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fjo3 shares a report from France 24: Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments b...

Background Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries as part of its effort to gather material for large‑lan...

Overview Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional “tips” into GitHub pull requests. Neowin claims that more than 1.5 million PRs have been affecte...

Background For the “foreseeable future,” Sony says it has stopped accepting new orders for most of its CFexpress and SD memory card lines due to an ongoing mem...

AI as the New Narrative for Mass Layoffs An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradit...

Overview The company aims to embed biometric data and blockchain‑based age‑verification directly into disposable vape cartridges. Partnership Wired reports on...

Apple’s Early Days – An Oral History Fast Company’s Harry McCracken has published an extensive 11,000‑word oral history celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary. T...

Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State The Wall Street Journal reports that Rivian “just won a years‑long battle w...

Background Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark casehttps://meta.slashdot.org/story/26/03/25/1745232/meta-and-youtube-found-negli...

Argument for Charging Access > “It’s time to charge for access,” argues a new opinion piece at The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com. > Begging billion‑dolla...

Box Office Performance Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets Variety. Afte...

Overview Utility‑scale solar construction is now being carried out by robots. The “Maximo” robots from AES have installed 100 MW of capacity, marking one of th...

Overview Bluesky is experimenting with a new AI assistant called Attie. Built on Bluesky’s decentralized publishing framework, the AT Protocol, Attie turns nat...

Amazon’s $4 B Rural Delivery Push In many rural areas, America’s online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. Amazon started a $4 billion “rura...

Apple Introduces Device‑Level Age Verification in the UK Apple rolled out a new update that requires users in the United Kingdom to confirm they are 18 years o...

How Powerful Is Jupiter’s Lightning? Thick clouds obscure the view, notes Science magazine, but an instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft—orbiting Jupiter for th...

Introduction Bell Labs “created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age,” writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Grea...

Background Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney‑OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney’s team was “blindsided” by the news that Sora wa...

Emergency Updates Highlight Update Cycle Issues Enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have each released emergency out‑of‑band fixes, drawing attention to...

Overview An anonymous Slashdot reader notes that ClickFix attackshttps://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/2233201/clickfix-may-be-the-biggest-security-threat-you...

Interview Overview FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long‑running open‑source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maint...

Overview IBM says its quantum computer can now simulate real magnetic materials and match actual lab experiment results, writes Slashdot reader BrianFagiolihtt...

Price Increase Details - Digital Edition no disc drive: $500 → $600 - Base PS5 with optical drive: $550 → $650 - PS5 Pro: $750 → $900 Projected prices at the b...

Background A recent 4,000‑word article on CNN tells the story of a retired appellate paralegal and grandmother in her early 70s who was treated for depression...

AI-driven code review gains traction in Linux Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah‑Hartman tells The Register that AI‑driven code review has “really jumped” for...

Overview After decades of studying, NASA announced “a major step forward in bringing nuclear power and propulsion from the lab to space.” The agency plans to l...

Background The Wall Street Journal reportshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/consumer-electronics/ads-are-popping-up-on-the-fridge-and-it-isn-t-going-over-we...

Background Long‑time Slashdot reader Qbertinohttps://science.slashdot.org/~Qbertino reports that the CERN project “Antimatter in motion” successfully transport...

AI Helps Reunite Lost Pets A dog missing for two months was found at an animal shelter, and its owner received an email from an artificial intelligence service...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI's ChatGPT ads pilot in the United States has crossed the $100 million annualized revenue mark...

Overview UK startup Pulsar Fusion announced that it has achieved the first plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine prototype. Euronews reports th...

Background AOMedia Video 1 AV1 was created by a coalition of technology companies as an open, royalty‑free alternative to other video codecs such as HEVC/H.265...

Background Google has moved up its post-quantum encryption migration target to 2029https://cyberscoop.com/google-moves-post-quantum-encryption-timeline-to-2029...

Investigation The European Commission is investigatinghttps://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_748 a breach after a threat actor allegedly a...

Overview A workplace‑device study finds that Windows PCs crash significantly more often than Macs, lag further behind on patching and encryption in some sector...

Austria plans to restrict under‑14s from using social media platforms over concerns about addictive algorithms and harmful content. The government says draft le...

Incident Overview Iran‑linked hackers breached the personal email inbox of FBI Director Kash Patel, publishing photographs and documents online, according to a...

Overview Joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer about the TeamPCP hacking group’s latest supply‑chain attack. The group compromised the widely used Lit...

Study Overview A new study identified a sharp rise in real‑world cases of AI chatbots and agents ignoring instructions, evading safeguards, and taking unauthor...

Overview A California bill would let adults demand the removal of social media posts about them that were created by paid family content creators when they wer...

Court Ruling A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon's effort to “punish” Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain riskhttps://slash...

Background OpenAI has indefinitely paused plans for an erotic mode in ChatGPThttps://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/openai-abandons-yet-another-side-quest-chatgpts-...

Background CERN has confirmedhttps://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform it will host an expanded version of Op...

Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature, which lets paying iCloud+ users generate anonymous emai...

Overview JPMorgan is piloting a system that monitors junior investment bankers to avoid burnout. The bank will compare hours reported by bankers with their dig...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly witho...

Mozilla and Mila Team Up on Open Source AI Push Mozilla has partnered with Milahttps://mila.quebec/en, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, to advance...