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Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: The American Business Software Alliance (BSA) does not consider mandatory open-source licensing to be an appropriate indicator of sovereignty. This is among the "pointed messages" they sent to the French government consultation (closed) today. "What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a company files its corporate papers," said Thomas Boue of BSA. "Criteria of this kind raise costs, reduce access to best-in-class securi
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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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Expansion is Vancouver-based company’s first dedicated US office, and tenth globally. Read more ›
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Foreign companies will no longer need to create Chinese joint ventures to sell in China, under this region-specific pilot. Read more ›
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OpenAI has announced more robust security features for the small set of users who might need them. Read more ›
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Samsung US has partnered with PayPal to offer a $150 discount on the Galaxy S26 Ultra – this applies to the 12GB/256GB, 12GB/512GB and 16GB/1TB models. And it’s not the only promotional perk either. First things first – you can get the $150 discount by using the code PayPal150 at checkout. An important condition is that you have to pay for the phone with PayPal. The offer is valid until... Read more ›
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Mati Greenspan, Michael Saylor and Jameson Lopp blamed the AI boom for draining capital from bitcoin. Meanwhile, Jack Mallers refrained from sharing an outlook but recommended buying the dip. Read more ›
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Статья рассматривает кризис на рынке ИТ-труда, характеризующийся диктатом работодателей, урезанием бюджетов и автоматизацией HR-процессов. Также анализируется влияние массового притока начинающих специалистов на отбор квалифицированных кадров.Период гиперроста и дефицита кадров в ИТ-индустрии, сопровождавшийся агрессивным перекупками специалистов и перманентным увеличением ФОТ, сменился фазой жесткой рыночной коррекции. К середине 2026 года на ИТ-рынке труда окончательно сформировался выраженный тренд на до Read more ›
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This week, health officials reported the first known case of Borrelia mayonii in New York. Read more ›
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Meta is reportedly developing a new facial recognition feature for its smart glasses, including Ray-Ban and Oakley models. According to code discovered within the Meta AI application, the functionality is internally referred to as “NameTag.” Although currently inactive, analysis indicates the feature has been under development since January 2026. This discovery contrasts with official statements from Meta, in which the company maintained that no consumer features had been deployed, no... Read more ›
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Ten-year deal will see TD use Deep Sky’s carbon credits to offset residual emissions. Read more ›
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Wear it, hold it, or keep it on your desk — this stylish portable fan will keep you cool anywhere your summer takes you. Read more ›
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Milly Alcock stars, with a cameo from David Corenswet, in the DC Studios film arriving June 26. Read more ›
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PC system vulnerabilities are seemingly more common than we thought, as a researcher finds a major issue in a popular speaker that can hack a user's PC. Read more ›
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The UK's Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tender notice published in February 2025, the contract covers around 17 percent of payments made... Read more ›
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Think your TV-cleaning routine is harmless? We explain how a few common habits could be shortening your screen's lifespan without you realizing it. Read more ›
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Wix is laying off roughly 20% of its workforce, about 1,000 employees, as CEO Avishai Abrahami cites both the rapid evolution of AI and currency pressure from a stronger Israeli shekel against the dollar. The web developer joins a growing list of tech companies making similar cuts, including Amazon, Block, Cisco, Cloudflare, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Intuit. Fast Company reports: "We have witnessed the most significant shift in how companies... Read more ›
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Dell's stock skyrocketed 32.76% on Friday, "its best day ever," reports CNBC, after Dell "reported its fastest pace for revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018..." "Shares are now up 234% in 2026." Dell, which reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, saw a flood of artificial intelligence-related demand for its servers, which contain graphics processing units from companies like Nvidia. Quarterly revenue... Read more ›
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```Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 brings word that Marcia Lucas, part of the editing team for both Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, has died at age 80 after a battle with metastatic cancer. Married to George Lucas from 1969 to 1983, Marcia is remembered by The Wrap as "a powerful asset in the early days of the Star Wars series, helping shape its voice and identity long before it... Read more ›
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Apple is reportedly working to shrink Google's Gemini models enough to power parts of a long-delayed AI-enhanced Siri on iPhones. But despite Apple's best efforts to run the AI locally, "the iPhone's Gemini makeover will lean heavily on Google and Nvidia in the cloud," reports Ars Technica. That could complicate Apple's privacy-first AI messaging, especially if more complex Siri requests are routed through Google infrastructure and Nvidia's encrypted cloud-computing platform.... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is planning to provide Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to nuclear startups that want to convert it into reactor fuel, arguing it could help address a looming fuel shortage for advanced reactors. Critics warn the idea raises serious nonproliferation, security, cost, and technical concerns. The New York Times reports: The plan has generated debate and some unease among nonproliferation experts. If finalized, it would mark... Read more ›
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Security company Okta shot up 30% Friday, reported CNBC, while data platform provider Snowflake jumped 50% this week. They see it as part of a larger trend where software stocks "soared this week," signaling "some companies are navigating their way through AI disruption better than Wall Street expected" and that investors "may have been too quick to declare the end of software with the emergence of AI. Even as AI... Read more ›
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A research team found "extensive changes" on brain scans of 13 young women taking GLP-1 drugs, reports the Washington Post: Within only a few months, the brain connections in the salience network, which helps target attention, had multiplied... ["We didn't expect to see this effect, and we really don't know what it means," said an assistant professor assisting the research.] Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a... Read more ›
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After Google announced AI-emphasizing changes to its search results, many web surfers began defecting to DuckDuckGo, reports TechCrunch. (They describe DuckDuckGo as "a privacy-focused alternative" that accounts for around 2% of the U.S. search market...) DuckDuckGo said U.S. app installs went up 18.1% week-over-week on average during the May 20 to May 25 period, compared to May 13 to May 18. The company said that growth was sustained for six... Read more ›
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Researchers have identified a ring of minerals around the largest basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars (which past research suggests held a large body of water). Phys.org says the research provides new clues on when life may have been possible on Mars — and how future astronauts could make oxygen: Manganese oxides and hydroxides (collectively written as manganese (hydr)oxides) can act as geological proxies for past oceans... The team... Read more ›
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"A security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products," reports TechCrunch, "along with code to exploit them." Microsoft's response to the researcher? "Threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them." On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle "Nightmare Eclipse," for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products... Read more ›
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