AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time
Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work…
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2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud
UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful,…
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (vi…
Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis
America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three ye…
'Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years
A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned hi…
TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company…
Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records.…
The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing
"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside …
Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware?
Electrek reports: Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, s…
UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots a…
PC Gamer reports: The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as…
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People
404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend's license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 — even sea…
After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy
Tech Times reports: Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy…
US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries
NBC News reports: A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America's …
The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence
While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need.…
Canonical's Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing
This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural p…
New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI: 'the Guardrails Alliance'
"A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly," reports TechCrunch. Hoping to leverage that d…
Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition…
Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Stree…
Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of…
The gaming news site Aftermath reports: Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling g…
How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home intern…
OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of…
This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while Ope…
Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also work…
Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations
Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a…
Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into 'Freeway Construction Zones'
CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed wit…
Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak
CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of h…
SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment ind…
Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor
Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentia…
FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by AI Researchers in GNU Savannah Repository
The Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects — both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal. But in early May, security researchers f…
Student Loan Borrowers Will Get Interest Rate Cut If They Sign Up For Auto Pay
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Student loan borrowers who enroll in automatic payments will get a much bigger discount on interest starting July 1, the U.S. Departm…
Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says
Three Amazon employees have filed a civil-rights complaint alleging the company retaliated against them for publicly supporting Seattle regulations on data centers. "The complaint…
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Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics
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Steam Machine Launches Today
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Steam Machine game testing
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Steam Machine
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Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm vs. Messiah
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers
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Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV
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DisplayMate
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NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
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A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works
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Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways
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Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents
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Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas
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DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
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I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits
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The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
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Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors
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Nvidia Halos
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Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
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Never Give Them Your Face
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Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
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Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)
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window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
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Becoming a dad changes men's brains
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Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
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Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
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Alan Greenspan Dies at 100; Led Fed During Boom Before 2008 Bust
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Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor
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LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it
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