Workplaces Look For Cheaper AI As 'Tokenmaxxing' Fades As a Corporate Fad
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial…
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Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases
Apple has replaced its iPhone Upgrade Program with Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed U.S. leasing service covering most…
Read at source →AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has yet to produce the expected surge in real-world attacks: VulnCheck found that…
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Join siguimi.com →eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019
eBay and several former executives have agreed to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner, the newsletter writers…
Read at source →Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has "found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that is in…
Read at source →Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets,…
Read at source →DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses'
DEF CON has banned "Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities," with no exceptions being made even for those with…
Read at source →GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
GrapheneOS is defending its duress-password feature after an environmental activist used it to wipe his Pixel phone…
Read at source →Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro
The review embargo has lifted for the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, and the consensus across the board is that it is a…
Read at source →Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Claude is exposing a wealth of users' chats and creations in Google…
Read at source →Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers
Arizona State University has launched a 120-credit bachelor's degree in content creation that teaches video,…
Read at source →Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
A new analysis of 89 major geological events over the past 260 million years found evidence that mass extinctions,…
Read at source →A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an…
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Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up
YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. "The deal brings a slew of…
Read at source →Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global…
Read at source →Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise…
Read at source →Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg…
Read at source →China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first…
Read at source →ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that…
Read at source →Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts
MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline…
Read at source →Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the…
Read at source →Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing…
Read at source →'KVM Chainsaw' Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with 'God Data Structure'
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3…
Read at source →A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
"The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,"…
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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…
Read at source →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…
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