Wikipedia describes Freenet as "a peer-to-peer platform for censorship- resistant, anonymous communication," released in the year 2000. "Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke," Wikipedia adds. (And in 2000 Clarke answered questions from Slashdot's readers...) And now Ian Clarke (aka Sanity Slashdot reader #1,431) returns to share this announcement: Freenet's new generation peer-to-peer network is now operational, along with the first application ..

Getting scammed in this day and age is no longer something to be ashamed of. It can happen to the best of us, no matter how careful and sharp you think you are. Scammers have perfected the art of social manipulation to the point that they are able to convince almost anyone to part ways [] The post Ryt Bank Does The Right Thing And Stops Scammer in Their Tracks appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

In last weeks poll about the Apple iPhone 17e, some 30% of voters say that they are not looking to buy an iPhone. Another 30% say they are looking for a new iPhone but are aiming for a more premium model. The 17e does have its fans, but it is a niche device lets break it down. Only 10% of voters are ready to buy a 17e outright and around half of that would join them if they like what they see in reviews. Speaking of, we have a review unit at the office and already posted an unboxing video. ..

Instagram will discontinue end-to-end encrypted direct messages (DMs) after 8 May 2026. The change was not announced through a press release, but instead appeared in an update to the platforms support documentation. According to the updated help page, users with affected chats will receive instructions on how to download any messages or media they wish [] The post Instagram To Drop End-To-End Encrypted DMs After 8 May 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's social media company X proposed fixes to the platform, days before a multi-million-euro fine is due to be paid. Read full story

Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI- assisted programming. It's title? "Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It." Published in the prestigious New York Times Magazine, the article even cites long-time programming guru Kent Beck saying LLMs got him going again and he's now finishing more projects than ever, calling AI's unpredictability "addictive, in a ..

As temperatures in recent years broke historical records, Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with the research nonprofit Berkeley Earth, tried to find words to describe the heat, settling on "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas." Read full story

Judging by Google Chromes massive usage figures (3.83 billion worldwide monthly active users and 68-69% share on mobile, 89% on Android), chances are you are using the browser in any form. The Samsung Browser (formerly known as the Samsung Internet Browser) is one of the more popular alternatives. It comes pre-installed on all Galaxy devices and can also be freely downloaded by anyone else from the Google Play Store. It is very powerful, with plenty of customization and some interesting extra ..

Jurors will return to court in Los Angeles Monday to resume deliberations in a landmark social media addiction trial accusing Meta and YouTube of trying to hook young internet users. Read full story

It's America's first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind turbines generating 800 megawatts. But it took a while... The plant's first construction delay happened back in 2019, they point out and then "Just three months ago, when the project was 95% complete, the U.S. Interior Department issued a stop-work order." But after successfully challenging that order in court, and "with a stretch of good weather ..

To go beyond jump scares, the director of Resident Evil Requiem has learned from Weapons, The Shining and The X-Files. Read full story

Apple has yet to utter a peep about its long-rumoured foldable iPhone, but rumours have been aplenty as of late. Not long after a couple of renders leaked, details on the devices storage options and pricing have emerged. This information on the upcoming foldable, which will allegedly carry the Ultra name, comes from serial leakster [] The post More Foldable iPhone Details Leak, Including Pricing And Storage Options appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

"Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel," writes Kotaku especially with the console's underpowered "Super FX" coprocessor Hampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth episode being cut, [1995's] Doom on the Super NES was not a good version of the game, but it was Doom ..

"Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel," writes Kotaku especially with the console's underpowered "Super FX" coprocessor Hampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth episode being cut, [1995's] Doom on the Super NES was not a good version of the game, but it was Doom ..

Plug-in (or "balcony") solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home's electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave while "displacing electricity that otherwise would come in from the grid..." But what's holding up their adoption in America? For the panels to become more widely available in the U.S., state lawmakers are proposing bills that eliminate complicated ..

A month after Seedance 2.0's launch in China sparked cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance over its use of copyrighted materials, its developer ByteDance has reportedly hit pause on the release of the AI video tool in other regions. According to The Information , which spoke to two anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, ByteDance has suspended Seedance 2.0's global rollout. Engadget has reached out to ByteDance for comment and will update this story if we hear ..

"A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers," writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versions of the devices and tested their instructions, partly to escape the full-screen ads Amazon began showing late last year, and also to overwrite Amazon's locked down Android fork "Fire OS" (and "a similarly neutered version of Linux called Vega ..

Rumors of a Samsung wide foldable have been going around for some time now. Last we saw of the device were a couple of UI animations for One UI 9. Well, according to industry insider Digital Chat Station, the device is in development and could arrive this year. In fact, it could be an entirely new device line to go alongside the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip. The source hints at a 7.6-inch internal display, probably in a 4:3 aspect ratio that will resemble a tablet when unfolded and ..

"The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change," reports MacRumors: On the U.S. English version of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps now have glyphs on them. On previous-generation models, these keys are labeled with text instead... Given the U.S. English keyboard layout is the default option for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Neo models sold in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, this ..

Don't be caught up in Oscars fever, as cybercriminals and scammers are lurking in the wings.

Last week System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized age-verification laws for operating systems but he now sees a "real possibility" Colorado's law might exclude open-source. Phoronix reports that the System76 CEO met with the state Senator who co-authored Colorado's bill, and then posted on X.com that the Senator "suggested excluding open source software from the bill." Richell: This appears to be a real possibility. Amendments are expected... It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence ..

There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal , the Trump administration is set to receive a total of $10 billion in the deal that allowed TikTok to remain in the US. The new investors who acquired stakes in the US entity of TikTok already paid a $2.5 billion fee to the administration when the deal closed in January, but WSJ 's latest report noted that the group of investors would continue ..

The deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake "paid the Treasury Department about $2.5 billion when the deal closed in January," reports the Wall Street Journal, "and are set to make several additional payments until hitting the $10 billion total." The $10 billion payment would be nearly unprecedented for a government ..

Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend A.D. Sui's The Iron Garden Sutra, a meditative horror sci-fi/fantasy and murder mystery. I don't typically gravitate toward locked room mysteries, but the description of this book ticked all the right boxes to win me over: "a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of the dead encounter something beyond human understanding." It has all the makings of a compelling murder mystery, which is fine on its own, ..

Huawei formally outed a few details regarding the Enjoy 90 Pro Max and Enjoy 90 Plus two upcoming handsets. The highlight of the reveal is probably the Whale battery, which is said to have a capacity of around 8,500 mAh. Huawei Enjoy 90 Pro Max and 90 Plus The source also expects both phones to feature a 6.84-inch, QHD+ LTPS OLED display and either a Kirin 8000 or Kirin 8020 chipset, plus 8GB of RAM and a choice between 128GB, 256GB and 512GB of storage. Huawei Enjoy 90 Plus We also get a few ..

California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2 and 2 , remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California's scarlet monkeyflower "found that many rapidly evolved... allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebound from decline." "The fact that certain organisms are able to adapt just because of genetics that are already present is a great source of hope," said Daniel Anstett, a plant biologist at Cornell University and lead author on a new study on the issue. ..

Deepfake AI voice scams are rising, spam calls overwhelm users, and many Americans demand carriers take responsibility for protection.

Meta could be preparing for one of the largest layoffs in its history, according to a Reuters report. The tech giant is planning to cut about 20 percent of its workforce, according to the outlet's sources. According to the report, neither a date nor the exact number of layoffs has been finalized yet. However, Reuters reported that Meta's top executives have told "other senior leaders" to start "planning how to pare back." In its latest financial report , the company's employee headcount was ..

Meta quietly announced the end of E2E encryption, which will terminate on May 8.

TNB Electron has been busy just before the Raya holiday season. After turning on their Wisma TNB Seremban and TNB Dua Sentral EV charging locations, the charge point operator has opened up two new locations in TNB's Headquarters in Bangsar . As per usual tradition, these EV chargers are available for free for a limited []

Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell, the companys CEO, has explained on the home page that it noticed hours after the beta launched that it was already being targeted by SEO spammers. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts, he wrote. Apparently, the Digg team wasnt ready for the scale and the speed at which bots found and started flooding the website. Mezzell said Digg banned ..

"A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli: According to research cited in Foxit's State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end users say AI tools make them feel more productive, the actual time savings shrink dramatically once people account for reviewing and validating AI-generated output. The survey of 1,000 desk-based workers and 400 executives in the United States and ..

A Redditor only paid $86.98 for a Ryzen 5 7600X, a Gigabyte B850 Eagle motherboard, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance RGB kit from Newegg. The CPU even included a free 240mm Cooler Master AIO worth $85 on its own. All these parts would typically cost $1,012, but this customer scored a combo deal for the ages.

Insiders say OpenAI will integrate Sora 2 model into ChatGPT, turbocharging the chatbot's capabilities.

March 14 (Reuters) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the company's Terafab project to make artificial intelligence chips will launch in seven days. Read full story

Digg pada era permulaan internet merupakan antara laman yang popular dan dikunjungi ramai dalam mengikuti dan menemui pautan baharu setiap hari. Digg pada awalnya dilancarkan pada 2004 yang lepas, sebelum dijual kepada Betaworks sekitar 2012, dan selepas itu ia telah merudum popularitinya dan menghilang. Tahun lepas, ia pengasas Digg, Kevin Rose menyatakan membeli semula Digg, []

Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It's plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives." But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon and is suing Texas over its ban on cell-cultivated meat, the Austin Chronicle reported this week. The company's founder says ..

We've got another significant Windows 11 bug to report, which seems to be mostly impacting Samsung laptops.

The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code editor and terminal.

Nothing officially unveiled the Phone (4a) series on March 5, and both the Nothing Phone (4a) and Nothing Phone (4a) Pro are currently listed for pre- order on Nothings website. You will officially have to wait for March 20 for the Nothing Phone (4a) and March 27 for the Pro to start shipping. That said, Nothing already held an exclusive retail drop for the non-Pro model on March 7, and now there is one scheduled for the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro as well. If you are near Bengaluru, India, on March ..