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US Special Forces Soldier Arrested For Polymarket Bets On Maduro Raid
On April 24th, 2026 with 0 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US...
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Claude Is Connecting Directly To Your Personal Apps
On April 24th, 2026 with 27 comments
Anthropic is expanding Claude's app integrations beyond work tools, adding personal-service connectors like Spotify, Uber, AllTrails, TripAdvisor, Instacart,...
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FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices
On April 24th, 2026 with 35 comments
The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
On April 23rd, 2026 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more...
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Apple Stops Weirdly Storing Data That Let Cops Spy On Signal Chats
On April 23rd, 2026 with 26 comments
Apple has fixed a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after messages disappeared and the app was deleted....
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Warner Bros Shareholders Approve Paramount's $81 Billion Takeover
On April 23rd, 2026 with 27 comments
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have approved Paramount Skydance's takeover bid, moving the massive Hollywood merger a step closer to completion. It's not...
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OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
On April 23rd, 2026 with 40 comments
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of...
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Meta Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce
On April 23rd, 2026 with 32 comments
Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this...
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France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs
On April 23rd, 2026 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents,...
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Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO
On April 23rd, 2026 with 68 comments
In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big...
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Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout
On April 23rd, 2026 with 28 comments
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, "about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible," with the program being "available...
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New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses
On April 23rd, 2026 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market...
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Intel Lands Tesla As First Major Customer For 14A Chip Technology
On April 23rd, 2026 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing...
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53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout
On April 23rd, 2026 with 199 comments
Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash...
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Your Phone's Next Speed Boost May Come From Magnetic Chips
On April 23rd, 2026 with 32 comments
alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or...
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Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution
On April 22nd, 2026 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according...
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Billionaire Backer Sues Trump Family's Crypto Firm Over Alleged Extortion
On April 22nd, 2026 with 101 comments
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire...
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Ping-Pong Robot Makes History By Beating Top-Level Human Players
On April 22nd, 2026 with 27 comments
Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the...
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Anthropic's Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users
On April 22nd, 2026 with 31 comments
Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and...
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The 'Missing-Scientist' Story Is Unbelievably Dumb
On April 22nd, 2026 with 121 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it...
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Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties
On April 22nd, 2026 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier...
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Google Unveils Two New AI Chips For the 'Agentic Era'
On April 22nd, 2026 with 24 comments
Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of...
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AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
On April 22nd, 2026 with 116 comments
A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while...
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China's CATL Reveals 621-Mile EV Battery, Under-7-Minute Charging
On April 22nd, 2026 with 152 comments
CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging...
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Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones
On April 22nd, 2026 with 81 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon...
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Mars Rover Detects Never-Before-Seen Organic Compounds In New Experiment
On April 22nd, 2026 with 19 comments
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors....
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FBI Looks Into Dead or Missing Scientists Tied To Sensitive US Research
On April 22nd, 2026 with 90 comments
Federal authorities are now reviewing a string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to sensitive U.S. aerospace and nuclear work, though...
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SpaceX Strikes Deal With Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion
On April 21st, 2026 with 73 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal with...
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Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into ChatGPT Over School Shooting
On April 21st, 2026 with 103 comments
Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University...
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Mozilla Uses Anthropic's Mythos To Fix 271 Bugs In Firefox
On April 21st, 2026 with 160 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla says it used an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to comb through Firefox's code, and the results were hard to...
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