AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access – After 34 Years Summary AOL (now under Yahoo/Apollo ownership) has announced it will retire its dial-up internet service at the end of…
Smartwatches Offer Little Insight Into Stress Levels, Researchers Find Summary A recent study reported by The Guardian and summarised on Slashdot finds that consumer smartwatches provide almost no reliable information…
NASA Crew-10 Astronauts Depart Space Station After Five-Month Mission Summary NASA’s Crew-10 undocked from the International Space Station after a 146-day mission and are due to splash down off the…
Japanese Company Staff Implicated In Alleged Theft of Key TSMC Technology Summary Taiwanese prosecutors have detained three current and former employees of TSMC on suspicion of stealing trade secrets tied…
Summary California’s largest utilities — led by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and partners — ran a record test during the evening peak (7pm–9pm) that tapped residential battery systems in…
KDE’s ‘Other’ Distro – KDE Linux – Now Available To Download In Pre-Alpha Summary KDE Linux is a new desktop distribution being developed by the KDE project as a showcase…
Students Have Been Called to the Office — Or Arrested — for False Alarms from AI-Powered Surveillance Systems Summary Recent reporting (via the Associated Press) describes how AI-driven monitoring tools…
Summary General Motors says a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck travelled 1,059.2 miles on a single charge — more than double its EPA-estimated 493-mile range — in a week-long,…
Spacecraft Designed That Could Carry 2,400 People on a 400-Year Trip to Alpha Centauri Summary Engineers have proposed a conceptual multigenerational starship, dubbed Chrysalis, capable of carrying up to 2,400…
Summary An initiative called the ATOM Project (American Truly Open Models) has launched to create a U.S.-based AI lab focused on producing large, open-source AI models. Driven by concerns that…
