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DoorDash Strikes $17 Billion Deal For US Rival Instacart ift.tt/Qgwax7B
DoorDash Strikes $17 Billion Deal For US Rival Instacart - Slashdot

DoorDash Strikes $17 Billion Deal For US Rival Instacart - Slashdot

DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion as it expands beyond restaurant delivery and deeper into the U.S. grocery market. The deal, expected to close in late 2027 or the first...

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Reddit Is Getting a 'For You' Feed ift.tt/m8pMaA1
Reddit Is Getting a 'For You' Feed - Slashdot

Reddit Is Getting a 'For You' Feed - Slashdot

Reddit is overhauling its homepage with separate "For You" and "Following" feeds, with the former combining posts from subscribed communities and algorithmic recommendations based on users' interests...

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'Please Let the Internet Die' ift.tt/uywsfCG

'Please Let the Internet Die' - Slashdot

Slashdot reader fjo3 shares an article from Wired: The internet must be put out of its misery. Any rational observer can admit that the current iteration of the web -- and the social fabric woven...

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Google Struggling to Make AI Mode Searches Pay ift.tt/9npLaeG
Google Struggling to Make AI Mode Searches Pay - Slashdot

Google Struggling to Make AI Mode Searches Pay - Slashdot

Alphabet shares fell nearly 10% after Google disclosed that searches through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search, even as overall search revenue grew 12% year over year to...

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Ink Droplets In Motion Snag Top Prize In Nikon Small World Contest ift.tt/2HBiAxq
Ink Droplets In Motion Snag Top Prize In Nikon Small World Contest - Slashdot

Ink Droplets In Motion Snag Top Prize In Nikon Small World Contest - Slashdot

A 25-year-old German photographer won the 2026 Nikon Small World competition with a microscopic image freezing ink droplets in midair as an inkjet printer deposits them onto paper. Ars Technica...

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Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don't Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant ift.tt/k7sH51B
Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don't Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant - Slashdot

Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don't Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TechCrunch: In an email blast to customers titled "Protecting your finances in the Al World," Bank of America urged customers to never share...

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Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead ift.tt/cMvgDBL
Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead - Slashdot

Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead - Slashdot

An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain....

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Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers ift.tt/VpTjdLx
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers - Slashdot

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers - Slashdot

A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS's Okta login system, reveals...

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Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See ift.tt/XgOt7jP
Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See - Slashdot

Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See - Slashdot

Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker, allowing Alexa to visually identify objects, help with tasks and remotely monitor a room. For those concerned about privacy, Amazon is keeping a...

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Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? ift.tt/lNYE3UL
Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? - Slashdot

Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle,...

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Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains ift.tt/k9JQbWp
Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains - Slashdot

Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains - Slashdot

Ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Tom's Hardware, adding: "Huh. Looks like consuming one's own slop does not turn the wheels of industry." From the report: Amazon wants its...

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Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro ift.tt/2Ezte19
Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro - Slashdot

Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro - Slashdot

Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, reversing a position the company held for more than 15 years that touchscreens were poorly suited for laptops. 9to5Mac reports: The new machine...

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EMACS Turns 50 ift.tt/AGUpVkY
EMACS Turns 50 - Slashdot

EMACS Turns 50 - Slashdot

"EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!" writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know...

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FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar ift.tt/zNPX4uV
FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar - Slashdot

FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar - Slashdot

The FCC has approved (PDF) Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion acquisition of satellite operator Globalstar, giving the Starlink rival additional infrastructure and spectrum to expand into direct-to-device...

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Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android ift.tt/CWHaVys
Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android - Slashdot

Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access...

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Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet ift.tt/K1HqItJ
Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet - Slashdot

Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet - Slashdot

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system's sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations...

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CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs ift.tt/k3JY0n5
CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs - Slashdot

CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs - Slashdot

The CDC estimates that 19 drug-resistant pathogens cause 9.7 million infections and more than 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with resistance continuing to outpace development of new treatments....

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Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says ift.tt/YRIVTHo
Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says - Slashdot

Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries, the United...

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Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging ift.tt/dCcnSxI
Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging - Slashdot

Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging - Slashdot

Ford's upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV....

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Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans ift.tt/n3dWzNH
Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans - Slashdot

Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans - Slashdot

Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ have joined a growing list of companies objecting to having tokenized versions of their shares traded through OKX and Intercontinental Exchange's blockchain venture,...

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