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Meta to Start Testing AI Subscription Services Meta will begin testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI app and websitehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/meta-t...

Announcement Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company plans to spend around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, describing the island as the “epicenter of...

Rust in the Linux Kernel Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah‑Hartman says Rust can help Linux deal with a flood of AI‑discovered security bugs namely Dir...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge about the ongoing debate over how newsrooms should use AI. The discussion has increasingly moved...

Overview YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect “significant” photorealistic AI use, while also making AI‑content disclosures...

Overview Roku is rolling out its first major homescreen update in a decade. The UI isn’t dramatically different, but users will notice more personalization‑dri...

AI Psychosis Among Tech CEOs An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: there is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics...

Leadership Change Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years and will become executive chairman. Product chief Ashraf Alkarmi will tak...

Overview BusPatrolhttps://buspatrol.com/, a company that has installed AI‑powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses across the United States, plans...

Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low‑Earth‑orbit satellite business may be able to acquire some European mobile satellite spectrum next year, according to two...

Details American Airlines plans to install SpaceX's Starlink Wi‑Fi on more than 500 narrow‑body Airbus aircraft starting early next year. It does not, however,...

Background Aerodynamic drag is a major barrier in high‑speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains because a design with less drag allows the vehicle to mo...

Background Hobbyist CNCDan is building a real‑world version of Windows' classic 3D Pinball – Space Cadet. The project uses 3D‑printed flippers, bumpers, LEDs,...

Restoration of Internet Access in Iran An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Internet access has started to be restored in Iran after being cut off...

Overview Anthropic reports that its Claude Mythos model has discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open‑source software OSS proj...

Spain has temporarily blocked Polymarket and Kalshi while it investigates whether the prediction‑market platforms are violating gambling laws by operating witho...

Massachusetts Ride-Share Union An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ride‑share drivers for app‑based companies such as Uber and Lyft have unionize...

> 'Following months of public debate and protests against American IT giant Kyndryl's proposed acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the N...

Overview Nvidia is retiring its classic Control Panelhttps://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-control-panel-is-officially-retiring-after-20-years-for-geforce-users f...

Background California lawmakers initially passed Assembly Bill 1043 AB 1043, the Digital Age Assurance Act, in late 2025. The law aimed to move online age veri...

!AIhttps://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/ai_64.png An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Pope Leo XIV on Monday set out a sweeping vision for corp...

Launch Overview 'The expansion of SpaceX's Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space...

Background Tech industry layoffs may be worse at large tech companies than the rest of the IT industry. The New York Times argues those layoffs have now shifte...

Overview California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for AI‑driven workforce disrupti...

Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week's Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation: With Free...

'Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026,' writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, 'as part of an infrastructure modernization...

The Web Serial API lets websites write to and read from serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this...

It's 'the first time in seven years that a new Star Wars film has launched on the big screen,' writes CNBC . And Variety notes it's expected to earn $102 millio...

Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com. The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn't yet lead to...

Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas: According to new analysis from independent energy think t...

'For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used fo...

The It's FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates 'which can then be...

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network CDN infrastructure to hide connections to mal...

Tesla's upcoming Cybercab 'has been certified at 165 Wh/mi,' reports Electrek — which makes it 'the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide ma...

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel develo...

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA: A proposal to make day...

Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes: AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool... Hidden between the lines o...

'The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic,' reports the Washington Post, 'although they are higher than...

Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC: Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash wh...

On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word 'disregard'. Google's AI Overview responded 'Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new...

Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that 'modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heatin...

Qualys's Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel 'that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files...

The Washington Post looks at arguments that 'AI's coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans'. But they also look at some of the...

NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech's historic role managing the iconic deep-...

The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA...