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Submission + - White House labels BBC 'fake news' over program on Capitol "insurrection"

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: White House labels BBC ‘fake news’ over program on Capitol insurrection

“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of being “purposefully dishonest” over the broadcaster’s depiction of the 2021 U.S. Capitol Hill insurrection in a Panorama documentary.”

“The British public broadcaster has been under fire in recent days over allegations that it misled viewers by splicing footage from different portions of U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day that protesters breached the U.S. Congress.”

Submission + - Global Incident Response Report 2025

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Global Incident Response Report 2025

“First, threat actors are augmenting traditional ransomware and extortion with attacks designed to intentionally disrupt operations. In 2024, 86% of incidents that Unit 42 responded to involved business disruption — spanning operational downtime, reputational damage or both.”

Submission + - Rocky Linux becomes NVIDIAâ(TM)s preferred AI platform (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Rocky Linux is now the first Linux distribution authorized to ship with the complete NVIDIA AI software stack out of the box, including CUDA Toolkit and DOCA OFED. CIQ, the company backing Rocky Linux, says this eliminates the usual configuration work needed to get GPU clusters running, allowing organizations to go from installation to inference far faster. The move is aimed directly at HPC and large-scale AI deployments where scaling from a few development nodes to thousands of production nodes is often held back by networking configuration and driver validation problems.

The partnership also strengthens Rocky Linuxâ(TM)s position as the post-CentOS enterprise platform for compute workloads. It suggests that NVIDIA wants AI infrastructure to function more like pre-validated appliances rather than DIY Linux stacks. Supporters say this will reduce deployment costs and headaches. Critics are already calling it another step toward deeper NVIDIA lock-in, as the distribution increasingly becomes tuned around proprietary GPU tooling.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: how to get people to our 2600 meeting?

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Years ago, we had a large and exciting group at Houston 2600: hobbyists of all sorts, each with their own interests and active projects or at least fascinations. Then COVID-19 hit and people stopped coming. Now, it seems the audience are staying home, and the only people sporadically showing up are interested in talking about the latest hacking tools to use for their future careers in computer security, or a group of wannabe hackers who seem to have no curiosity about anything other than money. Where are the hobbyists, and how do we get them to join us and share some excitement about technology? Or did Big Tech and social media finally manage to kill that?

Submission + - Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth.

Instead of promptly removing bad actors, Meta allowed “high value accounts” to “accrue more than 500 strikes without Meta shutting them down,” Reuters reported. The more strikes a bad actor accrued, the more Meta could charge to run ads, as Meta’s documents showed the company “penalized” scammers by charging higher ad rates. Meanwhile, Meta acknowledged in documents that its systems helped scammers target users most likely to click on their ads.

“Users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests,” Reuters reported.

Internally, Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily, a 2024 document showed. Last year, the company projected that about $16 billion, which represents about 10 percent of its revenue, would come from scam ads.

Submission + - Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package, Creating Split Screen on Wealth in America (nytimes.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Tesla shareholders approved a plan to grant Elon Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company’s stock market valuation.

Much like an earlier pay plan that Tesla shareholders approved in 2018, this 12-step package asks Mr. Musk, the company’s chief executive, to vastly expand Tesla’s stock market valuation — to $8.5 trillion from around $1.4 trillion — while hitting a variety of other goals. Those include selling one million robots with humanlike qualities and 10 million paid subscriptions to the company’s self-driving software.

Submission + - US Congressional Budget Office Hit By Suspected Foreign Cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms it suffered a cybersecurity incident after a suspected foreign hacker breached its network, potentially exposing sensitive data. In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma confirmed the "security incident" and said the agency acted quickly to contain it. "The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency's systems going forward," Emma told BleepingComputer.

"The incident is being investigated and work for the Congress continues. Like other government agencies and private sector entities, CBO occasionally faces threats to its network and continually monitors to address those threats." The Washington Post first reported the breach, stating that officials discovered the hack in recent days and are now concerned that emails and exchanges between congressional offices and the CBO's analysts may have been exposed. While officials have reported told lawmakers they believe the intrusion was detected early, some congressional office have allegedly halted emails with the CBO out of security concerns.

Submission + - Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbor (wired.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Mark Zuckerberg opend an unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken, but it tipped neighbors over the edge the Wired magazine story reports. The school may have been operating as early as 2021 without a permit to operate in the city of Palo Alto. As many as 30 students might have enrolled, according to observations from neighbors.

Over time, neighbors became fed up with what they argued was the city’s lack of action, particularly with respect to the school. Some believed that the delay was because of preferential treatment to the Zuckerbergs. “We find it quite remarkable that you are working so hard to meet the needs of a single billionaire family while keeping the rest of the neighborhood in the dark,” reads one email sent to the city’s Planning and Development Services Department in February. “Just as you have not earned our trust, this property owner has broken many promises over the years, and any solution which depends on good faith behavioral changes from them is a failure from the beginning.”

In order for the Zuckerbergs to run a private school on their land, which is in a residential zone, they need a “conditional use” permit from the city. However, based on the documents WIRED obtained, and Palo Alto’s public database of planning applications, the Zuckerbergs do not appear to have ever applied for or received this permit.

Most of the Zuckerbergs’ neighbors did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. However, the ones that did clearly indicated that they would not be forgetting the Bicken Ben saga, or the past decade of disruption, anytime soon.

Submission + - Cloudflare Tells US Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Trade Barriers (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report (PDF), Cloudflare warns the U.S. government that site blocking efforts cause widespread disruption to legitimate services. The complaint points to Italy's automated Piracy Shield system, which reportedly blocked "tens of thousands" of legitimate sites. Meanwhile, overbroad IP address blocks in Spain and new automated blocking proposals in France are serious concerns that harm U.S. business interests, Cloudflare reports. [...]

Cloudflare urges the USTR to take these concerns into account for its upcoming National Trade Estimate Report. Ideally, it wants these trade barriers to be dismantled. These calls run counter to requests from rightsholders, who urge the USTR to ensure that more foreign countries implement blocking measures. With potential site-blocking legislation being considered in U.S. Congress, that may impact local lobbying efforts as well. If and how the USTR will address these concerns will become clearer early next year, when the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report is expected to be published.

Comment Re:That's absolutely not true (Score -1, Troll) 71

What we're going to do instead is panic over trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest and let right wing politicians heavily deregulate Wall Street making things worse.
So we're not going to do nothing what we're going to do is get distracted by Petty culture War bullshit and what the corporate fascists run roughshod over the US Constitution and the American people, AKA us.

Exactly. That's the Republican plan in 2 sentences. Make 'em mad and point the finger at a target that can't punch back.

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