Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper’s satellite broadband Summary Amazon’s Project Kuiper demonstrated download speeds peaking at around 1.28 Gbps in a staged speedtest, with an average…
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results Summary ESET researchers have uncovered GhostRedirector, a China-aligned cyber‑crime crew that has compromised at least 65 Windows servers to run SEO…
Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website Summary An investigation by Canada’s National Observer found that Google quietly removed a prominent net-zero-by-2030 pledge from its Sustainability website, demoting it from…
Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s India arm has begun offering in‑app “digital tasks” to rideshare and delivery drivers so they…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety Summary The Attorneys General of California and Delaware have written to OpenAI’s board demanding stronger safeguards to protect children after…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices – Slashdot Summary Alphabet’s Google has been fined $3.45 billion by the European Commission for anticompetitive behaviour in its…
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market capitalisation has stayed roughly flat at about $25 billion over the past decade, even as rivals such as Hitachi, Sony and…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is blocking access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from countries it regards as adversarial, explicitly…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth among a…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational, first-of-its-kind research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed…
