Slashdot Stories for 2026

Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works 56
What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now? 23
With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life 33
Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs. 72
Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court 23
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release 38
'Grand Theft Auto 6' Preview Signals Blockbuster Demand, Analysts Say 24
As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support 60
Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds 65
The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now 30
Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts 137
Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? 160
New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update 60
States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules 33
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI 52
Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts 37
Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20% 35
Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules 43
Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid 1
Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling 30
US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors 166
Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats 17
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities 195
Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing? 118
AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps 46
OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent 22
Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police 63
Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks 17
Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment 137
Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers 41
Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion 39
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter 111
How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart 56
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks 76
Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds 90
Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development 111
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach 56
China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing 14
Apple Maps Now Has Ads 57
Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training 106
Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future 22
Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB 16
Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction 76
Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms 39
Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy 67
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot 38
SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana 179
Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images 16
Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face 46
New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban 80
FDA Approves First Wearable Device to Monitor Glucose, Ketone Levels 54
Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue 229
Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs 90
AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds 64
Waymo Is Expanding to Germany 28
Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips 70
Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS 69
Windows Backdoor 'Sleepwalker' Hides in Memory Until Activated by a 'Magic Packet' 39
AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting 83
World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows 153
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage 51
SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund 64
Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas 130
Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck 19
Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China 12
China Delays Ambitious Chang'e 7 Lunar Mission Until 2027 16
FDA Approves First Alzheimer's Blood Test For Americans As Young As 40 47
Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace 65
Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs 126
After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force 40
SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey 96
One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research 93
Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? 39
The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward 45
Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content 34
OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens' 27
Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days 39
Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras 44
Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely 111
23 Years After SimCity 4's Release, 'Eternal Commuter' Bug Finally Fixed 9
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation 65
Supply Chain Issues Delaying US Grid Batteries' Installation 60
Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions 50
Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial 21
Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues On RGB Lighting Devices 78
Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK £1bn a Year 59
How Will AI Change the Field of Mathematics? 46
Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails 16
Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police 57
Low Emission Zone Led To Better Lung Size, Function Among London Children 67
Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope 23
Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say 51
Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support 18
New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market 47
Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button 19
'Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began 114
China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux 151
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure 41
Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams 19
American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges 314
AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped 58
Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council 62
Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise 19
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI 59
Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay 79
Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses 24
Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads 61
China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet 100
Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen? 245
China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global 51
Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network 41
Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books 64
Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers 97
Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument? 98
YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix 40
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces 19
FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies 153
Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data 13
New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids 47
Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope 41
Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta 29
PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages 79
Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion 25
Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns 53
Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic 115
CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs 6
Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning 73
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds 217
Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive 53
Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut 24
Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk 72
Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers 52
Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes 86
Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative 41
Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors 86
Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses 137
Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months 110
You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone In the US 91
Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models 50
Apple Lowers App Store Fees In Europe to Settle Dispute With EU 13
Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced 30
India Paves the Way For Charging Merchants a Fee On UPI Transactions 21
Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim 121
Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable 209
'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent 150
Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine 21
Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States 72
Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data 67
Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction 72
US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies 72
OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee 37
Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility 145
Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' 90
OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging 23
EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law 64
Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits 30
A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront 48
Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? 36
Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes 90
Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features 12
China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried 165
Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU 35
Could a Disc-Free PlayStation Actually Lower Game Prices? 102
Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading 76
Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland 31
Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings 39
Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other 70
SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart 28
Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design 17
X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms 57
Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves 110
How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors 27
How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months 47
AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies 71
It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices 113
Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships 194
Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? 51
Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation 26
Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star' 18
Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party 50
Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories 34
Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead 141
Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network 33
France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s 21
PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider 101
Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile 58
Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier 38
Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones 60
Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store 51
Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them 68
Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time 12
Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere 10
UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing 31
Microsoft Retreats In China 62
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut 40
Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App' 54
Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out 43
Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public 66
World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York 67
Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI 3
University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis' 264
VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression 58
Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe 35
How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco 92
Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups 95
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts 61
'Godmother of AI' Says Biggest AI Risk In Schools Is Students Losing the Desire to Learn 83
US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating 78
China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan 8
DEF CON Crowd Suspected In Fake-Hotspot Attack On Delta Flight 36
The Pixel Tag Is Google's Answer To the AirTag 61
German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses 42
Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup 35
US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers 120
Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water 44
Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter 22
Contiguous US Breaks Its Record For Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says 116
Linux Desktop Use Surged To 22% On One Workday, Cloudflare Data Shows 67
Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network 66
Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time 77
A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call 12
Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations 13
Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit 177
France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls 66
England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C 84
Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat 123
Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA 187
The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting 35
Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's 70
Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China 70
A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond 20
Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware 14
First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store 22
Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal 45
Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer 53
Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games 16
AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack 116
Paramount Promises 30 Film-A-Year Contracts After WBD Acquisition 44
Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills 183
How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? 115
Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines 72
Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses 72
AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes 65
Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town 32
California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack 22
AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch 56
Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome? 66
Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro 81
OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra 20
Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine 14

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