The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..." [While optimists expect] huge corporate profits and a society-wide boost to wealth and well-being... questions about that AI vision are now growing more urgent: When, if ever, will this payoff arrive? And what will the fallout be for Americans ..

Unitree unveiled the AS2-W robotic vehicle featuring advanced AI, rugged mobility, and specifications attracting military interest after recent joint exercises.

Disneys EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival topiaries may look like simple decorations, but each living character sculpture is an eight-month engineering project involving 3D models, custom steel frames, precision irrigation, and Disney horticulture expertise.

"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku. Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52) The bundle is pay- what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD, ..

Etched secured SK Hynix backing at a $10.3 billion valuation while expanding custom AI inference hardware using Low Voltage Inference technology.

iQOO launched the Z11 Lite last month, and a few days ago, a media report claimed that the brand was planning to launch the Z11 in India. That report has turned out to be correct, as iQOO India's CEO Nipun Marya has teased the launch of the Z11. In a post on X, Marya said, "DO NOT READ THE FIRST LETTER OF EVERY LINE," and wrote seven lines after that, whose first letters were Z, E, L, E, V, E, and N. Well, that's Z11. DO NOT READ THE FIRST LETTER OF EVERY LINE. Zero spoilers from me. Everything ..

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports: The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far ..

Ukraine receives Stone Cloak technology rights from Britain, allowing domestic production of tablet-sized electronic warfare devices designed against enemy drones.

After nearly 1,000 miles with Comma 4 in a Ford F-150 Lightning, I found an open-source driver-assistance system that made me skip Ford's $500-a-year BlueCruise subscription.

Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of the global memory shortage on the company's business." During Apple's third quarter earnings call, Cook said the company paid significantly more for memory in the quarter and expects that to further increase in the current period. And while Apple is able to offset some of that price jump, it won't be able to tackle it all... The CEO said that iPhone and Mac sales outpaced ..

AI firms buy and destroy rare pre-2022 books to create clean training data, concealing purchases through NDAs while courts approve the practice.

Hidden white text in a Word document can make Copilot rewrite your figures and copy itself into the finished file.

There are times when a physical connection will perform better than a Wi-Fi hotspot. Here's when you want to use USB tethering, and how.

That "Domain for Sale" page you closed without reading may have fingerprinted your device on the way in.

The Social Media Victims Law Center accused the companies of creating addictive and dangerous platforms.

Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of its bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and was carefully moved into place over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Meta redesigned its storage architecture with SSD caching and faster metadata access, dramatically reducing AI loading times while improving GPU utilisation.

iPhone stickers are a clever way to make conversations more personal and fun, but a good sticker library requires creating new and deleting old, overused ones.

Billionaire Michael Dell reminisced about the early days of his company, sharing an early quarterly earnings report that showed the then-startup making nearly $135,000 in just three months. Dell says that that document changed his life, as it convinced his parents that he no longer needed to go back to college and pursue his degree.

"GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports SecurityWeek, "by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long- stable releases." To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before ..

On X, Sam Altman said a "cool use case" for ChatGPT was for parents to generate podcasts' about their children's lives.

The horizontal handheld will be released in navy and orange colorways.

Apple's CarPlay is a convenient way to listen to music or safely use navigation, but it can be a finnicky system that requires the occasional troubleshooting.

A routine key update took every .de website offline worldwide, and the failure, interestingly, made global DNS queries go up, not down.

Yes, Spider-Man 4 has an end credits scene to stick around for but is it implying what I think it does?

Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices for used EVs in the U.S. "are up 5.1% from January to June 2026, according to a Recurrent analysis published this month." The trend continued into the second half of the year: Prices are up 7% year to date through mid-July, it said. Recurrent compared EVs according to the same make and model year across 108 combinations and weighted price growth according to inventory volume. ..

xAI filed a lawsuit a few days ago to prevent Minnesota's law banning 'nudify' apps from taking effect.

Last August, Motorola launched a Swarovski Edition of the Razr 60, called the Razr 2025 in North America. We now learn the brand will give the Swarovski treatment to this year's Razr 70/Razr 2026 as well, as renders of the Motorola Razr 70 Swarovski Edition have surfaced online. Last year's Razr 60 Swarovski Edition came in Pantone Ice Melt color, but this year's Swarovski Edition Razr will come in a black shade. You can see that the rear panel of the Motorola Razr 70 Swarovski Edition is ..

The automaker is gearing up to make some big changes to its EV line in the near future. Here's what to expect.

If you've been hesitating to upgrade to a modern platform because of the state of the PC hardware industry, this combo deal might be the one for you.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google's Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform's open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An issue that has come up repeatedly in the run-up to verification is what will happen to devs who can't verify because of where they live. It turns out that Google has a ..

Google rolls back Google Earth Nano Banana 2 addition one day after launch.

While the company's minimum OS specifications officially say 4GB, most PC builders know that 16GB is the bare minimum for a smooth experience on Windows 11. However, the memory chip shortage and the resurgence of 8GB laptops are likely forcing Microsoft to optimize Windows.

If you've got a drawer or box full of old cables, here are some things you can do to thin them out. You don't need that many.

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Malaysia may soon conduct trials of Starlink's Direct-to-Cell (D2C) satellite technology, which aims to extend mobile coverage to areas without existing telco towers. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil revealed that Starlink representatives have informed him of their intention to conduct a Direct-to- Cell trial in Malaysia. The technology is seen as a potential solution to mobile dead []

This month sees the arrival of an exciting gaming app for Android, and a brand new launcher.

A number of major Chinese smartphone makers have adopted silicon carbon batteries in their handsets, and now Samsung has embraced it in the new Fold lineup.

The state of New York filed a lawsuit against prediction market Kalshi on Friday.

Hardware obsoletion or ended support are significant considerations when buying a new laptop, so just how long can you expect a new MacBook to last?