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Sunday May 11, 2025. 08:01 PM
'When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline,' writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). 'To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette —...
'A China-linked unnamed threat actor dubbed Chaya_004 has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in SAP NetWeaver,' reports The Hacker News: Forescout Vedere Labs, in a report published Thursday, said it uncovered a malicious infrastructure likely...
Fast Company's 'AI Decoded' newsletter makes the case that the first 'killer app' for generative AI... is coding. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at...
Exposure-management company Tenable recently discussed how the MCP tool-interfacing framework for AI can be 'manipulated for good, such as logging tool usage and filtering unauthorized commands.' (Although 'Some of these techniques could be used to advance both positive and...
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: The new Nintendo Switch 2 is almost here. Next month, eager fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular hybrid console. But before you line up (or frantically refresh your browser ...
'Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware,' reports Ars Technica, 'a strong indication that devices...
'The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized,' reports Kotaku: That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall...
'The romantic partner of Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a start-up that sounds eerily similar to the venture that landed his girlfriend behind bars,' writes The Daily Beast. He's incorporated 'Haemanthus' in Delaware a year and a half ago (though the...
Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley's pioneering 'JenniCam' livestream (saying 'It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...') But a new article in the...
Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes: As we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this 'portable operating system' back ...
Saturday May 10, 2025. 11:14 PM
Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then 'proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment,' reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer: As a computer-science major, he...
Though global sea levels 'varied little' for the 2,000 years before the 20th century, CNN reports that sea levels then 'started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating.' And sea level rise 'was unexpectedly high last year, according to a recent NASA a...
Inspired by researchers who'd bribed people to use Microsoft's Bing for two weeks (and found some wanted to keep using it), a Washington Post tech columnist also tried it — and reported it 'felt like quitting coffee.' 'The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double...
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Over the past year there have been stories about North Korean spies unknowingly or knowingly being hired to work in western companies. During an interview by Kraken, a crypto exchange, the interviewers became suspicious about...
An anonymous reader shared this repost from the Washington Post: It's becoming standard practice at a growing number of U.S. airports: When you reach the front of the security line, an agent asks you to step up to a machine that scans your face to check whether it matches...
Adafruit's managing director Phillip Torrone is also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone. He stopped by Thursday to share what happened after a large portion of a recent import was subjected to a 125% +20% +25% import markup... We're no stranger to tariff bills, although they ...
Google will pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas, reports the Associated Press, 'to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state's attorney general announced Friday.' Attorney General Ken Paxton described the settlement as sending a message ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department...
joshuark shares a report from Axios: Bill Gates, once the richest man in the world, vowed to give away 'virtually all' of his wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next two decades. Then, the foundation will close its doors on Dec. 31, 2045. Gates wrote in a Thursday ...
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Earth.com: McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the United States. Many view it as a potential boost for domestic battery production, ...
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