A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The hundreds of prize payouts were mostly just a few bucks each, part of a promotional campaign by a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The total reward pot:...

Apple and Google Agree To Change App Stores After 'Effective Duopoly' Claim - Slashdot

Apple and Google have agreed to a set of commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority that will prevent them from giving preferential treatment to their own apps and require greater...

2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It's Decaf. - Slashdot

If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you just might be right, new science suggests. The New York Times: A large new study provides evidence of cognitive benefits...

Kalshi Prediction Markets Match or Beat Traditional Forecasting Tools For Macro Indicators, NBER...

A new NBER working paper from researchers at the Federal Reserve, Northwestern's Kellogg School and Johns Hopkins finds that Kalshi -- the largest federally regulated prediction market in the U.S.,...

New Raspberry Pi 4 Model Splits RAM Across Dual Chips - Slashdot

The blog OMG Ubuntu reports that a new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been (quietly) introduced. "The key difference? It now uses a dual-RAM configuration." The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (PCB...

Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules - Slashdot

"How Chinese is your car?" asks the Wall Street Journal. "Automakers are racing to work it out." Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology....

Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst? - Slashdot

It's the first "AI" Super Bowl, argues the tech/business writer at Slate, with AI company advertisements taking center stage, even while consumers insist to surveyors that they're "mostly negative"...

Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom? - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from the Associated Press: Even as China's expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power...

Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: An Asian cyber-espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical infrastructure...

A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities -...

Axios reports: Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with...