'Subscription Captivity': When Things You Buy Own You
'Subscription Captivity': When Things You Buy Own You - Slashdot
A reporter at Mother Jones writes about a $169 alarm clock with special lighting and audio effects. But to use the features, "you need to pay ...
EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy
EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy - Slashdot
In 2023 Slashdot covered a battery-swapping startup that promised to give EVs a full charge in about the same time it takes to fill a tank of gas. ...
Firefox Will Ship With an 'AI Kill Switch' To Completely Disable All AI Features
Firefox Will Ship With an
An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla
Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election
Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election - Slashdot
"Super PAC aims to drown out AI critics in midterms," the Washington Post reported in August, noting its intial funding over $100 million f...
Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado
Trump Dismantling National Center For Atmospheric Research In Colorado - Slashdot
echo123 shares a report from PBS: The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to diss...
James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st 'Runaway' Supermassive Black Hole
James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Space.com: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space T...
Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data
Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security...
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns - Slashdot
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally ...
Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs
Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs - Slashdot
Elite computer science degrees are no longer a guaranteed on-ramp to tech jobs, as AI-driven coding tools slash demand for entry-level engineers an...
Ten Mistakes Marred Firewall Upgrade At Australian Telco, Contributing To Two Deaths
Ten Mistakes Marred Firewall Upgrade At Australian Telco, Contributing To Two Deaths - Slashdot
An independent review found that at least ten technical and process failures during a routine firewall upgrade at Australia