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...

The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs - Great at Low Temperatures - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shared this report from InsideEVs: Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world's first passenger car powered...

Apple Plans to Allow Outside Voice-Controlled AI Chatbots in CarPlay - Slashdot

Apple "is preparing to allow voice-controlled AI apps from other companies in CarPlay," reports Bloomberg, citing "people familiar with the matter." Bloomberg calls it "a move that will let users...