'sudo' and 'su' Are Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety

Phoronix reports: With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in ord...

Google Has More Powerful AI, Says Engineer Fired Over Sentience Claims

Remember that Google engineer/AI ethicist who was fired last summer after claiming their LaMDA LLM had become sentient? In a new interview w...

Russian Forces Suffer Radiation Sickness After Digging Trenches and Fishing in Chernobyl

The Independent reports: Russian troops who dug trenches in Chernobyl forest during their occupation of the area have been struck down with ...

Chess has a New World Champion: China's Ding Liren

The Guardian reports: The Magnus Carlsen era is over. Ding Liren becomes China's first world chess champion. The country now can boast t...

Droids for Space? Startup Plans Satellites With Robotic Arms For Repairs and Collecting Space Junk

The Boston Globe reports on a 25-person startup pursuing an unusual solution to the problem of space junk: "Imagine if every car we eve...

Ben & Jerry's Cofounder Launches Nonprofit Cannabis Line

The "Ben" in Ben & Jerry's "has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission," reports the Chicago Trib...

Can OpenAI Trademark 'GPT'?

"ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT are a mere sampling of the many outfits to apply for trademarks with the United States Pat...

Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup

For Red Hat's 30th anniversary, North Carolina's News & Observer newspaper ran a special four-part series of articles. In the fi...

Six Months Later, Poker Player Garrett Adelstein Still Thinks He Was Cheated

In October professional poker player Garrett Adelstein lost to a relative newcomer. Last month 15,000 viewers tuned in for his first new pub...

Report: Apple's AI and 'Siri' Efforts Hindered by Caution, Dysfunction

The Information reports: Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the ...

Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework

Long-time software engineer Blake1024 (Slashdot reader #846,727) writes: We are thrilled to announce the release of Kiss v2.0, a comprehensi...

84 Amazon Delivery Drivers Just Won a $30 an Hour Union Contract

CNBC reports that 84 Amazon delivery drivers at a California facility "joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union sai...

Instagram is testing songs in photo carousels

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is testing a new feature that will let you add songs to the photo carousels you post to t...

Zimbabwe Will Issue Gold-Backed Digital Tokens From Next Month

Zimbabwe's central bank plans to sell a gold-backed digital currency to the public from May 8 in another attempt to stabilize its tumbli...

Lawmakers propose banning AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge American Department of Defense policy already bans artificial intelligence from autonomously laun...

New Venmo Feature Lets Users Transfer Crypto To Outside Wallets - and To Each Other

Venmo soon will allow users to transfer their Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash to outside wallets -- as well as to other users ...

Mitsubishi wants to be the world’s carbon broker

Pedestrians walk past the front of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. headquarters office in Tokyo on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005. | Photo by Haruyoshi...

Microsoft is Busy Rewriting Core Windows Code in Memory-safe Rust

Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, and the more memory-safe code is already reaching developers...

Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce

Image: Clubhouse Clubhouse, the app that sparked a wave of audio-only features, is laying off over 50 percent of its employees. The app’s...

Microsoft is done with major Windows 10 updates

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Windows 10 22H2 will be the final version of the operating system, Microsoft said in a blog post ...

The Rapid Rise of Generative AI Threatens To Upend US Patent System

Intellectual property laws cannot handle possibility artificial intelligence could invent things on its own. From a report: When members of ...

Microsoft’s mice, keyboards, and webcams are being discontinued in favor of Surface accessories

Microsoft-branded keyboards will be a thing of the past. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, ke...

Brave Search Removes Last Remnant of Bing From Search Results Page

Brave browser: Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing, ...

Zuckerberg Says Meta Wants To 'Introduce AI Agents To Billions of People'

Meta sees "an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful," CEO Mark Zucke...

AT&T-backed satellite can pick up regular phone signals from space

Image: AST SpaceMobile A groundbreaking phone call between Texas and Japan has occurred that could eventually help set the stage for a gl...

'Indiana Jones 5' Will Feature a De-Aged Harrison Ford for the First 25 Minutes

An anonymous reader shares a report: A young Harrison Ford will grace cinema screens for 25 minutes this summer -- aided by some new Industr...

SpaceX, Rogers Strike Deal for Satellite Phone Service in Canada

SpaceX and Rogers Communications struck a deal for satellite phone service in Canada -- a bid to bring emergency service to remote areas of ...

New bill would add mandatory age verification to social networks

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A group of US senators has revealed a bipartisan bill that would require social media platfo...

Ring’s new indoor security camera comes with a physical privacy shutter

The Ring Indoor Cam is a small smart security camera that can be manually disabled. | Image: Ring Smart home security company Ring has r...

Amazon Starts Layoffs in HR and Cloud Units

Amazon on Wednesday began laying off some employees in its cloud computing and human resources divisions. From a report: Amazon Web Services...