Slashdot Stories for 2026

ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks 18
White House Eyes Data Center Agreements Amid Energy Price Spikes 40
Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found 51
Google's Personal Data Removal Tool Now Covers Government IDs 14
The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline 339
Microsoft Begins the First-Ever Secure Boot Certificate Swap Across Windows Ecosystem 91
A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away 67
Apple and Google Agree To Change App Stores After 'Effective Duopoly' Claim 21
The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor 97
NYC Private School Tuition Breaks $70,000 Milestone for Fall 52
Software Poses 'All-Time' Risk To Speculative Credit, Deutsche Bank Warns 22
2 To 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It's Decaf. 109
Deepfake Fraud Taking Place On an Industrial Scale, Study Finds 53
Electric Cars Are Making It Easier To Breathe, Study Finds 165
Kalshi Prediction Markets Match or Beat Traditional Forecasting Tools For Macro Indicators, NBER Study Finds 25
Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed By Linus Torvalds, Expected In Mid-April 2026 75
OpenAI Starts Running Ads in ChatGPT 70
Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch 162
Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don't Know It Yet 104
Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow' 23
Google Lines Up 100-Year Sterling Bond Sale 44
Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month 166
AI Gold Rush is Resurrecting China's Infamous 72-hour Work Week - in US 93
Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning 58
New Raspberry Pi 4 Model Splits RAM Across Dual Chips 55
SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says 157
National Football League Launches Challenge to Improve Facemasks and Reduce Concussions 61
Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules 141
Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building 61
Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst? 50
Dave Farber Dies at Age 91 17
After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement 66
Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents 25
Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom? 71
Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World 5
Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say 15
Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) 28
Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century? 172
Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors? 71
A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities 62
The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs - Great at Low Temperatures 84
Is the 'Death of Reading' Narrative Wrong? 73
Waymo Reveals Remote Workers In Philippines Sometimes Advise Its Driverless Cars 75
Good News: We Saved the Bees. Bad News: We Saved the Wrong Ones. 40
Bitcoin Dropped Nearly 30% This Week. But Why? 105
Firefox Announces 'AI Controls' To Block Its Upcoming AI Features 36
Apple Plans to Allow Outside Voice-Controlled AI Chatbots in CarPlay 12
Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid 59
Moltbook, Reddit, and The Great AI-Bot Uprising That Wasn't 25
Claude Code is the Inflection Point 69
New Bill in New York Would Require Disclaimers on AI-Generated News Content 33
Neocities Founder Stuck in Chatbot Hell After Bing Blocked 1.5 Million Sites 37
Waymo is Having a Hard Time Stopping For School Buses 134
Hollywood's AI Bet Isn't Paying Off 46
Amazon's Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts 116
Memory Prices Have Nearly Doubled Since Last Quarter 40
Salesforce Shelves Heroku 3
Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers 44
AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name 18
Big Tech's $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog 17
KPMG Pressed Its Auditor To Pass on AI Cost Savings 33
The Bizarre Enhancement Claims Rocking Ski Jumping 95
Europe Accuses TikTok of 'Addictive Design' and Pushes for Change 36
Canada Unveils Auto Industry Plan in Latest Pivot Away From US 303
Why This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever 134
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades 111
Google Confirms AirDrop Sharing is Coming To Android Phones Beyond Pixels 32
The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams 69
Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA 87
NASA Will Finally Let Its Astronauts Bring iPhones To the Moon 97
Musk Predicts SpaceX Will Launch More AI Compute Per Year Than the Cumulative Total on Earth 245
Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot 21
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 as Its AI Tools Rattle Software Markets 51
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs 62
Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production 64
Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books 21
FBI Couldn't Get Into Reporter's iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 130
Kalshi Claims 'Extortion,' Then Recants in Feud Over User Losses 25
China Has Seized Sony's Television Halo 70
Munich Makes Digital Sovereignty Measurable With Its Own Score 17
Valve's Steam Machine Has Been Delayed, and the RAM Crisis Will Impact Pricing 40
BMW Commits To Subscriptions Even After Heated Seat Debacle 170
Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows 31
Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites 85
'Everyone is Stealing TV' 186
As Software Stocks Slump, Investors Debate AI's Existential Threat 55
Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think' 31
Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs 74
Why Google's Android for PC Launch May Be Messy and Controversial 53
Adobe Actually Won't Discontinue Animate 19
AMD Hints the Next-Gen Xbox Console Could Launch Next Year 29
Say Hello To GoogleSQL 32
OpenAI's Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies 28
Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club 55
Google Home Finally Adds Support For Buttons 33
Ultra-Processed Foods Should Be Treated More Like Cigarettes Than Food, Study Says 299
NASA Delays Artemis II To March 49
Google Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas 92
'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source' 106
YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers 86
PayPal's CEO Change Blindsided HP's Board 21
Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program 52
Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 Alum Charged for Alleged Fraud 20
The Switch is Now Nintendo's Best-Selling Console of All Time 13
Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned In China 181
SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal 202
A Century of Hair Samples Proves Leaded Gas Ban Worked 61
Leica Camera's Owners Weigh $1.2 Billion Sale of Controlling Stake 12
Feds Skipping Infosec Industry's Biggest Conference This Year 93
Finland To Introduce 'Green Wave' Automated System For Emergency Vehicles 64
Microsoft Weighs Retreat From Windows 11 AI Push, Reviews Copilot Integrations and Recall 111
The AI Boom Is Coming for Apple's Profit Margins 47
Vibe-coded Social Network for AI Bots Exposed Data on Thousands of Humans 28
Notepad++ Compromised By State Actor 159
High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage 94
Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers 106
China's Decades-Old 'Genius Class' Pipeline Is Quietly Fueling Its AI Challenge To the US 113
Is AI Really Taking Jobs? Or Are Employers Just 'AI-Washing' Normal Layoffs? 66
Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews 47
Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? 138
EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push 32
What Go Programmers Think of AI 55
Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments 27
Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? 26
Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief 153
Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America 68
When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates 83
Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction 115
Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt 46
Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability 22
99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 71
China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia 122
Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work 42
US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private 26
AI Use at Work Has Increased, Gallup Poll Finds 53
Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 47
Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site 43
Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled' 19
Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism - to Focus on the Moon 29
Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs? 46
Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise 7
WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers 31
The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong 170
Microdosing For Depression Appears To Work About As Well As Drinking Coffee 48
Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted 124
'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 34
UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding 72
Apple Reports Best-Ever Quarter For iPhone Sales 34
Belkin's Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday 26
GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years 20
White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules 56
Oracle May Slash Up To 30,000 Jobs 19
Los Angeles Aims To Ban Single-Use Printer Cartridges 71
Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds 35
Wall Street's Top Bankers Are Giving Coinbase's Brian Armstrong the Cold Shoulder 21
'Moltbook Is the Most Interesting Place On the Internet Right Now' 40
Apple 'Runs on Anthropic,' Says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman 9
One-Third of US Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 35
DuckDuckGo Users Vote Overwhelmingly Against AI Features 54
Nobel Hacking Likely Leaked Peace Prize Winner Name, Probe Finds 26
Do Markets Make Us Moral? 34
'Call Screening is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful' 97
The UK Paid $5.65 Million For a Bookmarks Site 18
Amazon in Talks To Invest Up To $50 Billion in OpenAI 26
Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11 95
Backseat Software 98
Unable To Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax On Digital Performers 42
Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms 34
Radiologists Catch More Aggressive Breast Cancers By Using AI To Help Read Mammograms, Study Finds 30
Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says 190
Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data 79
Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada 64
Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 30
An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account 21
Google's Project Genie Lets You Generate Your Own Interactive Worlds 28
Nvidia GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux 17
County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security 49
ArXiv Will Require English Submissions - and Says AI Translators Are Fair Game 8
US Leads Record Global Surge in Gas-Fired Power Driven by AI Demands 36
US Life Expectancy Jumps To a Record 79 Years 44
Microsoft Admits Windows 11 Has a Trust Problem, Promises To Focus on Fixes in 2026 102
Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Awash With Zombie Firms 39
Apple's Second-Biggest Acquisition Ever Is a Startup That Interprets Silent Speech 16
Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations 6
Xbox Hardware Revenue Craters 32% 26
Windows 11 Has Reached 1 Billion Users Faster Than Windows 10 85
Waymo Robotaxi Hits a Child Near an Elementary School in Santa Monica 167
Seven of the World's Ten Best-Selling Smartphones in 2025 Were iPhones 57
Nothing CEO Says Company Won't Launch New Flagship Smartphone Every Year 'For the Sake of It' 24
'Hundreds' of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads 28
FBI Seizes RAMP Cybercrime Forum Used By Ransomware Gangs 13
Brandon Sanderson's Literary Fantasy Universe 'Cosmere' Picked Up by Apple TV 49
Extremophile Molds Are Invading Art Museums 33
Fully Electric Vehicle Sales In EU Overtake Petrol For First Time In December 92
Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds 51
French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s 50
Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount 18
Apple Tells Patreon To Move Creators To In-App Purchase For Subscriptions 47
Google Says AI Agent Can Now Browse on Users' Behalf 54
US Cyber Defense Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files Into a Public Version of ChatGPT 51
Amazon is Ending Its Palm ID System for Retail, Amazon One, as It Closes Physical Stores 19
Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism 120
Cancer Might Protect Against Alzheimer's 22
Experian's Tech Chief Defends Credit Scores: 'We're Not Palantir' 55
There's a Rash of Scam Spam Coming From a Real Microsoft Address 23
Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera 22
Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To Take Back the Internet 68
What's the 'Best' Month for New Movies and Music? A Statistical Analysis 7
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 61
30,000 More UPS Jobs On the Chopping Block as Amazon Era Ends 42
Android's Full Desktop Mode Surfaces in Accidental Chromium Leak 24
Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs 40
'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis 66
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a 4% Chance of Hitting the Moon 31
Ancient Martian Beach Discovered, Providing New Clues To Planet's Habitability 18
Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees 21
US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year 126
Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023 29
Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints 7
SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts 7
Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video 55
OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research 15
Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns 13
Internal Messages May Doom Meta At Social Media Addiction Trial 54
Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves' 35
Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 47
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions 38
Android Phones Are Getting More Anti-Theft Features 32
France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns 93
Microsoft Was Routing Example-Domain Traffic To a Japanese Cable Company for Five Years 15
Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever 69
Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 42
OpenAI's Science Chief Says LLMs Aren't Ready For Novel Discoveries and That's Fine 46
Pinterest Cuts Up To 15% Jobs To Redirect Resources To AI 19
Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US 63
How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains 122
Microsoft Is Refreshing the Xbox Cloud Gaming Web Experience 3
ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years 27
Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 115
China Hacked Downing Street Phones For Years 75
Reddit Lawyers Force Founder to Redact 'WallStreetBets' From Miami Event 43
Apple Launches AirTag 2 With Improved Range, Louder Speaker 41
TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized 29
Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google 18
California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder 25
Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees 38
Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations 22
DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations 62
Valve Facing UK Lawsuit Over Pricing and Commissions 32
New California Law Means Big Changes For Photos of Homes in Real Estate Listings 38

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