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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour. In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing the cars suddenly malfunction and stop operating. Photos and videos shared online show the Baidu cars
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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OpenAI’s new $4 billion deployment company gives travel brands a clearer path to adopting AI at scale — and starts with the team behind Virgin Atlantic’s AI concierge. Read more ›
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American gas usually ranges from the high 80s to the mid 90s in octane rating, and yet gas in Europe can be 4-6 octane higher. Why the discrepancy? Read more ›
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Chinese scientists developed a non-toxic water battery capable of surviving 120,000 cycles using corrosion-resistant organic polymer structures. Read more ›
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It’s Monday, May 11, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds show investors doubling down on the infrastructure race powering AI, defense, robotics, healthcare, and next-generation computing. From military drone platforms and AI ... Read more ›
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Apple rolled out iOS 26.5 on May 11. Here's what's new and how to upgrade your iPhone. Read more ›
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TikTok is launched an ad-free service is in the UK, but would you pay £3.99 for it? Read more ›
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When Google first launched the Pixel 10a, they started a new trade-in program that was almost identical to the program Samsung runs, which we happen to never stop praising. We’re talking about an instant trade-in discount when you go to buy a phone, giving you a cheaper price today without the need to wait for... Read the original post: Google Store’s Awesome Instant Trade-in Discounts Slap $580 Off Pixel 10... Read more ›
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Audemars Piguet and Swatch partner for Royal Pop, a watch collection that's sparking excitement and debate among collectors and enthusiasts. Read more ›
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OpenAI is working with some big names to start a new company focused on advising businesses on how to build and deploy AI. Read more ›
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There's just one state in the U.S. that still allows texting while driving in 2026, though some cities and counties within it have enacted local bans. Read more ›
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The X-Men, Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four spearhead a new horror-tinged world for Marvel Comics. Read more ›
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Warner Bros. is developing a new Westworld movie with Jurassic Park writer David Koepp penning the script. Read more ›
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Billionaire media mogul Byron Allen is to buy control of BuzzFeed for $120 million, rescuing the struggling digital media firm from likely extinction. The company announced the deal while reporting a 12.4% drop in first quarter revenue and a slightly increased net loss. As part of the deal, ... Read more ›
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Carolyn Rudolph paid $102K for a facelift at 71. She wished she could've afforded it a decade earlier. A downside is that it affected her friendships. Read more ›
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Display Week 2026 was held in Los Angeles last week – it was an opportunity for the world’s largest display makers to showcase their most advanced technologies. TCL CSOT’s presentation focused on eXtended Reality (XR) applications. The first is a tiny 0.28” display – small enough to be embedded in lightweight smart glasses. However, this tiny display is a single-chip full-color Si-Micro LED panel with the highest pixel density in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A new, bipartisan bill introduced (PDF) by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world -- including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft -- would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in "AI literacy," something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools. The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT AI... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic's powerful Mythos model and its cyber capabilities, with officials weighing whether the government should get early access to frontier models without necessarily blocking their release. The New York Times reports: In meetings last week, White House officials told executives from Anthropic,... Read more ›
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman's testimony dominated the fifth day of the trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against the AI company. Brockman took the witness stand on Monday, disclosing that his stake in OpenAI is worth nearly $30 billion, despite not personally investing money in OpenAI. The judge also declined to admit a pretrial text in which Musk allegedly warned Brockman that he and Altman would become "the most hated men... Read more ›
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"The Associated Press is reporting on a new study in Nature Astronomy suggesting that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From the report: Just 300 miles (500 kilometers) or so across, this mini Pluto is thought to be the solar system's smallest object yet with a clearly detected... Read more ›
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A new Nature Climate Change study suggests airborne microplastics -- especially darker and colored particles -- are likely contributing to atmospheric warming by absorbing more heat than they reflect. Researchers estimate the effect could be roughly one-sixth that of black carbon, though outside experts say the uncertainties remain large and more study is needed before drawing firm policy conclusions. "We can say with confidence that overall they are warming agents,"... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Andrew Cunningham: As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues to be its primary author and maintainer, and it has been a Windows-exclusive app throughout its existence (older... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: On April 15, 2026, a Microsoft employee made a change to Visual Studio Code and pushed it within 8 hours without review, notification, or documentation. The change added "Co-authored-by: Copilot" by default to the end of commit messages in Git when Copilot was used in creating the code. However, the implementation was bugged, and the message was added to every commit regardless if Copilot was... Read more ›
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The Academy has clarified that only human-performed acting and human-authored writing are eligible for Oscar nominations. The Oscars will not ban AI tools broadly, but says it will judge films based on the degree to which humans remain central to the creative work. The BBC reports: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [...], which controls the US film industry's most prestigious award, on Friday issued updated rules for... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A severe security vulnerability affecting almost every version of the Linux operating system has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code that allows attackers to take complete control of vulnerable systems. The U.S. government says the bug, dubbed "CopyFail," is now being exploited in the wild, meaning it's being actively used in malicious hacking campaigns.... Read more ›
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A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK's Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The Register reports: The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as... Read more ›
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