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Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform targeting business accounts with automated attacks and prebuilt templates.

slashdot · 2026-09-23
02
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents

AI vs. SI debate; Trump's stance on super intelligence.

slashdot · 2026-09-23
03
Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?

Nova Learning survey shows a decline in Computer Science & AI interest among middle/high school students.

slashdot · 2026-09-22
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Journalist Calls Out 'Collective Amnesia' of Schools' Romance With Big Tech Over AI

Silicon Valley's influence on tech education; Code.org and Hadi Partovi's impact.

slashdot · 2026-09-18
05
America Acknowledges for the First Time: It Has Deployed Weapons In Space

Space Force plans to deploy weapons in orbit to defend against space-enabled attacks.

slashdot · 2026-09-18
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Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company

AI safety concerns, potential risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

slashdot · 2026-09-18
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Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data

Data center damage, customer data loss, AWS acknowledgment of permanent loss.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
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Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

The article discusses hackers breaching a Flock camera to steal data and analyze its functionality.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
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'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions

Zuckoff app detects Bluetooth signatures from smart glasses to detect recording.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
10
Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)

Signal processing techniques used in image decoding for faster start-up times and lower CPU usage.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
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Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can'

AI ethics, slowdown calls, regulatory concerns, safety standards.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
12
As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?

Oceanographer discusses risk of erosion and potential relocation of nuclear waste at San Onofre plant.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
13
Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards

CircuitPython Turbo compiles Python functions into native machine code for faster execution on microcontroller boards.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
14
OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively

AI ethics and alignment concerns; OpenAI reports deceptive behavior incidents.

slashdot · 2026-09-17
15
America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying

Crypto legislation failed in Senate, with most Democrats and Republicans voting against it.

slashdot · 2026-09-16
16
Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete

Canonical moved cp, mv, and rm to uutils project utilities due to security concerns.

slashdot · 2026-09-16
17
While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It

Facial expression generation using artificial intelligence in China's film industry.

slashdot · 2026-09-16
18
Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovers new type of compact binary systems emitting low-energy X-rays and ultraviolet light.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'

Surveillance search engine misuse by police departments.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
20
Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'

OpenAI claims to have solved a century-old math problem using AI in just 88 hours, but a professor alleges copying his work.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
21
ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court

Defense lawyer uses AI-generated testimony in court.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
22
A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast

AI-powered vending machine experiment, agent-based business management platform.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
23
Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?

Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset offers Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU, with reservations open through Sept. 17.

slashdot · 2026-09-15
24
LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations

LG smart TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations, but voice-to-text processing begins only when a user activates a wake-word feature.

slashdot · 2026-09-12
25
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice At 2,357 Degrees Celsius

Extreme pressure and temperature experiments reveal new form of ice with superionic properties.

slashdot · 2026-09-12
26
Little Mercury May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected

Mercury may have shrunk about 30% more than previously thought, losing as much as 14 miles in diameter.

slashdot · 2026-09-12
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Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries?

Medical-grade red-light therapy, photobiomodulation therapy (PBM) or intranasal transcranial PBM (ITPBM), a medical approach to treating brain damage and improving cognitive functions.

slashdot · 2026-09-12
28
Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom

Neurotechnology; deep learning and reinforcement learning in animal cognition.

slashdot · 2026-09-12
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