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Sunday July 6, 2025. 10:26 PM
China 'is pouring money into building an AI supply chain with as little reliance on the U.S. as possible,' reports the Wall Street Journal. And now Chinese AI companies 'are loosening the U.S.'s global stranglehold on AI,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'challenging...
The Free Software Foundation's services face 'ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,' senior systems administrator Ian Kelling wrote Wednesday. But 'Even though we are under active attack, gnu.org, ftp.gnu.org, and savannah.gnu.org are up with ...
Three space probes are leaving our solar system — yet are still functioning. After the two Voyager space probes, New Horizons 'was launched in 2006, initially to study Pluto,' remembers New Scientist. But 'it has since travelled way beyond this point, ploughing on through...
A Maine police department has now acknowledged 'it inadvertently shared an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media,' reports Boston.com: The image from the Westbrook Police Department showed a collection of drug paraphernalia purportedly seized during a recent drug ...
'Scientists have created the first lasers made entirely from edible materials,' reports Science magazine 'which could someday help monitor and track the properties of foods and medications with sensors that can be harmlessly swallowed.' [The researchers' report] shows that...
'Apple quietly dropped a new AI model on Hugging Face with an interesting twist,' writes 9to5Mac. 'Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once.' 'The result is ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard: About an hour into my meeting with the undisputed hackathon king of San Francisco, Rene Turcios asked if I wanted to smoke a joint with him. I politely declined, but his offer hardly surprised me....
'Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger,' reports Electrek, 'the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries.' Early in the deployment of the Supercharger network, Tesla promised to add solar arrays and batteries to the...
'A computer science degree used to be a golden ticket to the promised land of jobs,' a college senior tells the New York Times. But 'That's no longer the case.' The article notes that in the last three years there's been a 65% drop from companies seeking workers with two...
OpenBSD Journal writes: Yes, you read that right: KDE 6.4.0 Plasma is now in OpenBSD packages... The news was announced 2025-07-04 via a fediverse post and of course the commit message itself, where the description reads.... '[I]n 6.4 the KDE Kwin team split kwin into...
Interesting Engineering reports: Astral Systems, a UK-based private commercial fusion company, has claimed to have become the first firm to successfully breed tritium, a vital fusion fuel, using its own operational fusion reactor. This achievement, made with the University...
Saturday July 5, 2025. 11:34 PM
'Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license,' reports BleepingComputer. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding assistant, including the implementation of...
'Some of our basic assumptions about the biological process of aging might be wrong,' reports the New York Times — citing new research on a small Indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon. [Alternate URL here.] Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflam...
We're living in a new world now — one where it's an AI-powered penetration tester that 'now tops an eminent US security industry leaderboard that ranks red teamers based on reputation.' CSO Online reports: On HackerOne, which connects organizations with ethical hackers to par...
This week Hewlett-Packard Enterprise settled its antitrust case with America's Justice Department, 'paving the way for its acquisition of rival kit maker Juniper Networks,' reported Telecoms.com: Under the agreement, HPE has agreed to divest its Instant On unit, which sells...
Science Daily reports: Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean's top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 such gifts over 20 years, noting the whales often...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Apple news blog 9to5Mac: iOS 26 is a packed update for iPhone users thanks to the new Liquid Glass design and major updates for Messages, Wallet, CarPlay, and more. But another new feature was just discovered in...
In April researchers responsibly disclosed two security flaws found in Sudo 'that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines,' reports The Hacker News. 'The vulnerabilities have been addressed in Sudo version 1.9.17p1 released...
This week America's Energy Department selected two companies to perform the first nuclear microreactor tests in a new facility in Idaho, saying the tests 'will fast-track the deployment of American microreactor technologies... The first fueled reactor experiment will start...
Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that has affected the amount of sea ice at the bottom of the planet. From a report: A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater...
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