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Overview Imagine a 280‑unit apartment complex with no on‑site leasing office and no human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced...

Background On Friday, Amazon published a blog post to address inaccuracies in a Financial Times report that claimed the company's AI tool Kiro caused two outag...

Overview A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Sciencehttps://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum...

Lockheed Martin's F‑35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” This week the military news site TWZ reported that the fighter’s “computer brai...

Overview The UK Post Office’s interim CTO is leading the effort to remove and replace Fujitsu’s Horizon system, described by Computer Weekly as “the error‑ridd...

How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long‑time Slashdot reader BrendaEMhttps://ask.slashdot.org/~BrendaEM? Say you want separate Windows and L...

Case Overview Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend's house in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning a firefighte...

Background The consumer movement Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott protested Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew in 2024 PC Gamer...

Overview The consumer movement Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott’s 2024 outcry over Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew — a campa...

Background Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who had rejected the code it produced. The human operator of that AI later revealed...

Overview Since its inception over half a century ago, the Peace Corps has engaged more than 240,000 Americans in projects across 142 countries. New Initiative:...

Background Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K‑12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Found...

Overview Berlin‑based T2 Linux developer René Rebe long‑time Slashdot reader ReneR announced that the Xorg display server now restores its XAA acceleration arc...

Overview Slashdot reader BrianFagiolihttps://games.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli reports that The Salvation Army has launched what it calls the world's first digi...

Background CNN reports on a 13,000‑year‑old glacier in a Romanian cave, where scientists say a bacterial strain they thawed and analyzed is resistant to 10 mod...

Introduction Can being “very online” really affect our brains, asks the Washington Posthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/ar-AA1WJ9Ya? Research Findings...

Overview The Python Software Foundation PSF recently highlighted how the Python Security Response Team PSRS keeps Python users safe. The PSRS volunteers and pa...

Overview You wear headphones at work, during play, while relaxing, and even at the gym where they can become sweaty. An investigation into headphones found tha...

Overview OpenAI is reportedly developing its first consumer hardware product: a smart speaker priced between $200‑$300 that includes a built‑in camera. The cam...

Accelerator‑Driven Systems ADS for Nuclear Waste Transmutation Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing Accelerator‑Driv...

NASA Plans March 6 Launch for Artemis II NASA could launch four astronauts on a mission to fly around the Moon as soon as March 6. That is the launch date PDF...

Background Discord announced a global age‑verification rollout that would require users to submit a government ID or a video selfie for “full access.” The plan...

Background Pinterest is reportedly flooded with AI‑generated images and subject to heavy‑handed automated moderation. Artists say their hand‑drawn work is bein...

Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR‑centric metaverse visionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/meta-metaverse-leaves-vr-horizon-worlds-mobi...

Market Reaction An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Fridayhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/art...

Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index Goldman Sachs has launched an “S&P ex‑AI” index SPXXAI that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI. The index offers...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: > The English‑language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controver...

Announcement Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the company, according to IGNhttps://www.ign.com/ar...

Incident Overview Microsoft pulled a year‑old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Ha...

OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that, according to analyst Benedict Evans, cannot be solved merely with fundraising or capital‑expenditure anno...

Overview An anonymous reader reports that Meta product managers are rebranding themselves as “AI builders,” signaling that AI coding tools are reshaping who ge...

Background An anonymous reader reported that an AI short‑film contest winner was slated to screen before feature presentations in AMC Theatres, with a national...

Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slo...

Overview PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in its PayPal Working Capital PPWC loan application exposed sensitive personal i...

India's IT services giants have spent decades deploying, customizing, and maintaining the world's largest enterprise software platforms, putting hundreds of tho...

Overview An IT blunder revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90 bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's...

Supreme Court Decision The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Friday, ruling that his use of the International Emergen...

Report Summary An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI toolshttps://www.f...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: In early 2024, the agency that oversees cybersecurity for much of the US government issued a rar...

Details New York Governor Kathy Hochul has dropped a proposal that would have allowed limited commercial robotaxi deployments outside New York City, citing a l...

Classification of the Starliner Flight NASA has officially classified Boeing Starliner’s 2024 crewed flight as a “Type A” mishap, acknowledging serious technic...

Trump Directs US Government to Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the Department...

The Bouba‑Kiki Effect and Its Origins Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable...

Project Overview The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restr...

Overview California’s recently proposed AB‑2047 would require every 3D printer sold in the state to be a Department of Justice‑approved model equipped with “fi...

Announcement Google has introducedhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/ Gemini 3.1 Pro, a reasoning‑focused u...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last month, Jason Grad issued a late‑night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup: > “You’v...