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OpenAI Partners Amass $100 Billion Debt Pile To Fund Its Ambitions
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1442237/openai-partners-amass-100-billion-debt-pile-to-fund-its-ambitions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
OpenAI Partners Amass $100 Billion Debt Pile To Fund Its Ambitions
OpenAI's data centre partners are on course to amass almost $100 billion in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself. Financial Times: SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at least $30...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
OpenAI Partners Amass $100 Billion Debt Pile To Fund Its Ambitions
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1442237/openai-partners-amass-100-billion-debt-pile-to-fund-its-ambitions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Officials Clashed in Investigation of Deadly Air India Crash
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/151231/officials-clashed-in-investigation-of-deadly-air-india-crash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Officials Clashed in Investigation of Deadly Air India Crash
The investigation into the June 12 Air India crash that killed 260 people has been marked by tension, suspicion and poor communication between American and Indian officials, including an episode where NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy instructed her black-box specialists not to board a late-night Ind...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Officials Clashed in Investigation of Deadly Air India Crash
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/151231/officials-clashed-in-investigation-of-deadly-air-india-crash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Mysterious Black Fungus From Chernobyl That May Eat Radiation
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1516243/the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-may-eat-radiation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Mysterious Black Fungus From Chernobyl That May Eat Radiation
Black fungus found growing inside Chernobyl's destroyed reactor may be feeding on radiation, and researchers have tested samples of the same species aboard the International Space Station to explore whether it could eventually shield astronauts from cosmic rays. Ukrainian scientist Nelli Zhdanova fi...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Mysterious Black Fungus From Chernobyl That May Eat Radiation
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1516243/the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-may-eat-radiation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Airbus Issues Major A320 Recall, Threatening Global Flight Disruption
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/29/0515215/airbus-issues-major-a320-recall-threatening-global-flight-disruption?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Airbus Issues Major A320 Recall, Threatening Global Flight Disruption
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, threatening upheaval during the busiest travel weekend of the year in the United States and disruption worldwide. From a re...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Airbus Issues Major A320 Recall, Threatening Global Flight Disruption
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EU To Examine If Apple Ads and Maps Subject To Tough Rules, Apple Says No
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/172222/eu-to-examine-if-apple-ads-and-maps-subject-to-tough-rules-apple-says-no?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
EU To Examine If Apple Ads and Maps Subject To Tough Rules, Apple Says No
EU antitrust regulators will examine whether Apple's Apple Ads and Apple Maps should be subject to the onerous requirements of the bloc's digital rules after both services hit key criteria, with the U.S. tech giant saying they should be exempted. From a report: Apple's App Store, iOS operating syste...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
EU To Examine If Apple Ads and Maps Subject To Tough Rules, Apple Says No
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/172222/eu-to-examine-if-apple-ads-and-maps-subject-to-tough-rules-apple-says-no?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Scientists Think They've Solved Why One of History's Most Advanced Civilizations Vanished
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1721249/scientists-think-theyve-solved-why-one-of-historys-most-advanced-civilizations-vanished?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Scientists Think They've Solved Why One of History's Most Advanced Civilizations Vanished
A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has reconstructed the climate conditions of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization between 3000 and 1000 B.C., finding that four intense droughts -- each lasting more than 85 years -- likely drove the gradual decline of one of the ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Scientists Think They've Solved Why One of History's Most Advanced Civilizations Vanished
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1721249/scientists-think-theyve-solved-why-one-of-historys-most-advanced-civilizations-vanished?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1435209/robots-and-ai-are-already-remaking-the-chinese-economy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year -- nearly nine times as many as the United States and more than the rest of the world combined -- as the country races to automate its manufacturing base amid rising labor costs at home and tariff threats from abroad.
The nation's stock of operat...
hardware.slashdot.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1435209/robots-and-ai-are-already-remaking-the-chinese-economy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year
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Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year
Researchers at the Pacific Institute documented 420 water-related conflicts globally in 2024, a record that far surpasses the 355 incidents logged in 2023 and continues a trend that has seen such violence more than quadruple over the past five years. The Oakland-based water think tank's database tra...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year
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Major AI Conference Flooded With Peer Reviews Written Fully By AI
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/139247/major-ai-conference-flooded-with-peer-reviews-written-fully-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Major AI Conference Flooded With Peer Reviews Written Fully By AI
An analysis of submissions to next year's International Conference on Learning Representations has found that roughly one in five peer reviews were fully generated by AI, a discovery that came after researchers including Carnegie Mellon's Graham Neubig grew suspicious of feedback on their manuscript...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Major AI Conference Flooded With Peer Reviews Written Fully By AI
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/139247/major-ai-conference-flooded-with-peer-reviews-written-fully-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Why Can't ChatGPT Tell Time?
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0135214/why-cant-chatgpt-tell-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Why Can't ChatGPT Tell Time?
ChatGPT can browse the web, write code and analyze images, but ask it what time it is and you might get the correct answer, a confident wrong answer, or a polite refusal -- sometimes all three within minutes of each other.
The problem stems from how large language models work. These systems predic...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
AWS Introduces DNS Failover Feature for Its Notoriously Unreliable US East Region
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0118256/aws-introduces-dns-failover-feature-for-its-notoriously-unreliable-us-east-region?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
AWS Introduces DNS Failover Feature for Its Notoriously Unreliable US East Region
Amazon Web Services has rolled out a DNS resilience feature that allows customers to make domain name system changes within 60 minutes of a service disruption in its US East region, a direct response to the long history of outages at the cloud giant's most troubled infrastructure.
AWS said custome...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
AWS Introduces DNS Failover Feature for Its Notoriously Unreliable US East Region
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0118256/aws-introduces-dns-failover-feature-for-its-notoriously-unreliable-us-east-region?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Seven Years Later, Airbus is Still Trying To Kick Its Microsoft Habit
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/019235/seven-years-later-airbus-is-still-trying-to-kick-its-microsoft-habit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Seven Years Later, Airbus is Still Trying To Kick Its Microsoft Habit
Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch. The Register: As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employe...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Seven Years Later, Airbus is Still Trying To Kick Its Microsoft Habit
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/019235/seven-years-later-airbus-is-still-trying-to-kick-its-microsoft-habit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Canada Rolls Back Climate Rules To Boost Investments
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Canada Rolls Back Climate Rules To Boost Investments
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed an agreement with Alberta's premier that will roll back certain climate rules to spur investment in energy production, while encouraging construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast. From a report: Under the agreement, which was signed on Thursd...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Canada Rolls Back Climate Rules To Boost Investments
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0042205/canada-rolls-back-climate-rules-to-boost-investments?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0037205/us-patent-office-issues-new-guidelines-for-ai-assisted-inventions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued new guidelines outlining when inventions created with the help of AI can be patented. From a report: USPTO Director John Squires said on Wednesday in a notice set to be published Friday, that the office considers generative AI systems to be "analogous ...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0037205/us-patent-office-issues-new-guidelines-for-ai-assisted-inventions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Epic's Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0033246/epics-sweeney-says-platforms-should-stop-tagging-games-made-with-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Epic's Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has argued that platforms like Steam should not label games that are made using AI. From a report: Responding to a post on Twitter from a user who suggested that storefronts drop this tag, the industry exec said that it "makes no sense" to flag such content. Sween...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Epic's Sweeney Says Platforms Should Stop Tagging Games Made With AI
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0033246/epics-sweeney-says-platforms-should-stop-tagging-games-made-with-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Social Media Giants Liable For Financial Scams Under New EU Law
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0028207/social-media-giants-liable-for-financial-scams-under-new-eu-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Social Media Giants Liable For Financial Scams Under New EU Law
Platforms including Meta and TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new rules agreed by EU lawmakers in the early hours of Thursday. From a report: The Parliament and Council agreed on the package of rules after eight hours of negotiations to strengthen safeguards ag...
tech.slashdot.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Social Media Giants Liable For Financial Scams Under New EU Law
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/0028207/social-media-giants-liable-for-financial-scams-under-new-eu-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NASA Reduces Flights on Boeing's Starliner After Botched Astronaut Mission
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0856219/nasa-reduces-flights-on-boeings-starliner-after-botched-astronaut-mission?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NASA Reduces Flights on Boeing's Starliner After Botched Astronaut Mission
An anonymous reader shares a report: NASA has slashed the number of astronaut missions on Boeing's Starliner contract and said the spacecraft's next mission to the International Space Station will fly without a crew, reducing the scope of a program hobbled by engineering woes and outpaced by SpaceX....
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November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NASA Reduces Flights on Boeing's Starliner After Botched Astronaut Mission
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0856219/nasa-reduces-flights-on-boeings-starliner-after-botched-astronaut-mission?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
AI Can Technically Perform 12% of US Labor Market's Wage Value, MIT Simulation Finds
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0752210/ai-can-technically-perform-12-of-us-labor-markets-wage-value-mit-simulation-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
AI Can Technically Perform 12% of US Labor Market's Wage Value, MIT Simulation Finds
Researchers at MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built a simulation that models all 151 million American workers and their skills, then maps those skills against the capabilities of over 13,000 AI tools currently in production to see where the two overlap. The answer, according to their ana...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
AI Can Technically Perform 12% of US Labor Market's Wage Value, MIT Simulation Finds
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/27/0752210/ai-can-technically-perform-12-of-us-labor-markets-wage-value-mit-simulation-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UK Police To Trial AI 'Agents' Responding To Non-Emergency Calls
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2344228/uk-police-to-trial-ai-agents-responding-to-non-emergency-calls?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UK Police To Trial AI 'Agents' Responding To Non-Emergency Calls
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Call-handling agents powered by AI are to be trialled by Staffordshire Police in a bid to cut waiting times for the non-emergency 101 service. The force is set to become the third in the country to take part in the scheme testing the use of artificia...
news.slashdot.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
UK Police To Trial AI 'Agents' Responding To Non-Emergency Calls
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2344228/uk-police-to-trial-ai-agents-responding-to-non-emergency-calls?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2352256/apple-asks-indian-court-to-block-antitrust-law-allowing-38-billion-fine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine
Apple is challenging a new Indian antitrust law that would let regulators calculate penalties based on global revenue -- a change that could expose the company to a fine of roughly $38 billion in its dispute with Tinder owner Match. The 2022 antitrust case centers on accusations that Apple abused it...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2352256/apple-asks-indian-court-to-block-antitrust-law-allowing-38-billion-fine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
China's Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Releases Its First Results
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2337257/chinas-giant-underground-neutrino-observatory-releases-its-first-results?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
China's Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Releases Its First Results
China's new JUNO neutrino observatory has delivered world-leading measurements after just 59 days, offering the most precise readings yet of two key neutrino oscillation parameters. "The physics result is already world-leading in the areas that it touches," says particle physicist Juan Pedro Ochoa-R...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
China's Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Releases Its First Results
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2337257/chinas-giant-underground-neutrino-observatory-releases-its-first-results?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2330218/mexico-unveils-plans-to-build-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-latin-america?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Mexico unveiled plans Wednesday to build what it claims will be Latin America's most powerful supercomputer -- a project the government says will help the country capitalize on the rapidly evolving uses of artificial intelligence and exp...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2330218/mexico-unveils-plans-to-build-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-latin-america?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Amazon Faces FAA Probe After Delivery Drone Snaps Internet Cable In Texas
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2326203/amazon-faces-faa-probe-after-delivery-drone-snaps-internet-cable-in-texas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Amazon Faces FAA Probe After Delivery Drone Snaps Internet Cable In Texas
Amazon's drone-delivery program is under federal scrutiny after an MK30 aircraft clipped an internet cable in Texas. CNBC reports: The incident occurred on Nov. 18 around 12:45 p.m. Central in Waco, Texas. After dropping off a package, one of Amazon's MK30 drones was ascending out of a customer's y...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Amazon Faces FAA Probe After Delivery Drone Snaps Internet Cable In Texas
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2326203/amazon-faces-faa-probe-after-delivery-drone-snaps-internet-cable-in-texas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/227244/greek-cybercrime-unit-shuts-down-iptv-pirates-68-end-users-face-fines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines
Greek authorities shut down an IPTV piracy operation on Santorini, arresting a reseller and referring 68 end users for prosecution. TorrentFreak reports: A new legal framework to tackle online infringement in Greece went live just a couple of months ago, and reports of prosecutions are already comi...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/227244/greek-cybercrime-unit-shuts-down-iptv-pirates-68-end-users-face-fines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Google's AirDrop Support For Pixel 10 Likely Exists Because of EU's Apple Ruling
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2155234/googles-airdrop-support-for-pixel-10-likely-exists-because-of-eus-apple-ruling?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Google's AirDrop Support For Pixel 10 Likely Exists Because of EU's Apple Ruling
Last week, Google surprised the tech world when it announced AirDrop support on Pixel 10 devices -- all without Apple's involvement. "While it initially seemed like this was a rogue move made by Google to coerce Apple into another boundary-breaking decision, it might actually be part of the repercus...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Google's AirDrop Support For Pixel 10 Likely Exists Because of EU's Apple Ruling
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2155234/googles-airdrop-support-for-pixel-10-likely-exists-because-of-eus-apple-ruling?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed