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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 22:06 EDT

SpaceX Starship Blasts Off In Ninth Test Flight

SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 successfully launched and reached space -- marking the first reuse of a Super Heavy booster -- but both rocket stages were ultimately lost mid-mission due to a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a statement: "Starship made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over last flight! Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase.... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 21:25 EDT

Linux 6.16 Adds 'X86_NATIVE_CPU' Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build

unixbhaskar shares a report from Phoronix: The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system. For those wanting to "-march=native" your Linux kernel build on AMD/Intel x86_64 processors, the new CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option can be easily enabled for... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 20:45 EDT

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that LaLiga's ISP blocking campaign -- intended to stop football piracy -- has caused widespread collateral damage by blocking millions of unrelated websites, including emergency services, in Spain. He called the strategy "bonkers" and expressed fear that lives could be lost due to the overblocking. TorrentFreak reports: Posting to X last week, Prince asked if anyone wanted any general feedback, declaring that he felt "in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 20:02 EDT

German Court Sends VW Execs To Prison Over Dieselgate Scandal

A German court has sentenced two former Volkswagen executives to prison and handed suspended sentences to two others for their roles in the Dieselgate emissions scandal, marking the conclusion of a nearly four-year fraud trial. Politico reports: The former head of diesel development was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, and the head of drive train electronics to two years and seven months by the court in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 19:20 EDT

Musi Says Evidence Shows Apple Conspired With Music Industry On App Store Ban

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For millions of music fans, the most controversial app ban of the past year was not the brief TikTok outage but the ongoing delisting of Musi from Apple's App Store. Those users are holding out hope that Musi can defeat Apple in court and soon be reinstated. However, rather than coming to any sort of resolution, that court fight has intensified... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 18:40 EDT

Salesforce Acquires Informatica For $8 Billion

After a year of rumors, Salesforce has officially acquired cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion equity deal. "Under the terms of the deal, Salesforce will pay $25 in cash per share for Informatica's Class A and Class B-1 common stock, adjusting for its prior investment in the company," notes TechCrunch. From the report: Informatica was founded in 1993 and works with more than 5,000 customers across more... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 18:00 EDT

OnePlus Is Replacing Its Alert Slider With an AI Button

OnePlus is replacing its iconic Alert Slider with a new customizable "Plus Key" on the upcoming OnePlus 13s, which launches the new AI Plus Mind feature that lets users capture and search content found on screen. This update is part of a broader AI push for its devices that includes tools like AI VoiceScribe for call summaries, AI Translation for multi-modal language support, and AI Best Face 2.0 for photo... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 17:20 EDT

Washington Consumers Will Gain 'Right To Repair' Cellphones, Other Electronics

An anonymous reader quotes a report : Washington is joining a growing list of states trying to tear down barriers for consumers who want to repair their electronics rather than buy new ones. Gov. Bob Ferguson last week signed the state's new "Right to Repair" policy, House Bill 1483, into law. It was a yearslong effort to get the law approved. "This is a win for every person in Washington... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 16:45 EDT

Qualcomm-Funded Study Finds Qualcomm's Modems Outperform Apple's C1 Chip in Real-World Tests

A Qualcomm-commissioned study found that Apple's inaugural C1 modem, debuting in the iPhone 16e, significantly underperformed compared to Qualcomm-powered Android devices in challenging network conditions. The research by Cellular Insights tested devices on T-Mobile's 5G network in New York City, where Android phones achieved download speeds up to 35% faster and upload speeds up to 91% quicker than the iPhone 16e. The performance gap widened when networks were congested or... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 16:00 EDT

Panasonic's New Laptops Could Be the Final Death Knell For the Humble VGA Port

An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier today, Panasonic announced refreshed models of its long-established Let's Note laptop series. However, for the first time in its history, we have a Let's Note portable that doesn't have a VGA port. According to a report by Nikkei Japan, this is probably the beginning of the end for laptops sporting VGA output, with "other companies to follow suit." A number of factors have... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 15:20 EDT

Texas Adopts Online Child-Safety Bill Opposed by Apple's CEO

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an online child safety bill, bucking a lobbying push from big tech companies that included a personal phone call from from Apple CEO Tim Cook. From a report: The measure requires app stores to verify users' ages and secure parental approval before minors can download most apps or make in-app purchases. The bill drew fire from app store operators such as Google and Apple, which... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 14:40 EDT

Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing

Marvel Entertainment and DC Comics have announced their first crossover event since 2003's JLA/Avengers, featuring Deadpool and Batman in dual one-shot publications launching later this year. Deadpool/Batman one-shot launches September 17 and follows Wade Wilson hired for a Gotham City job that puts him against Batman. DC's Batman/Deadpool counterpart launches in November. Both publications will include additional "backup adventures" featuring other character matchups, though creative teams for those rema Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 14:00 EDT

'AI Role in College Brings Education Closer To a Crisis Point'

Bloomberg's editorial board warned Tuesday that AI has created an "untenable situation" in higher education where students routinely outsource homework to chatbots while professors struggle to distinguish computer-generated work from human writing. The editorial described a cycle where assignments that once required days of research can now be completed in minutes through AI prompts, leaving students who still do their own work looking inferior to peers who rely on technology.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 13:21 EDT

CISA Loses Nearly All Top Officials

Multiple readers shared the following report about the executive departures at CISA: Virtually all of the top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have departed the agency or will do so this month, according to an email obtained by Cybersecurity Dive, further widening a growing void in expertise and leadership at the government's lead cyber defense force at a time when tensions with foreign adversaries are escalating.... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 12:40 EDT

GLP-1 Drug Use Surges 600% as 2% of Americans Take Weight-Loss Medications

An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 2% of Americans are taking the blockbuster class of GLP-1 drugs for overweight or obesity, up nearly 600% over six years, according to a report from FAIR Health given to Axios first. The data from FAIR Health's repository of over 51 billion commercial healthcare claim records shows the explosion in use of the drugs specifically for weight loss -- roughly half of... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 12:00 EDT

Cancer-Fighting Immune Cells Could Soon Be Engineered Inside Our Bodies

Researchers are developing techniques to genetically modify cancer-fighting immune cells directly inside patients rather than in expensive laboratory facilities, potentially making CAR-T therapy accessible to far more people. Current CAR-T treatments require removing a patient's T cells, shipping them to specialized facilities for genetic engineering, then returning them weeks later at costs around $500,000 per dose. The new "in vivo" approaches use viral vectors or RNA-loaded nanoparticles to deliver gen Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 11:20 EDT

Adidas Warns of Data Breach After Customer Service Provider Hack

German sportswear giant Adidas disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked a customer service provider and stole some customers' data. From a report: "adidas recently became aware that an unauthorized external party obtained certain consumer data through a third-party customer service provider," the company said. "We immediately took steps to contain the incident and launched a comprehensive investigation, collaborating with leading information security experts." Adidas added that the stolen informatio Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 10:40 EDT

Everybody's Mad About Uno

More than 50 years after its debut, Uno has achieved unprecedented popularity among adults, but its resurgence is creating problems and confusions as players disagree on fundamental rules. WSJ, in a fun story [non-paywalled source]: Think politics divides? Try mixing competitors with different views on stacking "action" cards, or getting everyone to agree on the true power of the Wild card. And nobody can seem to decide whether staples of... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 10:02 EDT

Browser Company Abandons Arc for AI-Powered Successor

The Browser Company has ceased the active development of its Arc browser to focus on Dia, a new AI-powered browser currently in alpha testing, the company said Tuesday. In a lengthy letter to users, CEO Josh Miller said the startup should have stopped working on Arc "a year earlier," noting data showing the browser suffered from a "novelty tax" problem where users found it too different to adopt widely. Arc... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 05/27/2025 08:07 EDT

25% iPhone Tariff Insufficient To Drive US Production Shift, Morgan Stanley Says

President Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on smartphone imports including iPhones would not provide enough economic incentive for Apple to relocate US-bound iPhone production to domestic facilities, according to a new Morgan Stanley note viewed by Slashdot. The tariff threat, announced Friday via social media, appeared to target Apple's recent shift of iPhone production from China to India through its contract manufacturing partners. Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that establishing... Read more ›

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