Skydance's Discovery+ Prices Increase By Up to 20%
Discovery+ has raised prices for new subscribers, increasing its ad-free plan from $10 to $12 per month and its…
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FBI Arrests Saudi OpenAI Employee For Planting Recording Device In Conference Room
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: An OpenAI employee was arrested after a "sophisticated recording device"…
Read at source →GTA 6 Is Reportedly Coming to PC In Early 2027
GamesBeat reports that Rockstar plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on PC in the first quarter of 2027, just a few…
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Join siguimi.com →Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to sell substantially all of its assets, with…
Read at source →Kroger to Lay Off 3,000 Corporate Employees In AI Restructuring
Kroger says it will cut 3,000 corporate jobs over the next three years as it expands its use of AI and other technology…
Read at source →Ledger Confirms Spy Chip Implant Behind Wallet Crypto Thefts
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from BleepingComputer: Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices…
Read at source →Anthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude
New submitter CubicleZombie writes: Anthropic has updated its Usage Policy to prohibit "sustained and needless abusive…
Read at source →Google Launches Flagship AI Model Gemini 4 Argon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google on Wednesday released its flagship AI model Gemini…
Read at source →FBI Arrests Canadian Cybersecurity Expert In ShinyHunters Hacking Case
Canadian cybersecurity figures say they were shocked after ransomware negotiator Edward Dubrovsky was reportedly…
Read at source →Apple Launches HomeView, Its First Smart Display For the Home
Apple has unveiled the $299 HomeView, a 7-inch smart display that combines Siri AI, FaceTime, customizable widgets, and…
Read at source →Microsoft Reveals Maia 300 AI Chip As It Works To Reduce Dependence On Nvidia
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Yahoo Finance: Microsoft has debuted its latest AI chip, the Azure Maia 300,…
Read at source →After a 10-Year Redemption Arc, No Man's Sky Is Coming to the iPhone and iPad
No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad on October 28, more than a decade after its rocky launch and long-running…
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A New 'Super Ice' Is 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to The Strength of Concrete
Researchers have created a strengthened "BioPykrete" by combining ice with cellulose nanocrystals and a custom protein…
Read at source →Linus Torvalds On Why AI Works For Him
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Many open-source developers still dislike AI. The latest example is…
Read at source →Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
Firefox 158 is now available with JPEG XL image support enabled by default, making .jxl images a standard part of the…
Read at source →Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers To Use More AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game…
Read at source →Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Has Reached AI 'Frontier', Rejects Calls For Slowdown
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the AI "frontier" with its new Muse Wonder model and will be…
Read at source →Google's Fitbit Edge Debuts a Replaceable Battery, Brings Back the Screen
Google has introduced the $179 Fitbit Edge, a new fitness tracker with a 1.34-inch OLED display, built-in GPS, ECG…
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Russia Was Not Ready For the Data Center War It Started With Ukraine
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When Russia began attacking Ukrainian data centers and…
Read at source →Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food
Hackers remotely manipulated connected refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets, reportedly pushing…
Read at source →AI Coding Agents Generate More Code, But Not More Software
A study of more than 700 software firms found that AI coding agents significantly increase the amount of code…
Read at source →Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could value the company at up to $7 billion.…
Read at source →Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments
PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the worst Q3 decline IDC has…
Read at source →Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock?
NPR reports: Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a…
Read at source →How the US Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI
"This year, nearly the entire fleet of 94 U.S. nuclear reactors has been offered the chance to integrate AI into its…
Read at source →Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let's Encrypt "will shorten the default validity period of its TLS certificates from 90 days to 64 days, starting…
Read at source →Game Console Market Craters: Xbox and PS5 Sales Plummet Over 25%
"Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered," reports Tom's Hardware, with sales through August far below where…
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Research Firm Calls Anthropic's Upcoming IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
CNBC reports: As Anthropic barrels toward a potential $2 trillion market cap on the Nasdaq, one research firm is…
Read at source →Gas Cars Fall Below 50% of Global New Car Sales for the First Time
"Gas cars are now a minority of the world's new car sales," reports Electrek. Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of…
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'The Social Reckoning' Bombs with $5.5 Million Opening
Why didn't The Social Reckoning enjoy the box office success of 2010's The Social Network, asks IndieWire/A>: [T]here…
Read at source →Blade Runner, Star Trek, Godzilla, Star Wars + Marvel (and Legos): News From New York Comic-Con
There was some Blade Runner news at New York Comic-Con this weekend — and also some news about Godzilla. Ars Technica…
Read at source →A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: When Elgin Community College hired Flock Safety to install six surveillance cameras in…
Read at source →Original RFC1149 Packet Up For Auction At Christies
Long-time Slashdot reader badger.foo writes: As some of you may remember, in 2001 RFC1149 (TCP/IP over carrier pigeon)…
Read at source →US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare
America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting…
Read at source →NASA Releases Data from Artemis II Moon Mission, Calls It 'Sights and Sounds of Science'
"What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA's Artemis II mission?"…
Read at source →FBI Arrests Cybersecurity Executive Over Data Breach After Contractor Fails to Update Oracle HR Platform
CNN reports: The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of…
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