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Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. ...

Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds

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Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tar...

Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems

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Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim...

Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from 404 Media: Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according ...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

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AI Startup Sues Ex-CEO Saying He Took 41GB of Email, Lied On Resume An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the ...

AI Startup Sues Ex-CEO Saying He Took 41GB of Email, Lied On Resume

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The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the ca...

The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation

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Florida Woman Gets Prison Time For Illegally Selling Microsoft Product Keys A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and fined $50,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of Microsoft certificate-of-authenticity labels used to activate Windows and Office. Prosecutors said she bought genuine labels cheaply from suppliers and resold them without the accomp...

Florida Woman Gets Prison Time For Illegally Selling Microsoft Product Keys

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AI Translations Are Adding 'Hallucinations' To Wikipedia Articles An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI "hallucinations," or ...

AI Translations Are Adding 'Hallucinations' To Wikipedia Articles

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IBM Scientists Unveil First-Ever 'Half-Mobius' Molecule BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: An international team of scientists has done something chemistry has never seen before. IBM, working alongside researchers from the University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the University of Regensburg, has created and character...

IBM Scientists Unveil First-Ever 'Half-Mobius' Molecule

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Congress Extends ISS, Tells NASA To Get Moving On Private Space Stations A recently-revised Senate authorization bill (PDF), co-sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz, would extend the International Space Station's lifespan from 2030 to 2032 while pushing NASA to accelerate plans for commercial space stations to replace it. Ars Technica's Eric Berger repor...

Congress Extends ISS, Tells NASA To Get Moving On Private Space Stations

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Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games An anonymous reader quotes a report from 80 Level: Microsoft has officially confirmed development of its next-generation Xbox console, currently known internally as Project Helix. While concrete details remain limited, early information suggests the company is positioning the device as a hybrid betw...

Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games

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Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," ordering federal agencies and defense contractors to stop using its AI tools after the company sought limits on the military's use of its models. In a written statement, the department said it has "officially informed Anthropic...

Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

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Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032 As part of Epic's settlement with Google over the Play Store, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney agreed to stop criticizing Google's app store practices until 2032 and even publicly support the revised policies. The deal also prohibits Epic from pushing for further changes to Google's platform rules. The Verge re...

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls OpenAI's Messaging Around Military Deal 'Straight Up Lies' An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is not happy -- perhaps predictably so -- with OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In a memo to staff, reported by The Information, Amodei referred to OpenAI's dealings with the Department of Defense as "safety theat...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls OpenAI's Messaging Around Military Deal 'Straight Up Lies'

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Amazon's Bahrain Data Center Targeted By Iran For US Military Support Iranian state media said on Wednesday that it targeted Amazon's data center in Bahrain due to the company's support of the U.S. military. The drone strike that occurred on Sunday disrupted core cloud services and caused "prolonged" outages. Two data centers in the UAE were also damaged by drone stri...

Amazon's Bahrain Data Center Targeted By Iran For US Military Support

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US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech's datacenters a...

US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters

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Jensen Huang Says Nvidia Is Pulling Back From OpenAI and Anthropic An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company's recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go p...

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia Is Pulling Back From OpenAI and Anthropic

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Solar In Poor Countries Is Creating a Huge Lead Hazard schwit1 shares a report from Slow Boring: A new report (PDF) from the Center for Global Development documents that most of [the decentralized solar/battery systems used in poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa] use lead-acid batteries, like Americans use in cars. Lead-acid batteries work for a while...

Solar In Poor Countries Is Creating a Huge Lead Hazard

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Humble Games' Former Bosses Buy the Studio's Back Catalog Former Humble Games executives have reacquired the publisher's catalog of more than 50 indie titles from Ziff Davis and relaunched their company as Balor Games. "For the developers we have worked with over the years, this moment is a reunion," Balor Games CEO Alan Patmore wrote in a statement. "[It ...

Humble Games' Former Bosses Buy the Studio's Back Catalog

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US Cybersecurity Adds Exploited VMware Aria Operations To KEV Catalog joshuark writes: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks. VMware Aria Operations is an enterprise monitoring p...

US Cybersecurity Adds Exploited VMware Aria Operations To KEV Catalog

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A Nuclear Reactor Backed By Bill Gates Gets Federal Approval To Start Building An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates received a key federal permit on Wednesday, making it the first new U.S. commercial reactor in nearly a decade to receive clearance to begin construction. The Nuclear Regu...

A Nuclear Reactor Backed By Bill Gates Gets Federal Approval To Start Building

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Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion A father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, alleging Gemini reinforced his son Jonathan Gavalas' escalating delusions until he died by suicide in October 2025. "Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google's Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip pl...

Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion

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TikTok Says End-To-End Encryption Makes Users Less Safe An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) -- the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals -- arguing it makes users less safe. E2EE means only the sender and recipient of a direct message can view its contents, making ...

TikTok Says End-To-End Encryption Makes Users Less Safe

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Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip Continuing its product launches this week, Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new, low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip. It starts at $599 and begins shipping on Wednesday, March 11. MacRumors reports: The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro deb...

Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip

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Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU Intel has formally unveiled its Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" data-center processor with up to 288 cores, built on the company's new Intel 18A process and using Foveros Direct packaging. The chip targets telecom, cloud, and edge-AI workloads with massive parallelism, large caches, and high-bandwidth D...

Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU

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New App Alerts You If Someone Nearby Is Wearing Smart Glasses A new Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses are detected nearby. The Android app, called Nearby Glasses, "launches at a time as there is an increasing resistance against always-recording or listening devices, which critics say process information ab...

New App Alerts You If Someone Nearby Is Wearing Smart Glasses

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Qualcomm CEO: 'Resistance Is Futile' As 6G Mobile Revolution Approaches At Mobile World Congress, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm argued that the coming 6G networks will power an AI-driven "agent economy," where devices and AI assistants constantly communicate across the network. "AI will fundamentally change our mobile experiences," Qualcomm chief executive, Cristiano Amon ...

Qualcomm CEO: 'Resistance Is Futile' As 6G Mobile Revolution Approaches

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ChatGPT Gets GPT-5.3 Instant Update With Less 'Cringe,' Fewer Hallucinations An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: OpenAI today updated its most popular ChatGPT model, debuting GPT-5.3 Instant. GPT-5.3 Instant is supposed to provide more accurate answers and better contextualized results when searching the web. The update also cuts down on unnecessary dead ends...

ChatGPT Gets GPT-5.3 Instant Update With Less 'Cringe,' Fewer Hallucinations

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'Game of Thrones' Movie In the Works Warner Bros. is developing a feature film set in the world of Game of Thrones with writer Beau Willimon of Andor and House of Cards. "That's about all we know right now, and as with everything 'Thrones' things could change, but the film is firmly in development," reports TheWrap. Page Six Hollywood ...

'Game of Thrones' Movie In the Works

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NASA Repairs Artemis 2 Rocket, Continues Eyeing April Moon Launch NASA is eyeing an April launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission after it repaired a helium-flow issue on the Space Launch System upper stage rocket. "Work on the rocket and spacecraft will continue in the coming weeks as NASA prepares for rolling the rocket out to the launch pad again late...

NASA Repairs Artemis 2 Rocket, Continues Eyeing April Moon Launch

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