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Monday December 22, 2025. 07:34 AM
They call it 'the business-impersonator scam'. And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the...
SK Telecom's epic infosec faill will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea’s government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.…
Tuesday the White House faces a deadline to decide 'whether Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies poses a national security threat,' reports Bloomberg. But their article notes it's 'a decision with the potential to ground thousands of machines deployed by police and fire...
In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of 'Energy Dome' as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing 'large amounts...
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares through third-party app ...
Sunday December 21, 2025. 11:34 PM
PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more Infosec In Brief Google will soon end its “Dark Web Report”, an email service that alerts users when their personal information appears on the internet’s dark...
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland wonders if 'gifts for geeks' is the next big consumer demographic: For this year's holiday celebrations, Hallmark made a special Christmas tree ornament, a tiny monitor displaying screens from the classic video game 'Oregon Trail.'...
'On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them,' reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Independent notes that 'Without working traffic lights, the...
'Perhaps no group of fans, industry workers, and consumers is more intense about AI use than gamers....' writes New York magazine's 'Intelligencer' column: Just this month, the latest Postal game was axed by its publisher, which was 'overwhelmed with negative responses' from ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the site It's FOSS: Linux gives you plenty of ways to install software: native distro packages, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, source builds, even curl-piped installers. The catch is that each one solves a different problem, yet none of...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last September, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org pledged to engage 25 million K-12 schoolchildren in an 'Hour of AI' this school year. Preliminary numbers released this week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition showed that [halfway...
What is the future of work? The Wall Street Journal asked five workplace experts and practitioners. So while AI 'is already doing tasks once relegated to newly minted college graduates in many professions,' the Journal predicts that in the next 20 years AI 'will have an...
'In the lead up to its Switch 2 console release, Nintendo updated its user agreement,' writes the Free Software Foundation, warning that Nintendo now claims 'broad authority to make consoles owned by its customers permanently unusable.' 'Under Nintendo's most aggressive...
'In the lead up to its Switch 2 console release, Nintendo updated its user agreement,' writes the Free Software Foundation, warning that Nintendo now claims 'broad authority to make consoles owned by its customers permanently unusable.' 'Under Nintendo's most aggressive...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new initiative dubbed the 'U.S. Tech Force,' comprising about 1,000 engineers and other specialists who will work on artificial intelligence infrastructure and other technology...
'If I get to do another Avatar film, it'll be because the business model still works,' James Cameron tells CNN in a video interview — adding 'That I can't guarantee, as I sit here today. That'll play out over the next month, really.' He says theatre is a 'sacred space,' and...
What if AI vendors focused on the demand side? Interview 'I think everybody is adopting AI irresponsibly and I think it's going to have a net negative outcome on the socio-economic standing of the world,' said Bars Juhasz. 'So let's see if we can't pitch more of a win-win...
The Mac Mini is a fantastic little computer, but you'll need one of these great monitors to complete the setup.
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