Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
Comcast’s attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn’t stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and other business lines like Peacock and theme parks. Ars Technica reports: The Q4 net l … ⌘ Read more
County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Dan Goodin: Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case wa … ⌘ Read more
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived there, two new studies indicate, pushing back the established time for such activity. From a report: The evidence includes a 500,000-year-old hammer made of elephant or mammoth bone, excavated in southern England, and 430,000-year-old wooden … ⌘ Read more
30,000 More UPS Jobs On the Chopping Block as Amazon Era Ends
UPS said today it plans to eliminate an additional 30,000 operational jobs this year as the shipping giant continues to wind down its partnership with Amazon – previously its largest customer – and push forward a broader turnaround strategy under CEO Carol Tome.
CFO Brian Dykes said on an earnings call that the cuts will be accomplished through attrition … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating approximately 16,000 roles across the company as part of organizational changes that began in October 2025 and are only now being finalized by certain teams. Senior Vice President Beth Galetti shared the news in a memo to employees, framing the reductions as an effort to reduce layers, increase ownership, and remove bureaucracy. The memo follows another memo that t … ⌘ Read more
US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science.org: Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce. That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technol … ⌘ Read more
Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them ‘Reinvent Themselves’
Citigroup has rolled out mandatory AI training for all 175,000 of its employees across 80 locations worldwide, a sweeping initiative that CEO Jane Fraser describes as helping workers “reinvent themselves” before the technology permanently alters what they do for a living.
The $205 billion bank sent out an in … ⌘ Read more
Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
Samsung said today that its Galaxy Z TriFold, the first tri-fold smartphone to ship in the U.S., will be available starting January 30 at a price point of $2,899 – substantially more expensive than any other phone on the U.S. market, including Samsung’s own $2,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 and a fully loaded 2TB iPhone 17 Pro Max.
The company will only sell the device through its … ⌘ Read more
TikTok Alternative ‘Skylight’ Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized
Skylight, an open-source, TikTok-style video app built on the AT Protocol, surged past 380,000 users after last week’s shake-up around TikTok’s U.S. ownership and privacy concerns. TechCrunch reports: Launched last year and backed by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight’s mobile app is built on the AT Protocol, … ⌘ Read more
How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall
An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making – and breaking – fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the “.ai” t … ⌘ Read more
Airlines Cancel Over 10,000 US Flights Due To Massive Winter Storm
“Airlines canceled more than 10,000 U.S. flights scheduled for this weekend,” reports CNBC, “as a massive winter storm sweeps across the country, with heavy snow and sleet forecast, followed by bitter cold… set to snarl travel for hundreds of thousands of people for days.”
More than 3,500 flights on Saturday were canceled, according to flig … ⌘ Read more
Wall Street Pushes Solo 401(k)s as More Americans Work for Themselves
An anonymous reader shares a report: A niche retirement plan favored by freelancers is quickly becoming a hot Wall Street sales pitch, as more and more Americans look for ways to shelter a bigger chunk of their paychecks from taxes. Known as solo 401(k)s, they allow the self-employed to contribute $72,000 a year into tax-advantaged retire … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic’s AI Keeps Passing Its Own Company’s Job Interview
Anthropic has a problem that most companies would envy: its AI model keeps getting so good, the company wrote in a blog post, that it passes the company’s own hiring test for performance engineers. The test, designed in late 2023 by optimization lead Tristan Hume, asks candidates to speed up code running on a simulated computer chip. Over 1,000 people have take … ⌘ Read more
Autodesk To Cut 1,000 Jobs
Autodesk said today it plans to cut approximately 1,000 jobs, or roughly 7% of its workforce, as part of what the company described as the final phase of a global restructuring effort aimed at strengthening its sales and marketing operations.
The maker of AutoCAD and other digital design software said a significant portion of the cuts will fall within customer-facing sales functions.
Ozempic is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry
New research from Cornell University has tracked how households change their spending after someone starts taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, and the numbers are material enough to explain why food industry earnings calls keep blaming everything except the obvious culprit.
The study analyzed transaction data from 150,000 households linked to survey responses on medicati … ⌘ Read more
CEOs Say AI is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
Companies are spending vast sums on AI expecting the technology to boost efficiency, but a new survey from AI consulting firm Section found that two-thirds of non-management workers among 5,000 white-collar respondents say they save less than two hours a week or no time at all, while more than 40% of executives report the technolo … ⌘ Read more
Germany’s EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands
Germany is reinstating EV subsidies after a sharp sales drop, rolling out a 3 billion-euro program offering 1,500-6,000 euros per buyer starting in May and running through 2029. Unlike some neighboring countries, the incentives are open to all manufacturers with a focus on low- and middle-income households. From a report: “I cannot see any evidence of this postulated major i … ⌘ Read more
A Second US Sphere Could Come To Maryland
Sphere Entertainment plans to build a second U.S. Sphere near Washington, D.C., with a smaller 6,000-seat “mini-Sphere” proposed for National Harbor in Maryland. The venue would retain the signature LED exterior and immersive 4D tech of the Las Vegas Sphere, just at a more compact scale. The Verge reports: The second US sphere would be built in an area known as National Harbor in Prince Geor … ⌘ Read more
China Birth Rate Falls To Lowest Since 1949
China’s birth rate fell to 5.6 per 1,000 people in 2025, the lowest figure since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, and the country’s total population contracted by 3.39 million, the sharpest decline since the Mao Zedong era. The drop marks the fourth straight year of population decline and comes despite government efforts to encourage childbearing, including subsidies of abou … ⌘ Read more
Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern “Mythology Of Conscious AI” written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science:
The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation. More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, … ⌘ Read more
Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from the Washington Times: Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff [back to 6.1%] on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 ve … ⌘ Read more
AI Has Made Salesforce Engineers More Productive, So the Company Has Stopped Hiring Them, CEO Says
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said this week that his company’s software engineering headcount has remained “mostly flat” over the past year as internal AI tools have delivered substantial productivity gains.
Speaking on TBPN, Benioff said he has about 15,000 engineers who are “more p … ⌘ Read more
Study Finds Weak Evidence Linking Social Media Use to Teen Mental Health Problems
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Screen time spent gaming or on social media does not cause mental health problems in teenagers, according to a large-scale study. […] Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their s … ⌘ Read more
Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI In Its Content or Designs
Games Workshop, the owner and operator of a number of hugely popular tabletop war games, including Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar, has banned the use of generative AI in its content and design processes. IGN reports: Delivering the UK company’s impressive financial results, CEO Kevin Rountree address … ⌘ Read more
Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The global technology sector eliminated some 244,851 jobs in 2025, according to a report from RationalFX. The U.K.-based financial services company says the worldwide downsizing reflects how companies in 2025 restructured their operations to focus on efficiency, profitability, and AI-driven productivity. The RationalFX … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.0 Released
BrianFagioli writes: Wine 11.0 has officially landed, wrapping up a year of development with more than 6,000 code changes and a broad set of upgrades that touch gaming, desktop behavior, and long-standing architectural work. The biggest milestone is the completion of the new WoW64 model, which is now considered fully supported and allows 32-bit and even 16-bit applications to run in a cleaner way inside 64-bit prefixes. Wine also gains s … ⌘ Read more
EV Roadside Repairs Easier Than Petrol or Diesel, New Data Suggests
Electric vehicles are more likely to be fixed at the roadside than petrol or diesel cars despite public fears to the contrary, according to new breakdown data from the AA. From a report: New research from Autotrader and the AA, carried out in December among more than 2,000 consumers, found 44% of respondents are concerned about the risk of b … ⌘ Read more
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices
Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division as the company redirects resources away from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and smartphone features. The cuts amount to roughly 10% of Reality Labs’ 15,000-person workforce, according to an internal post from CTO Andrew Bosworth reviewed by … ⌘ Read more
You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000
A newly founded startup called GRU Space is taking deposits of up to $1 million to eventually build inflatable hotels on the Moon. The bet is that space needs destinations, not just rockets, even if the first customers are essentially early adopters of sci-fi optimism. Ars Technica reports: It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? After all, GRU Space had, as of late Dec … ⌘ Read more
Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment acco … ⌘ Read more
Should AI Agents Be Classified As People?
New submitter sziring writes: Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast podcast interviewed McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels, where he classified AI agents as people. “I often get asked, ‘How big is McKinsey? How many people do you employ?’ I now update this almost every month, but my latest answer to you would be 60,000, but it’s 40,000 humans and 20,000 agents.”
This statement looks to be the opening shots … ⌘ Read more
Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division
Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set to disproportionately affect those in the metaverse unit who work on virtual reality headsets … ⌘ Read more
Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
A major new review by the Cochrane collaboration – an independent network of researchers – evaluated 73 randomized controlled trials involving about 5,000 people with depression and found that exercise matched the effectiveness of both pharmacological treatments and psychological therapies.
The biological mechanisms overl … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago
Amazon “has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter,” reports CNBC:
As part of the plans, Amazon has proposed building a one-story, 229,000-square-foot building [on a 35-acre lot] in Orland Park, Illinois, that would offer a range of products, such as grocerie … ⌘ Read more
Illinois Health Department Exposed Over 700,000 Residents’ Personal Data For Years
Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed that a misconfigured internal mapping website exposed sensitive personal data for more than 700,000 Illinois residents for over four years, from April 2021 to September 2025. Officials say they can’t confirm whether the publicly accessible data was ever viewed. TechC … ⌘ Read more
The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV
Several years after Samsung introduced the Frame TV in 2017 – a television designed to display fine art and resemble a framed painting when switched off – competitors are finally catching up in meaningful numbers. Amazon announced the Ember Artline TV at CES 2026 this week, a $899 model that can display one of 2,000 works of art for free and includes an Alexa AI tool to recommend pieces suited to … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Cancels Plans To Rate Limit Exchange Online Bulk Emails
Microsoft has canceled plans to impose a daily limit of 2,000 external recipients on Exchange Online bulk email senders. From a report: The change was announced in April 2024, when Microsoft said that it would add new External Recipient Rate (ERR) limits starting January 2025 to fight spam, with plans to begin enforcing the limit on cloud-hosted … ⌘ Read more
2ª parte começa com Cotrim e, bingo, ele acha que é o candidato que representa Sá Carneiro e Passos Coelho. Primeiro critica Seguro por não querer governar, depois admite que um Presidente não governa.
Jorge Pinto sobre desistências diz o que sempre disse.
AF é mais directo para dizer o mesmo: não desiste.
CM acha isto tudo muito estranho.
Seguro quer responder mas Ventura interrompe para dizer que a candidatura do Jorge Pinto é ridícula (ou outro adjectivo semelhante)… e esta mini-ronda acaba assim, voltando-se ao verdadeiro tema desta ronda: o tipo de presidente que eles querem ser, mas indo para António Filipe… por isso parece que o Jorge Pinto perde a sua oportunidade de responder à “pergunta a sério”. (Mais tarde ele queixa-se disso).
CMartins critica os candidatos da direita toda com a questão da nacionalidade, ou do pacote laboral. Critica JPinto ao apoiar Seguro, que é criticado por se ter colocado a favor de Passos e a Troika.
André Pestana justifica a sua candidatura, destaca o apoio que tem. Distingue-se de CM e AF por terem participado na Geringonça.
Humberto Correia insiste na sua tecla: o maior problema é a habitação, vai obrigar o governo a construir 100.000 habitações sociais por ano, via magistratura de influência.
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Many Schools Don’t Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore
A survey of 2,000 teachers, students and parents conducted by the New York Times found that many high schools have stopped assigning full novels to students, opting instead for excerpts that are often read on school-issued laptops rather than in print. The shift stems from multiple factors: a belief that students have shorter attention spans, pressure … ⌘ Read more
Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero
Stack Overflow’s monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 – levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform’s activity over its sixteen-year history.
Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that acceler … ⌘ Read more
A Drug-Resistant ‘Superbug’ Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fungus, which can spr … ⌘ Read more
IDC Estimates Apple Shipped Just 45,000 Vision Pros Last Quarter
Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner Luxshare halted production of the Vision Pro headset at the start of 2025, according to market research firm IDC, after the device shipped 390,000 units during its 2024 launch year. The $3,499 headset has also seen its digital advertising budget cut by more than 95% year to date in the US and UK, according to … ⌘ Read more
UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space
A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. “The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space … ⌘ Read more
US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC
The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From a report: As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
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Israel has operationally deployed Iron Beam, a 100,000-watt laser air-defense system capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and mortars at negligible per-shot cost. According to Tom’s Hardware, it marks the first real-world deployment of a high-energy laser as part of a modern, multi-layered missile defense network. From the report: The Iron Beam is a short-range line-of-sigh … ⌘ Read more
The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
The consulting firm CVL Economics estimated last year that AI would disrupt more than 200,000 entertainment-industry jobs in the United States by 2026, but writer Nick Geisler argues in The Atlantic that the most consequential casualties may be the humble entry-level positions where aspiring artists have traditionally paid dues and learned their craft. Geisler, a screenwriter and WGA membe … ⌘ Read more
Nepal To Scrap ‘Failed’ Mount Everest Waste Deposit Scheme
A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped – with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure. From the report: Climbers had been required to pay a deposit of $4,000, which they would only get back if they brought at least 8kg (18lbs) of waste back down with them. It was hoped it would begin to … ⌘ Read more
Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI
OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new “head of preparedness,” a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. “This will be a stressful job, and you’ll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately,” said Sam Altman as he launched the hunt to fill “a critical role” to “help the world.” Th … ⌘ Read more
UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has almost 260,000 members, has said that from March it will stop allowing students to take online exams i … ⌘ Read more
60 Game Workers Form First Ubisoft Union in North America
About 60 workers in Halifax, Nova Scotia have formed Ubisoft’s first union in North America, reports the CBC (though its 17,000 employees include some unionized workforces in other parts of the world):
T.J. Gillis, a senior server developer at Ubisoft Halifax, says he became increasingly concerned about the growth of artificial intelligence in the industry and … ⌘ Read more