Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this report from Agence France-Presse: Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients within months. Pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma said it received the green light for the manufacture and sale of Amchepry, its Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain. Japan's ..

March 7 (Reuters) - Caitlin Kalinowski, head of robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday, citing concerns about the company's agreement with the Department of Defense. Read full story

A new generation of home machines has made good old drip coffee a place for connoisseurs. For more than a year, the Four is the source of my morning cup.

In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they "care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together," so this "wasn't an easy call," but offered this reason for resigning: AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was ..

Here comes another disappointment for ChatGPT users . As first reported by Sources ' Alex Heath, OpenAI is yet again delaying its "adult mode" for ChatGPT. A company spokesperson told Heath that "we're pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now." More specifically, OpenAI's spokesperson said that things like "gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive" were being ..

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN and it's so faint, it's almost invisible: CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called "dark galaxies," which are believed to contain few or no stars.... [Post-doctoral astrophysics/statistics fellow Dayi Li at the University of Toronto was lead author on a study about ..

Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according to new research . NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a press release that this "marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." It's a promising result as scientists work to find a feasible method of defending Earth from ..

Here's our guide on a super simple way to stream UFC 326 for $1 from anywhere in the world, with Holloway vs Oliveira 2 set to decide the BMF title.

"It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal. The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization. Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, ..

OpenAI is going to need to find a new head of robotics. Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's now-former head of robotics, posted on X that she was resigning from her role, while criticizing the company's haste in partnering with the Department of Defense without investigating proper guardrails. Kalinowski, who previously worked at Meta before leaving to join OpenAI in late 2024, wrote on X that "surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are ..

Attackers deliberately crash browsers, impersonate IT staff, and convince employees to install malicious tools that deploy Havoc malware across corporate systems.

Sony may be experimenting with dynamic pricing for its PlayStation Store

Much like flagship smartphones, flagship wireless earbuds have reached a plateau. Refinement is the name of the game in the premium TWS market, with new models focusing on improved audio tuning, better noise cancellation and squeezing an additional hour or two of battery life. Thats the short story of the Huawei FreeBuds Pro 5, which recently made their global debut. Weve been using them for over a week ahead of their launch and found them to be a great option with superb sound, potent ANC and ..

"Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region's waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire," reports CNN, "erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. "The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems." Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and ..

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam. The best part? It actually plays really well, without any issues.

The RTX 5070 offers strong 1440p performance, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for Nvidias latest features like DLSS 4 and Reflex 2.

Following in the footsteps of Australia , Indonesia will be the latest country to limit social media usage for children under 16. Meutya Hafid , Indonesia's communication and digital affairs minister, announced that a new government regulation will require "high-risk" platforms to delete any accounts from Indonesia that are under 16, starting on March 28. Hafid said in the announcement that the implementation would be done in stages, starting with major platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, ..

"Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. "The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today's 4+TB per disk toward 10TB per disk, eventually enabling 100TB-class drives." In a one-exabyte deployment, Seagate ..

Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026.

OpenAI is delaying its "adult mode" for ChatGPT

Compals AI Book concept replaces the palm rest with a color E-Ink touchscreen that remains visible when the lid is closed, raising durability concerns.

"Reservation holders, it's finally time to get ready," writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports: Aptera Motors, "the little startup that could," announced another important milestone... completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California... While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume assembly process, its successful operation represents the startup's transition from hand-built ..

It looks increasingly likely that we'll see the Samsung XR glasses before the end of the current year.

Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on March 6 in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking a refund of tariffs it paid under President Donald Trump's executive orders.

AMD's VP of AI software vibe coded the driver entirely using Claude Code, but it's meant for testing, not for deployment to users.

Renders of the Oppo Find N6, that surfaced last month, showed the smartphone in three colors. Now, a new set of Find N6 renders has surfaced, giving us our best look yet at the smartphone and showing the foldable in new colors. These renders, shared by reliable leakster Evan Blass, show the Oppo Find N6 in three new colors, including orange, because of course. Oppo Find N6's leaked renders Blass didn't share any other details about the Oppo Find N6; however, Oppo previously confirmed that Find ..

Roblox has launched a feature powered by AI that can rephrase inappropriate language in real time. The online game has been using AI filters to block out any language that goes against its policy for a while now, but it has been replacing censored chats with a series of hash signs (####). Roblox admits that encountering too many hashmarks can be disruptive and make conversations hard to follow. This new feature will instead replace words and phrases with what the AI deems as more appropriate ..

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report. Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran in the early hours of ..

Hardware shortages might delay 2026 release of Valve's Steam Machine

A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery.

Samsung sedia menambah sejumlah ciri-ciri berasaskan kecerdasan buatan pada peranti mereka, dan melalui Galaxy S26 terbaru, mereka menambah lebih banyak ciri, termasuk integrasi Perplexity. Tidak setakat itu, pihak Samsung turut mengatakan mereka sedang meneroka lebih banyak ciri berasaskan AI untuk ditambah pada peranti mereka. Salah satunya adalah untuk menggunakan sokongan sempoicara (vibe-coding) dalam menyesuaikan sejumlah []

Nothing Malaysia has just announced the launch date of its latest Phone (4a) series and Headphones (a). Let's take a quick look at them. The post Nothing Malaysia introduces brand-new Phone (4a) series and Headphones (a) appeared first on Nasi Lemak Tech .

Its a busy time for the reviews team and Engadget, and with Apple announcing new devices this week, we arent letting up any time soon. New products from Samsung, Dell, Google and ASUS headline the roundup this time, and weve got a few unique items to discuss as well. Read on to catch up on anything you mightve missed, including the latest installment of Pokmon. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra This years Samsung flagship phone may not impress you with a load of new features, but theres one in ..

After HBO and DC Studios debuted Lanterns' first teaser, these are the things I'm most curious about.

Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs, could freeze hiring for cloud division

You need to sort out that rats nest of cables under your desk. These cable management tips and products can help you do it.

Iran's government cut internet connectivity shortly after start of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.