Slashdot Stories for 2026

EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce 13
Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers 393
Cloudflare Experiment Ports Most of Next.js API in 'One Week' With AI 29
Uber Employees Have Built an AI Clone of Their CEO To Practice Presentations Before the Real Thing 30
AI Can Find Hundreds of Software Bugs -- Fixing Them Is Another Story 26
Prediction Market Platform Kalshi Discloses First Insider Trading Enforcement Action 30
Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It. 101
Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras 155
Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 46
Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data 22
DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media 89
Scientists Crack the Case of 'Screeching' Scotch Tape 30
Microsoft Japan Raided Over Suspected Violation of Anti-Monopoly Law 25
Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service 17
Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge 81
HP Says Memory's Contribution To PC Costs Just Doubled To 35% 25
Apple's Touch-Screen MacBook Pro To Have Dynamic Island, New Interface 69
The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year 47
First British Baby Born Using Transplanted Womb From Dead Donor 70
Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox 75
New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain's Electricity Use, Regulator Says 44
CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes 30
Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards 195
The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents 109
Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs 62
Billions of Dollars Later and Still Nobody Knows What an Xbox Is 65
Discord Distances Itself From Persona Age Verification After User Backlash 26
Russia Targets Telegram as Rift With Founder Pavel Durov Deepens 25
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches 71
Quantum Algorithm Beats Classical Tools On Complement Sampling Tasks 34
Texas Is About To Overtake California In Battery Storage 168
US Farmers Are Rejecting Multimillion-Dollar Datacenter Bids For Their Land 96
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Has 'No Tolerance For Bad AI' 58
Microsoft Says Bug In Classic Outlook Hides the Mouse Pointer 38
Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future 52
Trump's 'Board of Peace' Explores Stablecoin For Gaza 119
OpenAI Calls In the Consultants For Its Enterprise Push 14
Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs 36
ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030 26
IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization 113
Linus Torvalds: Someone 'More Competent Who Isn't Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens' Will Take Over Linux One Day 36
'How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?' 61
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude 53
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible 32
PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump 29
Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds 25
Stressful People in Your Life Could Be Adding Months To Your Biological Age 34
Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too 142
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Calculate AI's Contribution To U.S. Growth May Be Basically Zero 30
Is AI Impacting Which Programming Language Projects Use? 58
Rule-Breaking Black Hole Growing At 13x the Cosmic 'Speed Limit' Challenges Theories 20
Should Job-Seekers Stop Using AI to Write Their Resumes? 63
Raspberry Pi Stock Rises Over Its Possible Use With OpenClaw's AI Agents 46
Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised 21
EVs Are Already Making Your Air Cleaner, Research Shows 175
Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom 47
'Open Source Registries Don't Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security' 24
Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand 32
AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments 37
Amazon Disputes Report an AWS Service Was Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot 10
Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums 51
F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister 87
Has the AI Disruption Arrived - and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible? 88
After 16 Years, 'Interim' CTO Finally Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon From the UK's Post Office 38
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Boot Time? 137
DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982 78
Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement 'Stop Killing Games' Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU 28
Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment? 31
America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries 49
Code.org President Steps Down Citing 'Upending' of CS By AI 15
T2 Linux Restores XAA In Xorg, Making 2D Graphics Fast Again 55
The Salvation Army Opens a Digital Thrift Store On Roblox 27
Researchers Discover Ancient Bacteria Strain That Resists 10 Modern Antibiotics 16
Is 'Brain Rot' Real? How Too Much Time Online Can Affect Your Mind. 20
How Python's Security Response Team Keeps Python Users Safe 5
Hazardous Substances Found In All Headphones Tested By ToxFREE Project 95
OpenAI's First ChatGPT Gadget Could Be a Smart Speaker With a Camera 55
US Particle Accelerators Turn Nuclear Waste Into Electricity, Cut Radioactive Life By 99.7% 67
NASA Eyes March 6 To Launch 4 Astronauts To the Moon On Artemis II Mission 23
Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK 62
Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation 30
Meta's Metaverse Leaves Virtual Reality 14
Cyber Stocks Slide As Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Code Security' 29
Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index 19
Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links 14
Phil Spencer Retiring After 38 Years At Microsoft 23
Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books 13
OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns 53
Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders' 16
AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar 12
How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft 10
PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months 7
HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI 54
Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian Oil Smuggling Ring 30
US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs 228
Was an Amazon Service Taken Down By Its AI Coding Bot? 38
Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs 148
How Private Equity Debt Left a Leading VPN Open To Chinese Hackers 26
New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC 25
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes 44
Newborn Chicks Connect Sounds With Shapes Just Like Humans, Study Finds 16
US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere 55
California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 123
Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Pro For 'Complex Problem-Solving' 18
OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use 7
Minecraft Java Is Switching From OpenGL To Vulkan 25
IRS Loses 40% of IT Staff, 80% of Tech Leaders In 'Efficiency' Shakeup 87
Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial 20
China's Hottest App of 2026 Just Asks If You're Still Alive 20
Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass 51
Europe's Labor Laws Are Strangling Its Ability To Innovate, New Analysis Argues 98
Bafta To Reward 'Human Creativity' as Film and TV Grapples With AI 4
LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find 84
A Half-Century of US Labor Data Shows Steady Retreat From Evening and Night Work 18
New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools 18
Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools 15
HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances 37
The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits 56
Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World's Biggest Company by Sales 19
A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments 33
EV Sales Boom As Ethiopia Bans Fossil-Fuel Car Imports 82
Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing 41
Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life 158
EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule 34
Uber Putting $100 Million into EV Charging for Robotaxis 7
Google's Pixel 10a Is the Same Damn Phone As the Pixel 9a 39
Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda 33
Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction 31
Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App 7
GameHub Will Give Mac Owners Another Imperfect Way To Play Windows Games 8
Texas Sues TP-Link Over China Links and Security Vulnerabilities 46
Study of 12,000 EU Firms Finds AI's Productivity Gains Are Real 61
Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' 28
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months 85
Linus Torvalds on How Linux Went From One-Man Show To Group Effort 21
Vermont EV Buses Prove Unreliable For Transportation This Winter 141
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails 28
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs 47
WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site 21
Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It) 209
FDA Reverses Decision and Agrees To Review Moderna's Flu Vaccine 149
India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own 11
Thousands of CEOs Just Admitted AI Had No Impact On Employment Or Productivity 75
Single Dose of DMT Rapidly Reduces Symptoms of Major Depression 75
Air Pollution Emerges As a Direct Risk Factor For Alzheimer's Disease 34
Bayer Agrees To $7.25 Billion Proposed Settlement Over Thousands of Roundup Cancer Lawsuits 42
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Model Brings 'Much-Improved Coding Skills', Upgraded Free Tier 44
Apple Is Reportedly Planning To Launch AI-Powered Glasses, a Pendant, and AirPods 34
Discord Rival Maxes Out Hosting Capacity As Players Flee Age-Verification Crackdown 33
NPR's Radio Host David Greene Says Google's NotebookLM Tool Stole His Voice 24
Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux 25
KDE Plasma 6.6 Released 42
Most VMware Users Still 'Actively Reducing Their VMware Footprint,' Survey Finds 26
US Lawyers Fire Up Privacy Class Action Accusing Lenovo of Bulk Data Transfers To China 8
The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race 24
Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months 150
Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years 100
A YouTuber's $3M Movie Nearly Beat Disney's $40M Thriller at the Box Office 45
Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud 101
Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s 30
99% of Adults Over 40 Have Shoulder 'Abnormalities' on an MRI, Study Finds 46
China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own 56
Mazda Finally Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst 47
'Software Isn't Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be' 27
Valve's Steam Deck OLED Will Be 'Intermittently' Out of Stock Because of the RAM Crisis 17
Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs 40
EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears 47
Secondhand Laptop Market Goes 'Mainstream' Amid Memory Crunch 36
The Music Industry Enters Its Less-Is-More Era 47
Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display' 23
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 97
Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long 147
India's Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point 56
Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction 62
KPMG Partner Fined Over Using AI To Pass AI Test 37
Ireland Launches World's First Permanent Basic Income Scheme For Artists, Paying $385 a Week 121
New EU Rules To Stop the Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes 111
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment 151
Sony May Push Next PlayStation To 2028 or 2029 as AI-fueled Memory Chip Shortage Upends Plans 37
Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? 73
'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It' 157
Will Tech Giants Just Use AI Interactions to Create More Effective Ads? 59
Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes 77
Rivian's Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025 45
India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically 23
Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case 58
'Babylon 5' Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube 75
DNA Mutations Discovered In the Children of Chernobyl Workers 38
Oldest Active Linux Distro Slackware Finally Releases Version 15.0 51
Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges 25
Analysis of JWST Data Finds - Old Galaxies in a Young Universe? 33
Vim 9.2 Released 116
Apple Patches Decade-Old IOS Zero-Day, Possibly Exploited By Commercial Spyware 11
Additional Benefits For Brain, Heart, and Lungs Found for Drugs Like Viagra and Cialis 35
Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT 51
Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots 37
US Government Will Stop Pollution-Reduction Credits for Cars With 'Start-Stop' Systems 304
Dates with AI Companions Plagued by Lag, Miscommunications - and General Creepiness 27
Social Networks Agree to Be Rated On Their Teen Safety Efforts 14
ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt 52
Earth is Warming Faster Than Ever. But Why? 114
The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 37
Sudden Telnet Traffic Drop. Are Telcos Filtering Ports to Block Critical Vulnerability? 73
Anthropic's Claude Got 11% User Boost from Super Bowl Ad Mocking ChatGPT's Advertising 8
Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket To Bet on Strikes 128
Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code 92
600% Memory Price Surge Threatens Telcos' Broadband Router, Set-Top Box Supply 71
Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback 56
Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit 179
Meta's New Patent: an AI That Likes, Comments and Messages For You When You're Dead 89
Google Warns EU Risks Undermining Own Competitiveness With Tech Sovereignty Push 81
Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI 106
FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI 19
EPA Reverses Long-Standing Climate Change Finding, Stripping Its Own Ability To Regulate Emissions 149
OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Distilled US Models To Gain an Edge 59
Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars 87
Bill Introduced To Replace West Virginia's New CS Course Graduation Requirement With Computer Literacy Proficiency 51
Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition 64
Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash 41
Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp 31
Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links 66
CIA Makes New Push To Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants 72
IBM Plans To Triple Entry-Level Hiring in the US 39
WP Engine Says Automattic Planned To Shake Down 10 Hosting Companies For WordPress Royalties 23
Anthropic Raises $30 Billion at $380 Billion Valuation, Eyes IPO This Year 33
Palo Alto Chose Not To Tie China To Hacking Campaign For Fear of Retaliation From Beijing 45
Microsoft Plans Smartphone-Style Permission Prompts for Windows 11 Apps 69
Border Officials Are Said To Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser 116
Amazon Engineers Want Claude Code, but the Company Keeps Pushing Its Own Tool 40
The "Are You Sure?" Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind 94
Anthropic To Cover Costs of Electricity Price Increases From Its Data Centers 37
Meta Auditor EY Raised Red Flag on Data-Center Accounting 31
US Hacking Tool Boss Stole and Sold Exploits To Russian Broker That Could Target Millions of Devices, DOJ Says 54
Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again 21
Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning 'World is in Peril' 77
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet 71
Is Linux Mint Burning Out? Developers Consider Longer Release Cycle 124
A Hellish 'Hothouse Earth' Getting Closer, Scientists Say 341
US Had Almost No Job Growth in 2025 106
EVs Could Be Cheaper To Own Than Gas Cars in Africa by 2040 58
UK Orders Deletion of Country's Largest Court Reporting Archive 57
Are CDs Making a Comeback? A Statistical Analysis 90
HP Now Rents Gaming Laptops 54
Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month 41
T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App 22
Moderna Says FDA Refuses To Review Its Application for Experimental Flu Shot 247
Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans 123
The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most 61
Iceland is Planning For the Possibility That Its Climate Could Become Uninhabitable 81
ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks 18

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