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“Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators,” reports TechCrunch, “over posts it alleges are defamatory…”
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, Yo… Continue reading Motorola Sues Social Media Platforms and Creators in India
“Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time,” reports the Associated Press. “All without a warrant.”
The software from Fog D… Continue reading Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:
HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
“Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will con… Continue reading HP Will Discontinue ‘HP Anyware’ Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients
Ahead of December’s release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled “Infinity Vision,” reports Kotaku, which they describe as “a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one.” (T… Continue reading Disney Creates Its Own IMAX for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ After Losing Screens to ‘Dune: Part 3’
The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing “rebellion” against attention-hogging devices, citing “a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life.”
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of scienc… Continue reading Can the ‘Attention Liberation Movement’ Foment a Rebellion Against Screens?
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while w… Continue reading Remembering Zip Drives – the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s
Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.
And there’s been other changes, reports Entre… Continue reading Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews
After Artemis II’s astronauts returned to earth, “NASA has Artemis III in its sights,” reports the Associated Press:
In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III’s yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion c… Continue reading SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete For ‘Artemis III’ Mission
“A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor,” writes The Guardian:
Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant h… Continue reading New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews:
Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland… Marchand tore down the TCU, which is … Continue reading Old Cars ‘Tell Tales’ by Storing Data That’s Never Wiped