Instagram is down

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As you may already know if you’re reading this — Instagram is down. The app’s feed is frozen, tos...

Bill Gates Applauds Affordable Colleges, Urges Graduates to Solve the World's Problems

When Bill Gates took the stage at Stanford back in 1996, he was ready with his first joke after a long round of appreciative applause. "...

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...