AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access – After 34 Years
AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access — After 34 Years Summary AOL (now part of Yahoo) has announced it will discontinue its dial‑up internet service at the end of…
Microsoft Sued Over Plans to Discontinue Windows 10 Support
Microsoft Sued Over Plans to Discontinue Windows 10 Support Summary A California man has sued Microsoft over its plan to end free support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025.…
Rust’s Annual Tech Report: Trusted Publishing for Packages and a C++/Rust Interop Strategy
Rust’s Annual Tech Report: Trusted Publishing for Packages and a C++/Rust Interop Strategy Summary The Rust Foundation’s 2025 technology report highlights major security, infrastructure and interoperability advances across the Rust…
A Huge $2 Billion ‘Solar + Storage’ Project in California Powers Up
A Huge $2 Billion ‘Solar + Storage’ Project in California Powers Up Summary Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage project in the Mojave, California, is now fully online. The combined Eland 1…
KDE Calls Microsoft’s Copilot Key ‘Dumb’, Will Let You Remap It Soon
KDE Calls Microsoft’s Copilot Key ‘Dumb’, Will Let You Remap It Soon Summary KDE developers have criticised Microsoft’s new Copilot key on many laptops as a poorly thought-out addition, and…
Meteorite That Hit Home Is Older Than Earth, Scientists Say
Meteorite That Hit Home Is Older Than Earth, Scientists Say Summary Researchers examined a fragment of a rock that crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia on…
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame Summary The Slashdot post summarises an Associated Press report showing that expanding demand from AI‑heavy data centres is…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix
The Wall Street Journal analysed roughly 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared publicly between May 2023 and August 2025, reviewed more than 100 unusually long conversations, and identified dozens that exhibited delusional…
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole Summary Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University) outlines a speculative blueprint for sending gram-scale “nanocrafts”—essentially microchips on light sails—towards…
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires
Autonomous AI-Guided Black Hawk Helicopter Tested to Fight Wildfires Summary An experimental Sikorsky Black Hawk fitted with autonomous, AI-driven systems from Lockheed Martin and California software firm Rain was demonstrated…