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Monday September 22, 2025. 01:42 AM
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 —...
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...
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...'...
When Meta finally unveiled its newest smart glasses, CEO Mark Zuckerberg 'drew more snickers than applause,' wrote the New York Times. (Mashable points out a video call failing onstage followed by an unsuccessful recipe demonstration.) Meta chief technology officer Andrew...
The consumer advocacy nonprofit PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) is now petitioning Microsoft to reconsider pulling support for Windows 10 in 2025, since 'as many as 400 million perfectly good computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11 will be thrown out.' In a petition ...
The consumer advocacy nonprofit PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) is now petitioning Microsoft to reconsider pulling support for Windows 10 in 2025, since 'as many as 400 million perfectly good computers that can't upgrade to Windows 11 will be thrown out.' In a petition ...
An anonymous reader shared this article from the Washington Post: A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: 'homework help.' Soon, Google's artificial intelligence has read the question on-screen and suggests 'choice B' as the answer. The...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Finnish tech firm Bluefors, a maker of ultracold refrigerator systems critical for quantum computing, has purchased tens of thousands of liters of Helium-3 from the moon — spending 'above $300 million' —...
A large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II was discovered at a construction site, reports the Associated Press: Police said the bomb was 1.5 meters (nearly 5 feet) in length and weighed about 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). It was discovered by construction workers in...
Saturday September 20, 2025. 11:22 PM
'A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems disrupted air traffic and caused delays at several of Europe's major airports on Saturday,' reports the Associated Press. 'While the impact on travelers appeared to be limited, experts said the intrusion exposed...
'Betelgeuse may have competition for the most exciting star about to go nova near Earth,' writes Space.com. 'Astronomers have discovered the secret of a strange star system that has baffled them for years, finding it contains a dead star about to erupt after overfeeding on a ...
Fast Company ran a contrarian take about AI from entrepreneur/thought leader Faisal Hoque, who argues there's three AI bubbles. The first is a classic speculative bubble, with asset prices soaring above their fundamental values (like the 17th century's Dutch 'tulip mania')....
The Shai-Hulud malware campaign impacted hundreds of npm packages across multiple maintainers, reports Koi Security, including popular libraries like @ctrl/tinycolor and some packages maintained by CrowdStrike. Malicious versions embed a trojanized script (bundle.js)...
Long-time Slashdot reader robinsrowe shared this report from the Register: The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety....
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