2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X
Variety reports: "The Odyssey" leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X…
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'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph,…
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NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research
There's been a change to NASA's launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those…
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Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns
Digital Trends reports: Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release…
Read at source →Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
A U.S. district court "has dismissed Google's case against SerpApi over that company's scraping of search results to…
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Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America
270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced…
Read at source →AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US
America's garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code…
Read at source →Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?
From the site tech-news site XDA Developers: The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them…
Read at source →Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe
"Welcome home!" NASA posted on X.com, sharing footage of a successful "parachute-assisted" landing on a Kazakhstan…
Read at source →Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K
It started with some underground utility work for the South Carolina town of Surfside Beach (population: 4,155).…
Read at source →A Promising Process For Nuclear Fuel Re-use and Disposal?
A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel "and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24…
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Comic-Con 2026 Debuts Trailers for 'Coyote vs Acme' Movie, Plus 'Neuromancer' and 'Blade Runner 2099' Series
Big news from Comic-Con 2026: "Coyote vs. ACME" debuted its long-awaited final trailer. CNET calls it "an…
Read at source →32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor's Midterm
"32 of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their…
Read at source →Firefox' New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword
In a sign of the times, Firefox's New Tab page could soon include a crossword puzzle from AI-powered news platform…
Read at source →Firefox's New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword
In a sign of the times, Firefox's New Tab page could soon include a crossword puzzle from AI-powered news platform…
Read at source →Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns?
Politico reports that in the Virginia area alone there's dozens of data center projects "that altogether need 70…
Read at source →Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds
"In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be…
Read at source →Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers
Ars Technica reports: Hyundai Motor Company's plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current…
Read at source →Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers
CNBC reports: Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain…
Read at source →Top Online Sites Debate Cutting Off Google's Crawlers
Futurism reports: [Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street…
Read at source →China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones
CNN reports on yaks "designed and cloned" in secretive, high-altitude labs in Tibet — 2.4 miles (4,000 meters) above…
Read at source →Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You're a Real Human
Facebook announced Friday they're launching a badge "that verifies there's a real person behind a profile". "You record…
Read at source →Risks of Parkinson's Disease May Increase With Prolonged Exposure to Road Traffic Noise
A large Danish study found a modest but consistent association between long-term road traffic noise exposure and higher…
Read at source →Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine
President Trump threatened a "substantial" new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1…
Read at source →Wine 11.14 Released
Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit…
Read at source →SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones In Its 'Lucky 13' Test Flight
SpaceX's Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket "went quite smoothly," reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson…
Read at source →SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones in 'Lucky 13' Test Flight
SpaceX's Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket "went quite smoothly," reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson…
Read at source →OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a…
Read at source →Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses
Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos…
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Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027
Paramount Skydance has agreed to postpone its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger until five days after an…
Read at source →US Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a 'Duress' Password During Border Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for…
Read at source →Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60%
Roku has raised prices on several streaming devices, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center…
Read at source →Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' of Open-Weight Models
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not…
Read at source →Anthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price
Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new Claude model that it says comes close to its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the…
Read at source →John C. Dvorak, an Early and Influential Technology Journalist, Dies At 80
Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares the passing of John C. Dvorak, an early and influential technology…
Read at source →Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal For AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS.com: Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter, an artificial intelligence…
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