Apple Becomes a Debt Collector With Its New Developer Agreement
December 19, 2025 at 10:42PM
December 19, 2025 at 10:42PM
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Apple Becomes a Debt Collector With Its New Developer Agreement
Apple released an updated developer license agreement this week that gives the company permission to recoup unpaid funds, such as commissions or any other fees, by deducting them from in-app purchases it processes on developers' behalf, among other methods.…
Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
December 19, 2025 at 11:33PM
December 19, 2025 at 11:33PM
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Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious -- and also potentially more toxic, a study has found. From a report: Sterre ter Haar, a lecturer at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and other researchers at the…
ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026
December 20, 2025 at 12:08AM
December 20, 2025 at 12:08AM
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ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that all publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will become freely available to everyone starting January 2026. Authors will…
'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'
December 20, 2025 at 12:54AM
December 20, 2025 at 12:54AM
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'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'
iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces competing…
Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
December 20, 2025 at 01:30AM
December 20, 2025 at 01:30AM
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Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
Uber is hiring more engineers rather than fewer because AI tools have made them "superhumans," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, pushing back against the industry trend of using productivity gains to justify headcount cuts. Speaking on the "On with Kara Swisher"…
2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
December 20, 2025 at 02:11AM
December 20, 2025 at 02:11AM
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2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
The television industry's brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings -- a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manufacturers…
Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions
December 20, 2025 at 02:52AM
December 20, 2025 at 02:52AM
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Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman estimates that staying competitive in frontier AI development will require "hundreds of billions of dollars" over the next five to ten years, a sum that doesn't even account for the high salaries companies are paying individual…
FTC: Instacart To Refund $60M Over Deceptive Subscription Tactics
December 20, 2025 at 03:30AM
December 20, 2025 at 03:30AM
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FTC: Instacart To Refund $60M Over Deceptive Subscription Tactics
alternative_right writes: Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. Instacart partners with over 1,800 retailers to provide…
All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem
December 20, 2025 at 04:02AM
December 20, 2025 at 04:02AM
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All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem
President Trump's closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May -- which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free -- has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under…
Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
December 20, 2025 at 04:41AM
December 20, 2025 at 04:41AM
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Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform…
Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs
December 20, 2025 at 05:40AM
December 20, 2025 at 05:40AM
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Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges…
YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website
December 20, 2025 at 06:20AM
December 20, 2025 at 06:20AM
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YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website
The White House says it's investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber's livestream briefly appeared on the White House's official live video page. The creator says he has no idea how his video ended up there. The Associated Press reports: The livestream…
TikTok Owner Signs Deal To Avoid US Ban
December 20, 2025 at 07:00AM
December 20, 2025 at 07:00AM
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TikTok Owner Signs Deal To Avoid US Ban
TikTok's owner ByteDance has signed a deal creating a U.S.-focused joint venture majority-owned by American and global investors, allowing the app to avoid a U.S. ban while ByteDance retains a minority stake. The BBC reports: Half of the joint venture will…
Strava Puts Popular 'Year In Sport' Recap Behind an $80 Paywall
December 20, 2025 at 07:40AM
December 20, 2025 at 07:40AM
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Strava Puts Popular 'Year In Sport' Recap Behind an $80 Paywall
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, Strava, the popular fitness-tracking app, released its annual "Year in Sport" wrap-up -- a cutesy, animated series of graphics summarizing each user's athletic achievements. But this…
Ten Mistakes Marred Firewall Upgrade At Australian Telco, Contributing To Two Deaths
December 20, 2025 at 08:20AM
December 20, 2025 at 08:20AM
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Ten Mistakes Marred Firewall Upgrade At Australian Telco, Contributing To Two Deaths
An independent review found that at least ten technical and process failures during a routine firewall upgrade at Australia's Optus prevented emergency calls from reaching Triple Zero for 14 hours, during which 455 calls failed and two callers died. The Register…
Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs
December 20, 2025 at 09:00AM
December 20, 2025 at 09:00AM
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Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs
Elite computer science degrees are no longer a guaranteed on-ramp to tech jobs, as AI-driven coding tools slash demand for entry-level engineers and concentrate hiring around a small pool of already "elite" or AI-savvy developers. The Los Angeles Times reports:…
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
December 20, 2025 at 09:40AM
December 20, 2025 at 09:40AM
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Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like…
Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data
December 20, 2025 at 11:30AM
December 20, 2025 at 11:30AM
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Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations:…
James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st 'Runaway' Supermassive Black Hole
December 20, 2025 at 03:00PM
December 20, 2025 at 03:00PM
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James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st 'Runaway' Supermassive Black Hole
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Space.com: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering…
LG 将允许电视用户删除 Microsoft Copilot
上周一位 Reddit 用户报告，其 LG 电视的 webOS 操作系统在更新之后加入了微软的 Copilot AI，而且该 AI 应用无法卸载。此事引发了广泛讨论。LG 发言人 Chris De Maria 澄清，电视并没有真的安装微软的 AI 应用，而是在浏览器上打开 Microsoft Copilot web app 的快捷方式，并不是嵌入在操作系统中的应用。LG 表示将允许用户删除 Copilot AI 快捷方式。LG 在声明中表示，尊重消费者选择，将采取措施允许用户根据需要删除快捷方式图标。 via Solidot
上周一位 Reddit 用户报告，其 LG 电视的 webOS 操作系统在更新之后加入了微软的 Copilot AI，而且该 AI 应用无法卸载。此事引发了广泛讨论。LG 发言人 Chris De Maria 澄清，电视并没有真的安装微软的 AI 应用，而是在浏览器上打开 Microsoft Copilot web app 的快捷方式，并不是嵌入在操作系统中的应用。LG 表示将允许用户删除 Copilot AI 快捷方式。LG 在声明中表示，尊重消费者选择，将采取措施允许用户根据需要删除快捷方式图标。 via Solidot
按键输入延迟暴露朝鲜冒名顶替者
有大量朝鲜 IT 工人使用窃取或伪造的身份在美国科技公司担任远程工作，但如何识别这些伪装成美国人的朝鲜人？亚马逊找到了一种方法：根据按键数据的延迟判断他们究竟是身在美国还是在遥远的东方。如果是在美国境内，那么按键数据的延迟会在数十毫秒内，而东亚距离美国数千到上万公里。亚马逊的安全专家主意到了一位担任系统管理员的远程工作者，其按键数据延迟超过 110 毫秒。亚马逊首席安全官 Stephen Schmidt 表示，自 2024 年 4 月以来，亚马逊挫败了逾 1,800 次朝鲜渗透企图。他警告，亚马逊的成功几乎完全归功于它在积极寻找朝鲜冒名顶替者，“如果没去寻找朝鲜工人，就不会找到他们。” via Solidot
有大量朝鲜 IT 工人使用窃取或伪造的身份在美国科技公司担任远程工作，但如何识别这些伪装成美国人的朝鲜人？亚马逊找到了一种方法：根据按键数据的延迟判断他们究竟是身在美国还是在遥远的东方。如果是在美国境内，那么按键数据的延迟会在数十毫秒内，而东亚距离美国数千到上万公里。亚马逊的安全专家主意到了一位担任系统管理员的远程工作者，其按键数据延迟超过 110 毫秒。亚马逊首席安全官 Stephen Schmidt 表示，自 2024 年 4 月以来，亚马逊挫败了逾 1,800 次朝鲜渗透企图。他警告，亚马逊的成功几乎完全归功于它在积极寻找朝鲜冒名顶替者，“如果没去寻找朝鲜工人，就不会找到他们。” via Solidot