Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared the official blurb describing the new show: After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and
News News - Slashdot Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI, in the corporation's first move to protect its content from being scraped without permission to build artificial intelligence technology The corporation has sent a letter to Aravind Srinivas, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based startup, saying it has
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters jrepin writes: Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile) environment for GNU Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems Among other things it also powers the desktop mode of Steam Deck gaming handheld The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6 4 This fresh new release improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support
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Mobile News | Slashdot President Trump's threat of a 25% tariff on smartphone imports including iPhones would not provide enough economic incentive for Apple to relocate US-bound iPhone production to domestic facilities, according to a new Morgan Stanley note viewed by Slashdot The tariff threat, announced Friday via social media, appeared to target Apple's recent shift of iPhone production from China to India
Linux News | Slashdot An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hacker News: Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker
Entertainment News | Slashdot Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared the official blurb describing the new show: After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and
Your Rights Online News | Slashdot The daughter of a Seattle woman who died during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave has filed the first wrongful death lawsuit directly linking fossil fuel companies to an individual's climate-related death Misti Leon is suing seven oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP, claiming they caused her mother Juliana Leon's death from hyperthermia on June 28, 2021, when
Features News | Slashdot Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: It's been two long years since the launch of Matter-- the one smart home standard designed to rule them all -- and there's been a fair amount of disappointment around a sometimes buggy rollout, slow adoption by companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, and frustrating setup