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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/13/2025 11:34 EDT

China's Omoway Announces a New Self-Driving Electric Scooter Named 'Omo X'

Electrek reports on the new Omo X, a scooter planned for release in 2026 that's "full of premium tech features that blur the lines between e-scooter and self-driving EV." At its recent launch in Jakarta, the Omo X didn't just sit pretty center stage, it actually drove itself onto the stage using its "Halo Pilot" system, which apparently comes complete with adaptive cruise control, remote summon, self-parking, and even automatic... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/13/2025 10:34 EDT

Nintendo Banned Switch 2 Owner For Playing a Used Switch 1 Game They Bought Online

"A Nintendo Switch 2 user reportedly got his brand-new console banned by Nintendo after buying used Switch 1 games and patching them on his console," reports Tom's Hardware: According to Reddit user dmanthey, they purchased four used titles off the Facebook marketplace, inserted them into the Switch 2, and had them all updated. When they turned on their handhelds the following day, they received a message saying that they were... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/13/2025 07:34 EDT

DC's 'Brighter' Superman Movie Smashes Box Office Expectations

James Gunn's Superman "appears to be succeeding in rebooting DC Studios and its most iconic comic book franchise," writes The Hollywood Reporter, noting the film is "headed for a possible record domestic box office debut of $115 million to $120 million." Gunn is in a unique position, being both the film's writer-director and the co-head of the Warner Bros.-owned DC, which he co-runs with Peter Safran. Overseas, Superman is launching... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/13/2025 03:34 EDT

Astronomers Plan Far Side of the Moon Satellite to Hear Billion-Year-Old Radio Waves

An anonymous reader shared this report from Cosmos magazine about a plan to "pick up those faint signals from billions of years ago." Astronomers are planning to launch a tiny spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to listen out for "ancient whispers" in a quest to uncover the secrets of the early universe. The mission will focus on understanding the 'Cosmic Dawn', a period in the early stages... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 23:34 EDT

Amelia Earhart's Airplane May Finally Have Been Found

An anonymous reader shared this report from Jalopnik: On July 2, the 88th anniversary of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced an expedition [which will launch in November] to confirm whether or not the wreckage of her plane has been found. Satellite imagery from a decade ago indicated the presence of something that sure looks plane-like under the waters of Nikumaroro Island, an uninhabited spit of land in... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 21:34 EDT

EV Sets New Record for Longest Trip on a Single Charge - 749 Miles

Lucid Motors set a Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an electric car on a single charge, covering a distance of 749 miles (about 1,205 km), reports New Atlas. "In doing so, Lucid broke the 1,045-km (649-mile) record previously achieved by the Mercedes-Benz EQS450+ in June 2025 by the Japanese car website www.webcg.net/articles/-/52268webCG." The electric vehicle covered this journey between St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany, traveling through... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 18:34 EDT

'Firefox is Fine. The People Running It are Not'

"Firefox is dead to me," wrote Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols last month for The Register, complaining about everything from layoffs at Mozilla to Firefox's discontinuation of Pocket and Fakespot, its small market share, and some user complaints that the browser might be becoming slower. But a new rebuttal (also published by The Register) argues instead that Mozilla just has "a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 17:34 EDT

NVIDIA Warns Its High-End GPUs May Be Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attacks

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli shared this report from Nerds.xyz: NVIDIA just put out a new security notice, and if you're running one of its powerful GPUs, you might want to pay attention. Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that Rowhammer attacks, which are already known to affect regular DRAM, can now target GDDR6 memory on NVIDIA's high-end GPUs when ECC [error correction code] is not enabled. They pulled this... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 16:34 EDT

Robinhood Up 160% in 2025, But May Face Obstacles

Robinhood's stock hit is up more than 160% for 2025, reports CNBC, and the trading platform's own stock hit an all-time high on Friday. But "Despite its stellar year, the online broker is facing several headwinds..." Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened a formal investigation into Robinhood Crypto on Thursday, alleging the platform misled users by claiming to offer the lowest-cost crypto trading. "Robinhood has long claimed to be the... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 15:34 EDT

Northern Arizona Resident Dies From Plague

It killed tens of millions of people in 14th century Europe," CNN reports, though "today, it's easily treated with antibiotics." And yet "A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday." Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the U.S., most of them in the western states, according to federal health officials. The death in Coconino County, which... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 14:34 EDT

Microsoft Outlook Malfunctioned For Over 21 Hours  Wednesday and Thursday

"Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday," reports CNBC, "prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes." The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs. At 12:21 ET on Thursday, the Microsoft 365 Status account... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 13:34 EDT

Much of the World's Solar Gear is Made Using Fossil Power in China

China "accounts for more than half of global coal use," reports Asia Times, "even as it builds the world's largest solar-panel and EV industries." Much of the world's solar gear is made on fossil power. The International Energy Agency finds that "coal generates over 60% of the electricity used for global solar PV manufacturing," far above coal's ~36% share of typical grids. That is because over 80% of PV factories... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 12:34 EDT

Bitcoin Hits an All-Time High of $118,000, Up 21% for 2025

Bitcoin "vaulted to a fresh all-time high Friday, breaking above $118,000," reports Yahoo Finance: Year to date, the token is up roughly 21%, buoyed in part by crypto-friendly policies from the Trump administration, including the establishment of a strategic bitcoin reserve and a broader digital asset stockpile... "At the heart of this rally lies sustained structural inflows from institutional players," wrote Dilin Wu, research strategist at Pepperstone. "Corporates are also... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 11:34 EDT

FCC Chair Accused of 'Political Theater' to Please Net Neutrality's Foes

The advocacy group Free Press on Friday blasted America's Federal Communications Commission chief "for an order that rips net neutrality rules off the books, without any time for public comment, following an unfavorable court ruling," reports the nonprofit progressive news site Common Dreams: A panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled in January that broadband is an "information service" instead of a "telecommunications service" under... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 10:34 EDT

Before Air India Boeing 787 Crash, Fuel Switches Were Cut Off, Preliminary Report Says

Slashdot reader hcs_$reboot shared this report from NPR: A pair of switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were set to "cutoff" moments before the crash of Air India Flight 171, according to a preliminary report from India's Air Accident Investigation Bureau released early Saturday in India... Indian investigators determined the jet was properly configured and lifted off normally. But three seconds after takeoff, the engines' fuel switches... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 09:00 EDT

AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Contrary to popular belief, using cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools slowed down experienced software developers when they were working in codebases familiar to them, rather than supercharging their work, a new study found. AI research nonprofit METR conducted the in-depth study on a group of seasoned developers earlier this year while they used Cursor, a popular AI coding assistant, to help them complete... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 06:00 EDT

Please Don't Cut Funds For Space Traffic Control, Industry Begs Congress

Major space industry players -- including SpaceX, Boeing, and Blue Origin -- are urging Congress to maintain funding for the TraCSS space traffic coordination program, warning that eliminating it would endanger satellite safety and potentially drive companies abroad. Under the proposed FY 2026 budget, the Office of Space Commerce's funding would be cut from $65 million to just $10 million. "That $55M cut is accomplished by eliminating the Traffic Coordination... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/12/2025 03:00 EDT

Solar Was the Leading Source of Electricity In the EU Last Month

In June 2025, solar power became the leading source of electricity in the EU for the first time, surpassing nuclear and wind, while coal hit a record low. CBC reports: Solar generated 22.1 percent of the EU's electricity last month, up from 18.9 percent a year earlier, as record sunshine and continued solar installations pushed output to 45.4 terawatt hours. Nuclear followed closely at 21.8 percent and wind contributed 15.8... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 23:30 EDT

AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it with someone asking about "bridges taller than 25 meters in NYC" after losing their job -- a potential suicide risk -- GPT-4o helpfully listed specific tall bridges instead of identifying the... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 22:02 EDT

Researchers Develop New Tool To Measure Biological Age

Stanford researchers have developed a blood-based AI tool that calculates the biological age of individual organs to reveal early signs of aging-related disease. The Mercury News reports: The tool, unveiled in Nature Medicine Wednesday, was developed by a research team spearheaded by Tony Wyss-Coray. Wyss-Coray, a Stanford Medicine professor who has spent almost 15 years fixated on the study of aging, said that the tool could "change our approach to... Read more ›

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