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Monday September 22, 2025. 02:48 AM
PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software Infosec in brief Online criminals prefer to deal in digital assets, but a side effect of a ransomware attack has seen a French museum robbed of $705,000 in physical gold...
'Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth,' reports CNN, 'and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research.' The newly discovered celestial object, named 2025 PN7, is a type of...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Over at the Communications of the ACM, Bard College CS Prof Valerie Barr explains why she's Feeling Cranky About AI and CS Education. Having seen CS education go through a number of we-have-to-teach-this moments over the decades —...
Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints Australian telco Optus says its staff may not have followed established processes when a firewall upgrade they conducted resulted in customers not being able to call emergency services...
Sunday September 21, 2025. 11:17 PM
'On a recent assignment to test defenses, Dave Brauchler of the cybersecurity company NCC Group tricked a client's AI program-writing assistant into executing programs that forked over the company's databases and code repositories,' reports the Washington Post. 'We have...
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from ZME Science Researchers from the University of Turku, in collaboration with Aalto University and Wageningen University, have developed a bio-based UV protection film for solar cells that not only blocks nearly all ...
In a debate on employment rights, a U.K. Parliament member brought up Meta's former director of global public policy Sarah Wynn-Williams Louise Haigh, the former Labour transport secretary, said Wynn-Williams was facing a fine of $50,000 (£37,000) every time she breached an...
A July combat training exercise involved a satellite dish-style antenna that 'could fire enough electromagnetic energy to fry the satellite 22,000 miles away,' reports the Washington Post. But 'Instead, the salvo would be more covert — millisecond pulses of energy that would ...
Last week the Guardian reported on 'thousands of AI workers contracted for Google through Japanese conglomerate Hitachi's GlobalLogic to rate and moderate the output of Google's AI products, including its flagship chatbot Gemini... and its summaries of search results, AI...
Writing in Communications of the ACM, former Go tech lead Russ Cox warns we need to keep improving defenses of software supply chains, highlighting 'promising approaches that should be more widely used' and 'areas where more work is needed.' There are important steps we can...
Near Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, the Five Stones coffee shop advertised for a barista a few months ago — and started getting resumes from 'people who listed Microsoft and other tech companies,' writes the Wall Street Journal: The applicants typically had master's...
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Mickey Mouse's first movie Steamboat Willie entered the public domain in 2024. Now one of America's largest personal injury firms is suing Disney, reports the Associated Press, 'in an effort to get a ruling that would allow it to use Steamboat Willie in advertisements...'...
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WIRED went to Brazil for YouTube’s first live NFL broadcast. It was helmed by the platform’s biggest influencers as the league expands its quest for global domination.
From pain-free shutdowns to crap-free search, these tweaks will improve your experience hands on Windows 11 has a number of puzzling or annoying UI changes from Windows 10 that power users might wish to change. But you can't make these tweaks from the Settings menu or even...
When Meta finally unveiled its newest smart glasses, CEO Mark Zuckerberg 'drew more snickers than applause,' wrote the New York Times. (Mashable points out a video call failing onstage followed by an unsuccessful recipe demonstration.) Meta chief technology officer Andrew...
The consumer advocacy nonprofit PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) is now petitioning Microsoft to reconsider pulling support for Windows 10 in 2025, since 'as many as 400 million perfectly good computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11 will be thrown out.' In a petition ...
The consumer advocacy nonprofit PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) is now petitioning Microsoft to reconsider pulling support for Windows 10 in 2025, since 'as many as 400 million perfectly good computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11 will be thrown out.' In a petition ...
An anonymous reader shared this article from the Washington Post: A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: 'homework help.' Soon, Google's artificial intelligence has read the question on-screen and suggests 'choice B' as the answer. The...
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