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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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Beleagured high street chain GAME will no longer sell physical games, other than fulfilling pre-orders. That's according to a Gfinity report which states that upcoming new launches will need to be pre-ordered before launch to be picked up in store. The same is true of video game consoles, the report goes on, suggesting that outside of hardware launches you will no longer be able to walk into a shop and... Read more ›
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"She's more deadly than the Death Star!" Musk said of Lucasfilm chief, Kathleen Kennedy, in an X post on Friday. Read more ›
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Mustafa Tovi, 45, started off as a part-time employee for Walmart and has stayed with the company for 25 years. Read more ›
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Netflix knows the real money is offline. So it's taking a page from Disney and launching Netflix House. Read more ›
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Apple could offer a cheaper version of its Apple Vision Pro headset by making the device reliant on a tethered iPhone or Mac, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Last week, a report claimed that Apple had suspended work on the second-generation Apple Vision Pro in order to focus on bringing a cheaper model to market. However, Gurman claims Apple shifted resources to developing a cheaper model even before the Vision... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift on Sunday during a show in London surprised fans by bringing her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, to the stage. Read more ›
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A water heater should generally last between 10 and 15 years. Here are some tips to prolong its life. Read more ›
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A Korean Air flight bound for Taiwan made an emergency landing after a pressurization fault was detected. Read more ›
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Apple wants iPad users to be able to format external drives connected to their device, without the need for a Mac, based on the latest find in the iPadOS 18 developer beta (via MacStories). Writing in his ByteBits substack, Kaleb Cadle said he made the discovery of new file format options while tinkering with the Files app: Now in the Files app on iPadOS 18, when we right click or... Read more ›
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The European Commission has formally announced its preliminary view that Apple's App Store policies are in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), specifically in relation to anti-steering rules. Under the DMA, developers distributing their apps via Apple's ‌App Store‌ should be able, free of charge, to inform their customers of alternative cheaper purchasing possibilities, steer them to those offers, and allow them to make purchases. The Commission says that... Read more ›
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Every Pride Month, the rainbow flags come out, parades march on, and, if it’s an election year, Democratic candidates make their appeal to a growing part of the electorate: LGBTQ voters. But it’s easy to forget how modern of a development this is. That LGBTQ voters and the Democratic Party would become so closely intertwined […] Read more ›
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The Sonos Ace headphones are great, but they're not easy on your wallet. Here are some competitors that offer many of the same features at a lower price. Read more ›
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TVP has now been hit by multiple cyberattacks aimed at disrupting Euro 2024 online broadcasts. Read more ›
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"House of the Dragon" fans have lost their patience with Criston Cole after Season 2, episode 3, venting on X (formerly Twitter). Read more ›
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Celebrating a decade of unprecedented growth and innovation, KoRo, renowned for its pioneering clean label snacks, nut butters and functional foods, announces its remarkable growth (148.9% CAGR 2019–2022) amidst challenging market trends. With a customer base exceeding 1.7 million across Europe, and products available in over 10,000 points of sale, KoRo continues its rapid expansion ... Read more ›
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Tired of a bad job market and the stigma of being left on the shelf at 30, some Chinese women have found a solution — run, and go West. Read more ›
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Undead Labs added a touching tribute into State of Decay 2, immortalising a player's father who passed away three years ago. In a reddit post over the weekend, community member EmbarrassedBudget859 said they contacted the developer after their father passed away a few years ago, asking if Undead Lads would include him in the game. "And they did what they could, which means just adding his name to random survivors,"... Read more ›
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UK car finance platform CarCloud, has completed its Seedrs investment round, raising £425,000 and exceeding its £325,000 target. This round concludes with a post-money valuation of £6.82 million, foll... Read more ›
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House of the Dragon's co-creator explains how season 2 episode 2 tackled one of its source material's biggest enigmas. Read more ›
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Market intelligence platform, MarketSizer, has announced the closing of its pre-seed funding, totalling €1M. This round was led by venture capital firm Delta Partners with additional support from Enterprise Ireland and angel investors. The capital will be used to develop new features in the platform, accelerate additional job creation and help to support expansion into […] 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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SUSE, a Luxembourg-based open-source company, is launching a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform called SUSE AI solutions. The company aims to leverage the potential of AI to gain a stronger foothold in the U.S. market, where it has struggled to establish brand recognition compared to competitors like Red Hat and Canonical. SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen believes that the open-source model provides infinite potential for enterprise customers, offering... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube Premium subscribers who use VPNs are reporting that their plans are being automatically canceled by the Google-owned company, according to multiple subscribers who have posted screenshots and descriptions of the issue on Reddit. A Google support representative confirmed to PCMag that YouTube has started a crackdown. "YouTube has initiated the cancellation of premium memberships for accounts identified as having falsified signup country information,"... 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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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about how AI could hurt some creative jobs, suggesting during a talk that some jobs were maybe always a bit replaceable anyway. From a report: "I think it's really going to be a collaborative tool, especially in the creative spaces," Murati told Darmouth University Trustee Jeffrey Blackburn during a conversation about AI hosted at the university's engineering department. "Some creative jobs maybe will go... Read more ›
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Nvidia has leapfrogged Microsoft and Apple to become the most valuable company in the world, following months of explosive share price growth driven by demand for its chips and an investor frenzy over artificial intelligence. From a report: The company's shares climbed 3.2 per cent to $135.18 on Tuesday, bringing its market capitalisation to $3.332tn and surpassing the two tech giants that have long jostled for pole position on US... Read more ›
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Wells Fargo's co-branded credit card partnership with fintech startup Bilt Technologies is causing the bank to lose up as much as $10 million monthly, according to a WSJ report. The bank agreed to a co-branded program with the fintech startup that most other big banks -- including JPMorgan Chase -- passed on, incorrectly modeled key assumptions and sees no path to profitability. The card, which allows users to pay rent... Read more ›
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Facebook and Instagram users are increasingly turning to small claims courts to regain access to their accounts or seek damages from Meta, amid frustrations with the company's customer support. In several cases across multiple states, Engadget reports, plaintiffs have successfully restored account access or won financial compensation. Meta often responds by contacting litigants before court dates, attempting to resolve issues out of court. The trend, popularized on social media forums,... Read more ›
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After two years of testing, McDonald's has ended its use of AI-powered drive-thru ordering. "The company was trialing IBM tech at more than 100 of its restaurants but it will remove those systems from all locations by the end of July, meaning that customers will once again be placing orders with a human instead of a computer," reports Engadget. From the report: As part of that decision, McDonald's is ending... 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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