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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 14:21 EDT

Samsung is Rolling Out a Smartphone Subscription Next Month

An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Samsung is finally ready to roll out a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it might not look like what we were expecting. According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice chair Han Jong-hee has confirmed that the company's AI Subscription Club, which launched last December for some of Samsung's home appliances in South Korea, will soon roll out to both Galaxy... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 13:41 EDT

Boxed Video Game Sales Collapse in UK as Digital Revenues Flatten

An anonymous reader shares a report: As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of $3 billion -- the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation -- the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The most significant decline was in boxed video game sales, down 35%. Data from Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) puts the total worth of... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 13:01 EDT

Microsoft Kills Free OneDrive Storage Loophole

Microsoft will begin enforcing storage limits on unlicensed OneDrive accounts from January 27, 2025, ending a loophole that allowed organizations to retain departed employees' data without cost. Data from accounts unlicensed for over 93 days will move to recycle bins for another 93 days before permanent deletion, unless under retention policies. Archived data retrieval will cost $0.60 per gigabyte plus $0.05 monthly per gigabyte. Organizations must either retrieve data, add... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 12:22 EDT

Japan Says Chinese Hackers Targeted Its Government and Tech Companies For Years

The Japanese government published an alert on Wednesday accusing a Chinese hacking group of targeting and breaching dozens of government organizations, companies, and individuals in the country since 2019. From a report: Japan's National Police Agency and the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity attributed the years-long hacking spree to a group called MirrorFace. "The MirrorFace attack campaign is an organized cyber attack suspected to be linked... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 11:41 EDT

Six Big US Banks Quit Net Zero Alliance

An anonymous reader shares a report: The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry's net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action. JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored net zero banking alliance (NZBA), following Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. All six... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 11:01 EDT

MoviePass Ex-Chief Pleads Guilty To Fraud Over 'Unlimited' Cinema Scheme

Former MoviePass CEO Theodore Farnsworth has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy charges for misleading investors about the movie subscription service's "unlimited plan" and its parent company's capabilities, U.S. prosecutors said. Farnsworth falsely claimed the $9.95 monthly unlimited movie plan was sustainable and that Helios & Matheson Analytics could monetize subscriber data through artificial intelligence, knowing both statements were untrue. He faces up to 20 years in prison for... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 10:20 EDT

Nvidia's Huang Says His AI Chips Are Improving Faster Than Moore's Law

Nvidia's AI chips are advancing faster than Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry's historical performance benchmark, according to chief executive Jensen Huang. "Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore's Law," Huang told TechCrunch. Nvidia's chips have improved thousand-fold over the past decade, outpacing Moore's Law's prediction of doubled transistor density every year, Huang said. He adds: We can build the architecture, the chip, the system, the libraries, and the algorithms... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 09:40 EDT

Nvidia's Huang Says 'Very Useful' Quantum Computers Likely Decades Away

Nvidia founder and chief executive Jensen Huang believes "very useful" quantum computers are likely decades away, tempering expectations for the emerging technology. "If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that would probably be on the early side. If you said 30, it's probably on the late side," Huang said during Nvidia's analyst day. "If you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 09:00 EDT

Akamai To Quit Its CDN in China

An anonymous reader shares a report: Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it's finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom. News of Akamai's decision to end CDN services in China emerged in a letter it recently published and sent to customers and partners that opens by reminding them the company has a "commitment to providing world-class delivery and... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 08:00 EDT

Pre-Lunch Coffee Drinkers Enjoy Lower Risk of Death, Analysis Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: People who get their coffee hit in the morning reap benefits that are not seen in those who have shots later in the day, according to the first major study into the health benefits of the drink at different times. Analysis of the coffee consumption of more than 40,000 adults found that morning coffee drinkers were 16% less likely to die... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 05:00 EDT

Chinese RISC-V Project Teases 2025 Debut of Freely Licensed Advanced Chip Design

China's Xiangshan project aims to deliver a high-performance RISC-V processor by 2025. If it succeeds, it could be "enormously significant" for three reasons, writes The Register's Simon Sharwood. It would elevate RISC-V from low-end silicon to datacenter-level capabilities, leverage the open-source Mulan PSL-2.0 license to disrupt proprietary chip models like Arm and Intel, and reduce China's dependence on foreign technology, mitigating the impact of international sanctions on advanced processors. From... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/08/2025 02:00 EDT

Scientists Find 'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement Within Individual Protons

Scientists have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons are quantum entangled, challenging traditional views of proton structure and revealing a more complex, dynamic system influenced by strong interactions. Space.com reports: Entanglement is the aspect of quantum physics that says two affected particles can instantaneously influence each other's "state" no matter how widely separated they are -- even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Albert Einstein founded... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 22:30 EDT

Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler's. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fixler took to... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 20:25 EDT

Science Paper Piracy Site Sci-Hub Shares Lots of Retracted Papers

The shift from paywalled to open-access scientific publishing is progressing, driven in part by platforms like Sci-Hub -- a website that allows users to upload PDFs of published papers and share them with anyone. While the shadow library website has faced ongoing attempts by publishers to block access, it has another problem: the platform features many outdated or retracted papers that could spread misinformation or flawed findings. Ars Technica reports:... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 19:40 EDT

Man Used ChatGPT To Plan Las Vegas Cybertruck Blast

According to police, the man killed in the January 1st Las Vegas Cybertruck blast used ChatGPT to plan the explosion. The Hill reports: In a press conference, Tuesday, Las Vegas police released more details of the intentions of 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, who died of a gunshot wound prior to the car exploding. Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said it was concerning that Livelsberger used ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence model... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 19:02 EDT

Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS

At CES 2025 today, Lenovo introduced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console. It marks the first officially licensed handheld that comes pre-loaded with Valve's Arch Linux based SteamOS operating system. Phoronix reports: This first officially licensed SteamOS handheld is making use of the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC with Radeon 700M graphics, an 8-inch 1200p LCD touchscreen with VRR support, up to 32GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, up to 1TB... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 18:20 EDT

Lenovo's Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Laptop screens can feel cramped. But what if you could magically get more real estate without having to carry around a portable monitor? That's precisely the purpose of Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC -- yes, rollable. It has an OLED display that, with the push of a button, extends the 14-inch screen upward to make for an awkward aspect... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 18:00 EDT

Review Roundup: OnePlus 13

The OnePlus 13 launched in the North American market today, making it the first flagship smartphone of 2025. As the smartphone market continues to consolidate, it has become increasingly difficult for non-Samsung, Google, and Apple devices to gain significant traction in the competitive U.S. market. Nevertheless, OnePlus has continually released premium flagship-tier devices at relatively modest price points, hoping to pry users away from the Big Tech monoliths. The OnePlus... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 17:40 EDT

Nvidia Launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: From the $2,000 RTX 5090 To the $549 RTX

"Nvidia has officially introduced its highly anticipated GeForce 50 Series graphics cards, accompanied by the debut of DLSS 4 technology," writes Slashdot reader jjslash. "The lineup includes four premium GPUs: the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are slated for release on January 30, with the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti following in February. TechSpot recount of the Jensen Huang keynote tries to differentiate between dubious performance claims and actual... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/07/2025 17:00 EDT

Big Landlord Settles With US, Will Cooperate In Price-Fixing Investigation

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US Justice Department today announced it filed an antitrust lawsuit against "six of the nation's largest landlords for participating in algorithmic pricing schemes that harmed renters." One of the landlords, Cortland Management, agreed to a settlement "that requires it to cooperate with the government, stop using its competitors' sensitive data to set rents and stop using the same algorithm as... Read more ›

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