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 (HTM) Science Journal Retracts Study On Safety of Monsanto's Roundup
       An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense ...
       
 (HTM) Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
       Researchers and moderators are increasingly concerned that ChatGPT-style language is bleeding into everyday speech and writing. The topic has been explored in the past but "two new, more anecdotal rep ...
       
 (HTM) Claude Code Is Coming To Slack
       Anthropic is bringing Claude Code directly into Slack, letting developers spin up coding sessions from chat threads and automate workflows without leaving the app. TechCrunch reports: Previously, deve ...
       
 (HTM) Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy For Users
       An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Since online genealogy services began operating, millions of people have sent them saliva samples in hopes of learning about their family r ...
       
 (HTM) 193 Cybercrims Arrested, Accused of Plotting 'Violence-As-a-Service'
       Europol's GRIMM taskforce has arrested nearly 200 people accused of running or participating in "violence-as-a-service" schemes where cybercrime groups recruit youth online for real-world attacks. "Th ...
       
 (HTM) Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut
       The Trump administration will allow Nvidia to resume selling H200 chips to China, but only if the U.S. government takes a 25% cut. Axios reports: Trump said on Truth Social that he'll allow Nvidia to  ...
       
 (HTM) More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters
       An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growin ...
       
 (HTM) Taiwan Cries Censorship As Government Bans Rednote
       Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Taiwan's government has ordered a one-year block of a popular, mainland Chinese-owned social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as The Little RedNote, citin ...
       
 (HTM) IBM To Buy Confluent For $11 Billion To Expand AI Services
       IBM is buying Confluent for $11 billion in a major push to own real-time data streaming infrastructure essential for enterprise AI workloads. It marks Big Blue's biggest acquisition since Red Hat in 2 ...
       
 (HTM) Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland
       Firefox 146 has been released with native fractional scaling support on Wayland -- finally giving Linux users crisp UI rendering. Other new additions include GPU process improvements on macOS, develop ...
       
 (HTM) Meta Pledge To Use Less Personal Data For Ads Gets EU Nod, Avoids Daily Fines
       An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta's proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising in its pay-or-consent model that will be rolled out next month won the approval of  ...
       
 (HTM) Lenovo's Next Gaming Laptop May Have a Rollable OLED Screen That Stretches Ultrawide
       Lenovo may be preparing to unveil a gaming laptop that uses rollable OLED technology to expand horizontally into an ultrawide 21:9 display, according to a Windows Latest report suggesting the device c ...
       
 (HTM) Social Media's Relentless Shopping Machine Has Created an Army of Debt-Laden Buyers
       The influencer economy that Goldman Sachs projects will reach nearly half a trillion dollars by 2027 depends on a less-examined population: the influenced, millions of people who find themselves accum ...
       
 (HTM) China's Growth Is Coming at the Rest of the World's Expense
       China has contributed less to global growth this year than the U.S. despite Beijing's frequent criticism of protectionism, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis citing new research from Goldman  ...
       
 (HTM) Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends
       Denmark's postal service, established by King Christian IV four centuries ago as one of Europe's first modern mail systems, will stop delivering letters on December 30, ending a tradition that once sa ...