Amazon US Prime Sign-Ups Slow Despite Expanded Promotion, Data Shows Summary Reuters reporting reviewed by Slashdot: Amazon expanded its Prime Day promotion this year — doubling the sale to four…
What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong Summary Developer Hugo Tunius argues the sideloading debate often conflates ownership of hardware with control of the software ecosystem. When Google or Apple…
Amazon Ends Shared Prime Free Shipping Outside Your Home Summary Amazon is ending the option that allowed Prime members to share free shipping with people who do not live in…
YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren’t Watching From the Same Address Summary YouTube has been sending notices that some Premium family-plan accounts will be paused for 15…
Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation Summary A new study published in Nature Communications finds that roughly 75% of the long-term decline in dry-season rainfall across the Amazon is…
Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing ‘Cathedrals of Complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building needlessly intricate solutions that bypass…
Summer 2025 is the Warmest on Record for the UK Summary Provisional Met Office statistics confirm summer 2025 (1 June–31 August) is the warmest on record for the UK. The…
New Study Proves EVs Are Always Cleaner Than Gas Cars Summary The University of Michigan released a lifecycle analysis showing that electric vehicles (EVs) produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than…
Hackers Threaten To Submit Artists’ Data To AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up Summary Ransomware actors identifying as LunaLock claim to have breached Artists&Clients, a platform linking independent…
Google Gets To Keep Chrome But Is Barred From Exclusive Search Deals, Judge Rules Summary U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued a ruling in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case…
