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Toyota Aims to Launch the 'World's First' All-Solid-State EV Batteries
Toyota is fast-tracking its long-promised all-solid-state EV batteries through a new partnership with Sumitomo Metal Mining, aiming to debut its first production vehicle using the technology by 2027 or 2028. Electrek reports: Toyota said that its new batteries could significantly enhance driving ra...
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs In Record DDoS
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts s...
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Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse To Use AI to 'Go 5x Faster'
A Meta executive in charge of building the company's metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to "go 5X faster," according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media. From the report: "Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%," the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaver...
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Ubisoft Cancelled a Post-Civil War Assassin's Creed Last Year
Stephen Totilo, reporting at Game File: In July of last year, word began to trickle through Ubisoft that an ambitious new installment of the company's top franchise, Assassin's Creed, had been cancelled.
The new game would have brought the history-spanning series to one of its most modern settings...
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Amazon's Giant Ads Have Ruined the Echo Show
An anonymous reader shares a report: Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign -- led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head Panos Panay coaxed out of retirement -- included two...
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OpenAI Flags Competition Concerns To EU Regulators
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Thursday the arguments it presented to EU authorities last month mirrored its public statements about competition in the AI space, particularly in the context of antitrust investigations into Alphabet's Google. The ChatGPT-maker recent...
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Rubik's Cube Gets a $299 Update, Complete With IPS Screens and Its Own Apps
The Rubik's Cube has been reimagined as a $299 tech gadget featuring 24 mini IPS screens, a gyroscope, accelerometer, speakers, and Bluetooth connectivity. Called the WOWCube, it runs its own "CubiOS" system, supports downloadable games and apps, and can transform into everything from a mini arcade ...
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· 21h
Scientists Seek To Turbocharge a Natural Process That Cools the Earth
fjo3 shares a report from the Washington Post: Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years. The company, Terradot, is spreading tons of volcanic ...
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Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish
Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study ...
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China Expands Rare Earth Export Controls To Target Semiconductor, Defense Users
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Following U.S. lawmakers' call on Tuesday for broader bans on the export of chipmaking equipment to China, China dramatically expanded its rare earths export controls on Thursday, adding five new elements, dozens of pieces of refining technology, and extr...
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Firefox Feature Gets Special Mention In TIME's Best Inventions of 2025
Mozilla Firefox's new "Shake to Summarize" feature earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, allowing users to shake their phone to instantly summarize long web pages. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, general manager of Firefox, calls it a "testament to the incredible work of our UX, design, product, and...
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New York City Sues Social Media Companies Over 'Youth Mental Health Crisis'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: The City of New York is reaching across the country to sue tech giants headquartered in California over allegations that their platforms have created a youth mental health crisis. The city, along with its school districts and health department, alleg...
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China Confirms Solar Panel Projects Are Irreversibly Changing Desert Ecosystems
An anonymous reader shares a report: China's giant solar parks aren't just changing the power mix -- they may be changing the ground beneath them. Fresh field data point to cooler soils, extra moisture, and pockets of greening, though lasting ecological shifts will hinge on design and long-term care...
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One-Man Spam Campaign Ravages EU 'Chat Control' Bill
An anonymous reader shares a report: A website set up by an unknown Dane over the course of one weekend in August is giving a massive headache to those trying to pass a European bill aimed at stopping child sexual abuse material from spreading online.
The website, called Fight Chat Control, was se...
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UK's Central Bank Warns of Growing Risk That AI Bubble Could Burst
The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a "sudden correction" in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. From a report: Policymakers said there were also threats of a "sharp repricing of US dollar assets" if the Federal Reserve lo...
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Discord Says 70,000 Users May Have Had Their Government IDs Leaked In Breach
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesperson Nu Wexler tells The Verge. A tweet by vx-underground said that the co...
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Internet Archive Ordered to Block Books in Belgium
After failed negotiations with publishers, Belgium's copyright enforcement agency has ordered the Internet Archive to block access to specific books in its Open Library within Belgium or face a 500,000-euro fine. TorrentFreak reports: Back in July, the Brussels Business Court issued a sweeping ex p...
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The World's Biggest Citizen Science Project
eBird, now the world's largest citizen science project with over 2 billion bird observations, is transforming ornithology by turning casual birders (and even TikTok-using kids) into vital contributors to global research and conservation. Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a report from Phys.or...
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EU Lawmakers Push To Ban Plant-Based Food Terms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: MEPs voted on Wednesday by 355 in favor to 247 against to reserve names such as "steak", "burger" and "sausage" exclusively for products derived from meat, a longstanding demand of farm unions. In order to come into effect, the idea would have t...
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Germany To Allow Police To Shoot Down Drones
Germany's cabinet has approved a new law allowing police to shoot down or disable rogue drones that threaten airspace security, following recent airport disruptions attributed to Russian reconnaissance. "Other techniques available to down drones include using lasers or jamming signals to sever contr...
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Polymarket Founder Is Youngest Self-Made Billionaire After Deal With NYSE Owner
Shayne Coplan, a 27-year-old NYU dropout who founded Polymarket from his bathroom in 2020, has become the youngest self-made billionaire after Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the NYSE) invested up to $2 billion in his once-controversial prediction market platform. Bloomberg reports: A couple of...
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Verizon Buys ISP Starry To Expand Wireless Broadband
Verizon is acquiring Starry, the struggling wireless ISP that beams high-speed internet via millimeter-wave antennas. The company said the acquisition "advances" its ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units. The Verge reports: Starry made its ...
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858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire
South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for ...
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Nvidia's Huang Says He's Surprised AMD Offered 10% of the Company in 'Clever' OpenAI Deal
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that he's surprised Advanced Micro Devices offered 10% of itself to OpenAI as part of a multibillion-dollar partnership announced earlier this week. From a report: "t's imaginative, it's unique and surprising, considering they were so excited about their next g...
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TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business
TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation, including free ad-supported streaming options and more for smart televisions. From a report: "As o...
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