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https://slashdot.org/
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On April 26, 2025, 06:57 AM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS37294 in Malawi.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's because of the trouble many people have understanding dialogue in modern viewing situations, and Netflix has now <a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-a-new-way-to-experience-subtitles">introduced</a> a subtitles option to help.
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Some developers are "crying foul" after Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/">stopped working with VS Code derivatives like VS Codium and Cursor</a>, reports The Register. The move has prompted Cursor to transition to open-source alternatives, while some developers are calling for a regulatory investigation into Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior. From the report: <i> In early April, programmers using VS Codium, an open-source fork of Microsoft's MIT-licensed VS Code, and Cursor, a commercial AI code assistant built from the VS Code codebase, noticed that the <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools">C/C++ extension</a> <a href="https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2976">stopped</a> <a href="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300">working</a>. The extension adds C/C++ language support, such as Intellisense code completion and debugging, to VS Code. The removal of these capabilities from competing tools breaks developer workflows, hobbles the editor, and arguably hinders competition. The breaking change appears to have occurred with the release of v1.24.5 on April 3, 2025.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Comcast executives apparently realized something that customers have known and complained about for years: The Internet provider's prices aren't transparent enough and rise too frequently. This might not have mattered much to cable executives as long as the total number of subscribers met their targets. But after <a href="https://www.cmcsa.com/static-files/7f0f826a-6462-426b-a767-cb3170d7cdf0">reporting</a> a net loss of 183,000 residential broadband customers in Q1 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/after-losing-customers-comcast-admits-prices-are-too-confusing-and-unpredictable/">said the company isn't "winning in the marketplace</a>" during an <a href="https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/xurtaib2/">earnings call</a> today. The Q1 2025 customer loss was over three times larger than the net loss in Q1 2024.
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While customers often have few viable options for broadband and the availability of alternatives varies widely by location, Comcast faces competition from fiber and fixed wireless ISPs. "In this intensely competitive environment, we are not winning in the marketplace in a way that is commensurate with the strength of the network and connectivity products that I just described," Cavanagh said. "[Cable division CEO] Dave [Watson] and his team have worked hard to understand the reasons for this disconnect and have identified two primary causes. One is price transparency and predictability and the other is the level of ease of doing business with us. The good news is that both are fixable and we are already underway with execution plans to address these challenges." [...]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: <i>Government censorship has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/">found its way to Bluesky</a>, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a <a href="https://stockholmcf.org/bluesky-restricts-access-to-72-accounts-in-turkey-amid-government-pressure/">recent report</a> by the <a href="https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/bluesky-bircok-hesabi-turkiyeden-gorunmez-kildi/">Freedom of Expression Association</a>. As a result, people in Turkey can no longer see these accounts, and their reach is limited. The report indicates that 59 Bluesky accounts were blocked on the grounds of protecting "national security and public order." Bluesky also made another 13 accounts and at least one post invisible from Turkey.
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Given that many Turkish users migrated from X to Bluesky in the hopes of fleeing government censorship, Bluesky's bowing to the Turkish government's demands has raised questions among the community as to whether the social network is as open and decentralized as it claims to be. (Or whether it's "just like Twitter" after all.) However, Bluesky's technical underpinnings currently make bypassing these blocks easier than it would be on a network like X -- even if it's not quite as open as the alternative social network Mastodon, another decentralized X rival.
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A Mastodon user could move their account around to different servers to avoid censorship targeted at the original Mastodon instance (server) where they first made posts that attracted the censors. Users on the official Bluesky app can configure their moderation settings but have no way to opt out of the moderation service Bluesky provides. This includes its use of geographic labelers, like the newly added Turkish moderation labeler that handles the censorship of accounts mandated by the Turkish government. (Laurens Hof has a great breakdown of how this all works in more technical detail here on The Fediverse Report.) Simply put, if you're on the official Bluesky app and Bluesky (the company) agrees to censor something in your region, there's no way to opt out of this to see the hidden posts or accounts. Other third-party Bluesky apps, which make up the larger open social web known as the Atmosphere, don't have to follow these same rules. At least, not for now. </i><br>
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Families earning $300,000 annually -- placing them among America's highest earners -- are increasingly finding themselves <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-college-cost-middle-class-squeeze/">unable to afford elite college tuition</a> without taking on substantial debt. Bloomberg's analysis of financial aid data from 50 selective colleges reveals households earning between $100,000 and $300,000 occupy a precarious middle ground: too affluent for meaningful aid but insufficiently wealthy to absorb annual costs approaching $100,000.<br> <br>
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Microsoft has finally <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/microsoft-rolls-windows-recall-out-to-the-public-nearly-a-year-after-announcing-it/">released Windows Recall to the general public</a>, nearly a year after <a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/06/14/0318213/microsoft-postpones-windows-recall-after-major-backlash">first announcing the controversial feature</a>. Available exclusively on Copilot+ PCs, Recall continuously captures screenshots of user activity, storing them in a searchable database with extracted text. The feature's original launch was derailed by significant security concerns, as critics noted anyone with access to a Recall database could potentially view nearly everything done on the device.<br> <br>
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This surprising trend, first reported by Tom's Hardware, has created a production capacity shortage for Intel's 'Intel 7' process node that will "persist for the foreseeable future," despite the fact that current-generation chips utilize TSMC's newer nodes. "Customers are demanding system price points that consumers really want," explained Intel executive Michelle Johnston Holthaus, noting that economic concerns and tariffs have affected inventory decisions.<br>
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An anonymous reader shares a report:<i> At Microsoft's annual executive huddle last month, the company's chief financial officer, Amy Hood, put up a slide that charted the number of users for its Copilot consumer AI tool over the past year. It was essentially a flat line, showing around 20 million weekly users. On the same slide was another line showing ChatGPT's growth over the same period, arching ever upward toward 400 million weekly users.<br> <br>
OpenAI's iconic chatbot was soaring, <a href="https://www.newcomer.co/p/microsofts-big-ai-hire-cant-match">while Microsoft's best hope for a mass-adoption AI tool was idling</a>. It was a sobering chart for Microsoft's consumer AI team and the man who's been leading it for the past year, Mustafa Suleyman. Microsoft brought Suleyman <a href="https://slashdot.org/story/24/03/19/1614200/microsoft-hires-deepmind-co-founder-suleyman-to-run-consumer-ai-hires-most-of-inflection-ai-startup-staff">aboard in March of 2024</a>, along with much of the talent at his struggling AI startup Inflection, in return for a $650 million licensing fee that made Inflection's investors whole, and then some.<br> <br>
[...] Yet from the very start, people inside the company told me they were skeptical. Many outsiders have struggled to make an impact or even survive at Microsoft, a company that's full of lifers who cut their tech teeth in a different era. My skeptical sources noted Suleyman's previous run at a big company hadn't gone well, with Google stripping him of some management responsibilities following complaints of how he treated staff, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time. There was also much eye-rolling at the fact that Suleyman was given the title of CEO of Microsoft AI. That designation is typically reserved for the top executive at companies it acquires and lets operate semi-autonomously, such as LinkedIn or Github.</i><br>
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Microsoft will remove its Maps app from the Microsoft Store in July 2025, delivering an "update" that <a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-kills-windows-maps-app/">renders the application completely nonfunctional</a>. Following the cutoff, users won't be able to reinstall the app even if previously downloaded, according to a Microsoft support document. While the app will retain personal data like saved navigation routes and map URLs, this information will become unusable after the deprecation.<br> <br>
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