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

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/02/10/1556232/apple-and-google-agree-to-change-app-stores-after-effective-duopoly-claim?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple and Google Agree To Change App Stores After 'Effective Duopoly' Claim
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 transparency around how third-party apps are approved for sale. The CMA announced the measures on Tuesd...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor

https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/10/1438213/the-big-money-in-todays-economy-is-going-to-capital-not-labor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor
The American economy's most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ a fraction of the workers -- and a new analysis by the Wall Street Journal argues that this widening gap between capital and labor is the defining eco...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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NYC Private School Tuition Breaks $70,000 Milestone for Fall

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NYC Private School Tuition Breaks $70,000 Milestone for Fall
The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colleges, as they pass on the costs of soaring expenses including teacher salaries. From a report: Spence School, Dalton School and Nightingale-Bamford School on Ma...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Software Poses 'All-Time' Risk To Speculative Credit, Deutsche Bank Warns

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/2045217/software-poses-all-time-risk-to-speculative-credit-deutsche-bank-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Software Poses 'All-Time' Risk To Speculative Credit, Deutsche Bank Warns
The software and technology sectors pose one of the all-time great concentration risks to the speculative-grade credit market, according to Deutsche Bank AG analysts. Bloomberg: They comprise $597 billion and $681 billion of the speculative-grade credit universe, or about 14% and 16% respectively, a...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It's Decaf.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/2040213/2-to-3-cups-of-coffee-a-day-may-reduce-dementia-risk-but-not-if-its-decaf?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It's Decaf.
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 from coffee and tea -- if it's caffeinated and consumed in moderation: two to three cups of coffee or...
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February 10, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Deepfake Fraud Taking Place On an Industrial Scale, Study Finds

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1844248/deepfake-fraud-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Deepfake Fraud Taking Place On an Industrial Scale, Study Finds
Deepfake fraud has gone "industrial," an analysis published by AI experts has said. From a report: Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams -- leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus -- are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to depl...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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Electric Cars Are Making It Easier To Breathe, Study Finds

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/206209/electric-cars-are-making-it-easier-to-breathe-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Electric Cars Are Making It Easier To Breathe, Study Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That's the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don't Know It Yet

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/181212/romance-publishing-has-an-ai-problem-and-most-readers-dont-know-it-yet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don't Know It Yet
The romance genre -- long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases -- has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously publ...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow'

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1742213/autodesk-takes-google-to-court-over-ai-movie-software-named-flow?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow'
Autodesk has sued Google in San Francisco federal court, alleging the search giant infringed its "Flow" trademark by launching competing AI-powered software for movie, TV and video game production in May 2025. Autodesk says it has used the Flow name since September 2022 and that Google assured it ...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Google Lines Up 100-Year Sterling Bond Sale

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1548222/google-lines-up-100-year-sterling-bond-sale?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Google Lines Up 100-Year Sterling Bond Sale
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. From a report: The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google's parent company, according t...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/161215/discord-will-require-a-face-scan-or-id-for-full-access-next-month?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month
Discord said today it's rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users' accounts to a "teen-appropriate" experience unless they demonstrate that they're adults. From a report: Users who aren't verified as adults will not be able to...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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AI Gold Rush is Resurrecting China's Infamous 72-hour Work Week - in US

https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1514248/ai-gold-rush-is-resurrecting-chinas-infamous-72-hour-work-week---in-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
AI Gold Rush is Resurrecting China's Infamous 72-hour Work Week - in US
The AI boom has revived a workplace philosophy that China's own regulators cracked down on years ago: the 72-hour work week, known as 996 for its 9am-to-9pm, six-days-a-week cadence. US startups flush with venture capital are now openly advertising it as a feature, not a bug. Rilla, a New York-based...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1413223/age-bias-is-still-the-default-at-work-but-the-data-is-turning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning
A mounting body of research is making it harder for companies to justify what most of them still do -- push experienced workers out the door just as they're hitting their professional peak. A 2025 study published in the journal Intelligence analyzed 16 cognitive, emotional and personality dimensions...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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New Raspberry Pi 4 Model Splits RAM Across Dual Chips

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/0644255/new-raspberry-pi-4-model-splits-ram-across-dual-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
New Raspberry Pi 4 Model Splits RAM Across Dual Chips
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 13a) adopts a dual-RAM configuration to 'improve supply chain flexibility' and manufacturing effic...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/0536231/spacex-prioritizes-lunar-self-growing-city-over-mars-project-musk-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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National Football League Launches Challenge to Improve Facemasks and Reduce Concussions

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/053208/national-football-league-launches-challenge-to-improve-facemasks-and-reduce-concussions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
National Football League Launches Challenge to Improve Facemasks and Reduce Concussions
As Super Bowl Sunday comes to a close, America's National Football League "is challenging innovators to improve the facemask on football helmets to reduce concussions in the game," reports the Associated Press: The league announced on Friday at an innovation summit for the Super Bowl the next roun...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/0030214/carmakers-rush-to-remove-chinese-code-under-new-us-rules?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules
"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. Now, the car industry is scrambling to root out that tech ahead of a looming deadline, a test case f...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/1933223/after-six-years-two-pentesters-arrested-in-iowa-receive-600000-settlement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement
"They were crouched down like turkeys peeking over the balcony," the county sheriff told Ars Technica. A half hour past midnight, they were skulking through a courthouse in Iowa's Dallas County on September 11 "carrying backpacks that remind me and several other deputies of maybe the pressure cooke...
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February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/1827216/prankster-launches-super-bowl-party-for-ai-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The world's biggest football game comes to Silicon Valley today — so one bored programmer built a site where AI agents can gather for a Super Bowl party. They're trash talking, suggesting drinks, and predicting who will win. "Humans are welcome...
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February 8, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/0233236/why-is-china-building-so-many-coal-plants-despite-its-solar-and-wind-boom?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?
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 plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world's largest emitter wi...
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February 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/0616224/scientists-explored-island-cave-found-1-million-year-old-remnants-a-lost-world?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World
"A spectacular trove of fossils in a discovered in a cave on New Zealand's North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species that lived there more than a million years ago," reports Popular Mechanics: The fossils represent 12 ancient bird species and four frog species...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/0649245/cyber-espionage-group-breached-systems-in-37-nations-security-researchers-say?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say
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 organizations in more than 37 countries, according to the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, Inc. ...
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February 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

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Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
2001: "Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon." 2002: "There may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory." 2010: The hottest man-made temperatures ever achived were a rec...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?

https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/07/0410235/have-we-been-thinking-about-exercise-wrong-for-half-a-century?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?
"After a half-century asking us to exercise more, doctors and physiologists say we have been thinking about it wrong," writes Washington Post columnist Michael J. Coren. "U.S. and World Health Organization guidelines no longer specify a minimum duration of moderate or vigorous aerobic activity." ...
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February 8, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/0430252/are-big-techs-nuclear-construction-deals-a-tipping-point-for-small-modular-reactors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?
Fortune reports on "a watershed moment" in American's nuclear power industry: In January, Meta partnered with Gates' TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes — for "clean, reliable energy" both ...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM