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msmash @ Slashdot · 06/30/2025 10:02 EDT

Nintendo Pulls Products From Amazon US Site

Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after a disagreement over unauthorized sales, meaning the e-commerce company missed out on the recent debut of Nintendo's Switch 2 -- the biggest game console launch of all time. From a report: The Japanese company stopped selling on Amazon after noticing that third-party merchants were offering games for sale in the US at prices that undercut Nintendo's advertised rates, according to a... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/30/2025 07:34 EDT

UV-C Light Kills Nearly Everything - Except This Unusual Organism

"Earth's ozone layer blocks the Sun's shortest wave radiation, called UV-C, which is so damaging to cells in high doses that it's a go-to sterilizer in hospitals," writes Slashdot reader sciencehabit. "UV-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether life can survive on worlds that lack an ozone layer, such as Mars or distant exoplanets. "But research published this month in Astrobiology suggests one hardy lichen,... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/30/2025 04:34 EDT

In Last-Minute Move, Canada Rescinds Digital Services Tax, Restarts Negotiations

"Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations," reports Newsweek, "after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's digital services tax on U.S. technology companies." The development follows President Donald Trump's announcement on Friday that he was suspending all trade talks with Canada "effective immediately" over the tax policy... Canada's quick reversal signals the high stakes involved in maintaining trade relationships with the United States, particularly... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/30/2025 00:34 EDT

After 45 Years, 74-Year-Old Spreadsheet Legend/EFF Cofounder Mitch Kapor Gets His MIT Degree

Mitch Kapor dropped out of MIT's business school in 1979 — and had soon cofounded the pioneering spreadsheet company Lotus. He also cofounded the EFF, was the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and is now a billionaire (and an VC investor at Kapor Capital). 45 years later, when the 74-year-old was invited to give a guest lecture at MIT's business school last year by an old friend (professor Bill... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 22:34 EDT

UK Scientists Plan to Construct Synthetic Human Genetic Material From Scratch

"Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch," reports the Guardian, "to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies." Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project will spend the next five years developing the tools and knowhow to build long sections of human genetic code in the lab. These will be inserted into... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 20:34 EDT

Beware of Promoting AI in Products, Researchers Warn Marketers

The Wall Street Journal reports that "consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them, researchers say." The effect is especially pronounced for offerings perceived to be riskier buys, such as a car or a medical-diagnostic service, say the researchers, who were from Washington State University and Temple University. "When we were thinking about this project, we thought... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 18:36 EDT

Earth is Trapping Much More Heat Than Climate Models Forecast

What happens if you track how much heat enters Earth's atmosphere and how much heat leaves? You discover that Earth's energy budget "is now well and truly out of balance," three climate researchers write at The Conversation: Our recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20 years. Other researchers have come to the same conclusions. This imbalance is now substantially more than climate models have... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 17:34 EDT

For the Free Software Foundation's Summer Fundraiser, the 'GNU Press Shop' is Open

The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit — and they're having some fun with it. They've just announced a summer fundraiser, "and that means the GNU Press Shop is open!" From now until July 28, you can buy your FSF gear at the GNU Press shop. First and foremost, there's the launch of the FSF's fortieth anniversary shirt in a summery yellow. We're taking orders for a limited time for... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 15:59 EDT

New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language

An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech news site The Register: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages. "The importance of memory safety cannot be overstated," the inter-agency report says... The CISA/NSA report revisits the rationale for greater memory safety and the government's calls to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs)... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 14:49 EDT

Blue Origin Just Launched Six More Passengers to the Edge of Space

Just four weeks after an early June flight to the edge of space, Blue Origin has again carried six more passengers there and back again, reports CBS News, noting that the 10-minute ride was Blue Origin's 13th flight "out of the discernible atmosphere." The New Shepard capsule's stubby single-stage booster roared to life just after 9:38 a.m. EDT, throttled up to full thrust and smoothly climbed away from Blue Origin's... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 13:49 EDT

Has an AI Backlash Begun?

"The potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI..." writes Wired, arguing that there's an AI backlash that "keeps growing strong." "The pushback from the creative community ramped up during the 2023 Hollywood writer's strike, and continued to accelerate through the current wave of copyright lawsuits brought by publishers, creatives, and Hollywood studios."... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 12:34 EDT

To Spam AI Chatbots, Companies Spam Reddit with AI-Generated Posts

The problem? "Companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results," reports 9to5Mac. And "Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google's AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit." Huffman has confirmed to the Financial Times that this is happening, with companies using AI bots to create fake posts in the hope that the content will be regurgitated... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 11:34 EDT

Just How Much Space Data Will the Rubin Observatory Collect?

In its first 10 hours the Rubin space telescope found 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system. And Gizmodo reports the data went directly to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC), which "plays an essential role in the early detection and monitoring of asteroids that threaten Earth." The MPC has spent years preparing for the deluge of data from Rubin, ramping up its software to process massive amounts... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 10:34 EDT

Carbon Record Reveals Evidence of Extensive Human Fire Use 50,000 Years Ago

"It has long been unclear when humans started using fire," writes Phys.org... To address this question, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), alongside collaborators from China, Germany, and France, analyzed the pyrogenic carbon record in a 300,000-year-old sediment core from the East China Sea. "Our findings challenge the widely held belief that humans only began influencing the environment with fire in the recent... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 07:34 EDT

Ask Slashdot: Do You Use AI - and Is It Actually Helpful?

"I wonder who actually uses AI and why," writes Slashdot reader VertosCay: Out of pure curiosity, I have asked various AI models to create: simple Arduino code, business letters, real estate listing descriptions, and 3D models/vector art for various methods of manufacturing (3D printing, laser printing, CNC machining). None of it has been what I would call "turnkey". Everything required some form of correction or editing before it was usable.... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/29/2025 03:34 EDT

Mysterious Radio Burst Turns Out to Be From a Dead 1967 NASA Satellite

An anonymous reader shared this report from Smithsonian magazine: Last year, Australian scientists picked up a mysterious burst of radio waves that briefly appeared brighter than all other signals in the sky. Now, the researchers have discovered the blast didn't come from a celestial object, but a defunct satellite orbiting Earth... "We got all excited, thinking maybe we'd discovered a new pulsar or some other object," says Clancy James, a... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/28/2025 23:34 EDT

New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash

Bcachefs "pitches itself as a filesystem that 'doesn't eat your data'," writes the open source/Linux blog It's FOSS. Although it was last October that Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet was restricted from participating in the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle (after ending a mailing list post with "Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.") And now with the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17 release, Linus... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/28/2025 21:34 EDT

AI Improves At Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick

Technology writer Matthew Hutson (also Slashdot reader #1,467,653) looks at a new kind of self-improving AI coding system. It rewrites its own code based on empirical evidence of what's helping — as described in a recent preprint on arXiv. From Hutson's new article in IEEE Spectrum: A Darwin Gödel Machine (or DGM) starts with a coding agent that can read, write, and execute code, leveraging an LLM for the reading... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/28/2025 18:39 EDT

People Are Being Committed After Spiraling Into 'ChatGPT Psychosis'

"I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital," a man told his wife, after experiencing what Futurism calls a "ten-day descent into AI-fueled delusion" and "a frightening break with reality." And a San Francisco psychiatrist tells the site he's seen similar cases in his own clinical practice. The consequences can be dire. As we... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/28/2025 17:39 EDT

Sinaloa Cartel Used Phone Data and Surveillance Cameras To Find and Kill FBI Informants in 2018, DOJ Says

Designated as a foreign terrorist group by multiple countries, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel fiercely defends its transnational organized crime syndicate. "A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records," reports Reuters, "and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday." The incident was disclosed... Read more ›

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