Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear…
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Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish…
Read at source →TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban
TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new…
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Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second…
Read at source →A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI…
Read at source →Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event
Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is…
Read at source →Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida's DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver's license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained…
Read at source →Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To 'Every Kid In America'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX,…
Read at source →Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now…
Read at source →Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" earned more than $15 million…
Read at source →America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers
America is "making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand,"…
Read at source →Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
"Mozilla reps tell me they've met with Microsoft about their concerns," reports PC Magazine, "but that the company…
Read at source →Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares
"Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'," reports TechCrunch, "structured as a…
Read at source →'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
"A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco," reports the Los…
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New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'
"When you pay for a game, you should own it," says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to…
Read at source →Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out
July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor…
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Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a 'Fast And Full Recovery'
Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world's coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last…
Read at source →Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your…
Read at source →More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail
More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly…
Read at source →LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts
"Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts," writes CNN, reporting that the Microsoft-owned, job-oriented…
Read at source →Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go)
TechRepublic reports: The TIOBE Index is a monthly indicator of programming-language popularity based on factors…
Read at source →Releasing Palm OS Archive, Developer Rediscovers Working Virus After 25 Years
Long-time Slashdot reader ardiri remembers his days writing applications for the Palm OS. And he's now released…
Read at source →FSF Criticizes Raspberry Pi DRM Blocking RAM Upgrades
The Free Software Foundation "has never supported Raspberry Pi," writes their deputy directory Sean O'Brien, "as it…
Read at source →Tech Journalist Robert X Cringely Has Died
BoingBoing reports: Mark Stephens, better known under the pen name Robert X. Cringely, died last week at 73. Stephens…
Read at source →Saudi OpenAI Employee's Arrest Revives Fears US Tech Companies Are Hiring Spies
That Saudi national working at OpenAI and arrested by the FBI "has not been charged with foreign espionage," writes the…
Read at source →Woman Arrested After Blocking Delivery Robot to Protest Job Displacements
A Philadelphia newscast reports on a grey-haired lady who allegedly refused to move out of the path of a delivery robot…
Read at source →Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes?
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program who received $1,330 a…
Read at source →Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
"When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works," argues an EFF blog post, "users rely on courts to…
Read at source →MapQuest Shows Location of Flock (and Other ALPR) Cameras
MapQuest creates a new layer (that can be toggled on and off), Gizmodo reports: After promising not to comply with the…
Read at source →Blue Origin Announces $330M Upgrades to Rocket Facilities for 'Multiple Flights Per Week'
"Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities," reports…
Read at source →Linux Maintainers Can Now Submit AI-Generated Code Without Declaring It
Linux maintainers "have ruled that people no longer have to declare their LLM usage," reports XDA Developers, "as…
Read at source →Deno Acquired by Cloudflare, Will Work on Open Source Self-Hosting Platform for Applications
"Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the [server-side] JavaScript and TypeScript runtime created by Ryan…
Read at source →Personal Data for Millions of California Students Stolen in Massive Breach
Millions of current and former students at California's public school have had their data stolen — including names,…
Read at source →Will New Documentary Make Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes More Sympathetic?
TechCrunch writes: "Isn't it weird that I, like, did a TV show about kind of a business scam, and you got in trouble…
Read at source →Scientists Discover Why Microplastics Trigger Inflammation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Microplastics are a source of extreme concern for health:…
Read at source →Google Updates Android Earthquake Alerts With 200+ Regions
Google is expanding its Android Earthquake Alerts System from 98 to more than 200 regions worldwide, using smartphone…
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