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Microsoft Says It Is Fixing Windows 11
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Microsoft Says It Is Fixing Windows 11

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft says it is finally listening to user complaints about Windows 11, promising a series of changes focused on performance, reliability, and reducing everyday annoyances. In...

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CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century
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CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century

CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts. Longtime CBS News anchor Dan Rather said: "It's another...

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White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power
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White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued (PDF) a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform...

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Officer Leaks Location of French Aircraft Carrier With Strava Run
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Officer Leaks Location of French Aircraft Carrier With Strava Run

schwit1 shares a report from the BBC: A French officer has reportedly revealed the location of an aircraft carrier deployed towards the Middle East after publicly registering a run on sports app Strav...

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NASA's Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up
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NASA's Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly captured a rare, early-stage breakup of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just days after it first began disintegrating. Phys.org reports: "Sometimes the best science...

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Jeff Bezos Seeking $100 Billion to Buy Manufacturing Companies, 'Transform' Them With AI
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Jeff Bezos Seeking $100 Billion to Buy Manufacturing Companies, 'Transform' Them With AI

Jeff Bezos "is in early talks to raise $100 billion," reports the Wall Street Journal, "for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path...

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SystemD Adds Optional 'birthDate' Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records
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SystemD Adds Optional 'birthDate' Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records

"The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil," report...

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Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features - and Introduces Its New Mascot
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Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features - and Introduces Its New Mascot

A free built-in VPN is coming to Firefox on Tuesday, Mozilla announced this week: Free VPNs can sometimes mean sketchy arrangements that end up compromising your privacy, but ours is built from our...

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50% of Consumers Prefer Brands That Avoid GenAI Content
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50% of Consumers Prefer Brands That Avoid GenAI Content

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: According to the research firm Gartner, 50% of U.S. consumers say they would prefer to do business with brands that avoid using GenAI in consumer facing content su...

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Intel, NVIDIA, AMD GPU Drivers Finally Play Nice With ReactOS
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Intel, NVIDIA, AMD GPU Drivers Finally Play Nice With ReactOS

ReactOS aims to be compatible with programs and drivers developed for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows. And Slashdot reader jeditobe reports that the project has now "annou...

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Can Private Space Companies Replace the ISS Before 2030?
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Can Private Space Companies Replace the ISS Before 2030?

China's orbital outpost Tiangong was completed in 2022 and is hosting up to three astronauts at a time, reports CNN. But meanwhile U.S. lawmakers are now signaling there's not time to develop and la...

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Juicier Steaks Soon? The UK Approves Testing of Gene-Edited Cow Feed
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Juicier Steaks Soon? The UK Approves Testing of Gene-Edited Cow Feed

"Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain's first gene-edited crop," reports the Telegraph: In an effort to fatten up cows and get them to market fa...

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