Collaborate Disseminate
Google has begun rolling out Android 17, the June Pixel Feature Drop, and Wear OS 7 simultaneously across supported Pixel phones and watches. Highlights include floating app bubbles, improved foldable multitasking and gaming, tighter location and conta… Continue reading Android 17 Drops For Pixel Phones and Watch
Security researcher Justin O’Leary says Google initially accepted his Config Connector privilege-escalation report as a high-priority, high-severity bug, then denied a bounty by declaring the behavior “working as intended.” According to The Register, a… Continue reading Google Told Researcher ‘Nice Catch!’ Then Denied Bug Bounty For Flaw It Still Hasn’t Fixed
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will need to pass some … Continue reading Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are ‘Unavoidable’ Due To Memory Costs
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PetaPixel: China dominates the consumer drone market, so it is perhaps surprising that it is no longer possible to fly or even purchase a drone in Beijing. The new law that passed last month makes i… Continue reading You Can No Longer Fly Or Purchase a Drone In Beijing
Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson produ… Continue reading Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind ‘Space: 1999,’ Dies At 86
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: For years, the Chinese auto industry has employed a hostile price war to kneecap global competitors. Armed with massive state subsidies, cheap raw materials, and an aggressive “scale-first… Continue reading China’s EV Price War Was Built On Cars Sold At a Loss
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a law… Continue reading Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom’s ‘Abusive Conduct’
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Wednesday published an advisory acknowledging the public disclosure of a vulnerability in Defender that could lead to privilege escalation. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS … Continue reading Microsoft Working To Patch ‘RoguePlanet’ Zero-Day
CCS Insight expects global smartphone shipments to fall 15% this year as AI-driven demand pushes memory manufacturers toward higher-margin server chips. “[S]ome entry-level devices have already seen their sticker prices go up by more than 50 percent si… Continue reading Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis
Carvana is testing a radically different new-car dealership model in Dallas, turning the location into a test-drive center and themed “playground” while requiring every purchase to be completed through its online platform. “Every single car that we sel… Continue reading Carvana Is Turning Dealerships Into ‘Playgrounds,’ Test-Drive Centers With Sales All Online