- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedQualcomm has acquired RISC-V startup Ventana to strengthen its CPU ambitions beyond mobile, "reinforcing its commitment and leadership in the development of the RISC-V standard and ecosystem," the company said in a press release. CRN Magazine reports: The San Diego-based company said Ventana's expertise in RISC-V, a free and open alternative to the Arm and ...Posted 1 day 3 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAdobe is integrating Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT so users can edit photos, design graphics, and tweak PDFs through the chatbot. The Verge reports: The Adobe apps are free to use, and can be activated by typing the name of the app alongside an uploaded file and conversational instruction, such as "Adobe Photoshop, help me blur the ...Posted 1 day 4 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://entertainment.slashdot.or...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, research analyst MoffettNathanson released its "Cord-Cutting Monitor Q3 2025: Signs of Life?" report. It found that the pay TV operators, including cable companies, satellite companies, and virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) like YouTube TV and Fubo, added 303,000 ...Posted 1 day 4 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedWells Fargo expects more job cuts and higher severance costs in this quarter that ends in three weeks, bank CEO and President Charlie Scharf said Tuesday at an investors conference in New York. He's also betting on AI to drive efficiency and, eventually, further workforce reduction.From a report: "As we've gone through the budgeting process, and even pre ...Posted 1 day 7 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://politics.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAs the battle over Warner Bros. Discovery grows, two Democratic lawmakers are warning that their party may try to block or unravel any acquisition by Paramount when it returns to power. Semafor: In a letter to the WBD board and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent first shared with Semafor, Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said they ...Posted 1 day 7 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAmazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026, authors who set their titles as DRM-free will see their books made available in these more open formats. From a report: The decision to use Digital Rights Management (DRM), ...Posted 1 day 8 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNew submitter emangwiro shares a report: The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations. In a statement to Ars ...Posted 1 day 9 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMeta's newly recruited AI "superstars" have developed an us-versus-them mentality against the company's longtime executive leadership, creating internal friction over whether the team should focus on catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Google or improving Meta's core advertising and social media businesses. Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old entrepreneur Mark ...Posted 1 day 10 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA study this week has found that shoppers using Instacart are often charged different prices for identical products at the same store at the same time, even when selecting in-store pickup rather than delivery. The Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports organized nearly 200 volunteers across four cities to simultaneously ...Posted 1 day 10 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNvidia has developed location verification technology that could determine which country its AI chips are operating in, Reuters reports, citing a source, a capability that may help address ongoing concerns about the smuggling of advanced semiconductors to restricted markets like China. The feature, which Nvidia has demonstrated privately in recent months ...Posted 1 day 11 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMcDonald's has pulled an AI-generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after viewers pushed back on what they called a distasteful, "AI slop"-filled take on the holidays. The 45-second ad, titled "It's the most terrible time of the year," was a satirical look at holiday chaos -- people tripping while carrying overloaded gift bags, getting tangled in ...Posted 1 day 12 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters. The department under ...Posted 1 day 13 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedalternative_right quotes a report from Phys.org: To teach robots how to become tomato pickers, Osaka Metropolitan University Assistant Professor Takuya Fujinaga, Graduate School of Engineering, programmed them to evaluate the ease of harvesting for each tomato before attempting to pick it. Fujinaga's new model uses image recognition paired with statistical ...Posted 1 day 16 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA major scientific report published Tuesday argues that sending astronauts to Mars is justified by the quest to find life and conduct research that robots alone can't achieve. "We're searching for life on Mars," said Dava Newman, a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the ...Posted 1 day 19 hours ago - 12/10/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5 billion of environmental damage per hour, according to a major UN report. Ending this harm was a key part of the global transformation of governance, economics and finance required "before collapse becomes inevitable," the experts said. The ...Posted 1 day 22 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production. It may sound well-meaning, but Slashdot reader and NERDS.xyz founder BrianFagioli isn't buying the narrative. In a report for NERDS.xyz, Fagioli writes: Instead ...Posted 2 days 9 minutes ago - 12/09/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNetflix's $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery has triggered a consumer class action claiming the merger would crush competition, erase HBO Max as a rival, and hand Netflix control over major franchises. Reuters reports: The proposed class action (PDF) was filed on Monday by a subscriber to Warner Bros-owned HBO Max who said the proposed deal ...Posted 2 days 9 minutes ago - 12/09/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLongtime Slashdot reader Randseed writes: With the likes of Google Nest, Ring, and others cooperating with law enforcement, I started to look for affordable wireless IP security cameras that I can put around my house. Unfortunately, it looks like almost every thing now incorporates some kind of cloud-based slop. All I really want is to put up some cameras, ...Posted 2 days 1 hour ago - 12/09/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food, and other basic needs. The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual "Year in Help" report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover ...Posted 2 days 2 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedCongress quietly removed provisions that would have let the U.S. military fix its own equipment without relying on contractors, despite bipartisan and Pentagon support. The Register reports: The House and Senate versions of the NDAA passed earlier both included provisions that would have extended common right-to-repair rules to US military branches, ...Posted 2 days 2 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of Apple were battered earlier this year as the iPhone maker faced repeated complaints about its lack of an artificial intelligence strategy. But as the AI trade faces increasing scrutiny, that hesitance has gone from a weakness to a strength -- and it's showing up in the stock market. Through the ...Posted 2 days 3 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAustralia's world-first ban blocking under-16s from major social platforms has come into effect. The BBC is live reporting the reactions "both from within Australia and outside it." From the report: I've been speaking to 12-year-old Paloma, who lives in Sydney and says she is "sad" about the ban. She spends between 30 minutes and two hours a day on social ...Posted 2 days 3 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThis year is set to be the world's second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024'S record-breaking heat, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday. From a report: The data is the latest from C3S following last month's COP30 climate summit, where governments failed to agree to substantial new ...Posted 2 days 4 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedMicrosoft has announced that it will raise prices on its Microsoft 365 productivity suites for businesses and government clients starting in July 2026, marking the first commercial price increase since 2022. Small business and frontline worker plans face the steepest hikes: Business Basic jumps 16.7% to $7 per user per month, while frontline worker ...Posted 2 days 5 hours ago - 12/09/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedPinduoduo in China, Shopee in Southeast Asia, and Meesho in India operate in markets that could hardly be more different -- an upper-middle-income industrial state, a stitched-together archipelago of under-banked economies, and a country where three-quarters of retail is unorganized and e-commerce penetration sits at about 7% -- yet all three have landed on ...Posted 2 days 5 hours ago - 12/09/25
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