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Report on Sony's Strategy An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Sony reportedly won’t release its major single‑player PlayStation games on PC any...

Background The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license‑plate‑reader ALPR data, which would allow it to query vehicle moveme...

Overview Researcher Chaotic Eclipse has released a proof‑of‑concept PoC exploit for a new Windows zero‑day dubbed MiniPlasma. BleepingComputer confirmed that t...

Background Nintendo is attempting to secure a touchscreen‑specific monster‑catching patent that could be relevant to Palworld Mobile. The Japan Patent Office J...

Layoffs and Employee Morale Meta is expected to begin cutting about 8,000 jobs this week as it pours more money into AI infrastructure and looks to “offset” ot...

After three weeks of testimony—covered extensively on Slashdot—a U.S. jury ruled on Monday against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding that he wait...

The Changing Value of a Master’s Degree An anonymous reader cites a Wall Street Journal report noting that returning to graduate school has long been the “Plan...

Taskbar Customization Microsoft is testing long‑requested Windows 11 customization options, including a resizable taskbar, smaller taskbar buttons, and the abi...

CFTC Ramps Up AI‑Driven Enforcement in Prediction Markets The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The World Health Organization declaredhttps://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic...

Overview John Lennon's last interview—recorded just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980—has been turned into a documentary directed by Steven Soderber...

Background Iran’s government is reportedly seeking to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables that run under the Strait...

Announcement Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list. He also highlighted “documentation updates” to address...

Induction into the National Recording Registry America's Library of Congress announced that it is preserving “a little piece of Hell” by inducting the soundtra...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times while discussing AI during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona, according to NBC Newshttp...

160 miles north of New York City, a man was convicted of manslaughter 'with the help of license plate reader technology,' reports a local news station. In the s...

Forbes describes it as 'definitely already out there, and under active exploitation according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, urgi...

'We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019,' writes ScienceAlert. 'What if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear i...

Test scores 'are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,' reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford...

Test scores 'are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,' reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners hol...

Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to 'the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like 'Copy F...

Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That's the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which ever...

xAI has launched Grok Build, 'a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals' products, such as Anthropic's Claude Code,' reports Engadget: As B...

Computer Weekly reports on 'the long-awaited reform of Britain's outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation's cyber secur...

Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it's redirecting 75% of their electricity supp...

'Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,' explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. 'Until you click it, at which point...

Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis 'wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software,' according t...

Bloomberg reports that Apple's two-year-old partnership with OpenAI 'has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.' Bloomberg describes Ope...

'Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,' writes the Washington Post's 'climate coach.' The 'chasing arrows' symbol, crea...

'Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,' writes the Washington Post's 'climate coach.' The 'chasing arrows' symbol, crea...

'The vulnerability is simple in practice,' writes Tom's Hardware: 'run a command as a standard user and gain root administrator access to the machine.' And it w...

Variety reports: Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned... The next James Bond film will b...

The blog It's FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It's now been b...

What's going on with the U.S. job market? 'The economy is growing. Unemployment is low,' notes the Washington Post. 'And yet, for millions of workers, finding a...

The Linux 7.1 kernel has added new documentation clarifying what qualifies as a security bug and how AI-assisted vulnerability reports should be handled. Phoron...

Japan's worsening bear problem has created a shortage of handmade 'Monster Wolf' robots, which are $4,000 solar-powered scarecrow-like devices with glowing eyes...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigatio...

BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort...

AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. 'The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3....

Bitwarden appears to be undergoing a quiet shift in leadership and messaging. Its longtime CEO and CFO have stepped down, while the company has removed 'Always...

Google has confirmed it is testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail accounts, with users able to unlock the standard 15GB by adding a phone number. Androi...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California...

OpenAI is previewing a feature that lets ChatGPT Pro users connect bank and investment accounts through Plaid, allowing the chatbot to analyze spending, subscri...

ArXiv says it will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing AI-generated slop, such as hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot met...

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: A group of Michigan lawmakers has introduced a bill in Congress that would effectively place...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after...