China Bars Purchases of Micron Chips, Escalating US Conflict

"China delivered the latest salvo in an escalating semiconductor war with the U.S.," reports Bloomberg, "announcing that Micr...

Google Colab Promises 'AI-Powered Coding, Free of Charge'

Google Colab hosts free cloud-based "executable documents" that, among other things, let you write and run code in your browser (i...

Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

Wikipedia describes Freenet as "a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication," released in the year 2...

Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine

Neeva tried to build a different kind of search engine — but couldn’t make the business work. | Image: Neeva Neeva, which for a while loo...

'How the 35-year-old Weed Smoker Behind 10 Million Scam Calls Made His Fortune'

Long-time Slashdot reader SpzToid shared this story from the Telegraph: Millions of people get phone calls from scammers and wonder who is a...

Neeva is Shutting Down Its Privacy-First, Ad-Free $4.95-a-Month Search Engine

Two years ago Slashdot covered "the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers" — with a $4.95 monthly subscription fee...

Hundreds of Freelancers Hired to Perform Online 'Catfishing on an Industrial Scale'

Wired reports on "hundreds of freelancers employed all over the world to animate fake profiles and chat with people who have signed up ...