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- Blizzard's 'Overwatch' Team Just Voted to Unionize May 11, 2025"The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized," reports Kotaku: That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since the World of Warcraft team unionized last July... […]
- Theranos Fraudster's Partner Launches His Own Blood-Testing Startup May 11, 2025"The romantic partner of Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a start-up that sounds eerily similar to the venture that landed his girlfriend behind bars," writes The Daily Beast. He's incorporated "Haemanthus" in Delaware a year and a half ago (though the company operates out of his neighborhood in Austin), according to the New York […]
- Life of a Marathon Streamer: Online for Three Years, Facing Isolation and Burnout May 10, 2025Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley's pioneering "JenniCam" livestream (saying "It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...") But a new article in the Washington Post remembers how "Once, Ringley looked directly into the camera and held […]
- Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust May 10, 2025Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes: As we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this "portable operating system" back to life on modern hardware, in a […]
- Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College? May 10, 2025Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then "proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment," reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer: As a computer-science major, he depended on AI for his introductory programming classes: "I'd just dump the prompt into […]
- Blizzard's 'Overwatch' Team Just Voted to Unionize May 11, 2025
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- Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star May 10, 2025The program has saved consumers billions of dollars since its inception.
- When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good May 9, 2025TB is the deadliest infection in the world—but it doesn't often look like this.
- New Lego-building AI creates models that actually stand up in real life May 9, 2025Carnegie Mellon "LegoGPT" system uses physics checks to ensure models don't collapse.
- Wearables firm’s endless free hardware upgrades were too good to be true May 9, 2025Customers accuse Whoop of baiting and switching as it adjusts its business model.
- Google’s search antitrust trial is wrapping up—here’s what we learned May 9, 2025Google and the DOJ have had their say; now it's in the judge's hands.
- Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star May 10, 2025
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