An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside Ameri…
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.Org: The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial upgrade from the standard wooden beehives, all clad in white metal and solar panels. Inside sits a high-tech scanner and robotic arm powered by artificial…
“For-profit companies are pushing the narrative that they can do space inexpensively,” writes Slashdot reader RUs1729 in response to an opinion piece from SpaceNews. “Their track record reveals otherwise: cutting corners won’t do it for the foreseeable…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Four teams of humanoid robots took each other on in Beijing [on Saturday], in games of three-a-side powered by artificial intelligence. While the modern game has faced accusations of becoming near-…
Google has signed a deal to purchase 200 megawatts of future fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, despite the energy source not yet existing. “It’s a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power t…
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: NASA is coming to Netflix. No, not a drama or sci-fi reboot. The space agency is actually bringing real rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and even views of Earth from space directly to your favorite str…
Thousands of Norwegians briefly believed they had won massive Eurojackpot prizes after a manual coding error by Norsk Tipping mistakenly multiplied winnings by 100 instead of dividing. The Register reports: Eurojackpot, a pan-European lottery launched …
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft a…
Oracle has signed a landmark $30 billion annual cloud deal — nearly triple the size of its current cloud infrastructure business — with revenue expected to begin in fiscal year 2028. The deal was disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday without the cu…
Automattic has put its plan to migrate Tumblr’s backend to WordPress on hold, with CEO Matt Mullenweg citing a shift in focus toward features users are actively requesting. “I still want to do it,” Mullenweg says. “It’s just cleaner. But right now, we’…