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Yesterday, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced the bipartisan ''Unplug the Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020'' (S. 4646), which would help protect Americans' First and Fourth Amendment rights by preventing a president from using emergency powers to unilaterally take control over or deny access to the internet and other telecommunications capabilities. Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares an excerpt from the announcement: In a World War II-era amendment to Section
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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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Palworld is once again one of the most played games on Steam this weekend. Read more Read more ›
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The European tech hub is transforming its lampposts into a connected network. Discover why this upgrade goes far beyond simply cutting energy costs. Read more ›
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Solar car maker Aptera has "officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide," reports Electrek: We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera solar EV and tour the company's factory, and came away both impressed at the progress that has been made, but cognizant of the long road ahead for the company. One question... Read more ›
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Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote's evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn't died out. Read more ›
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Сравниваю три VPN-протокола по скорости, сложности настройки, совместимости клиентов и реальным сценариям: от личного VPN до удалённого доступа для небольшой команды. Читать далее Read more ›
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Первого апреля в нашем телеграм-канале вышел пост с забавными опечатками. Напоминаю: мы смеялись над «собором необходимых данных», «бибилотекой» и другими «удачными» промахами наших коллег, а теперь я предлагаю обсудить, почему же мы ошибаемся. Ведь иногда смотришь на собственный текст и невольно ловишь себя на мысли: «нНу как такое можно было ляпнуть?» Читать далее Read more ›
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Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship. Read more ›
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Когда Neuralink Илона Маска выкладывает ролики, где человек силой мысли двигает курсор или печатает текст, это всегда собирает кучу просмотров и обсуждений. И ведь это не просто так — технология действительно впечатляет. Импланты вживляют прямо в кору, сигналы от отдельных нейронов летят в компьютер почти без потерь, и выглядит все это как настоящее будущее, которое уже здесь.Но за громкими новостями о Neuralink легко не заметить, что эта компания не главная.... Read more ›
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In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It's one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around at home. But chord organs largely fell out of favor […] Read more ›
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Consumer Reports just crowned its top midsize pickup and best US-made vehicle. Discover how this unibody underdog dethroned the Tacoma and Ranger. Read more ›
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The upcoming Call of Duty movie will be set in the Modern Warfare universe. Read more Read more ›
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I wasn't sure what to expect when I went on a cruise with older travelers, but I ended up making friends in their 60s and 70s and gaining confidence. Read more ›
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The Creality K2 SE drops to $248.99 in this limited-time deal, making it a great option for anyone looking to start 3D printing but want to have access to some advanced features. Read more ›
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Birdfy has kicked off a midyear sale, taking up to 40 percent off a range of its smart bird feeders. One of the best deals is on Netvue’s Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera, which has dropped to $149.99 at Birdfy and is its second-best price to date. The bundle, which includes a […] Read more ›
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The Razer Hammerhead V3 HyperSpeed earbuds are a premium gaming product that fail to deliver. Read more ›
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U.S. stock sales are on track for a record this year, as massive offerings from SpaceX, Alphabet and others push totals past a 2021 high. More sales are coming. Anthropic is headed for an initial public offering as soon as September. And bankers are pitching other public tech companies on issuing more stock. These include Intel, after the chipmaker’s shares more than doubled since the start of the year, according... Read more ›
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A new AI-powered blood test could give people a remarkably early warning of serious heart and circulation problems. Developed by researchers at the University of Hong Kong, CardiOmicScore analyzes thousands of proteins and metabolites to estimate the risk of six major cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. Unlike genetic risk scores, which remain fixed throughout life, the system captures biological changes linked to a person’s... Read more ›
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A newly discovered Gemini bug lets anyone bypass your Android PIN to send SMS and WhatsApp messages from a locked phone. Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups." Their cause is now riding a... Read more ›
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The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech: SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what... Read more ›
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"Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X," reports CNBC, "highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution." This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own GPT-5.6 Sol. For days, Musk and Altman have hyped up their respective releases, but on Saturday the rivalry got personal. In response to a post about Apple filing suit against OpenAI on... Read more ›
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Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously." Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw... Read more ›
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Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the... Read more ›
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California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: There are several companies, such as Tesla, trying to make semi trucks fully electric. The capital cost for such a truck, and the MW-scale infrastructure to recharge it, may be a hard sell for some operators. [IEEE Spectrum notes that's a charging infrastructure "that most freight corridors do not yet reliably provide."] But some companies are instead adding batteries and an electric motor to the... Read more ›
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America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post: Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech. It "could hobble the American economy for years to come," predicts the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Lightcast, a labor market... Read more ›
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"Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday," reports the Associated Press, as Japan "seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX." The RV-X rocket lifted off, hovered and moved horizontally before landing [watch the video here] during its less than one-minute flight at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Noshiro Testing... Read more ›
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"Git and email are the two really only tools I use," Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026. But ZDNet reports that he also shared his thoughts on Rust, C, and patch-checking tools: "I use Google as a way to look things up." He added, "I'm unusual; most of the other maintainers end up using many more tools, and I think a lot of them are starting to... Read more ›
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