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The European Commission “has opened a public call for evidence on European open digital ecosystems,” writes Help Net Security, part of preparations for an upcoming Communication “that will examine the role of open source in EU’s digital infrastructure…. Continue reading Hundreds Answer Europe’s ‘Public Call for Evidence’ on an Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy
The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues “that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems.”
Microsoft’s first update… Continue reading Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:
Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study [published in … Continue reading Astronomers Finally Explain How Molecules From Earth’s Atmosphere Keep Winding Up On the Moon
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Acer has filed three separate patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, taking the unusual step of hauling the nation’s largest wireless carriers into federal court. The suits, filed in t… Continue reading Acer Sues Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, Alleging Infringment on Acer’s Cellular Networking Patents
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism:
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity.
The futuristic-looking m… Continue reading China Builds ‘Hypergravity’ Machine 2,000X Stronger Than Earth
European satellite operator Eutelsat “plans to launch 440 Airbus-built LEO satellites in the coming years to replenish and expand its constellation,” Reuters reported Friday. And last week America’s Federal Communications Commission approved SpaceX’s r… Continue reading Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites?
This week Google “unveiled a set of tools for retailers that helps them roll out AI agents,” reports the Wall Street Journal,
The new retail AI agents, which help shoppers find their desired items, provide customer support and let people order food at … Continue reading Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders
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“More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct,” reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko.
And most of those failures occurred in 2025:
The study looked at token listings on Gecko… Continue reading 53% of Crypto Tokens Launched Since 2021 Have Failed, Most in 2025
At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November’s Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference:
[R]esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts … Continue reading How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?
As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes “educated guesses” on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances “we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead.”