Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
A New Mexico jury on Friday "found Facebook liable for deceiving users" about its privacy protections, reports the…
Read at source →Source
Slashdot
News for nerds from Slashdot
Technology · 811 articles · page 9 of 23 · fetched 3 minutes ago
There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
"Signature forgery." It's a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn't require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new…
Read at source →
Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the…
Read at source →
AdSponsoredSiguimi
Pure chronological social — no algorithm
See who you follow, newest first. Free to join. Posts that stay visible — not buried by an algo.
Join siguimi.com →
Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June…
Read at source →F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan
"F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google's…
Read at source →How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability?
Google has synthesized "expressive face-to-face experiences" for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They're now offering…
Read at source →People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired for using AI to train the AI:…
Read at source →Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis
"Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate…
Read at source →OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
"The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by…
Read at source →Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and…
Read at source →Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times…
Read at source →Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules
Ars Technica reports: Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to…
Read at source →Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949…
Read at source →Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college…
Read at source →Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on…
Read at source →Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering…
Read at source →Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump…
Read at source →Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?
On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is…
Read at source →'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit
The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the…
Read at source →Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of…
Read at source →Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced 'Googlebook' Laptops
Monday Google opened preorders for its "Googlebook" laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google's blog post added that "At…
Read at source →Meta's New 'Personal AI Agent' Muse Beats ChatGPT in Downloads - and Get Blocked by Amazon
Meta's AI "personal agent" Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it's…
Read at source →
Paramount Skydance 'Emerges Victorious', Finally Wins Settlement for Warner Bros Takeover
Paramount Skydance just "emerged victorious" reports Reuters, "from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of…
Read at source →As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong
"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE…
Read at source →Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?
There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more…
Read at source →Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection
"Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports…
Read at source →North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
"I would like to verify your technical abilities, so please download the specified file and complete the assigned…
Read at source →Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action…
Read at source →Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, "How did we cede control of our democracy to…
Read at source →The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs
"New research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved…
Read at source →To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised…
Read at source →Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal
Saturday morning President Trump announced he's creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.…
Read at source →Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees
Mashable writes: Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported... Without the buyouts,…
Read at source →Developer Abandons 'PS5 Linux' Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC," writes the blog It's FOSS. It…
Read at source →Fake AI Intelligence Almost Made the US Military Start a War With China
U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was…
Read at source →US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers
The F-16 "experienced an incident," the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that "The pilot…
Read at source →