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• New Project Brings Strong Linux Compatibility To More Classic Windows Games

  10-11-2025 23:20 via linux.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS. But Valve's Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer generally only extends back to games written for Direct3D 8, the proprietary Windows graphics API Microsoft released in late 2000. Now, a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further bac
  
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• Wikipedia Urges AI Companies To Use Its Paid API, and Stop Scraping

  10-11-2025 22:30 via news.slashdot.org
  Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic. From a report: In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs the popular online encyclopedia, called on AI developers to use its content "responsibly" by ensuring its contributions are properly attributed and that content is accessed through its paid product, the Wikimedia Enterprise platform.
  The opt-in, paid product allows companies to
  
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• The PHP Foundation Is Seeking a New Executive Director

  10-11-2025 21:51 via developers.slashdot.org
  New submitter benramsey writes: The PHP Foundation has launched a search for its next executive director.The Executive Director serves as the operational leader of the PHP Foundation, defining its strategic vision and translating it into reality while managing day-to-day operations and serving as the primary bridge between the Board, staff, community, and sponsors.While the programming language PHP is over 30 years old, the PHP Foundation was only created in 2021. The Executive Director will be
  
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• World's First Green Fuel Levy To Add Almost $32 To Air Fares

  10-11-2025 21:10 via news.slashdot.org
  Air passengers departing Singapore will pay a green fuel levy of as much as S$41.60 ($31.95) from next year as the city-state locks in a key step in its effort to cut the aviation industry's emissions. From a report: Travelers flying in economy and premium economy, as well as those on short-haul routes, will be charged far less. Those customers will pay an additional S$1 for trips to Southeast Asia, and S$10.40 for flights to the Americas, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore said Monday. B
  
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• Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales

  10-11-2025 20:35 via apple.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project.
  Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won't be released in fall 2026 as previously planned, they said. Apple has already sharply scaled back production of the first version, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.Rea
  
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• How HR Took Over the World

  10-11-2025 19:59 via slashdot.org
  Human-resources departments in American companies employed 1.3 million professionals in 2024, a 64% increase over ten years. Overall employment grew 14% in the same period. Professional-services and technology firms saw the number of HR workers double since 2014. Similar patterns have emerged in Australia, Britain and Germany.
  Chief human-resources officers also gained ground financially. Their total compensation, which stood at 40% of the average director's salary in 1992, reached 70% by 2022,
  
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• Africa Finally Has Its Own Drug-Regulation Agency

  10-11-2025 19:10 via science.slashdot.org
  After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. From a report: The agency's establishment marks a pivotal moment in Africa's public health, at a time when the need for biomedical research conducted in Africa, focused on African health problems, has never been greater. Africa holds higher levels of human genetic diversity t
  
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• The Algorithm Failed Music

  10-11-2025 18:30 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren't necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify's goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to her by a former Spotify employee in which Daniel Ek said, "our only competitor is sil
  
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• Data Centers in Nvidia's Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power

  10-11-2025 17:51 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Two of the world's biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn't ready to supply electricity. From a report: In Santa Clara, California, where the world's biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier th
  
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• Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web

  10-11-2025 17:11 via tech.slashdot.org
  Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media's corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. Berners-Lee spent decades trying to convince database owners to make their systems machine-readable voluntarily. AI comp
  
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• Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout

  10-11-2025 16:21 via tech.slashdot.org
  Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a negligible share a decade ago.
  The companies are expanding their subsea infrastructure to connect growing networks of data centers needed for AI development. Meta announced Project
  
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• Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT

  10-11-2025 15:41 via slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 150 million active users each month. But OpenAI's ChatGPT claims 800 million weekly active users, and Google's Gemini boasts 650 million a
  
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• Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

  10-11-2025 15:00 via slashdot.org
  Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and Mastercard would lower credit-card interchange fees, which are often between 2% and 2.5%, by an average of around 0.1 percentage point over several years, the people said. They would also loosen rules
  
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• What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?

  10-11-2025 13:34 via science.slashdot.org
  Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?
  Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who's researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:In space, as on Earth, industrial structures degrade with time, and a truly sustainable life support system must have the capability to rebuild and recycle them. We've only partially solved this problem on Earth, which is why industrial civilizat
  
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• NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors

  10-11-2025 10:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer..." argues investment site The Motley Fool, "by linking today's fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors..."NVIDIA's new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — orders of magnitude faster than before — "allowing AI to stabilize and train quantum machines in real time, potentially pulling major breakthroughs years forward."
  CUDA-Q, Nvidia's open-source softwa
  
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• Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles

  10-11-2025 06:59 via developers.slashdot.org
  The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to "shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work" that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative "to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust programming language possible."It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors to ensure funding decisions
  
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• Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online

  10-11-2025 04:59 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression," according to the university, and classic blues recordings or tracks by Fiddlin' John Carson and his daughter Moonshine Kate "would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory
  
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• What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?

  10-11-2025 02:35 via news.slashdot.org
  The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility.
  "In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI.""I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as well," the influential economist Tyler Cowen announced in a column for Bloomberg at the beginning of the year. He does this
  
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• Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones

  10-11-2025 00:56 via apple.slashdot.org
  In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there's now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages.But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint:As per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is building an API that would allow developers to add satellite connections to their own apps. However, the implementation is said to depend on app makers, and not every feature or service may be com
  
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