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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Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It might be reasonable to think that there's an indelible link…
Read at source →Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are…
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Join siguimi.com →Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits…
Read at source →Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens' Records From Danish Government Database
Hackers stole records belonging to roughly 8 million Danish citizens and residents from Denmark's Central Person…
Read at source →Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found evidence that "rogue" OpenAI agents edited Wikimedia wikis without approval,…
Read at source →Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: In the immediate weeks before Muse's launch, Meta engineers found…
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Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
Norway is preparing legislation that would temporarily ban camera-equipped smart glasses in a range of public places,…
Read at source →Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI lets macOS 27 users disable Apple Intelligence and reclaim…
Read at source →Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement
A Florida woman was arrested on a felony charge after Anthropic's human review team flagged and reported a Claude…
Read at source →Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says society should accept some negative consequences from AI in exchange for the technology's…
Read at source →Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Huawei and Qualcomm on Monday announced a multi-year, broad patent…
Read at source →Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
From the transportation news site MotorBiscuit: In late September 2026, 23-year-old Liz Lindseay Isaacs testified…
Read at source →After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
- In 2022 Altair Engineering open sourced "OpenRadioss", an industry-leading finite element solver under the GNU AGPL…
Read at source →FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
PC Magazine reports: In September, the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had infiltrated the FBI job…
Read at source →Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection
"Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an…
Read at source →OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
What happened when AI-created bots competed in the classic Blizzard videogame StarCraft? "Struggling to stay apace with…
Read at source →How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
Python's security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year's official core developer Python Language…
Read at source →Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'
Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it "a…
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Disney/Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Beats 'Avatar' as Top-Grossing Film, 'Coyote vs Acme' #1 on Apple TV
James Cameron's Avatar is no longer the highest-grossing movie in box office history. That honor now goes to the…
Read at source →Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Find Unexpected Pattern
"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the…
Read at source →Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Finds Unexpected Pattern
"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the…
Read at source →San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?
Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in…
Read at source →FSF Sponsors 'GNU Boot', a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI
"Free your BIOS today!" urges the web page for GNU Boot, calling it "a 100% free software project aimed at replacing…
Read at source →US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates
A U.S. banking group just sued the government agency that issues America's federal bank charters, reports CoinDesk,…
Read at source →Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'
Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas(R) announces Northstar, a "minimalist" web browser written entirely from scratch in C…
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Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams
Politico EU reports: The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams — but officials using it…
Read at source →This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
"Scientists have discovered a virus that is a tiny bit human, carrying a gene it stole from our ancestors about 100,000…
Read at source →Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications for Quantum Technologies
While most magnets have two poles (north and south, or positive and negative), recent advances in quantum mechanics…
Read at source →Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
404 Media reports: "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent…
Read at source →As 'Falcon Heavy' Launches, SpaceX Plans Dragon and Falcon 9 Phase Out As Starship Ramps Up
Spaceflight Now reports: "A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Florida Thursday night on a classified mission for…
Read at source →President Trump Doxxes Senator's Cellphone in Push For Permanent Daylight Saving Time
U.S. President Donald Trump "doxxed" a U.S. senator today, writes the Washington Sun, by posting his cell phone number…
Read at source →Steam On Linux - Down To 3.05% For September?
Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled…
Read at source →Researcher, Dartmouth Professor and Provost Face Accusations of Secretly Using AI
"The winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition is under investigation," writes the photography news site…
Read at source →California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'
The Guardian reports that California governor Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday "aimed at protecting California…
Read at source →Someone Got Doom In an SQL Database
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea," Lukas…
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