Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news Bug Hits Some Threads Users: Their Words Echoed by All Other Users (techcrunch com) 14 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:34AM from the loose-Threads dept Threads now has 350 million users — but this week a strange bug affected some Threads accounts (on both desktop
News News - Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is envisaging setting up a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona that will build robots and artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter Son is seeking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co for the project, which is aimed at bringing
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters fahrbot-bot writes: The Cool Down is reporting that a team of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a new process to separate crude oil components, potentially bringing forward a replacement that can cut its harmful carbon pollution by 90% The original technique, which uses heat to separate crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and heating oil, accounts for
Technology 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
News News - Slashdot Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares news that Texas Instruments has announced plans to invest more than $60 billion to expand its U S manufacturing operations in the United States From a report: The funds will be used to build or expand seven chip-making facilities in Texas as well as Utah, and will create 60,000 jobs, TI said on
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
Linux News | Slashdot The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: The Linux Foundation on Friday introduced a new method to distribute WordPress updates and plugins that's not controlled by any one party, in a bid to "stabilize the WordPress ecosystem" after months of infighting The FAIR Package Manager project is a response to the legal brawl that erupted last year, pitting WordPress co-creator Matthew Mullenweg, his
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
Mobile News - Slashdot Apple's smartphone shipments in China plunged nearly 50% year-over-year in March 2025, as domestic brands like Huawei and Vivo surged ahead -- now controlling 92% of the market MacRumors reports: The steep decline saw shipments fall to just 1 89 million units, down from 3 75 million during the same period last year That shrinks Apple's share of the Chinese market to approximately 8%, while