and all those things," Melissa Joan Hart said. Read more ›
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The Musk-Altman case will go to trial in April, after a California judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to keep it from being thrown out. Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 series is rumored to launch on February 25, though Samsung has yet to officially confirm the date. That said, the company has begun teasing the upcoming lineup, releasing three videos that highlight camera improvements. Samsung is teasing enhanced zoom and low-light video capabilities on the Galaxy S26 series. In the first teaser video, a user is shown zooming in on a dog sitting inside a car,... Read more ›
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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was launched into the middle of a congressional culture war on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company's attempt to buy a large part of Warner Bros Discovery. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee highlighted an array of traditional merger concerns on both sides of […] Read more ›
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Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027, AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed during the semiconductor company’s latest earnings call. Valve is on track to start shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year, she said, while Microsoft’s development of an Xbox with a semi-custom SOC from AMD is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027.” While it doesn’t necessarily mean Microsoft is releasing a new... Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones. Read more ›
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"I had to leave my marriage," Melinda Gates told NPR after being asked about the newly released emails. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration’s attempt to end deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants is on hold — for now. What’s happening? Late on Monday, […] Read more ›
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In a WSJ editorial this week, CDC principal deputy director Ralph Abraham tried to push back against criticism. Read more ›
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Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE's surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs. Read more ›
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Netflix's "Bridgerton" Season 4 Part 2 trailer teases a bathtub scene between Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha). Read more ›
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David Marcus said on X that PayPal was repeating leadership mistakes that had cost the company its edge. Read more ›
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Peter Attia has stepped down from a role at a wellness brand after his emails with Jeffrey Epstein were made public. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Dan Goodin: Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based security firm... Read more ›
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Mike Swanson: What if your car worked like so many apps? You're driving somewhere important...maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: "How are you enjoying your drive so far?" Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you dismiss the prompt and merge back into traffic. A minute later it does it... Read more ›
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The Daily Beast: "Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following 'sex with Russian girls,' and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release." The New York Times. (Alternate URL) "A representative of the Gates Foundation said, 'These claims — from a proven, disgruntled liar — are absolutely absurd and completely false.... Read more ›
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Scientists at the University of Utah have analyzed nearly a century's worth of human hair samples and found that lead concentrations dropped 100-fold after the EPA began cracking down on leaded gasoline and other lead-based products in the 1970s. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drew on hair collected from Utah residents -- some preserved in family scrapbooks going back generations. Lead levels peaked... Read more ›
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October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, "The world's largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000..." Bloomberg reports, "dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak..." "What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into something more corrosive: a selloff shaped not by panic, but by absence of buyers, momentum and belief." Unlike the October drawdown, there's been no obvious spark, cascading liquidations or systemic shock —... Read more ›
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sinij writes: Automakers have increasingly implemented door handles that retract into the bodywork for aerodynamic reasons, but they are now off limits in China. My issue is with electronic-only door latch mechanism. It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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"Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day..." writes Ars Technica. "However, 8K never proved its necessity or practicality." LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or OLED panels, FlatpanelsHD reported today... LG Electronics was the first and only company to sell 8K OLED TVs, starting with the 88-inch Z9 in 2019. In 2022, it lowered the... Read more ›
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Apple's long-standing dominance over its electronics supply chain is eroding as AI companies outbid the iPhone maker for critical components like chips, memory and specialized glass fiber, giving suppliers the leverage to demand that Apple pay more. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged the pressure during a Thursday earnings call, noting constraints in chip supplies and significant increases in memory prices. Nvidia has overtaken Apple as TSMC's largest customer, CEO Jensen Huang... Read more ›
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Apple's call-screening feature, introduced in iOS 26 last year, was designed to combat the more than 2 billion robocalls placed to Americans every month, but as WSJ is reporting, it is now creating friction for the rich and powerful who find themselves subjected to automated interrogation when dialing from unrecognized numbers. The feature uses an automated voice to ask unknown callers for their names and reasons for calling, transcribes the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: A former Google engineer has been found guilty on multiple federal charges for stealing the tech giant's trade secrets on artificial intelligence to benefit Chinese companies he secretly worked for, federal prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, a jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven... Read more ›
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