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• India's JioCinema Breaks World Record With Free Cricket Streaming

  30-05-2023 04:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  India's JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney's Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. From a report: The Indian streaming app, whose partner includes James Murdoch's Bodhi Tree-backed Viacom18, surpassed the record Monday evening, attracting over 32 million concurrent viewers to the final game of the 16th edition of Indian Premier
  
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• Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning

  19-08-2026 20:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine significantly reduced both cancer recurrence and spread in a late-stage trial. The treatment could reach patients as soon as next year if regulators approve it. Reuters reports: Moderna developed the vaccine with Merck and tested it together with immunotherapy drug Keytruda, a widely used treatment for melanoma. [...] This is the first positive late-stage trial result for an mRNA cancer vaccine, which trains a patient's immune system
  
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• X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

  19-08-2026 19:00 via politics.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled Value misalignment of X's feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement, found that the site's algorithm prioritized engagement above all else when it generated a user's For You Page. It also showed that X serves more ragebait to people who say they
  
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• Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive

  19-08-2026 18:12 via tech.slashdot.org
  A U.S. Army battalion at Fort Stewart is offering soldiers a four-day pass timed to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI if they reenlist for at least two years. The program is limited to one unit for now, but it fits the Army's broader effort to appeal to gamers as a recruiting and retention pool. CBS News reports: Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already chosen this incentive as part of their reenl
  
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• Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut

  19-08-2026 17:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Chinese robotics giant Unitree surged more than 600% in its Shanghai stock market debut, marking the first mainland Chinese listing by a humanoid robot maker and a major milestone for Beijing's robotics ambitions. The BBC reports: Unitree, officially known as Yushu Technology Co Ltd, was founded in 2016 and now plays a key role in Beijing's ambitions to develop advanced technology. It has become a robotics industry leader, selling devices from sensors and automated arms to four-legged and human-
  
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• Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk

  19-08-2026 13:00 via science.slashdot.org
  A study of more than 64,000 people born around the end of Britain's postwar sugar rationing found that those exposed to less sugar during their first 1,000 days had lower rates of five cancers decades later, including roughly 69% lower liver cancer risk and 36% lower breast cancer risk. They also "showed signs of slower biological aging" and "continued to consume less sugar and had healthier diets overall," according to the authors of a new study published in The Conversation. From the report: A
  
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• Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers

  19-08-2026 09:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their functionality could be boosted further by conveying information via entangled quantum particles -- potentially enabling instantaneous exchanges of information across vast distances. Such a system could eventually be the basis of a future 'quantum internet,' offering a level of security and computing power beyond
  
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• Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes

  19-08-2026 05:30 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. Writing in the journal Jama Network Open, [Vishal Patel, first author of the study based at Harvard Medical School] and colleagues report how they focused on the releas
  
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• Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative

  19-08-2026 01:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built directly into its AI coding environment. The company is initially positioning Origin as a low-risk layer on top of GitHub, keeping GitHub as the "source of truth," but the launch landed just as a major GitHub outage highlighted growing concerns about reliability in the age of AI-generated code. VentureBeat reports: Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three a
  
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• Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors

  19-08-2026 00:00 via mobile.slashdot.org
  Comcast is activating Wi-Fi motion sensing on millions of compatible Xfinity gateways, allowing the routers to detect movement by measuring disruptions in signals between the gateway and connected devices. The free feature, part of Xfinity Shield, can send activity alerts through the Xfinity app and offers Home, Away, and nighttime monitoring modes without requiring separate motion sensors. The Verge reports: Wi-Fi motion sensing is a technology that has been around for a while, but it's only re
  
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• Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses

  18-08-2026 23:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Disney and ABC are suing the FCC to block an early review of eight station licenses, arguing the Trump administration is using the agency's regulatory power to punish the network over programming and editorial decisions it dislikes. Reuters reports: In a lawsuit (PDF) filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, Disney said the FCC was seeking to coerce and retaliate against "a network that refuses to bow to the administration's demands," calling the agency's actions an "extraordinary assault on
  
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• Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months

  18-08-2026 22:03 via hardware.slashdot.org
  RAM prices have exploded over the past year, with some DDR5 kits approaching 500% year-over-year increases and a 128GB kit now selling for $3,399, which is more than 10 times its previous low. Tom's Hardware reports: Things improve as you step down the memory capacities and speed tiers, but not as much as we'd like. You're still looking at $392 for a memory kit that was just $72 last year. To reinforce the point, I pulled the latest average price data from PCPartPicker, comparing where we are to
  
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• You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone In the US

  18-08-2026 21:00 via mobile.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your iPhone, SamsungGalaxy, andGoogle Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended service plan, you'll pay a hefty fee if you damage the screen and need a replacement (around $329 for aniPhone 17done directly fromApple). But it doesn't have to be this way. What if you could order the part from the manufacturer and do the repair yourself? That dream is finally being realized for American consumers, thanks to Fairpho
  
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• Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models

  18-08-2026 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive trove of anonymized Spirit Airlines data following the carrier's shutdown, including internal communications, spreadsheets, booking and frequent-flyer records, transactions, and employee information. CNN reports: Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google's artificial intelligence model. The discount airline halted all operations in May, and
  
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• Apple Lowers App Store Fees In Europe to Settle Dispute With EU

  18-08-2026 19:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle its Digital Markets Act dispute, simplifying the fee structure and "[resolving] Apple's disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution." MacRumors reports: The initial acquisition fee and store services fee are being removed for apps distributed outside of the App Store, and Apple will now charge a 5% Core Technology Commission on digital purchases that replaces the prior per-install Core Technology Fee. Com
  
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• Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced

  18-08-2026 18:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, cataloging 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've had over the years. His analysis finds that Microsoft product names survive an average of two years and eleven months. The site even predicts which products are most likely to get renamed next, "by considering the amount of time the current name has applied, prior names, and the frequency with which Microsoft changes names of products in the same family," reports The
  
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• India Paves the Way For Charging Merchants a Fee On UPI Transactions

  18-08-2026 17:00 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly. There is no card machine, no cash, and -- most importantly -- for the user, no visible fee. That may be about to change. India has paved the way for banks and payment companies to charge merchants a fee on UPI transactions, potentially ending a decade-long experiment in free digital paym
  
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• Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim

  18-08-2026 13:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. "I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humiliated and powerless," Matt Arnold, 46, said of his ordeal. The comedy promoter was buying supplies in the store in East Dulwich, in south-east London, for a standup event at Dulwich Hamlet football club when, after scanning his items and a Nec
  
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• Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable

  18-08-2026 09:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  AleRunner writes: Solar has been doing the "heavy lifting" to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves." Euronews tells us as Europe's energy demands in the meantime, heat and Jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants as we already discussed From the report: A new analysis from energy think-tank Ember found that solar output in European countries rose by up to 17 percent on heatwave days in June and
  
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• 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent

  18-08-2026 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow customers to take out loans to pay for their broadband, electricity, health insurance, mobile phone service, mortgage and water bills. Affirm, one of the most popular pay-l
  
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• Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine

  18-08-2026 01:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue a refund. However, AT&T and T-Mobile are continuing to challenge similar fines on grounds that sell
  
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• Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States

  18-08-2026 00:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple Wallet's driver's license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without handing over or unlocking an iPhone, though users are still generally advised to carry a physical ID because acceptance remains limited. MacRumors reports: A few days ago, North Carolina's DMV announced that it plans to launch a mobile ID program
  
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• Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data

  17-08-2026 23:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. "He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to recover them from OSS' storage systems," reports Current.org. Nine PBS must identify a third party to help retrieve the files, pay outstanding storage fees, and ensure that data belonging to other OSS customers isn't disturbed or accidentally re
  
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• Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction

  17-08-2026 22:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13. Meta says the states are seeking penalties as high as $1.4 trillion, though the judge has already called that figure "unreasonable." The case could, however, influence thousands of similar lawsuits against the company. Engadget reports: The trial kicks off Tuesday in federal court in Oakland,
  
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• US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies

  17-08-2026 21:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously low levels. The grid operator's proposal dovetails with President Donald Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a non-binding initiative to protect residential customers from getting saddled with costs related to data center power consumption, PJM
  
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• OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee

  17-08-2026 20:33 via news.slashdot.org
  OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation. According to OpenAI, Nvidia will be supplying the chips and guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations. From the report: The facility -- which will be built and owned by SoftBank's SB Energy -- illustrates the immensity of the computing and power needed to fuel the growth of the AI economy.
  
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• Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility

  17-08-2026 19:00 via news.slashdot.org
  alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon's book buying operation, which hasn't been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination. That final destination was an Amazon wareho
  
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• Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'

  17-08-2026 18:00 via slashdot.org
  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader "crisis of trust" in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei's comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued -- both on the All-In podcast and on X -- that Amodei's warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the United States, particularly against data centers.Claiming that Amodei has "lost the
  
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• OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging

  17-08-2026 17:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It's called Computer History, an opt-in way to record your computer interactions across apps and websites as memories organized on a timeline.Why would you want to do so? Maybe you found Chronicle, the predecessor of Computer History which compiled
  
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• CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog 

  17-08-2026 14:00 via cisa.gov
  CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.  CVE-2025-62593 Ray-Project Ray Code Injection VulnerabilityThis type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise.
  Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executi
  
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