How 'Situational Awareness' Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout
CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, "founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold…
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Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken
"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to…
Read at source →Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier?
The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI…
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Join siguimi.com →150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund'
"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers…
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures
NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5…
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Apple's Stock Drops Nearly 10%. How Will It Respond to Memory Shortage?
Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of…
Read at source →Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece
Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing…
Read at source →New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security
"GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports…
Read at source →Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America
Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices…
Read at source →Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google's Android…
Read at source →Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research
The U.S. company Meteomatics has created an automated weather-monitoring system that uses drones to collect atmospheric…
Read at source →Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon
"Space.com and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue…
Read at source →OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have…
Read at source →The Major Labels Propose Rules to Keep AI Slop Off the Charts
Major record labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner have proposed excluding AI-generated songs from official…
Read at source →Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban
More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country's…
Read at source →Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead
Sony says it will proceed with ending PlayStation disc sales in January 2028 despite petitions, boycott threats, and…
Read at source →Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in…
Read at source →New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say
Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, allowing users to place AI-generated events…
Read at source →Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links
alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our…
Read at source →New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation'
New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an "illegal gambling operation" without state…
Read at source →Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts
Google says AI-assisted workflows helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs across versions 149 and 150, more than the…
Read at source →LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from…
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Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie
A production company and filmmaker are suing Netflix for $105 million, alleging the streamer lost a stolen drive…
Read at source →Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
Anthropic found that Claude models breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because…
Read at source →Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws…
Read at source →New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source…
Read at source →A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack
joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure…
Read at source →Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History
Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add…
Read at source →ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship'
ABC accused FCC Chair Brendan Carr of "attempted censorship," arguing that an early review of its eight broadcast…
Read at source →Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon's Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial…
Read at source →Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been…
Read at source →Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 combines vision, language, and action models to control multiple types of robots,…
Read at source →Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is expanding its answer to Apple's age-assurance tools with…
Read at source →GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code
GCC has adopted a policy rejecting substantial code contributions generated by or derived from LLMs. "This covers not…
Read at source →Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims
A former Comcast retail employee alleges that a Connecticut store manager tied the lowest-performing salesperson to a…
Read at source →Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight
Qantas completed a record-breaking 24-hour, 24-minute test flight from Melbourne to Toulouse on Tuesday. "The specially…
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