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OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its generative-AI video creation platform it launched in December 2024. "The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year," reports the Wall Street Journal.
CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the Sora Team said in a post on X. "To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built comm
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The moment it hit me was absurdly small. I was on a video call with my parents. They live in Australia, I live in Saigon. I was telling them about a business milestone, something I’d genuinely worked hard for, and I noticed I was watching their faces the way I used to watch them at ... Read more Read more ›
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A jury in New Mexico has found Meta liable for violating the state's consumer protection laws in a high-profile civil trial over child exploitation and other safety issues. One day after closing arguments in the weeks-long trial concluded, the jury ruled against Meta on every count and ordered the company to pay $375 million. The case was brought by New Mexico's attorney general in 2023 and centered around allegations that... Read more ›
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WWDC 2026 is shaping up to be Apple's quietest keynote in years, and potentially its most consequential. Here's everything we expect on June 8. Read more ›
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Apple is testing an “Ask Siri” feature that lets you interact with the assistant across apps, turning it into a more conversational, context-aware tool that works directly with what is on your screen. Read more ›
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Apple today released watchOS 5.3.10 and watchOS 8.8.2 for older Apple Watch models that are not able to run the current watchOS 26 update. watchOS 5.3.10 is available for the Apple Watch Series 1, Series 2, Series 3, and Series 4, while watchOS 8.8.2 is available for the Apple Watch Series 3, Series 4, Series 5, Series 6, Series 7, and original Apple Watch SE. According to Apple's release notes,... Read more ›
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Avoiding the worst of these common bad habits before they become major issues can help to protect your car. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms must pay $375 million in civil penalties for violating New Mexico consumer protection laws, a jury in Santa Fe ruled on Tuesday. Meta vowed to appeal the ruling in the trial, which started early last month. The case was based on a lawsuit that New Mexico Attorney General Raúl ... Read more ›
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OpenAI's video model and social media platform were too beautiful for this world. Read more ›
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Arm has announced its AGI CPU, an up-to 136-core data center processor that the company designed in-house and will sell as finished silicon. Read more ›
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OpenAI unexpectedly announced the shuttering of Sora, and the company may have lost a huge partner. Read more ›
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The Apple TV is a terrific streaming device, but it can get glitchy now and then. Here's a guide to some of the most common Apple TV issues and how to fix them. Read more ›
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A jury in New Mexico found Meta liable for failing to protect kids from sexual exploitation across its social media platforms. Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, March 24, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight investor appetite for AI infrastructure, smart mobility, and precision therapies. As capital concentrates around systems that automate physical environments, treat chronic ... Read more ›
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During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk. Read more ›
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A support agent's computer was infected with malware, giving a hacker 24 hours of play time inside Crunchyroll's network. Read more ›
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Arizona has filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling business. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. The case could ultimately head to the Supreme Court to decide whether federal oversight by... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media, written by Jason Koebler: Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have attempted to predict how artificial intelligence is going to impact the labor market. These studies, including a high-profile paper published by Anthropic earlier this month, largely try to take the things AI is good at, or could be good at, and match them to existing job... Read more ›
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Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin Space-1 system for powering AI workloads in orbital data centers. "Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived," said CEO Jensen Huang. "As we deploy satellite constellations and explore deeper into space, intelligence must live wherever data is generated." CNBC reports: In a press release, the company said that its Vera Rubin Space-1 Module, which includes the IGX Thor and Jetson Orin, will be used on... Read more ›
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil -- with a bit of help from human poop. The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show potatoes can indeed grow in the equivalent of Moon dust, though they need a lot of help from compost found... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple's App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi's lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi's lawyers for "mak[ing] up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi's... Read more ›
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ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, yearslong concerns about Microsoft's GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it anyway because the product was already deeply embedded across government. As one member of the team put it: "The package is a pile of shit." From the report: In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech... Read more ›
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Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year's Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related technologies. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated slop overwhelmed his team. A new article on HackerNoon argues that most commercial SaaS could inevitably become OpenSource, not out of ideology but economics. The author points to... Read more ›
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Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the app will be taken off the Quest store at the end of March, and fully removed from Quest headsets by June 15. After that date, it will shift to a standalone "mobile-only experience." CNBC reports: The shift for Horizon Worlds, which was once a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI-generated content to protect consumers from disinformation and deepfakes, the government said on Wednesday, as it outlined other areas of focus to tackle the evolving global challenge. Technology minister Liz Kendall stressed the need to strike the right balance between protecting the creative industries and allowing the AI sector to innovate, saying in a statement... Read more ›
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