289 posts from this source
Phoronix reportshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-R600-Driver-Copilot-Cleanup: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits last Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making thi...
America's Energy Department 'wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI,' reports Communications of the ACMhttps://cacm.acm.org/news/fr...
'Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers,' reports the gaming news site Aftermathhttps://aftermath.site/blizz...
The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there's more bad news, reports CNBChttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/bitcoins-price-drop-is-fo...
Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld wa...
The Sunday Times reportshttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-officer-ai-evidence-qqtjdwtzj: A criminal investigation has begun after a police office...
A few weeks ago on a bike ride 'inspiration struck' for Dave Eggers, reports SFGatehttps://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/dave-eggers-profile-22291491.php......
Slashdot reader BrianFagiolihttps://www.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a 'human-led, AI-powered' creative platform t...
'Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid,' argues The Washington Post's editoral boardhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026...
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3https://vim-classic.org/, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without genera...
More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' were infected with malware, reports Phoronixhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch...
'A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,' reports the Wall Street Journalhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/opena...
It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's 'Brexit' vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll 'shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse...
It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reportshttps://w...
The Trump administration releasedhttps://x.com/DeptofWar/status/2065405578868879364 another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing o...
The Helios Horizonhttps://helioshorizon.info/ has completed what its developers call the first crewed, fixed-wing flight powered by solid-state batterieshttps:/...
'Anthropic said on Friday it will 'abruptly disable' its most advanced AI models for all users,' reports Reutershttps://www.reuters.com/technology/us-blocks-for...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to...
Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an 'artificial general engineerhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949005/jeff...
The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisitionhttps://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/04/23/1940241/warner-bros-sharehold...
ShinyHunters claims it exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottinghamhttps://...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation....
A leaker with a strong Apple rumor track record says a touchscreen MacBook is '100% confirmedhttps://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/11/touchscreen-macbook-confirmed-...
Longtime Slashdot reader Dotnaughthttps://it.slashdot.org/~Dotnaught shares a report from The Register: For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patchin...
Sam Bankman-Fried lost his appeal to overturn his FTX fraud conviction and 25-year sentencehttps://www.reuters.com/legal/government/sam-bankman-fried-loses-bid-...
Infineon is set to open a $5.8 billion power-chip fab in Dresdenhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/infineon-to-open-german-chip-fab-as-part-of-e...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur...
Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped trainhttps://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/03/16/2136229/pokemon-go-players-unknowingly-trained-d...
Riverside County has launchedhttps://www.rctc.org/press-release/rctc-launches-california-first-smart-freeway-temecula/ an 8-mile 'smart freeway' pilot on northb...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such a...
Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrateshttps://ktla.com/news/new-studies-show-phones-may-lead-to-lower-fertility-ra...
Polish lawmakers have votedhttps://www.g4media.ro/polonia-introduce-pedepse-de-pana-la-5-ani-de-inchisoare-pentru-difuzarea-online-a-unor-infractiuni-precum-cri...
Coinbase has launchedhttps://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-for-agents Coinbase for Agents, a tool that lets AI agents like ChatGPT or Claude execute crypto tra...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If digital sovereignty is important to you, and it certainly is in the European Union EU, then you'll be pleased...
fjo3https://yro.slashdot.org/~fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, a...
OpenAI is reportedly considering sharp price cuts for paid access to its AI modelshttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competit...
Opendoor is shutting down its India operationshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/opendoors-india-exit-is-fueling-a-bigger-conversation-about-ai-and-outsourcing/...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics 'cannot continuehttps://www.engadget.com/2191897/xbox-ceo-say...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: China was likely behind an online influence operation to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence tec...
Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkeshttps://tech.slashdot.org/~MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist, captioned: 'For years we've had unconfirmed report...
fjo3https://science.slashdot.org/~fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coalhttps://electrek.co/2026/06/09/solar-beats-coal-in-the-us-elec...
A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called 'RoguePlanet,' which reportedly works on fully patch...
Visa is integrating its payment network with ChatGPThttps://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f so AI ag...
Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cardshttps://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-discontinues-physical-steam-gift-cards-blames-gift-card-scams-as-scammers-ada...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last year, Meta radically overhauled the ruleshttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/189242/meta-ends-fact-che...
BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast 'Flash Chargers' across Europehttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/947553/byd-flash-chargers-uk-europe-ev-blade-battery...
The Asahi Linux team is warninghttps://bsky.app/profile/asahilinux.org/post/3mntzon7x2x2e Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple'...
