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DeepSeek Removed from South Korea App Stores Pending Privacy Review(2025-02-17 05:00:03)

Today Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission "said DeepSeek would no longer be available for download until a review of its personal data collection practices was carried out," reports AFP. A number of countries have questioned DeepSeek's storage of user data, which the firm says is col...
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Why A Maintainer of the Linux Graphics Driver Nouveau Stepped Down(2025-02-17 00:00:15)

For over a decade Karol Herbst has been a developer on the open-source Nouveau driver, a reverse-engineered NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux. "He went on to become employed by Red Hat," notes Phoronix. "While he's known more these days for his work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library and the Rusticl Ope...
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Are Technologies of Connection Tearing Us Apart?(2025-02-16 20:00:12)

Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies "are changing us individually and collectively," writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title? Superbloom: How Technologies of Co...
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Argentinian President Promotes Memecoin. It Then Crashed 95% as Insiders Cashed Out(2025-02-16 15:00:05)

gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei tweeted, "This private project w...
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Alleged 'CEO Shooter' Luigi Mangione Raises $297K Online(2025-02-16 10:00:13)

Luigi Mangione faces first-degree murder charges. On Valentine's Day he posted his first public comments online, reports People magazine, with Mangione saying he's grateful for the support he's receiving: Earlier this week, Mangione accepted $297,000 in donations to cover his legal bills from the D...
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