You Can Watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA Considers This Piracy

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) issued a DMCA notice to a GitHub repo that contained a playlist that let viewers watch Pluto TVs stream...

Ford F-150 Lightning fire wasn’t related to a design flaw, says battery supplier

A Ford F-150 Lightning caught fire in a holding lot near the automaker’s Michigan factory. | Photo: DR/SP/Andia/Universal Images Group via...

Intel Releases Software Platform for Quantum Computing Developers

Intel on Tuesday released a software platform for developers to build quantum algorithms that can eventually run on a quantum computer that ...

TikTok Banned on All Canadian Government Mobile Devices

Canada has announced it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over...

Robotaxis, cheap EVs, and a new master plan for the future: what to expect at Tesla’s Investor Day

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Tesla is convening its first Investor Day event on March 1st at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texa...

Governments Shut Down the Internet More Often Than Ever, Report Says

More countries shut down the internet in 2022 than ever before, according to a new report by digital rights researchers, as the threat of &q...

Netflix’s live Chris Rock special will have celebrity-packed pre- and post-shows

Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for National Board of Review Netflix is doling out some extra entertainment before and after Chris Roc...

Reddit will let you search comments on a post right from the search bar

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is adding the ability to search for comments within a specific post right from the search b...

The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries

An anonymous reader shares a report: Shadows can do some adventurous, sometimes malignant, poetic things: They move, rebel, hide, refuse to ...

LinkedIn Scammers Step Up Sophistication of Online Attacks

LinkedIn has been hit by a rise in sophisticated recruitment scams, as fraudsters seek to take advantage of the trend towards remote working...

Tesla pauses new Full Self-Driving beta installations until recall is addressed

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is putting a hold on new installations of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software in the ...

The M1-powered iPad Air gets its biggest discount of $100 off once again

The iPad Air has the most color variety among the current lineup. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s sweet spot of an i...

'I Was an App Store Games Editor - That's How I Know Apple Doesn't Care About Games'

Apple has taken billions from game developers but failed to reinvest it, leaving the App Store a confusing mess for mobile gamers, writes Ne...

Can This Company Use Earth's Heat to Suck Carbon from the Sky?

An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post: Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky — or "direct air capture," ...

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet

Álvaro Bernis / The Verge How we use the internet is changing fast, thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find inform...

Virologist Disputes WSJ Report on a Minority Opinion Suggesting Covid 'Lab Leak' Origin

Three long-time Slashdot readers all submitted this story — schwit1, sinij, and DevNull127. DevNull127 writes: Four U.S. agencies have concl...

Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is reportedly out at Twitter

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter product manager Esther Crawford no longer has a job at the company following yet another ...

Who Writes Linux and Open Source Software?

From an opinion piece in the Register: Aiven, an open source cloud data platform company, recently analyzed who's doing what with GitHub...

Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Podcast About Computer Science?

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: They say "always be learning" — but do podcasts actually help? I've been trying ...

America's CDC Warns of Increase in Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections

America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "has issued a health advisory to warn the public of an increase of a drug-resi...

Star Trek: Picard’s season three premiere is free to watch online

Image: Trae Patton / Paramount Plus The first episode of Star Trek: Picard ’s third and final season is available to stream online for fr...

Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone

An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: Nokia has announced one of the first budget Android smartphones designed to be repaired at home all...

Thieves Spy on iPhone Owners' Passcodes, Then Steal Their Phones and Money

After an iPhone was stolen, $10,000 vanished from the owner's bank account — and they were locked out of their Apple account's photo...

Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak

Phoronix reports: While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app ...

China Is Exporting Its Obsession with Tiny Electric Vehicles

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shared this report about the boxy little Wuling: Priced at around $5,500 and famously outselling Tesla...

The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now

Each option (except for the Hori Split Pad Pro and 8BitDo USB Adapter) is compatible with all Switch models, including the Switch Lite. F...

Dish Network’s internal systems are so broken some employees haven’t worked in over a day

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that’s taken down the c...

Meta Has a New Machine Learning Language Model

The buzz in tech these last few weeks has been focused squarely on the language models developed and deployed by the likes of Microsoft, Goo...

Cyber Insurance Is Back From the Brink After Onslaught of Ransomware Attacks

The cyber-insurance market, battered by a rash of pandemic-era ransomware attacks, is making a comeback. Price hikes are moderating, new car...

We’ve got more details on Aqara’s exciting new presence sensor

The Aqara FP2 presence sensor is now available to buy in China and is coming soon to the US. | Image: Aqara More details have emerged ab...

What's Inside the Earth's Core?

The inner core of the Earth appears to hold an innermost secret. From a report: Geology textbooks almost inevitably include a cutaway diagra...