Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Microsoft's VASA-1 Can Deepfake a Person With One Photo and One Audio Track 0
Indian IT Outsourcing Firms Cut 60,000 Jobs in First Layoffs in 20 Years 10
Porn Sites Face Strict EU Rules, Commission Says 20
Meta's Not Telling Where It Got Its AI Training Data 13
Microsoft Does Not Want You To Use iPerf3 To Measure Network Performance on Windows 42
Medal Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace' 108
Samsung Shifts To Emergency Mode With 6-day Work Week for Executives 42
Medal Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts 84
Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store 33
Chinese Cities Are Sinking Rapidly 42
Medal FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure 100
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Reddit Is Taking Over Google 82
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 58
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 28
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Medal Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 125
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 16
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp 11
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data 13
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 38
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 78
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions 18
Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text - With a Twist 40
Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist 28
Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance 19
Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams 12
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years 22
Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support 59
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight 68
Medal Medal Google Terminates 28 Employees For Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract 246
Inside Amazon's Secret Operation To Gather Intel on Rivals 17
Medal Medal Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac? 412
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 51
Medal Medal Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 302
TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes' 10
Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare 57
Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute 25
AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU 11
Medal Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 120
Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack 14
What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill? 63
AI Computing Is on Pace To Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 49
Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 105
Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name 17
Amazon Cloud Unit Kills Snowmobile Data Transfer Truck Service 35
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages 49
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 34
Medal Dropbox CEO Says Employees Appreciate Remote Work More Than Cushy Office Perks 149
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report For 2024 Q1 10
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 39
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
NASA Confirms That Debris From ISS Crashed Into Florida Home 57
Medal Medal Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 496
State Tax Officials Are Using AI To Go After Wealthy Payers 103
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 17
'Crescendo' Method Can Jailbreak LLMs Using Seemingly Benign Prompts 45
ISPs Can Charge Extra For Fast Gaming Under FCC's Internet Rules, Critics Say 29
Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side 58
Medal Medal Judge Refuses To Ctrl-Z Divorce Order Made By a Misclick 192
A New Generation Is Uncovering the Tiny Doodles Left By Engineers On Old Microchips 24
Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images To Be Made Offense in UK 122
A Crypto Wallet Maker's Warning About an iMessage Bug Sounds Like a False Alarm 3
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Change Healthcare's Ransomware Attack Costs Edge Toward $1 Billion So Far 17
Apple Opens Web Distribution Option for iOS Devs Targeting EU 35
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation 48
Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot 19
Microsoft Takes Down AI Model Published by Beijing-Based Researchers Without Adequate Safety Checks 49
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100
NASA Says New Plan Needed To Return Rocks From Mars; Current Mission Design Can't Deliver Before 2040 65
Baidu Says AI Chatbot 'Ernie Bot' Has Attracted 200 Million Users 7
Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million 34
Medal Medal YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Now Includes Third-Party Apps 204
World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says 56
Medal Medal California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days 214
T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs: Report 70
Meta To Close Threads In Turkey To Comply With Injunction 7
Adobe Premiere Pro Is Getting Generative AI Video Tools 5
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout 90
Roku Makes 2FA Mandatory For All After Nearly 600K Accounts Pwned 26
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them 115
A D&D Actual Play Show Is Going To Sell Out Madison Square Garden 44
Crickets From Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak 14
Stanford Releases AI Index Report 2024 25
Ubisoft Revokes Access To Purchased Game, Sparking Digital Ownership Debate 135
UK Starts Drafting AI Regulations for Most Powerful Models 18
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 140
Security Engineer Jailed For 3 Years For $12M Crypto Hacks 8
Senator Warren Claims TurboTax 'Relentlessly' Upsells Customers in Letter To FTC 93
Sony's PS5 Pro is Real and Developers Are Getting Ready For It 25
iOS App Store's First Game Boy Emulator Taken Down Just Days Later 21
Telecom Fights Price Caps as US Spends Billions on Internet Access 30
Apple Loses Mantle as World's Biggest Phone Seller To Samsung as China Sales Drop 33
Medal Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
Disneyland Adds 'Stars Wars' Touches (and New Droids) for 'Season of the Force' Event 49
Medal California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 167
CNN Reporter 'Still Haunted' By Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster 91
America's Legal System May Be 'Closing In' on Regulating Cryptocurrencies 45
Medal Struggling Movie Exhibitors Beg Studios For More Movies - and Not Just Blockbusters 119
Will the US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Spark a Global Arms Race? 27
Axios CEO Believes AI Will 'Eviscerate the Unprepared' Among Media Companies 50
Canonical Says Qualcomm Has Joined Ubuntu's 'Silicon Partner' Program 8
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
Medal Is PHP Declining In Popularity? 92
APT Interface 'Revamped' For Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie with Colors and Columns 25
Windows 11's Beta Testers May Start Seeing Ads for Microsoft Store Apps 37
Two Boeing Whistleblowers Allege Disregarded Worker Concerns, Pressure For Speed 72
Medal Medal AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes 314
Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround 41
Could a New Charge Double the Service-life of Li-Ion Batteries? 86
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
Medal Will America's Next Soldiers Be Machines? 131
New Spectre V2 Attack Impacts Linux Systems On Intel CPUs 21
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Medal 'Defeated' CEO's Finally Concede Hybrid Working Is Here to Stay 88
73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles 46
Google Finally Launches Android's 'Find My Device' Network 41
Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California 60
The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft 33
Medal Medal Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 282
Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
ESA Prepares To Create Solar Eclipses To Study the Sun 19
Medal House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
Calpine's California Battery Plant Is Among World's Largest 29
Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle 25
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Adobe Firefly Used Thousands of Midjourney Images In Training Its 'Ethical AI' Model 11
Huawei Building Vast Chip Equipment R&D Center In Shanghai 18
Medal Google Threatens To Cut Off News After California Proposes Paying Media Outlets 91
China Tells Telecom Carriers To Phase Out Foreign Chips in Blow To Intel, AMD 45
Intel Axes 13th Gen Core i5, i7, i9 K-series CPUs 33
Your Anonymous OpenTable Reviews Will Soon Display Your First Name 34
Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute To Build AI Model 18
Medal Many AI Products Still Rely on Humans To Fill the Performance Gaps 51