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Monday September 22, 2025. 08:17 AM
The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…
The UK-based automaker has been forced to stop vehicle production as a result of the attack—costing JLR tens of millions of dollars and forcing its parts suppliers to lay off workers.
‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights Technology problems hit the commercial aviation industry hard over the weekend, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and myriad delays on both sides of the Atlantic.…
'New research suggests ash and soot from burning wildlands has caused more than 41,000 excess deaths annually from 2011 to 2020,' reports the Los Angeles Times: By 2050, as global warming makes large swaths of North America hotter and drier, the annual death toll from smoke...
PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more Asia In Brief Huawei last week revealed that China’s Zhejiang University used its Ascend 1000 accelerators to create a version of DeepSeek’s R1 model that...
Many Apple Watches will soon be able to alert users about possible high blood pressure, reports Reuters — culminating six years of research and development: Apple used AI to sort through the data from 100,000 people enrolled in a heart and movement study it originally...
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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