Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non- English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often ..

The DJI Osmo 360 is an excellent example of how to do a 360-degree camera system right. Its massive optional selfie stick is overkill for most people. DJI Osmo 360 and accessories Apple has, in recent years, made its iPhones more useful for videography. However, while it has features like Action Mode to make it useful for filming fast activities, it's still not exactly the best choice for some more hazardous situations. In cases where someone wants to ski down a mountain, the action camera is ..

"Nuclear AI startup" Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, "three times the amount typically consumed by New York City." Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, political connections that some investors found it irresistible. ..

Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker and every other rain- enhancement company has been up against the ..

"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet paid for itself. That means AI might be killing jobs not ..

It's like Microsoft's Clippy, but useful.

Cursor AI agent deleted a production database and backups in nine seconds, exposing serious flaws in API design and backup isolation

Apple launched the M4 chip-powered Mac Mini in 2024, with its base model having 256GB of storage. This model went out of stock on Apple's online store last month in some countries, including the US, and has now been removed from Apple's website worldwide. As a result, the new base storage for the M4 Mac Mini on Apple's website is 512GB, which costs $799 with the default 16GB RAM option. There are two more RAM options - 24GB and 32GB. If you want more storage, you can upgrade to 1TB or 2TB. If ..

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price solved or prompted ChatGPT to solveconcerns special ..

Mark Zuckerberg backs $500 million push to build AI models of human cells as part of long-term effort to cure disease.

Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus "was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard," reports the Los Angeles Times, "after a tug- of-war with a security guard." The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards, giggling and gasping to catch their breath while church members scream at them to leave. On their way out ..

The cars made at the Giga Shanghai factory start at $39,490 CAD, or roughly $29,000 in USD for a Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive variant.

Amid global RAM shortages and supply chain constraints, Apple bumped its cheapest Mac Mini option.

This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients. But that same hardware, with different software, can also flag the conditions that drive so many ..

Steam on Linux use in March "had skyrocketed to 5.33%..." reports Phoronix, "easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago." So what happened in April? [April's results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it's roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two years ago for April 2024, Steam on Linux was at 1.9%. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Meta is investing in space solar and long-duration storage to enable a continuous clean energy supply for data centers despite major uncertainties.

Instagram will mark accounts ineligible for recommendations if they reupload other people's content.

It seemed like what really captivated Wall Street though was corporate earnings.

Sony increased prices for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles, following its move last month to make brand-new models more expensive.

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

Perplexity's Personal Computer arrived on Mac first because it was the best for locally deploying the agentic AI platform, the company has declared. An example of Perplexity Personal Computer at work, from a promotional video During Apple's quarterly financial results . CFO Kevan Parekh referenced to the growing use of the Mac as a base of operations for AI platforms. Parekh namechecked Perplexity as one such company, taking advantage of Apple Silicon and its unified memory structure. Ahead of ..

The once-a-year free comic book giveaway "is splitting in two," according to a local news report. Launched in 2002 by Diamond Comic Distributor, comic book giants like Marvel and DC have historically participated together. But things changed after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankrupt in 2025, "leaving other companies to swoop in and pick up where Diamond left off." The rights to the "Free Comic Book Day" brand were sold to Universal Distribution, which plans to bring Free Comic Book Day ..

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A French retailer is willing to sell you defective RTX 5090s for half of what they cost new, on the condition that you'll be able to repair or recycle them. You can either get a random 5090 variant, depending on stock, for around $1,760 or pay almost $2,000 specifically for an MSI Ventus 3X OC model. The units come with transport-related damage.

The FCC estimates that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities.

The company has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, whose staff is joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs.

A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient temperatures despite consuming over 300 watts of power.

Apple is keen for there to be a sequel to "F1: The Movie," SVP Eddy Cue said, as the company hopes to increase its involvement with the motorsport in the future. Apple has big plans for its F1 streaming service. Image source: Apple Apple has multiple connections to Formula 1 , with it being the official broadcaster of the sport in the United States. It's also behind the Brad Pitt vehicle "F1: The Movie," which is also Apple TV's most-watched movie . With those successes in hand, Apple is ..

Tovala is a meal kit that comes with a smart oven, or a smart oven that comes with a meal kit. New family meals make it much more useful. But lord, the sodium.

Get your fill of Star Wars-themed tech that can turn your setup from Padawan to Jedi Master this May the Fourth.

Realme launched the Realme 15T last September, and its successor, the 16T, is rumored to arrive soon. While there's no word from Realme about the 16T's launch yet, a Realme device bearing model code RMX5268 and rumored to be the Realme 16T, has appeared on Geekbench with its key specs. The RMX5268 scored 784 and 2,007 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. It's listed in the benchmark database with Android 16 and 8GB RAM; however, a previous rumor claimed the 16T will ..

If you're heading to the new SKS City Mall at Johor Bahru City Centre (JBCC) with an EV, there are now EV chargers available at the basement carpark. Charge+ has deployed a total of 6x AC Charge Points located at Level B1 making this an ideal spot to charge up your EV while you shop []

Gigabytes Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibility, all for a compelling sub-$280 price.

Blockbuster movie season is almost here and we need your help to pick a winner in our 'most anticipated new film' survey.

The FCC is updating the US regulations on how many internet satellites can be put into low-orbit.

Kerajaan Indonesia kini menyatakan akan hadkan syarikat seru-pandu seperti Grab dan Gojek untuk ambil komisen maksimum sebanyak 8% sahaja daripada para pemandu. Ini adalah penurunan berbanding kadar sebelum ini yang mana syarikat seru-pandu mengambil komisen sehingga sebanyak 20%. Dengan langkah ini, para pemandu kini menjana pendapatan berjumlah minimum 92% daripada tambang perjalanan, berbanding hanya 80% []

Free WordPress plugin could slash AI web traffic data use enough to rival daily USA electricity consumption if widely adopted.

I came for privacy. I stayed for everything else.

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, took the stand and testified over the course of three days in his trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.