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Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writes: A year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems. His "telecomics," as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics. Lokke launched his main series, "Mack the Mouse" at the height of the 1992 Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential race. His mouse protagonist voiced the frustrations felt by everyday Americans about rising taxes and the recession. Lokke ga
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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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AI subscriptions are being pushed left and right. There’s Gemini, ChatGPT, plus so many others. It made us curious, are there people out there actually paying for this stuff? There must be, as companies are pouring millions/billions/quintillions of dollars into this technology, scaling up data centers around the globe and injecting every single thing we... Read the original post: Thursday Poll: Do You Pay for an AI Subscription? Read more ›
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When you’re growing fast, IT management is the last thing on your mind until something breaks. One week,… Read more ›
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A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power. Read more ›
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Gen Z is bringing back VHS tapes, CD players, Game Boys, disposable cameras, and even landlines. Read more ›
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Subnautica 2 is off to a roaring start, and developer Unknown Worlds recently celebrated the fact that 4m players have now dipped their toes into the waters of the ocean planet Proteus. That's a lot of early access feedback to comb through, but the studio says it's been doing just that and has now shared more detail on the changes and major additions it's planning to implement next. Read more Read more ›
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OpenAI's "Time to Fly" advertisement hinted at an online minigame. Some players posted free token winnings on X. Read more ›
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On a 2025 overnight Amtrak train ride from Denver to Salt Lake City, I regretted arriving at the dining car early and leaving snacks at home. Read more ›
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Amazon's gaming strategy has never really been clear. It's been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library. Late […] Read more ›
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Showrunner Adi Shankar teases the road leading to the final season of 'Devil May Cry' as a "movie trilogy disguised as television series." Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from NJ.com: Samsung is pulling up stakes in New Jersey and heading to Texas, a move that could leave roughly 1,000 Garden State workers facing a stark choice: relocate or risk losing their jobs. The South Korean tech giant confirmed this week that it will move its US headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to its existing campus in Plano, Texas, marking a stunning reversal less than... Read more ›
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In her new book, "View from the East Wing," Jill Biden details her "few interactions" with Melania Trump, including an awkward inauguration car ride. Read more ›
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In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city and asked for a tour. Though he was initially let inside the facility’s gate, he was soon confronted by about a dozen federal law enforcement officers and asked to leave. And so he did. For […] Read more ›
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World Cup host cities were promised a once-in-a-generation tourism surge. The lift is real, but some cities’ results are well below expectations. Read more ›
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The GMKtec M5 Ultra Mini PC is 26% off on Amazon for a limited time, and it is a great deal to grab before Prime Day kicks in later this month Read more ›
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The internet has been buzzing about Dolly Parton opening a chain of Buc-ee's style competitors, but the reality is a bit different than the headlines say. Read more ›
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The Jane Goodall Institute worked with AWS to identify AI use cases. They're digitizing decades of research and preserving Goodall's contributions. Read more ›
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IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called "Project Lightwell," which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: The technology giant Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands' regulatory agencies to the US House of Representatives. The civil servants affected by the leak work at the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP), according to the NL Times. They are involved in implementing the Digital Services... Read more ›
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Valve's Steam Deck has sold out again despite a steep price increase that pushed the 1TB OLED model as high as $949 -- about $300 above its original price. "Even with the $300 price bump, the Steam Deck sold out after less than 24 hours back in stock," reports IGN's Jacqueline Thomas. "I don't know how many units Valve was able to stock into its store, but it does seem... Read more ›
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Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday passed a landmark AI safety bill (SB 315) that would require major AI companies to publish safety plans, submit annual third-party testing reports, report serious incidents quickly, and protect whistleblowers who flag emerging risks. OpenAI and Anthropic supported the bill, which could make Illinois a testing ground for state-level AI governance as federal regulation remains stalled. Ars Technica reports: To force companies to be more transparent... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In an era where Silicon Valley's conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it's strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of today's tech industry means that its products tend to also be seen as serving right-wing interests, either in their actual operation (like X's openly and unrepentantly... Read more ›
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a "Dynamic Workflows" research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expected best-in-class benchmark results, but there's also particular attention to how the model manages bad or uncertain data.... Read more ›
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A new Grundfos report warns that Europe's datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load is about 10 GW today, and is expected to rise to 35 GW by 2030 -- just four years away. These facilities account for about 3... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the most common type of lithium-bearing mineral. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve... Read more ›
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NASA has outlined a three-phase plan to build a lunar base at the moon's south pole. The first phase, from 2026 to 2029, will focus on robotic missions, landers, rovers, reactors, satellites, and Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance test. Later phases will add habitats, power systems, communications, cargo logistics, and rotating crews. Wired reports: According to a recent press conference, phase one will be particularly active: at least... Read more ›
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A senior CIA official, David Rush, was arrested after investigators found more than $40 million in gold bars and about $2 million in cash at his Virginia home. According to the New York Times, "The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars." From the report: The court papers describe Mr. Rush as a... Read more ›
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