http://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/best-sleep-headphones/These headphones were put to the test by headphone experts and sleep experts.Posted 4 days 5 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...5th-anniversary-editions/Don't expect it to be cheap.Posted 4 days 5 hours ago - 06/07/26
Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasseshttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/26...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedPeople are disabling the "recording light" on Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses — "by my count, thousands of people," says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report: STERN: "They're hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light for as much as $100. According to our reporting, folks are offering this service in at least 30 states — ...Posted 4 days 5 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...-and-help-for-june-8-827/Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for June 8, No. 827.Posted 4 days 7 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...and-help-for-june-8-1093/Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for June 8, No. 1,093.Posted 4 days 7 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...and-help-for-june-8-1815/Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for June 8, No. 1,815.Posted 4 days 7 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://slashdot.org/story/26/06/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feed"Texas has dethroned California as the state with the most Fortune 500 companies," reports the Los Angeles Times: The Fortune 500 list ranks the largest U.S. companies by revenue. This year, 57 of the top companies are headquartered in Texas, compared with California's 56. It's a reversal from two years ago when the Golden State had the pole position... ...Posted 4 days 7 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://arstechnica.com/culture/2...-moments-of-buffys-giles/Head's true geniusand that of his character, Gileslay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scenePosted 4 days 8 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feed"Can a company take away something you've already paid for?" asks the BBC. "In the world of online video games, some already do." Publishers can decide to switch off a game's servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging that practice. ...Posted 4 days 8 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark's public service broadcaster. "Denmark's TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country's history" — and the game "still has some way ...Posted 4 days 9 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/news-live/ww...-apple-live-news-updates/Apple's software event gives us an early look at new features for iOS, MacOS and more. Siri is rumored to get a major overhaul. And this is Tim Cook's last WWDC as CEO.Posted 4 days 10 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://developers.slashdot.org/s...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedYesterday 2026's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded, with 22 new winners announced in a special three-hour livestreamed ceremony! Started 42 years ago, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest, with entrants concocting convoluted programs glorying in the C programming language's subtleties, all while having some fun. And ...Posted 4 days 10 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark's public service broadcaster. "Denmark's TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country's history" — and the game "still has some way ...Posted 4 days 11 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedScience magazine reports: For decades, string theory promised a "theory of everything" that described all particles and forces as tiny vibrating strings. Physicists hoped it could also solve one of the field's deepest problems: reconciling quantum mechanics with gravity. But as string theory grew increasingly elaborate — and experimentally unreachable ...Posted 4 days 12 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/service...hone-identity-theft-scam/If a phone you didn't order arrives on your doorstep, there's a good chance someone's trying to scam you. Here's how to recognize this scam and make sure you don't get tricked.Posted 4 days 13 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA "growing wave" of Reddit's "promoted posts" are sending U.S. and European audiences to money-stealing scams that impersonate major news organizations including the BBC, the Financial Times, and The Guardian, according to new findings from Bitdefender Labs. "Domains are short-lived and rapidly rotated to evade detection," they write, noting that the ...Posted 4 days 13 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://arstechnica.com/tech-poli...em-failed-to-spot-weapon/How accurate does an AI system need to be?Posted 4 days 16 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/service...ide-your-online-activity/Private browsing mode keeps your activity out of your local browser history, but it doesn't make you invisible online.Posted 4 days 18 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedArs Technica shares some anecdotes from Steve Jobs in Exile, a new book released last month: [Author Geoffrey] Cain reminds us, in stunning detail, that Jobs' "exile" era at NeXT was not only critical to his evolution as a man and an entrepreneur, but that it mattered for the rest of us, too. The technological innovations that came out of NeXT — notably, ...Posted 4 days 20 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...nswers-for-sunday-june-7/Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 7.Posted 4 days 22 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feed"A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week," reports the Wall Street Journal. They describe the feat as "a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction." Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including ...Posted 4 days 23 hours ago - 06/07/26
http://developers.slashdot.org/s...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe University of California at Berkeley discovered the percentage of failing grades in multiple CS classes this spring "is significantly higher than past semesters," reports the campus's student newspaper. "Instructors point to students' increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as potential contributing factors." ...Posted 5 days 1 hour ago - 06/06/26
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSales have increased for Hyundai's under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, "up 16% from the same period last year." But meanwhile BYD's overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, "up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April." Through the first ...Posted 5 days 2 hours ago - 06/06/26
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSales have increased for Hyundai's under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, "up 16% from the same period last year." But meanwhile BYD's overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, "up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April." Through the first ...Posted 5 days 3 hours ago - 06/06/26
http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedFriday the Open Source Initiative welcomed the EU's new tech sovereignty package, noting that "over a third of the 29-page document is devoted to Open Source." The nonprofit OSI — maintainers of the Open Source definition — submitted their official feedback in February, and notes that "many" of their key requests were addressed, "as well as some ...Posted 5 days 5 hours ago - 06/06/26
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