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The Steam Controller launched earlier in the month in select international markets. And beyond its unavailability elsewhere - including locally, at least in an official capacity - it was a pretty controversy-free controller. Until recently anyway, as a user reported that the wireless puck that it comes with nearly caused a fire. For context, the [] The post Steam Controller Wireless Puck Nearly Causes Fire appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Googlebooks: Chromebooks in disguise.

Its time to prep your kit ahead of the summer season. These tools will do the job.

Gemini Intelligence for my watch, but not for my phone?

We tested open earbuds from Shokz, Sony, Bo

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

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This MacBook Air has 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD, and it's on sale for $270

It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but arent quite supermassive either. Theres finally evidence for where those came from.

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and can bypass DNS filtering and protective DNS controls, potentially enabling stealthy command-and-control communications and other evasive attacks. Dubbed "Underminr," the exploit "presents the SNI and HTTP Host of a domain," writes ..

The Alliance for Open Media, or AOMedia for short, appears to be inching closer to the final 1.0.0 release of the AV2 codec. At least, that's what the group would have us believe with the latest repository update. The more important point is that the finalised version of AV2 has seemingly received a release date, [] The post AV2 Codec Could Receive Final Specification By End Of This Month appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

PARIS, May 24 With people increasingly adopting AI to help plan their vacations, hotels are working to make...

MYTV has announced that its MYTV Mana-Mana streaming platform will undergo a transition starting 1 June 2026, resulting in the suspension of its paid subscription offerings for the time being. The announcement was made via the companys official Facebook page, although it did not provide specific details regarding the changes being planned. According to the [] The post MYTV Mana- Mana To Undergo Transition; Paid Subscriptions Suspended From June 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

As the government continues to modernise its systems, the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) has announced that it is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in the halal certification process. The aim of this move is to speed up approvals. According to JAKIM director-general Datuk Dr Sirajuddin Suhaimee, the tech will arrive with the new MyeHALAL [] The post JAKIM To Implement AI In MyeHALAL 2.0 For Faster Halal Certifications appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Barely 3 months after the Xiaomi 17 series was released in Malaysia, Xiaomi Malaysia will soon introduce its new Xiaomi 17T lineup. This is supposedly the more affordable flagship smartphone series which also offers Leica co- engineered cameras. The timing of the Xiaomi 17T launch is quite unusual as the T series flagship is usually released []

Android 17 has been in beta for a while now, but Google keeps adding new features. If you havent been following along with all the announcements, you can watch the 90-second recap video below to get the highlights. There are longer videos with details on the core Android experience, Gemini Intelligence, Android Auto and, of course, the Googlebook. Thats a lot to take in there are so many new features and new products! But did any of them get you excited which ones? Thats what we want to find ..

Tesla's upcoming Cybercab "has been certified at 165 Wh/mi," reports Electrek which makes it "the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced by a wide margin." The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which represents a certified rating not a marketing claim or internal target. It's an impressive achievement, but it comes with a massive asterisk: Tesla accomplished this ..

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development: "In the last six months, we've seen a lot more commits," Torvalds noted, estimating that "the last two releases, it's been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years.... The real change that happened in the last six months was that the AI tools actually got good enough for a lot of people... we're ..

AMOS malware spreads on macOS through social engineering, stealing credentials while researchers debate whether its threat level is truly novel.

The results from last weeks poll have us wondering do people really love the Sony Xperia 1 VIII so much or do they love phones with 3.5mm headphone jacks and microSD slots and the Xperia happens to be the only flagship to have those features? Because the results are quite positive nearly a quarter of voters are willing to spend 1,500/1,400 to get the Mark 8 and that is if they pick up the base 12/256GB unit. The 512GB and 1TB models cost more (2,000/1,850 in the case of the 1TB version). ..

This excellent little electronics project gives you a 2.8-inch retro TV that's good for gaming and videos.

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA: A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president's backing. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will work "very hard" to sign the so-called Sunshine Protection Act into law after the House Energy and ..

Lepto developed microscopic terahertz filters supporting satellite communications, 6G research, medical imaging, and experimental quantum computing applications worldwide.

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Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes: AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool... Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, which is supposedly the carrot. The stick, however, is the removal of certain debug features. The thing that's likely to hit the hobbist community the worst, however, is ..

Researchers develop a silicon photonic chip that controls quantum noise using deliberate photon loss channels to study real system behaviour experimentally.

"The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic," reports the Washington Post, "although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life... "A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs affected about 1.2% of employed people in March, a number that has been steady for years outside of the pandemic..." In the technology industry, where Meta and other ..

The AI-generated version of 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico' was on display at AIPAD's The Photography show.

The Konkr Pocket Block will be smaller than the company's previous vertical handhelds.

Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC: Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer "solely and entirely responsible" for the incident, in which flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The passenger jet stalled during a storm and plunged into the water, killing all on board. A court had ..

NASA has released the photos Psyche took when it did a flyby of Mars.

The Free Software Foundation announced this week that "its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far." (And new dates and locations are being added daily.) The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas, learn from each other, and ..

Equal1's RacQ fits seamlessly into a standard Dell frame for easy future deployment.

Trump Mobile has finally sent out a handful of golden T1 phones after months of speculation.