The Associated Press reports: On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then alerted the state's forest service and largest electric utility. One of dozens of AI cameras installed for the utility Arizona Public Service had spotted early signs of what came to be known as the Diamond Fire. Firefighters raced to the scene and contained the blaze ..

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - whats wrong at Redmond? kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft.

It's obvious from this quarter that the bubble talk has been proven wrong.

A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. "Many of humanity's most important crops including wheat, potatoes, beans contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago." "The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution." Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow from increasing their ..

A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer attachment to pound the material into shape. "It's kind of trying to replicate how a human might build an adobe house," said ..

After losing the top spot last week, the Samsung Galaxy A57 is now back as the most popular smartphone in our database for the past seven days. Better yet for Samsung, it's followed by the Galaxy S26 Ultra, while last week's champion - the Honor 600 Pro completes the podium. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14320, 1#] The Oppo Find X9 Ultra slipped to fourth with the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max hot on its heels. Newly unveiled OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra took the sixth position, while the Galaxy A17 and Infinix GT50 ..

In this week's "Sunday Reboot," Apple drives on with F1 in Miami, Q2 was a financial spectacular, and 'Ted Lasso' season 4 can't arrive fast enough. Formula 1, Apple's financials, and Apple TV Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. This week, there were rumors the Apple Vision Pro hardware team was breaking up , Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant ..

A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday's internet, Jeeves and his home, Ask.com are no more. After almost 30 years, the ..

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The U.S. finds huge lithium reserves in Appalachia that could supply billions of phones and reduce America's reliance on China.

Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aim. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports: "Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space," said Fils-Aim. "Amazon's mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart... Essentially what Amazon wanted (was an) obscene amount of support, financial support, so ..

Japanese scientists create new spin-flip material that could boost solar panel efficiency by up to 130%.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the offer could come as soon as this month.

OpenAI has new AI-generated pets for codex app to help you vibe code

The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins." Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres. The goblin-speak caught the attention of programmers, who are often heavy users of the bot. Barron Roth, a 32-year-old product manager at a tech company, said the bot referred to a flaw ..

RIP to the original AI search bot.

A trio of Club holdings report earnings. Plus, there is Corning's investor day and a fresh batch of jobs data.

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An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country's national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, "after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were 'fictitious'." Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the draft policy for public comment. [Ntshavheni] said the policy seeks to strengthen government's ability to regulate and adopt AI responsibly, while fostering innovation, job ..

A Chinese TechTuber scaled a tower PC large enough for a human to work and play in. It has air conditioning, too.

In late 2025, WhatsApp's beta version of the app hinted at an upcoming design overhaul, in line with the so-called Liquid Glass design language that Apple started using with its most recent iOS. Users started reporting small UI elements being redesigned along with the main chat screen. A new report from WABetaInfo, however, suggests that WhatsApp is almost ready to release a redesigned in-chat interface. Interestingly, the changes aren't available even to beta users, but WABetaInfo managed to ..

Nvidia is apparently discontinuing some older embedded platforms earlier than anticipated, but this is mostly about market reality finally catching up, not abrupt discontinuation.

The Apple Watch updates in watchOS 27 includes new watch faces, with Apple testing a new simpler version of the Modular Ultra for the standard model. Apple Watch Ultra 2 with Modular Ultra watch face In the run-up to WWDC in June, the rumor mill will surface leaks and speculation about Apple's software changes . One of the more frequent updates to expect is for the Apple Watch , in the form of new faces. According to Mark Gurman in Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg , Apple's update ..

This Newegg bundle offers cutting-edge performance with practical value, combining AMDs latest flagship CPU with high-end supporting components at a discounted price.

"Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year," according to a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest. But the bigger shift is how messy the ecosystem has become. Established groups like Akira and Qilin are still active, while newer players like The Gentlemen surged into the top tier with a 588 percent spike in activity. At the same time, questionable leak sites such as 0APT and ALP-001 are ..

Reports of YouTube freezing browsers and consuming massive amounts of RAM are spreading online, with developers tracing the issue to a suspected UI bug that may trigger endless layout recalculations and severe system lag.

IAC, the parent company of Ask Jeeves, is finally putting the search engine out to pasture after 30 years.

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.

AMD promotes open platforms for space AI, arguing modular systems reduce vendor lock-in risks while improving flexibility across complex multi-supplier mission environments.

Gilead is tightening its grip as Mayday's plans become clearer. But when does The Testaments episode 7 drop on Hulu and Disney+?

Anthropic has reportedly held early discussions with London-based chip startup Fractile about purchasing the company's inference accelerators.

Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.

Ask.com merupakan salah satu enjin carian atau turut dipanggil enjin jawapan yang telah diasaskan pada 1996. Ia pada awalnya dikenali dengan nama AskJeeves, sebelum dijenamakan semula kepada Ask.com. Walaupun dimulakan awal, namun perkhidmatan berkenaan dilihat menghadapi cabaran daripada pelbagai penyedia lain, terutamanya Google, sekaligus membuatkan orang ramai makin kurang menggunakannya dari hari ke hari. Perkhidmatan []

Jensen Huang says China has become a lost market for Nvidia due to U.S. sanctions, but warns that America could lose out in a broader AI competition.

Streaming made music convenient, but my iPod made it enjoyable again. Heres why I switched back.

Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: "If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it's successful and it's worth it," says Sahand. The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he carefully explains how he is part of a clandestine network smuggling satellite internet technology which is illegal in Iran into the country. Sahand, whose name we have changed, fears for family members and other contacts inside the country. "If I was ..

This $2,000 Asus laptop delivers breathtaking performance thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, but at the cost of nearly everything else.

Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.