“T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert published an open apology to customers Friday after hackers stole more than 50 million users’ personal data, including their Social Security numbers and driver’s license information,” reports NBC News:
“The last two weeks ha…
Slashdot has confirmed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware that after 18 years of legal maneuvering, SCO’s bankruptcy case (first filed in 2007) is now “awaiting discharge.”
Long-time Slashdot reader rkhalloran says they know …
“Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots?” asks a headline at the New York Times. (Alternate URL here for a text-only version.)
“A new trend that is coming into our animatronics is a level of intelligence,” a senior Imagineering executive tells the T…
At its annual Architecture Day semiconductor event Thursday, Intel revealed new details about its powerful Ponte Vecchio chip for data centers, reports SiliconANGLE:
Intel is looking to take on Nvidia Corp. in the AI silicon market with Ponte Vecchio,…
The New Yorker looks at Cerebras, a startup which has raised nearly half a billion dollars to build massive plate-sized chips targeted at AI applications — the largest computer chip in the world.
In the end, said Cerebras’s co-founder Andrew Fel…
Remember that study that found that “blue” hydrogen (produced from natural gas using a carbon-capture technique) may be worse for the planet than coal?
“That study was apparently a tipping point for Chris Jackson, who this week stepped down as chair …
Law professor and legal commentator Jonathan H. Adler shares an update about a nonprofit group advocating for accountable government:
The Cause of Action Institute sought to obtain the internet browsing histories of several government officials, inclu…
Nearly half of the U.S. (47.5%) has migrated to IPv6, ranking the U.S. sixth in percentage of users who have migrated to the latest version of the Internet Protocol. That estimate is based on an analysis of data about Google users — which also fi…
“According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies,” reports the Guardian, “with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit…”
As the chief of Stanford University’s dual diagnosis addiction clinic (which c…
In the U.S. healthcare system, “hospitals are charging patients wildly different amounts for the same basic services,” reports the New York Times — citing an investigation into medical care costs at 60 major hospitals.
This year the U.S. govern…
