Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from the Washington Times: Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff [back to 6.1%] on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports to Canada, growing to about 70,000 over five years. Prior to the 100% ..

After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.

Weebits ReRAM shows higher speed, density, and reliability than flash memory, gaining backing from TI and industry-wide attention.

X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to Xs developer platform page , there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints thats caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page. That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector . The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, Xs website loaded partially and only ..

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.

IKEA's upcoming smart lamp just randomly popped up on its website.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported record fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects AI chip demand to continue for years. During an earnings call, CEO C.C. Wei told investors that while he cannot predict the semiconductor industry's long-term trajectory, he remains bullish on AI. "All in all, I believe in my point of view, the AI is real -- not only real, it's starting to grow into our daily life. And ..

Google has filed its appeal to the Department of Justices antitrust case that ended with a federal judge ruling that the company was maintaining a monopoly with its search business. While the company goes through the appeals process, its also asking that implementation of the remedies from the case, which include a requirement that Google share search data with its competitors, also be paused. As we have long said, the Courts August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because ..

TikTok's new age detection system will attempt to keep users under the age of 13 off the platform.

WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.

Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.

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After countless rumors, OpenAI has confirmed that ads are coming to ChatGPT and they'll be a part of conversations. Here's how they will work and how you can opt out.

DDR5 prices surged dramatically in late 2025, then stabilized at extreme levels as buyers resisted further increases in high-capacity kits.

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The prospect of Britain realigning its financial rules with the European Union has passed, and the country should avoid linking its regulations to any single jurisdiction, the ambassador for London's financial services sector told Reuters. Nearly a decade after Brexit, newly appointed Lady Mayor of London Susan Langley said that while maintaining dialogue with the EU remained important -- particularly on defence -- Britain should work with all nations that ..

OpenAI said ads would not influence ChatGPT's responses and that it will "never" sell user data to advertisers.

Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12 Micron broke snowy winter ground in New York on Friday to begin building a chip fab that promises to bring up to 50,000 jobs and much-needed computer memory production to US shores, as the AI boom continues to push memory prices up.

This little power station can keep your stuff topped up, plus you can save some cash on solar panels.

Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.

MediaTek brought two new chipsets, the Dimensity 9500s and Dimensity 8500, aimed at high-end smartphone markets, although it's unclear which smartphone they will power at this time.

Today we filed our notice to appeal the DOJ Search decision, and asked the Court to pause some of the remedies while that appeal is heard.As we have long said, the Court

Google adds plus-minus controls for resizing Android widgets.

A new study from Cornell and University of Toronto researchers has found that polyester microfibers shed from synthetic clothing during laundry can interfere with cherry tomato plant development [non-paywalled source] when these particles accumulate in agricultural soil. Plants grown in contaminated soil were 11% less likely to emerge, grew smaller and took several days longer to flower and ripen. Household laundry is a leading source of this contamination. Treated sewage sludge retains roughly ..

Wikipedia reminds us how important it is for AI training, which is why many tech firms pay for enterprise subscriptions.

If you're looking to up your privacy game on the internet in the new year, you can do so for a little less than usual thanks to ExpressVPN's latest deal. Its two-year plans are up to 78 percent off right now: the Advanced tier is on sale for $101 for two years, plus four additional free months. That works out to $3.59 per month during the promotional period. Weve consistently liked ExpressVPN because its fast, easy to use and widely available across a large global server network. In fact, it's ..

A researchers' propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students -- and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory, according to an analysis of thousands of current and former PhD students and their mentors. From a report: Science involves taking risks, and some of the most impactful discoveries require taking big bets. However, scientists and policymakers have raised concerns that the current academic system's emphasis on short-term outcomes encourages ..

CyberGhost is the middle child of the Kape Technologies VPN portfolio, but in quality, it's much closer to ExpressVPN than Private Internet Access. I mainly put it on my best VPN list because it's so cheap, but I wouldn't have done that if it didn't earn its place in other ways affordable crap is still crap, after all. My universal impression of CyberGhost is a VPN that's not perfect but is always genuinely working to make itself better. It makes decisions based on what will help its users, ..

Is a high-end SSD worth more than its weight in gold? Yes, in some cases, as storage prices follow in the footsteps of RAM.

GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.

OpenAI also plans to start testing ads in the US.

Claude Cowork , Anthropic's AI assistant for taking care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available for anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription to try. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers , who pay a minimum of $100 per month for more uses of Claude's expensive reasoning models and early access to experimental features. Now Claude Cowork is available at a cheaper price, though Anthropic notes "Pro users may hit their usage limits earlier" than ..

Many businesses have already operationalized generative AI, and are looking at the future of agentic AI within their workflows.

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT "in the coming weeks." In a blog post published Friday , the company said adult users in the US of its free and Go tiers (more on the latter in a moment) would start seeing sponsored products and services appear below their conversations with its chatbot. "Ads will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer," OpenAI said, adding any sponsored spots would not influence the answers ChatGPT generates. "Answers are optimized based on ..

An anonymous reader shares a report: A hit song has been excluded from Sweden's official chart after it emerged the "artist" behind it was an AI creation. I Know, You're Not Mine -- or Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min in Swedish -- by a singer called Jacub has been a streaming success in Sweden, topping the Spotify rankings. However, the Swedish music trade body has excluded the song from the official chart after learning it was AI-generated. "Jacub's track has been excluded from Sweden's official ..

Why isn't this just part of Wear OS?

Although X removed Groks ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce nudified deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musks 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok allegedly produced. In the court filing , St. Clair accused xAIs Grok chatbot of creating and ..

Verizon touts "expanded reach of almost 30 million fiber passings" across US.