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Sunday October 26, 2025. 03:34 PM
Reason.com explores the fortunes of Aurora Innovation, the first company to put heavy-duty commercial self-driving trucks on public roads (and hopes to expand routes to El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix by the end of the year): An obscure federal rule is slowing the self-driving...
This five-layer hybrid upholds Thuma’s reputation for quality. It just may be firmer than you expect.
The latest Nest cams jump to 2K resolution, but what really elevates them is Gemini’s pricey AI subscription smarts.
Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.
'Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday,' reports Space.com: The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9 a.m local Japan time...
Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites.
Fake video walk-throughs, a magically expanding loft, and stair hallucinations are just some of the new AI-generated features house hunters are coming across.
The $430 Casio Moflin is a pointless but adorable robot you can’t help but love. Unless you’re a dog.
Oozing with flair, and now a little more practical—it’s hard not to love Maeving’s latest ride.
This quirky portable speaker might pop up in your TikTok Shop, but don’t fall for its cutesy charm—you can get much better for less.
25 years ago today on Slashdot... Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released PlayStation 2 consoles (and games). '500,000 lucky members of the American gaming public are sneaking a few minutes of...
Critics question why basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections are 'being exploited remain prevalent in mission-critical codebases maintained by companies whose core business is cybersecurity,' writes CSO Online. Benjamin Harris, CEO of...
Thursday Ubuntu-maker Canonical 'officially launched Canonical Academy, a new certification platform designed to help professionals validate their Linux and Ubuntu skills through practical, hands-on assessments,' writes the blog It's FOSS: Focusing on real-world scenarios,...
'Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,' reports Reuters, 'challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.' In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks' 'context-aware AI assistant': If there was an AI Demo Hall of Shame, the first inductee would have to be Amazon. Their demo tried to support its CEO's claims that Amazon ...
Saturday October 25, 2025. 10:44 PM
'OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,' warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. 'It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.' In September they...
Thursday the Washington Post profiled 'the people who dare to say no to AI,' including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says 'she doesn't want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce...' 'As the tech ...
An AI system 'apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm,' reports the Guardian, 'and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.' Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a ...
The Associated Press reports that 'North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars' by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies — all orchestrated by the North Korean government to finance R&D...
'Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time,' writes the Associated Press: Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE'koh) on Thursday, a...
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