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OldVersion.com Archive Facing Shutdown Due to Financing Issues - Finding older versions of particular software can be a real chore, all too often o... - https://hackaday.com/2025/11/07/oldversion-com-archive-fa… #softwarepreservation #digitalpreservation #softwarehacks #news

Tesla Investors Back Musk’s Trillion Dollar Payday - Shareholders approved a plan to grant Mr. Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/business/elon-musk-tes… #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #internal-open-access-from-nl #electricandhybridvehicles #highnetworthindividuals #recordsandachievements #executivecompensation #boardsofdirectors #robotsandrobotics #teslamotorsinc #stocksandbonds #denholmrobyn #muskelon #texas

Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs From Its Search Results - Google has delisted over 749 million URLs from Anna's Archive, a shadow library an... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/0018255/google-re… #piracy

OpenAI completes shift to becoming for-profit - The deal will see long term investor Microsoft retain a 27% stake in the ChatGPT-maker. - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv38py7ewo?at_medium=…

Pi Zero Powers A Little Indoor Rover - Not every robot has to be big. Sometimes, you can build something fun that’s bette... - https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/pi-zero-powers-a-little-i… #robotshacks #raspberrypi #rover #pi

Google To Offer Free Gemini AI Pro, 2TB Storage To India's 505 Million Reliance Jio Users - Google will offer 18-month free access to its Gemini AI service for all 505 millio... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/30/1457216/google-t… #google

AWS outage strikes again — colossal internet breakdown for the second time in days, Zoom, Starbucks, and Capital One all affected - There's another AWS outage. ... - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/aws-outage-strikes… #techindustry

Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux, Latest Data Shows - Nearly nine in ten Windows games can now run on Linux systems, according to data f... - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/10/28/206219/nearly-9… #linux

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop - Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/…

Reddit Mod Warns 'Do Not Trust' AI-Powered 'Reddit Answers' After It Posts Dangerous Health Advice - In Reddit's "Family Medicine" subreddit, a moderator noticed earlier this week tha... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/086208/reddit-mo… #social

Apple, Samsung Report Underwhelming Sales of Their New Thin Smartphones - In two separate reports, Apple and Samsung are said to report underwhelming sales ... - https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/0213223/apple-… #cellphones

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference - A potential tragedy was narrowly averted at a Wikipedia conference in Manhattan wh... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/023257/wikipedia… #wikipedia

PVC Pipe Structure Design That Skips Additional Hardware - [Baptiste Marx] shares his take on designing emergency structures using PVC pipe i... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/pvc-pipe-structure-design… #greenhacks #structural #salvaged #cintre #pvc

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 use... - https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/discord-says-hac… #ageverification #security #discord #privacy #biz⁢ #id

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach - No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place Communica... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/…

Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Live — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more - Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Big Deals Da... - https://www.tomshardware.com/gift-guides-seasonal-sales/l… #giftguidesandseasonalsales

UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software - Officers and staff are finding creative ways to trick the s... - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security… #cybersecurity

Japan Saw Record Number Treated For Heatstroke in Hottest-Ever Summer - More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heatstroke in Japan between... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/02/0811215/japan-sa… #japan

Government issues new data demand for UK Apple users - It is the latest development in a privacy row which has pitted the UK against the tech gi... - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c740r0m4mzjo?at_medium=…

Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers - In the late 2010s, the Ender 3 printers were arguably the most popular line of 3D ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/improved-3d-printer-canni… #3dprinterhacks #kinematics #3dprinter #duender #corexy #ender3