⬟Open Source
SpaceX Unveils Sweeping Starship V3 Upgrades
SpaceX has detailed major Starship V3 upgrades ahead of a launch targeted as early as May 19. The changes are meant to move Starship closer to its core goals: rapid reuse, Starlink deployment, orbital refueling, and eventually Moon and Mars missions. Longtime Slashdot reader ...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
Americans Would Rather Have a Nuclear Plant In Their Backyard Than a Datacenter
A new Gallup survey found that 71% of Americans oppose having an AI data center built near them, making the facilities even less popular than nearby nuclear plants, which 53% oppose. The Register reports: When it comes to the reasons for opposing AI campuses, half of all resp...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
Honda Retreats To Hybrids After Failed EV Bet Triggers Record $9 Billion Loss
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda admitted...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: A group of Michigan lawmakers has introduced a bill in Congress that would effectively place a permanent ban on Chinese connected vehicles from being sold in the United States. While an executive order signed...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv says it will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing AI-generated slop, such as hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in the manuscript. "If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, bia...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
OpenAI Now Wants ChatGPT To Access Your Bank Accounts
OpenAI is previewing a feature that lets ChatGPT Pro users connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid, allowing the chatbot to analyze spending, subscriptions, balances, portfolios, debt, and major financial decisions. "More than 200 million people are already going t...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a majo...
Slashdot4m ago
⬟Open Source
The Era of 15GB Free Gmail Storage Is Ending
Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Android Authority reports: While the company didn't mention which regions are impacted, user reports from yesterday were m...
Slashdot4m ago
◎Tech News
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion across three startups and investors still want more
Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has a knack for raising money. So far, his three startups have raised more than $12.3 billion.
TechCrunch6m ago
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General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z
Compulsive X user Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.
TechCrunch11m ago
◎Tech News
Microscale Thermite Reaction
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Hacker News33m ago
◈AI & ML
Tesla Reveals New Details About Robotaxi Crashes—and the Humans Involved
Remote operators (slowly) drove the automaker’s autonomous vehicles into a metal fence and a construction barricade, Tesla says.
Wired45m ago
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WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64
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Hacker News1h ago
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Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO
Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.
Ars Technica1h ago
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Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths
WHO learned of potential cases May 5; US CDC said it just heard about it yesterday.
Ars Technica1h ago
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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
TechCrunch1h ago
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The Analogue 3D is finally getting save states
Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than ha...
The Verge1h ago
⬢DevOps
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k...
Kubernetes2h ago
◎Tech News
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
Ars Technica2h ago
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OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in...
The Verge2h ago
◎Tech News
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
TechCrunch2h ago
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OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.
Ars Technica2h ago
◎Tech News
Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
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Hacker News2h ago
⬢DevOps
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for resources...
Kubernetes2h ago
◎Tech News
Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there's no chance of US sales
The ID. Polo GTI takes plenty of inspiration from the original Golf GTI of 1976.
Ars Technica2h ago
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One of Intel’s fastest desktop CPUs is $50 off
The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its “fastest gaming desktop processor ever.” That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMD’s pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-ser...
The Verge2h ago
◈AI & ML
Spencer Pratt Is Creating Panic Over ‘Super Meth.’ It’s Not Even Real
The LA mayoral candidate and former reality TV star is fueling his campaign with fears about an ultra-potent meth. Experts say it’s drug war propaganda.
Wired3h ago
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U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
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Hacker News3h ago
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I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
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Hacker News3h ago
◎Tech News
Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Newly unredacted crash reports reveal some of the troubles Tesla has had as it tries to scale its robotaxis.
TechCrunch3h ago
◈AI & ML
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
Wired3h ago
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AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Bac...
The Verge3h ago
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Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions
Limestone might not be the only source for Portland cement.
Ars Technica3h ago
◈AI & ML
The Chinese App That Puts Instagram to Shame
In the ancient city of Dali, I saw firsthand how RedNote has evolved from a lifestyle platform into the tool that powers the country’s tourism industry.
Wired3h ago
◎Tech News
Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic...
The Verge3h ago
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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or m...
The Verge3h ago
◎Tech News
Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
Ars Technica4h ago
⬟Open Source
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
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Lobsters4h ago
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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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Hacker News4h ago
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts
Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.
TechCrunch4h ago
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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to "securely connect" ChatGPT with Plaid - the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,...
The Verge4h ago
◆Engineering
Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub Blog4h ago
◎Tech News
Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss
The automaker marked its first annual loss in more than 70 years.
Ars Technica4h ago
◆Engineering
Anthropic Introduces Routines for Claude Code Automation
Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedules, through API calls, or in response to external events. By Daniel Dominguez
InfoQ4h ago
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Power prices are up 76% on America’s biggest grid, and a watchdog is pointing fingers
The price spike is a reminder of a deeper problem: The U.S. power grid was not designed for the electricity demands of an AI-driven economy, and the gap between what the grid can deliver and what the industry needs is widening.
TechCrunch4h ago
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Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
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Hacker News4h ago
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US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
While the summit appeared cordial, China remains a key adversary of the United States, given its advanced intelligence and espionage capabilities.
TechCrunch4h ago
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BioLite’s stakeable solar lights are down to a new low price for Memorial Day
The Memorial Day deals have arrived — err, at least some of them. BioLite, purveyors of all things solar, has kicked off a larger holiday promo ahead of May 26th, resulting in reduced pricing on smokeless fire pits, headlamps, and solar-powered stoves, just in time for summ...
The Verge5h ago
◈AI & ML
Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons
Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.
Wired5h ago
◈AI & ML
Best Early Memorial Day Deals: Garmin, Birdfy, Breville (2026)
Memorial Day isn’t until May 26, but sales on our favorite gear have already started.
Wired6h ago
◆Engineering
Cloudflare Introduces Workflows V2 with Deterministic Execution and 50K Concurrent Workflows
Cloudflare introduces Workflows V2, a redesigned distributed workflow orchestration system with deterministic replayable execution, improved observability, and major scaling upgrades, including 50,000 concurrent instances and 2M queued workflows. It supports AI agents, data p...
InfoQ6h ago
◆Engineering
Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program
We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings. The post Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty progr...
GitHub Blog6h ago
◎Tech News
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
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Hacker News6h ago
⬡Web Dev
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !important is definitely for you. What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More originally handwritt...
CSS-Tricks7h ago
⬟Open Source
Open Source Resistance
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Lobsters7h ago
◈AI & ML
Gantri’s 3D-Printed Lamps Are Going Wireless
In a partnership with design firm Ammunition, the lamp company is taking its lights wireless.
Wired7h ago
◆Engineering
Presentation: Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems
Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic, Author, and Reviewer - to manage the cognitive load of 400+ repositories. She shares how AI provides the "RAM" needed to ...
InfoQ7h ago
⬟Open Source
What are you doing this weekend?
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
Lobsters8h ago
◆Engineering
Discord Reveals How a Hidden Circular Dependency Triggered Its March Voice Outage
Discord has released a detailed postmortem on its March 25, 2026, voice outage, revealing that a previously undetected circular dependency in its voice infrastructure triggered a cascading failure that disrupted voice services across the platform. By Craig Risi
InfoQ8h ago
⬟Open Source
SQL: Incorrect by Construction
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Lobsters8h ago