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SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 launched today from Starbase, Texas, for the first time, successfully deploying 22 dummy Starlink satellites and completing a plan...

Aikido Security found that deleted Google API keys can continue authenticating for a median of about 16 minutes and as long as 23 minutes, despite Google Cloud'...

Canada's broadcast regulator says major streaming services such as Netflix must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian and Indigenous content. 'T...

The NTSB temporarily closed public access to nearly all investigation dockets after people used a spectrogram image from a PDF in the UPS flight 2976 crash file...

Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers' personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addr...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Billboard: Spotify and Universal Music Group UMG announced a licensing deal for recorded music and publishing rights, e...

Higgsfield AI is debuting a 95-minute fully AI-generated film at Cannes called 'Hell Grind' that reportedly cost $500,000 to make, $400,000 of which was spent o...

Venmo is testing a major redesign that will make new users' payment posts viewable by their friends by default instead of being public. The Verge reports: It's...

Samsung is reportedly set to pay chip-division workers an average bonus of about $340,000 after reaching a tentative deal with its union, according to Bloomberg...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment Thursday at a House committee markup hearing that would prohibit any...

While other commencement speeches have been met with boos for hyping up artificial intelligence, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak reminded college graduates that t...

A new Oxford Longevity Project report argues that individuals bear at least 80% of the responsibility for ill health in old age. 'The report PDF, launched at th...

AT&T Sues California Over Traditional Phone Service Requirement An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AT&T filed a lawsuit PDF against California o...

Background Thousands of Chicago‑area Zillow and Trulia listings disappeared after Midwest Real Estate Data MRED cut off Zillow’s access to its feed, escalating...

Overview Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser's “most significant design overhaul” yet, featuring a new unified, edge‑to‑edge interface, six preset layo...

Trump Cancels AI Executive Order Trump called off a planned AI executive order just hours before a signing ceremony because he said he was worried the framewor...

Overview BrianFagiolihttps://hardware.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli writes that Flipper Devices has finally revealedhttps://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-y...

Overview The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to...

Spotify Launches “Reserved” Ticket Feature Spotify is launching Reserved, a new feature that will set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifi...

Waymo pauses service in Atlanta Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. This follows a sim...

Microsoft hires analyst with influential video game blog to fix Xbox Microsoft has hired games analyst and investor Matthew Ballhttps://www.engadget.com/217825...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI claimshttps://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ its new rea...

Financial Summary SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first timehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technology/elon-musk-spacex-ipo.html as it prepares f...

NASA Administrator’s Statement NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says he expects China to fly taikonauts around the moon in 2027https://spacenews.com/isaacman-...

Overview Colossal Biosciences says it has grown chickens inside 3D‑printed artificial eggshellshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/19/1137471/colossal-bio...

Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs—roughly 17 % of its workforce—as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. Industry Lay...

Overview An anonymous reader cites an Ars Technica report that Google published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium codebase. The vulnera...

Release Overview Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI‑assisted command‑line tools. Updated Developer Toolchains The releases add updated develope...

Incident Overview Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 reports that GitHub announced on X that its internal repositories were breached through a compromised VS Cod...

Judgment Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: a coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgm...

Seagate CEO Comments on Memory Factory Build‑Out Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory‑chip factories or adding capacity would “take too...

Background A long‑running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux‑based smart‑TV software is headed to trial in August. The Software Freedom Conservancy SFC argues that GPL...

Overview The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prizehttps://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize/ is facing backlash after several winning entries were acc...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: > The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google I/O...

Background Google is again pressuring longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans. Accounts flagged as “commercial use” could lose access t...

Discovery Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra‑faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang【https://phys.or...

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law...

Plex Lifetime Subscription Price Increase BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: > Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Passhttps://nerds.xyz...

Redesign Overview Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates artificial intelligence, “getting big...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: a proposed merger of the largest U.S. utility by market value, NextEra Energy, with the...

Announcement OpenAI co‑founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. The hire is described as a major coup for Anthropic in the high‑stakes compet...

Job Cuts and AI Strategy The London‑headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030. CEO Bill Winters said the bank...

Overview An anonymous reader cited a report from KrebsOnSecurity that a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA maintained a pub...

New Intel‑Powered Surface Devices for Business Microsoft announced three new Surface devices aimed at business customers, all powered by Intel’s 13th‑gen Core...

Overview Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general‑purpose, Fedora‑based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Fla...

Reassignment of 7,000 Workers to AI Initiatives An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: > Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassi...

Overview Amazon is adding AI‑generated “podcasts” to Alexa+, allowing users to request custom audio explainers on any topic featuring two synthetic co‑hosts. A...

Overview Europe is testing laser‑based satellite communications through a new mountaintop ground station in Greece. The goal is to deliver faster, more secure...