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Four astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday after their record ISS mission stretched to eight months due to Boeing capsule malfunctions and hurricane disruptions. The SpaceX Dragon capsule landed off Florida's coast before dawn, carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
Technical issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule in September, followed by Hurricane Milton and persistent rough seas, delayed their planned retur
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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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Waymo used in-cabin cameras to report two teens who were later detained by the San Mateo Police Department, authorities said. Read more ›
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After initially launching in Korea and the US, Samsung's Galaxy XR headset is now finally available in the UK as well, from Samsung’s online store. It's been up for pre-order over there since mid-June. You can buy one for a recommended retail price of £1,699. For a limited time (that isn't actually specified in the official press release), buying it will also get you an "Explorer Pack" which Samsung says... Read more ›
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Meta has officially announced the removal of a controversial Instagram feature that allowed users to modify public profile pictures using artificial intelligence. This decision follows intense backlash from everyday users and major talent agencies regarding significant privacy and consent risks. The feature in question, known as Muse Image, was developed by the Meta Superintelligence Labs. It enabled individuals to manipulate photos from public Instagram accounts simply by typing the user’s... Read more ›
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A European STM32 chip found in Russian drones reveals complex Chinese supply chains that challenge Western efforts to restrict technology transfers. Read more ›
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All the ways to watch Australia vs France live streams – including for FREE – as the Wallabies host Les Bleus in the Nations Championship at Lang Park. Read more ›
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Summer 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Jay-Z’s debut Reasonable Doubt. To honor it, he put on a massive concert at Yankee Stadium—complete with performances from Beyoncé, Nas, and Alicia Keys. Read more ›
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Apple says OpenAI stole its trade secrets. Here's how Apple has faced similar accusations from rivals in the past. Read more ›
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A large Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia turned on diesel generators over the July 4 weekend to deal with a strained grid. Read more ›
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Some believe the boom-bust cycle in memory chips has ended — the market thinks otherwise  Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent studies, not advice about your own screen habits or wellbeing. The research described here is observational and correlational, and population-level patterns are not diagnoses or predictions about any individual reader. In March 2025, OpenAI and ... Read more Read more ›
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Indian startup funding remained largely flat in the second week of July. Between July 4 and July 10, Indian startups… Read more ›
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How to watch Nations Championship for free. Live stream Fiji vs. England in the 2026 Nations Championship for free. Read more ›
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Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers Read more ›
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In 1991, Cambridge computer scientists Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky pointed a grayscale camera at a coffee pot outside the Trojan Room to spare themselves three flights of stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam. Here's how a 128×128 pixel workaround for a mundane annoyance turned into the template for every livestream on the planet. Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Lenovo started teasing a new Legion gaming tablet with 5G support, revealing that its full announcement will take place in August. Today, the brand has showcased the device in the video you can see below. The tablet now seems to be called Legion Y700 Ultimate, but this is also machine translated from Chinese so accuracy is not guaranteed. The tablet comes with a physical SIM slot and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become... Read more ›
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Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their spokesperson said: "We expect the power generation portion of the system to be available as early as 2027, with... Read more ›
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The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination." And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing... Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed — particularly in auto-approve or CI environments—the commands can... Read more ›
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EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T... under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion." Some context from Deadline.com: Charlie Ergen,... Read more ›
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"The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press: The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion. Among the company's well-known holdings are the... Read more ›
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At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software... Read more ›
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Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the... Read more ›
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As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions... Read more ›
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South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News: In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home... Read more ›
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