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Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 days agoThe blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems: When you share a link on Mastodon, a link preview is generated for it, right? With Mastodon ...
Motional Delays Commercial Robotaxi Plans Amid Restructuring - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoMotional, the autonomous vehicle startup borne out of a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and automotive supplier Aptiv, will pause its commercial operations and delay plans to launch ...
40,000 AI-Narrated Audiobooks Flood Audible - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoA new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves -- ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It's an AI audiobook revolution that has ...
Venture Firms Double, Then Halve, In Stunning Reversal - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoAn anonymous reader shares a report: According to data analyzed by Morgan Stanley and Pitchbook, the number of active venture capital firms worldwide surged from 2014 levels, more than doubling ...
Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days ago"Out of an abundance of caution," Boeing says its historic Starliner launch has been postponed, citing an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. After years ...
Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoShell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place [non-paywalled link] to Canada's largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial ...
Jane Street Gets Into Mobile Gaming - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoFinancial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it's a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. Back in 2013 Jane Street developed a card game called ...
Can Technology Help Reduce Drunk-Driving Deaths? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 days agoAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback ...
Google Will Exit Prominent San Francisco Waterfront Office Tower - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoGoogle announced on Tuesday that it will be exiting One Market Plaza, a prominent office complex in San Francisco that it had been occupying since 2018. The company's lease for the 300,000-square-foot-office ...
Sony Will Soon Require 'Helldivers 2' PC Gamers To Link Their Steam Accounts To PSN, Angering Users...
Slashdot· 7 days agoFrom a report: Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today that Helldivers 2 players on Steam will soon be required to link their in-game profiles to a PlayStation Network account ...
