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Background Researchers report that the world’s largest known wild chimpanzee community in Uganda has fractured into rival factions and has been “locked in a vi...
EU Parliament blocks extension of child‑safety scanning law The European Parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits large tech firms to scan fo...
Incident Overview San Francisco police arrested a suspect after a Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at Sam Altman's homehttps://www.wired.com/story/sam-alt...
Overview Microsoft has begun stripping Copilot branding from Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic “writing tools” label. T...
Background The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone even after the app had been deleted. The data...
Overview Futurism reported that Google News is surfacing Polymarket betting pages alongside traditional news sources. The bets often appear in the “For you” se...
Overview Google has rolled out end‑to‑end encryption E2EE for Gmail on all Android and iOS devices. Enterprise users can now send and read encrypted emails dir...
Overview France announceshttps://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ that it plans to...
Report Overview An anonymous reader cites a report from The Drive that an auto‑dealer software company is pitching AI‑powered kiosks designed to replace car sa...
Overview Meta has started removing ads from law firms seeking clients for social media addiction lawsuitshttps://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-add...
Background According to quantum chromodynamics QCD—widely considered the best theory for describing the strong force that binds quarks inside protons and neutr...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Women in the U.S. gave birth to roughly 710,000 fewer children last year compared with the nation's peak...
Overview One of VMware's biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers, according to a report by Ars Technica【https...
Mozilla Accuses Microsoft of Sabotaging Firefox Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of stacking the deck against Firefox, arguing that design choices in Windows stee...
Overview Amazon CEO Andy Jassy indicated that the company may eventually sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside customers, not just through AWS. This m...
Background OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new cybersecurity product for a small group of partners, out of concern that a broader rollout could wreak havoc if...
Overview An anonymous reader quoted a CNN report stating that a hacker allegedly stole a massive trove of sensitive data—including highly classified defense do...
After nearly 20 years on the platform, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF announced that it is leaving X. “This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it mig...
Overview Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google’s Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a n...
Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke to the newspaper about how, after struggling to...
Overview Little Snitch, the well‑known macOS tool that shows which applications are connecting to the internet, is now being developed for Linux. The developer...
Background A federal appeals court denied Anthropic's bid to temporarily block the Pentagon's blacklisting, meaning the company remains shut out of Defense Dep...
Overview Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's foldable iPhone is still on track for a September unveiling alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. 9to5Mac reports t...
Settlement Overview Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right‑to‑repair their equipment. This week the company reached a landmark settleme...
A $500,000 “Survivor”-style corporate retreat for 120 Plex employees in Honduras “turned into a week‑long disaster” involving illness, wild animals, armed guard...
Overview The FBI reports that Iran‑linked hackers disrupted internet‑connected systems used by U.S. oil, gas, and water companies. Despite a recent two‑week ce...
A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrouhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carreyrou claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest cir...
Change effective May 20 Year unspecified Starting May 20, Amazon will discontinue Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 or ea...
Iran will require shipping companies to pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz during the two‑week ceasefire. Details of th...
Overview Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang's leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is position...
Steam Link Beta for Apple Vision Pro Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a l...
Report Summary Public Interest Research Group PIRG Education Fund released its “Failing the Fix 2026: Grading laptop and cell phone companies on the fixability...
Background The New York Post reports that the CIA employed a new quantum‑based tool, dubbed “Ghost Murmur,” to locate and rescue the second American airman sho...
Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500 km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately...
Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: a group of Russian government hackers have hijacked thousands of home and small‑business routers...
Overview Apple may be facing a supply problem with the MacBook Neohttps://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/03/04/1624211/apple-announces-low-cost-macbook-neo-wit...
Overview Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model capable of discovering critical vulnerabilities at scale. The model powers Project Glasswing, a j...
Built-in Vertical Tabs Chrome is finally adding built-in vertical tabs, which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read fu...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony rulinghttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/25/1717205/...
Overview A New York Times analysis found that Google’s AI Overviews answer questions correctly about 90 % of the time. While this sounds impressive, it also me...
Anthropic's Revenue Run Rate Anthropic reports that its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion. The company also disclosed plans to secure rough...
Overview Cloudflare is acceleratinghttps://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/ its post‑quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform f...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a report from The New York Times stating that President Javier Milei of Argentina promoted a cryptocurrency last year. Th...
Satirical Stanford Daily Story theodphttps://news.slashdot.org/~theodp writes: > 'Gates Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center for Panoptic Compu...
Allegations LinkedIn is facing accusations that it silently scans users' browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. claims the...
Overview Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrdhttps://tech.slashdot.org/~walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: > China says the AEP100, a megawatt‑cl...
Background An anonymous reader quoted a Reuters report that a federal appeals court ruled New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing peop...
Policy Proposals OpenAI is proposinghttps://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf PD...
