- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedTwo Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, previously convicted of hacking the U.S. State Department, were rehired as federal contractors and are now charged with conspiring to steal sensitive data and destroy government databases after being fired. "Following the termination of their employment, the brothers allegedly sought to harm the company and ...Posted 6 days 16 hours ago - 12/05/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedOn Dec. 2, QuickTime turned 34, and despite its origins in Apple's chaotic 1990s (1991 to be exact), "it's still the backbone of video on our devices," writes Macworld's Jason Snell. That includes MP4 and Apple's immersive video formats for Vision Pro. From the report: By the late '80s and early '90s, digital audio had been thoroughly integrated into Macs. ...Posted 6 days 16 hours ago - 12/05/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNetflix says its open AV1 video codec now powers about 30% of all streaming on the platform and is rapidly becoming its primary delivery format thanks to major gains in compression, bandwidth efficiency, HDR support, and film-grain rendering. TVTechnology reports: The blog by Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford and Jeff Watts comes at a time when AV2 is on ...Posted 6 days 18 hours ago - 12/05/25
- http://politics.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: New research reveals that AI chatbots can shift voters' opinions in a single conversation -- and they're surprisingly good at it. A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both ...Posted 6 days 19 hours ago - 12/05/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNASA and CNES's SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution, wide-swath image of a major tsunami in the open ocean after the July 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka quake. "Instead of a single neat crest racing across the basin, the image revealed a complicated, braided pattern of energy dispersing and scattering over hundreds of miles," reports Earth.com. "These ...Posted 6 days 22 hours ago - 12/05/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNASA's OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu have revealed bio-essential sugars, a never-before-seen "space gum" polymer, and unusually high levels of supernova-origin dust. The findings bolster the RNA-world hypothesis, suggest complex organics formed early on Bennu's parent body, and show preserved presolar grains that escaped alteration for billions of ...Posted 1 week 1 hour ago - 12/05/25
- http://entertainment.slashdot.or...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedalternative_right quotes a report from the Guardian: The statue looms and glints at more than 11 feet tall and weighing 3,500 pounds, looking out at the city with, how to put it ... a characteristically stern expression? Despite its daunting appearance and history as a crimefighter of last resort, the giant new bronze figure of the movie character RoboCop ...Posted 1 week 6 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedU.S. regulators are pressing Waymo for answers after Texas officials reported 19 instances of its self-driving cars illegally passing stopped school buses, including cases that occurred after Waymo claimed to have deployed a software fix. Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM shares the report from Reuters: In a November 20 letter posted by NHTSA, the Austin ...Posted 1 week 7 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAncient Slashdot user Alain Williams shares a report from Al Jazeera: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced it filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the global tech giant of unlawfully processing data on behalf of the Israeli military and facilitating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. In the complaint, the council ...Posted 1 week 8 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA light aircraft crashed in Gloucestershire after a 3D-printed plastic air-induction elbow softened from engine heat and collapsed, cutting power during final approach and causing the plane to undershoot the runway. Investigators say the part was made from "inappropriate material" and safety actions will be taken in the future regarding 3D printed parts. ...Posted 1 week 8 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedRussia has blocked Apple's FaceTime and the gaming platform Roblox as part of a broader crackdown on foreign tech platforms. CBC News reports: Both restrictions are part of an accelerating clampdown on foreign tech platforms: In the case of FaceTime, Russian authorities allege it is being used for criminal activity, while Roblox was accused of distributing ...Posted 1 week 9 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedThe EU has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over a new WhatsApp policy that could block rival AI assistants from accessing the platform. Complaints from smaller AI developers triggered the probe, which could lead to fines of up to 10% of Meta's global revenue if the company is found to have abused its dominance. Reuters reports: EU antitrust ...Posted 1 week 10 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedLongtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: The Italian company Bending Spoons seems to be on an acquisitions spree. Their recent acquisitions of AOL and Vimeo are not yet finalized, yet on Dec. 2 they announced they are buying Eventbrite, a company specializing in publicizing and organizing local events, for just half a milliard USD. Bending Spoons' ...Posted 1 week 11 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedjoshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft has silently "mitigated" a high-severity Windows LNK vulnerability exploited by multiple state-backed and cybercrime hacking groups in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-9491, this security flaw allows attackers to hide malicious commands within Windows LNK files, which can be used to deploy ...Posted 1 week 12 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://hardware.slashdot.org/sto...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA severe spike in global DRAM prices has pushed Samsung Semiconductor to refuse a long-term RAM order from its own sibling, Samsung Electronics. The move is forcing the smartphone division into short, expensive renegotiations, which will likely mean higher costs for consumer devices. PCWorld reports: Samsung subsidiaries are, naturally, going to look to ...Posted 1 week 13 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://science.slashdot.org/stor...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Almost three in 10 GPs in the UK are using AI tools such as ChatGPT in consultations with patients, even though it could lead to them making mistakes and being sued, a study reveals. The rapid adoption of AI to ease workloads is happening alongside a "wild west" lack of regulation of the technology, ...Posted 1 week 14 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSubaru owners are reporting full-screen SiriusXM pop-up ads appearing on their infotainment systems while driving -- sometimes even overriding Apple CarPlay. Subaru says the ads appear only twice a year, but frustrated drivers argue the practice is distracting, unsafe, and a sign of an industry trend that's likely to get worse. The Drive reports: At least ...Posted 1 week 15 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://tech.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedApple's longtime human-interface chief Alan Dye is leaving to lead a new creative studio at Meta's Reality Labs, where he'll shape AI-driven design for devices like smart glasses and VR headsets. Dye will be replaced by Steve Lemay, who has had "a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999," according to a statement Apple CEO Tim Cook ...Posted 1 week 16 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA London Assembly report warns that surging demand from "energy-hungry" data centers is straining the electricity grid and delaying new housing developments. With data-center electricity use expected to rise up to 600% by 2050, officials fear London's housing crisis could worsen without coordinated action. The BBC reports: According to the report (PDF) from ...Posted 1 week 17 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/25/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Earlier this year, home goods maker Kohler launched a smart camera called the Dekoda that attaches to your toilet bowl, takes pictures of it, and analyzes the images to advise you on your gut health. Anticipating privacy fears, Kohler said on its website that the Dekoda's sensors only see down into the ...Posted 1 week 18 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://news.slashdot.org/story/2...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNature has retracted a headline-grabbing climate-economics study after critics found flawed data that massively inflated its predicted global economic collapse. The New York Times reports: The decision came after a team of economists noticed problems with the data for one country, Uzbekistan, that significantly skewed the results. If Uzbekistan were ...Posted 1 week 21 hours ago - 12/04/25
- http://slashdot.org/story/25/12/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedSlashdot readers jmurtari and schwit1 shares news that a Russian astronaut slated for the next Dragon mission to the ISS has been removed after being caught photographing proprietary SpaceX hardware. UNITED24 reports: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been removed from the prime crew of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station and ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 12/04/25
- http://games.slashdot.org/story/...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge's Sean Hollister If you wrote off the Steam Frame as yet another VR headset few will want to wear, I guarantee you're not alone. But the Steam Frame isn't just a headset; it's a Trojan horse that contains the tech gamers need to play Steam games on the next Samsung Galaxy, the next Google Pixel, perhaps Arm ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 12/03/25
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAT&T and Verizon are blocking T-Mobile's new "Switching Made Easy" tool that scans their customer accounts to recommend comparable plans. AT&T is also suing, alleging T-Mobile used bots to scrape over 100 fields of sensitive customer data. From The Mobile Report: According to a lawsuit, which AT&T has shared directly with us, T-Mobile updated the T-Life ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 12/03/25
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/25...nlinkanon&utm_medium=feedA federal judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in its copyright battle with the New York Times and other outlets. Reuters reports: U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in a decision made public on Wednesday said that the 20 million logs were relevant to the outlets' claims and that handing them over would not risk violating ...Posted 1 week 1 day ago - 12/03/25
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