Ubuntu Confirms Thursday's Distributed Denial of Service Attack Against Its Web Infrastructure
On Thursday those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources on Thursday found…
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UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s
The Telegraph reports that the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has fallen by up to 50% since the Sixties,…
Read at source →AI Execs Game Out 'Political Revolt' after a Catastrophic AI Event
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies "are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and…
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Join siguimi.com →Nicolas Cage Didn't Sign Amazon's AI Waiver For 'Spider-Noir'. Series Cancelled.
"Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon," reports Variety. Amazon developed the series Spider-Noir for Prime…
Read at source →Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option
The blog It's FOSS reports: You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu's C-based system…
Read at source →Claude Sent Police a Fake Murder Tip. White House Mandates AI Companies Report Security Incidents
AFP reports that an AI model from Anthropic "submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia…
Read at source →OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists
OpenAI announced it's recently banned two "influence operations" — one from Russia and one from Iran — that were using…
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Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police - and for Surveillance
Last week a Florida woman sued Flock over its role in police officer accusing her of a crime she didn't commit But…
Read at source →Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:…
Read at source →First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside…
Read at source →AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say
Reuters reports: Flock plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on…
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Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through…
Read at source →A 1960 Paper Published In Science Predicts World Will End Next Month
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday," The New York…
Read at source →Apollo Software Pioneer Margaret Hamilton Dies at 90
"Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code…
Read at source →US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and…
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Emmy Awards Leave Broadcast TV For Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards under a six-year deal beginning in 2027,…
Read at source →Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
Ancient Slashdot reader williamyf writes: If you thought the gender pay gap was not real, and that there were no biases…
Read at source →Chrome 155 Ships Decoding Support For JPEG XL
Google has released Chrome 155 with support for decoding JPEG XL images, a format that offers 30-50% better compression…
Read at source →OpenAI Unleashes Hundreds More Math Results Upon a Field Already In Shock
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either resolve or make substantial progress on…
Read at source →Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
Slashdot reader carlk22 writes: In February 2001, Slashdot readers asked Carl Kadie about censorship and privacy at…
Read at source →Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet's Google and gaming tools developer Unity Software…
Read at source →Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599
At a press event today, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Laptop Ultra featuring an NVIDIA RTX Spark platform with a…
Read at source →Xbox Secures Exclusive GTA 6 Streaming Rights
Microsoft has reportedly secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning Xbox Cloud Gaming…
Read at source →Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Physics Prize For Antarctic 'Ghost Particle' Hunt
University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his…
Read at source →Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation…
Read at source →South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country's Banks
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says there are signs AI models may have been used in recent cyberattacks against…
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Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health
"With the push to eliminate the twice yearly clock change, Permanent Daylight Savings Time has emerged as the favorite…
Read at source →HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring
HubSpot is cutting about 7% of its workforce, or roughly 660 employees, as it restructures into what CEO Yamini Rangan…
Read at source →Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore
Amazon has removed Alexa voice control for the 3.5mm aux input on several older Echo speakers, meaning users can no…
Read at source →Asos Confirms Hackers Sent 'Unauthorized' Notification to App Users
ASOS says hackers gained unauthorized access to third-party platforms it uses and sent an "ASOS HACKED" push…
Read at source →IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously…
Read at source →Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their…
Read at source →Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, or "le Chonk," a 1-trillion-parameter model that it says is the strongest…
Read at source →Researchers Are Tracking a Chinese AI 'Agent Fleet'
Independent researchers say they've identified a large "fleet" of AI agents apparently running on Tencent…
Read at source →Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission…
Read at source →OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible, machine-readable text watermark called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex, "but only…
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