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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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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 21:25 EDT

Russian Basketball Player Arrested For Alleged Role In Ransomware Attacks

joshuark writes: A Russian basketball player, Daniil Kasatkin, was arrested on June 21 in France at the request of the United States as he allegedly is part of a network of hackers. Daniil Kasatkin, aged 26, is accused by the United States of negotiating the payment of ransoms to this hacker network, which he denies. He has been studied in the United States, and is the subject of a U.S.... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 20:45 EDT

iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a 'Piss-Poor Excuse For a Controller'

iFixit has harsh words for Nintendo's $85 Switch 2 Pro controller, calling it a "piss-poor excuse for a controller" due to its difficult repairability, use of outdated drift-prone joysticks, and poor internal accessibility. The Verge reports: Opening the controller requires you to first forcefully remove a faceplate held in place by adhesive tape before a single screw is visible. But you'll need to extract several other parts and components, including... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 20:02 EDT

JPMorgan Tells Fintechs They Have To Pay Up For Customer Data

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: JPMorgan Chase has told financial-technology companies that it will start charging fees amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars for access to their customers' bank account information -- a move that threatens to upend the industry's business models. The largest US bank has sent pricing sheets to data aggregators -- which connect banks and fintechs -- outlining the new charges, according to... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 19:20 EDT

OpenAI's Windsurf Deal Is Off, Windsurf's CEO Is Going To Google

OpenAI's planned acquisition of Windsurf has fallen apart. Instead, Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and parts of its R&D team to join DeepMind and focus on agentic coding for Gemini. Google will not acquire Windsurf but will receive a non-exclusive license to some of its technology, while Windsurf continues independently under new leadership. The Verge reports: Effective immediately, Jeff Wang, Windsurf's head of business, has... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 18:40 EDT

BYD Pledges to Cover Damages from Self-Parking Car Crashes

BYD has unveiled fully autonomous Level 4 self-parking across its vehicle lineup, powered by its advanced multi-sensor "God's Eye" system that's used by more than 1 million cars across China. "The company is so confident in the technology that it announced that it will cover any damages to your car or any other vehicle if things go wrong," adds Fast Company. "This means if anything happens, the owner won't have... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 18:00 EDT

Google Nerfs Second Pixel Phone Battery This Year

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For the second time in a year, Google has announced that it will render some of its past phones almost unusable with a software update, and users don't have any choice in the matter. After nerfing the Pixel 4a's battery capacity earlier this year, Google has now confirmed a similar update is rolling out to the Pixel 6a. The new July... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 17:22 EDT

Apple Adds 2013 Mac Pro, 2019 MacBook Air, AirPorts To Vintage List

Apple added the 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro to its vintage products list alongside the 2019 13-inch MacBook Air, 2019 iMac, 2018 iPad Pro models, and the 128GB iPhone 8. The cylindrical Mac Pro remained on sale until December 2019, when Apple replaced it with the redesigned "Cheese Grater" model. Products typically reach vintage status five years after their last distribution date. The 2013 Mac Pro's radical cylindrical design prevented... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 16:40 EDT

US Abandons Hunt For Signal of Cosmic Inflation

The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Science magazine: Known as CMB-S4, the project envisioned new arrays of ultrasensitive microwave telescopes at the South Pole and in Chile's Atacama Desert. Their goal: to detect patterns in the ancient light that would prove the newborn universe expanded in an exponential growth... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 16:00 EDT

Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now

An anonymous reader shares a report: This week has seen the shortest days of the year so far. According to data from the U.S. Naval Observatory and the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, Tuesday's rotation was about 1.34 milliseconds less than 24 hours. More quick spins are expected this week, later this month and in early August, according to predictions from the website Time and Date. This isn't... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 15:20 EDT

Few Danes Work Until Official Retirement Age as Government Pushes It to 70

Denmark's Parliament adopted a law in May raising the retirement age to 70 by 2040, up from the current 67, affecting anyone born after December 31, 1970. The country indexed its official retirement age to life expectancy in 2006 and revises it every five years, with the age set to increase to 68 in 2030 and 69 in 2035. Few Danes actually work until the legal retirement age -- in... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 14:40 EDT

How Hot Can It Get, Literally? Scientists Weigh In

Four years of research following the 2021 western North American heat wave has revealed both the meteorological conditions that fuel extreme temperatures and evidence that heat has physical limits. The 2021 event "shocked everyone, including specialists working on the subject. People were completely stunned," said Robin Noyelle, a postdoctoral researcher in climate science at ETH Zurich. Scientists now focus on temperature departures from local averages rather than absolute readings. The... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 14:00 EDT

Saving a Studio? This Looks Like a Job for Superman!

Warner Bros. releases a $225 million Superman reboot this week that executives consider the studio's final chance to build a successful cinematic universe rivaling Marvel's dominance. The film, written and directed by James Gunn, serves as the foundation for DC Studios' planned expansion into multiple films and television shows. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav appointed Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead the newly unified DC Studios in 2022,... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 13:20 EDT

Belkin Ending 'Support' For Most Wemo Smart Devices

New submitter RJFerret shares a Belkin support page: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work.' List of devices found in the link (four... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 12:40 EDT

Russian Basketball Player Arrested in France Over Alleged Ransomware Ties

A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which reportedly accused him of being involved in a ransomware group that allegedly targeted hundreds of American companies and federal institutions. From a report: Daniil Kasatkin, 26, was detained in June at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly after arriving in the country with his fiancee, according to local media reports. He is... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 12:00 EDT

Jamie Dimon's Blunt Message for Europe: 'You're Losing'

An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon did not pull his punches when he spoke at Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. "You're losing," he said of European competitiveness with the U.S. and Asia, in comments reported by the Financial Times. "Europe has gone from 90% U.S. GDP to 65% over 10 or 15 years. That's not good." "We've got this huge, strong market and our companies... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 11:21 EDT

HMD 'Scaling Back' in the US, Killing Nokia All Over Again

An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will "scale back" its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices entirely. [...] Based in Finland, HMD was formed in 2016 in order to purchase the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 10:40 EDT

'Coding is Dead': University of Washington CS Program Rethinks Curriculum For the AI Era

The University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is overhauling its approach to computer science education as AI reshapes the tech industry. Director Magdalena Balazinska has declared that "coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead" because AI can now handle that work. The Pacific Northwest's premier tech program now allows students to use GPT tools in assignments, requiring them... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 10:00 EDT

Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries?

Fertility rates have fallen to historically low levels [PDF] in virtually all high-income countries due to a fundamental reordering of adult priorities rather than economic factors, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research study. Economists Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine analyzed cohort data and found rising childlessness at all observed ages alongside falling completed fertility rates. Total fertility rates have dropped below replacement level in nearly... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 07/11/2025 09:00 EDT

YouTube Is Shutting Down Its 'Trending' Page After 10 Years

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Dexerto: It's been ten years since YouTube first introduced its trending page in 2015, and the platform is finally sunsetting the program in favor of a new system. [...] As announced by YouTube in a support thread on July 10, 2025, the site is now set on introducing Charts, a new system for ranking popular content on its platform. "Back when we first... Read more ›

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