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The US Conference of Mayors, which speaks for the administrations of more than 1,400 cities with a population of at least 30,000 people, adopted a resolution over the weekend at its annual meeting that voiced an objection to HR 3557, a draft law known as the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2023. From a report: The bill, which was introduced by House Rep Earl Carter (R-GA) last May and is awaiting further consideration by Congress, is ostensibly designed to make it easier for telcos to build infrastruct
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While people who own and sell cryptocurrency have always had to pay taxes on their earnings, a new rule finalized by the US Treasury Department can ensure that they're paying the proper amount on their sales. The new rule will require cryptocurrency platforms like exchanges and payment processors to report their users' transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. According to The Wall Street Journal, authorities are hoping that the measure... Read more ›
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Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists hope to find remnants of its last meal in its belly. Read more ›
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Fox's new animated series 'Universal Basic Guys' satirizes basic income programs. It follows two guys who get $3,000 monthly payments after losing their jobs. Read more ›
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Apple is moving right along on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and other new operating systems that were unveiled at WWDC earlier this month, releasing the second developer betas of the updates this week with a number of new changes and additions. Public betas will follow sometime next month ahead of a full public release in the fall. Other news and rumors this week included international availability of the Vision Pro... Read more ›
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Monroe's Brentwood home is safe from demolition, as it was ruled a historic cultural landmark on Wednesday. Read more ›
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It has been a month since Google’s spectacular goof. Its new AI Overviews feature was supposed to “take the legwork out of searching,” offering up easy-to-read answers to our queries based on multiple search results. Instead, it told people to eat rocks and to glue cheese on pizza. You could ask Google what country in […] Read more ›
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Different lens colors can have different benefits. Let's discuss what brown, yellow, pink and gray mean for your sunglasses. Read more ›
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Celebrities are flocking to Florida. Here's why everyone from David Beckham to Sylvester Stallone has moved to the Sunshine State. Read more ›
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Saber Interactive has cancelled the public beta test for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 in order to "prepare for the full launch".Citing that running a beta now "would take the development teams away from preparing for the full launch", the team acknowledged "this is disappointing news for some of you", and offered the limited Bolt Pistol skin as compensation to those who'd signed up to participate."Space Marine 2 is almost... Read more ›
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Snapdragon X Elite advertised 'flawless' Windows gaming on Arm, but the truth lands far from that lofty goal. Some games run quite well, but many have problems and older games ofter refuse to run at all. Read more ›
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Apple is rumored to be working on screens that bend for its hardware, and now it's talking about screens that stretch. Read more ›
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Image: Epic Games Last weekend, Metallica graced the virtual stage in Fortnite, but the event was more than just a heavy metal concert. It was one piece in a weeks-long rollout of modes and content, which really drove home just how large and complex the game has become. The battle royale has steadily morphed into an entire ecosystem of games and experiences, and the Metallica crossover might’ve been the most... Read more ›
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Retail giant Best Buy moved the availability of several Asus laptops with Ryzen AI 300 chips from July 14 to 28, confirming the rumors that AMD is pushing back the release date of some of its latest processors. Read more ›
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Captain Theresa Claiborne has just come to the end of a legendary career as a pilot. Read more ›
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Electric toothbrushes can be more effective and easier to use. Here are the pitfalls to avoid when properly using an electric toothbrush. Read more ›
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"Stars very close to the center of our galaxy could be fueled by dark matter in perpetuity," writes Gizmodo, "according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources." The group of stars, known as S-cluster stars, is just three light-years from the center of the Milky Way (for reference, we are about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, which hosts a supermassive black hole... Read more ›
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The finest shows on Netflix so far in 2024 and what's worth getting excited about in the coming months. Read more ›
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Raw milk is a hazard to cows, workers, and consumers, a new study suggests. There a few things dairy farms can do about that. Read more ›
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It has been announced that the iconic HEMI engine will be discontinued after all these years, but there are a few reasons as to why this is happening. Read more ›
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Plus: A cloud company says notorious Russian hacker group APT29 attacked it, Chinese hackers use ransomware to hide their espionage campaigns, and a bank popular with startups discloses a cyberattack. Read more ›
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Multiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems, reports Reuters — citing a warning sent to publisher by content licensing startup TollBit. TollBit, an early-stage startup, is positioning itself as a matchmaker between content-hungry AI companies and publishers open to striking licensing deals with them. The company tracks AI traffic to the publishers' websites and uses analytics to help... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A top executive at McDonald's says the chain does not have plans to bring back plant-based options after a test of its McPlant burger in San Francisco and Dallas failed. "It was not successful in either market," Joe Erlinger, McDonald's U.S. president, said during the Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum in Chicago on Wednesday. American consumers are not coming to McDonald's looking for... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix: Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement. Reactions are being shared around the internet. LWN writes: The LWN Kernel Source... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An online gaming dispute made its way to the real world when a New Jersey man flew to Florida to attack another player with a hammer, authorities said. Edward Kang, 20, is charged with attempted second-degree murder and armed burglary with a mask, according to Nassau County court records. He was arrested early Sunday morning. Kang and the victim, another... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares CNBC's report on the U.S. car market: Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper as car buyers reject any "premium" tag formerly associated with EVs. The decline has been dramatic over the past year. In June 2023, average used EV prices were over 25% higher than used... Read more ›
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Microsoft has quietly erased instructions for switching to a local account on Windows 11 from its official support website. The move took place between June 12 and June 17, 2024, according to Tom's Hardware. The tech giant has been increasingly pushing users towards Microsoft Account logins, citing benefits like enhanced security and cross-device syncing. While the option to use a local account still exists, this latest development suggests Microsoft is... Read more ›
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Kurt Schlosser reports via GeekWire: Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase for rare computing technology and interactive displays, will not reopen, more than four years after closing just ahead of the pandemic. Allen's estate, which has been managing and winding down his vast array of holdings since his death in 2018, confirmed to GeekWire that the... Read more ›
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In a contract worth as much as $843 million, NASA announced today SpaceX has been selected to develop a vehicle that will de-orbit the International Space Station in 2030. "As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in 2030,"... Read more ›
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"A good portion of my home directory got deleted," complained a bug report for systemd filed last week. It requested an update to a flag for the systemd-tmpfiles tool which cleans up files and directories: "a huge warning next to --purge. This option is dangerous, so it should be made clear that it's dangerous." The Register explains: As long as five years ago, systemd-tmpfiles had moved on past managing only... Read more ›
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Walmart "became the latest retailer to announce it's replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels," reports NPR. "The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds." "If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that's close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that's the good news," said Phil... Read more ›
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