Ukraine Claims World's First Drone Evacuation of Wounded Soldier
Ukraine says it carried out the world's first evacuation of a wounded soldier by aerial drone, using a heavy-lift hexacopter after enemy drones and landmines made conventional gro…
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Sony Updates the Walkman As a $5,900 Gold-Plated MP3 Player
Sony has revived its Walkman lineup with three Android 16-powered high-end music players ranging from $1,900 to $5,900, topped by the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 with 256GB of storage. …
AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds
AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics c…
Google Support Pages Start Defaulting to AI Chatbots
Google is beginning to replace traditional support articles with "Ask Google Help," a Gemini-powered interface that summarizes documentation and lets users troubleshoot through a …
DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone
New court records reportedly show that DHS targeted Stop Cop City activist Samuel Tunick at an Atlanta airport because he was under investigation for suspected "terrorist activiti…
OpenBSD 8.0 Released
OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RIS…
Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations
Security researchers say Meta's Muse AI assistant exposed thousands of users' shared conversations because conversation titles were placed in subdomains that could be discovered t…
US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use
The Trump administration has banned DeepSeek AI from most US civilian federal agencies, ordering the removal of the Chinese company's models and technology developed using them. T…
Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a pe…
Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up
Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might …
Japan Launches Historic MMX Sample-Return Mission to Mars' Moon Phobos
Japan has successfully launched its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scheduled to arrive in August 2027, "MMX will become the f…
Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its p…
Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and …
TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban
TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget report…
Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Se…
A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings …
Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event
Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagl…
Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info
Florida's DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver's license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had "improper…
Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To 'Every Kid In America'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence compa…
Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. "Even the Remaster of The Witch…
Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" earned more than $15 million in its limited opening weekend, making it one of the bigges…
America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers
America is "making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand," reports the Los Angeles Times, "Two of the plants have contrac…
Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
"Mozilla reps tell me they've met with Microsoft about their concerns," reports PC Magazine, "but that the company wasn't responsive." "They'll do the minimum the law requires t…
Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares
"Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'," reports TechCrunch, "structured as a wholly-owned entity within the company — with the option to cont…
'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
"A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco," reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 1…
New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'
"When you pay for a game, you should own it," says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of "a rental disguised as a sale". Ko…
Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out
July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can't get the electricity to switch on, repor…
Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a 'Fast And Full Recovery'
Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world's coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, w…
Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cle…
More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail
More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room. P…
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