Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

IEEE Spectrum: In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased...

Facebook's Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs To Metaverse Next Year

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms will continue to devote about 20% of its overall costs and expenses to Reality Labs in 2023, despite ...

Tesla accused of illegally firing two employees after they criticized Elon Musk

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two former Tesla employees are saying they were illegally fired from the company after taking par...

Supreme Court will hear Section 230 challenges in February

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for two major internet moderation cases in February of ...

IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers' Private Data Again

Confidential data of about 112,000 taxpayers inadvertently published by the IRS over the summer was mistakenly republished in late November ...

Op-Ed Argues 'Put Down the Burger' to Protect Earth's Biodiversity

"Earth is in the midst of the worst mass extinction since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago — and this time, the...

Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators?

Slashdot reader SoftwareArtist writes: Terminal emulators have barely changed in 30 years. They're still just scrolling windows of unstr...