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• Microsoft Spooks Windows Desktop Developers By Calling WPF a 'Community Run Project'

  20-12-2022 19:46 via developers.slashdot.org
  A Microsoft .NET Community standup has left Windows desktop developers wondering what kind of future, if any, the company has planned for its older desktop application frameworks, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From a report: A "what's new" slide for WPF presented by senior program manager Olia Gavrysh last week shows "Community Run Project" as the first bullet point, causing consternation among attendees. "Who's happy that WPF is now a community run project? This is so
  
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• As US Tariffs Hit EVs, Hyundai Discontinues Its Cheapest IONIQ 6, While Kia Delays EV6 adn EV9 GT

  08-03-2026 05:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  First, Hyundai "is discontinuing its most affordable electric sedan after just three years on the market," reports USA Today. After being introduced in 2022, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 "quickly gained the admiration of automotive critics because of its affordable pricing and capable performance specs." But now, Hyundai "is axing the most affordable versions of the EV, leaving consumers with only one Ioniq 6 option."
  Hyundai will continue to produce the Ioniq 6 N performance trim, which is the quickest
  
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• Steven Spielberg + Dinosaurs + Netflix = Mixed Reviews

  08-03-2026 03:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Steven Spielberg directed his last Jurassic Park movie nearly 30 years ago, notes ScreenRant. But the 79-year-old filmmaker now brings us The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary on Netflix where he's executive producer:The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's worth noting that the rating will likely fluctuate since there are only six reviews. So far, critics all agree that the new Netflix docuseries is a breathtaking visual of history's m
  
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• A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit

  08-03-2026 01:16 via science.slashdot.org
  NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun."
  It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could have implications for protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes," writes ScienceNews:A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second... Wi
  
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• Japan Approves Stem-Cell Treatments For Parkinson's, Heart Failure In World Firsts

  08-03-2026 00:16 via science.slashdot.org
  Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this report from Agence France-Presse:
  Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients within months.
  Pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma said it received the green light for the manufacture and sale of Amchepry, its Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain. Japan's
  
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• OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined'

  07-03-2026 23:16 via hardware.slashdot.org
  In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they "care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together," so this "wasn't an easy call," but offered this reason for resigning:AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.
  This was ab
  
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• Astronomers Think They've Spotted a Galaxy That's 99.9% Dark Matter

  07-03-2026 22:07 via science.slashdot.org
  Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN — and it's so faint, it's almost invisible:CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called "dark galaxies," which are believed to contain few or no stars.... [Post-doctoral astrophysics/statistics fellow Dayi Li at the University of Toronto was lead author on a study ab
  
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• How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox's Security

  07-03-2026 21:07 via news.slashdot.org
  "It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude
  
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• How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla Improve Firefox's Security

  07-03-2026 21:07 via news.slashdot.org
  "It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude
  
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• Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships

  07-03-2026 19:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region's waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire," reports CNN, "erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.
  "The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems."
  Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and affi
  
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• Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

  07-03-2026 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers.
  "The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today's 4+TB per disk toward 10TB per disk, eventually enabling 100TB-class drives."In a one-exabyte deployment, Seagate est
  
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• First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera

  07-03-2026 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Reservation holders, it's finally time to get ready," writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports:Aptera Motors, "the little startup that could," announced another important milestone... completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California...
  While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume assembly process, its successful operation represents the startup's transition from hand-built validat
  
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• Prediction Market 'Kalshi' Sued for Not Paying $54 Million for Bets on Khamenei's Death

  07-03-2026 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
  A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report.
  Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran in the early hours of Satur
  
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• Indonesia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16

  07-03-2026 14:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats. The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on
  
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• China Releases First Homegrown Quantum Computing OS

  07-03-2026 11:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence and to achieve t
  
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• Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Impact the Moon

  07-03-2026 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency (ESA): Last year, an approximately 60 meter near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032. Now, that risk has been eliminated. Astronomers have confirmed that 2024 YR4 will not im
  
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• Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds

  07-03-2026 04:00 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen
  
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• Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems

  07-03-2026 02:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled that importers impacted by the tariffs are entitled to ref
  
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• Oura Buys Gesture-Navigation Startup DoublePoint

  07-03-2026 00:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands as examples of products that benefit from its technology, but Oura will clearly be looking to incorporate it into its rings, in theory allowing you to control your connected devices with hand movements.Oura said in a press release that the deal sees it inherit an "exceptional team of AI architects an
  
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• Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance's Chinese Apps

  06-03-2026 23:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform's Chinese parent organization ByteDance. ByteDance owns a vast array of different apps spanning social media, entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other sectors. The leading one is Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which has over 1 billion
  
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• System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

  06-03-2026 22:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors."System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Po
  
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• Mozilla Is Working On a Big Firefox Redesign

  06-03-2026 21:00 via news.slashdot.org
  darwinmac writes: Mozilla is working on a huge redesign for its Firefox browser, codenamed "Nova," which will bring pastel gradients, a refreshed new tab page, floating "island" UI elements, and more. "From the mockups, it appears Mozilla took some inspiration from Googles Material You (or at least, the dynamic color extraction part of it) because the browser color accent appears influenced by the wallpaper setting," reports Neowin. "Choosing a mint-green desktop background automatically shifts
  
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• Iran War Provides a Large-Scale Test For AI-Assisted Warfare

  06-03-2026 20:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Katrina Manson: The U.S. strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump mark the arrival on a large scale of a new era of warfare assisted by artificial intelligence. Captain Timothy Hawkins, a Central Command spokesperson, told me last night that the AI tools the U.S. military is using in Iran operations don't make targeting decisions and don't replace humans. But they do help "make smarter decisions faster." That's been the driv
  
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• Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed

  06-03-2026 19:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim that version 7 is, "a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet." Problem: The putative "ground-up rewrite" is actually the result of running the existing copyrighted codebase and test suite through
  
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• Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

  06-03-2026 18:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from 404 Media: Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media. The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss
  
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• AI Startup Sues Ex-CEO Saying He Took 41GB of Email, Lied On Resume

  06-03-2026 17:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the company in September 2024. In a lawsuit filed late last month in San Francisco Superior Court but only made public this week, Hayden AI claims that former CEO Chris Carson undertook what it called "nu
  
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• The National Videogame Museum Acquires the Mythical Nintendo Playstation

  06-03-2026 16:00 via games.slashdot.org
  The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in a hybrid console that could play both. The partnership didn't last long, though, with Nintendo backing out before it ever really got off the ground, announcing tha
  
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• Florida Woman Gets Prison Time For Illegally Selling Microsoft Product Keys

  06-03-2026 15:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and fined $50,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of Microsoft certificate-of-authenticity labels used to activate Windows and Office. Prosecutors said she bought genuine labels cheaply from suppliers and resold them without the accompanying licensed software, wiring over $5 million during the scheme. TechRadar reports: The indictment details how [52-year-old Heidi Richards] purchased tens of thousands of genuine COA labels from a
  
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• AI Translations Are Adding 'Hallucinations' To Wikipedia Articles

  06-03-2026 14:00 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI "hallucinations," or errors, to the resulting article. The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to fight the flood of generative AI across the internet from diminishing the reliability of the world's large
  
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• IBM Scientists Unveil First-Ever 'Half-Mobius' Molecule

  06-03-2026 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: An international team of scientists has done something chemistry has never seen before. IBM, working alongside researchers from the University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the University of Regensburg, has created and characterized a molecule whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern, fundamentally altering its chemical behavior. The findings were published today in Science. The molecule, known
  
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