Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision —
Even as Hollywood performers protest and Hollywood studios sue "in their war on AI," reports the Los Angeles Times, "the entertainment industry is deepening its dependence on it."
Among hundreds of job postings in late June, more than one in 10 was likely connected to AI. The top studios' public postings suggest they have been recruiting people to build AI tools. They are also recruiting teams to defend their intellectual property against unauthorized AI use. "There are plenty of studios that a...
Yevgeniya Mikhailidi / Nikkei Asia: A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 T
Peter Hall / Scientific American: Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit An M.I
A woman found her police officer ex-boyfriend cop had used Flock's camera system 600 times to look up the location of her and her daughter, reports the Washington Post (Alternate URL here). (She found out through Have I Been Flocked, described as "a website that aggregates police search logs made available through public records.")
But it turns out dozens more police officers have also misused Flock...
Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-...
Wall Street Journal: A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside Silicon Valley startups ar
Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal:
After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks one of the biggest shifts in the company's history and signals a stronger commitment to Linux as a first-class gaming platform. While GOG has offered DRM-free Linux game downloads since 2014, its Galaxy launcher has remained exclusive to Windo...
Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly. More than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers (US and UK) were surveyed for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator DE-CIX by market researchers Censuswide. But despite 96% of respondents claiming their enterprise networks are ready for cloud/AI loads, the average IT team still spends more than 11 hours each week resolving cloud connectivity problems
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To design invisible drones, researchers have tried camouflage, transparent materials and light-bending optical systems. But engineers at Northwestern University used "motion blur," which an announcement from the school notes is the effect that makes fast-spinning fans seem to disappear.
"The drone spins up to 25 times per second, which is too fast for the human eye to see clearly. While it isn't completely invisible, it morphs into a ghostly smudge that seamlessly blends into the background......
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create We're sta
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, dow
The Register looks at exactly why "It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it's worth."
OOXML, developed by Microsoft and first standardized by Ecma in 2006, became the ISO/IEC 29500 standard in 2008 after a grueling and adversarial process. Microsoft pursued standardization because it has always been a standards-led organization dedicated to maximizing the options for its customers...
Ubisoft's biggest franchise found itself in the perfect position to capitalize on 'The Odyssey' and its ongoing success.
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use."
Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then in June was at 3.69%. The just-published numbers for July put Steam on Linux use at 4.01%, as an improvement over the prior two months but still well off the percentage highs of March and April...
The July data puts SteamOS Holo as powering ar...
The entry-level price for an Xbox now starts at 499.99€/£429.99.
You'll never guess what's reportedly causing the shortage.
And will Sony continue to support the PS5 once the PS6 is released?
The creators of Grok didn't want this, but it happened anyway.
Thankful for the fans and the show's success, Andrew Guest sheds a little bit of light on why 'Wonder Man' won't return.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions Both major A
"When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia's famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours," reports SFGate.
"Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue..."
Although the approximately 18-mile route with a 6,000-foot elevation gain can be completed by experienced trail runners in a day, search and rescue officials generally recomme...
If you want the best view of the 2026 solar eclipse, you'll need to travel to Spain or Iceland.
"A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better," reports ABC News:
The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies involving humans, mice, insects, yeast, and other organisms. The review found that eating less protein, or less of certain amino acids that make up protein, may turn on body processes linked to healthier aging, as well as metabolism, the proce...
Chromebooks aren't limited to only apps you can get on the Play Store.
Stay a while and share with us your thoughts of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' won't you?
"Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere," reports CNN, "making it potentially suitable for life."
Called LHS 1140b, the object is about five times the mass of our planet, or a "super-Earth." This planet orbits around its star in the "Goldilocks zone," also known as the habitable zone, meaning its surface temperature is not too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist... "It appears to be consistent w...
As USB-C becomes the standard across most devices, it's time to go through that drawer full of USB adapters and toss those you no longer need.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices Also: MacBoo
If you're waiting for the 'Romulus' sequel, stay in line, because it's apparently still on the docket.
Struggling with audio dropout or finnicky pairing? Ensure these common Bluetooth speaker problems aren't getting in the way of your auditory delights.
The blog Linuxiac reports:
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter's North American desktop operating system statistics.
For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month... However,...
I tested Xgimi's MemoMind One, and I don't think I ever want to venture down that path again.
Using your phone while it's plugged in changes the way it charge. Here are some common myths (and truths) about charging smartphones and tablets.
OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and internal workflows. Unlike the existing Workspace Agents, Presence targets external de
A step-by-step guide to building, running, and monitoring a stateful customer support agent using Python, LangGraph, and Langfuse. The post I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI A
Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks. A separate memory agent maintains a structured memory bank and decides
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian
This $700 robotic buddy made my kid cry.
The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while...
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NVIDIA's letter, Gemini Robotics, Kimi release and more.
Financial Times: As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales Factories churning out
From how galaxies form to the beginnings of the universe, the images from the space telescope are giving cosmologists new data to explore—and theories to build out.
These portable vacuums make quick work of snack crumbs, tracked-in dirt, pet hair, and the mysterious debris beneath your seats.
Everything you need to know about the solar eclipse and lunar eclipse that will occur in August 2026.
VulnCheck counted how often security flaws found by AI actually get exploited. Out of 1,061 AI-discovered vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, just 14 saw confirmed attacks. That's 1.3 percent,
Your kid’s little lunch hauler takes a brutal beating every day. These are the backbacks our own kids have tried and loved.
As more big companies invest in glasses that record audio and video and pack AI on board, privacy concerns are only getting louder.
Wanna hear about Connes’s rigidity conjecture? No? Okay, what about a major new AI model?
AboFlah talks about his new goals, streaming for charity, and when it’s time to log off.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart racer, and a Minecraft clone, all without a single external asset. Geometry, texture
New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "will only be shown content from other accounts they follow or otherwise select in a set sequence, such as chronological order," rather than "the default algorithmically personalized feeds... unless they get parental consent for an addictive feed...
Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to th
Snap is banning AI-generated videos from Spotlight to keep the feed focused on human creativity. Content edited with Snapchat's own AI tools is still allowed. LinkedIn, meanwhile, has rolled out a ded
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors Mana
FinTech Global: LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments LemonEdge, a fund accou
Financial Times: Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas iPhone maker has limited
CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, "founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold Aschenbrenner when he was in his early 20s."
Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, founded the hedge fund on the premise that "AI will be the dominant driver of global market returns over the next decade," according to the firm's site... Aschenbrenner managed to turn hundreds of millions of dollars into tens of billions of dollars over the course of roughly two years... That streak en...
Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame
Reuters: An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 A Dubai-based crypto exchange
"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would need to physically hold it to steal anything."
The problem is that anyone who can reproduce the recovery seed doesn't need to possess the COLDCAR, Nerds.xyz points out. More from The Street:
[The recovery seed] is supposed to come from a hardware random number generator producing 128 ...
The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..."
[While optimists expect] huge corporate profits and a society-wide boost to wealth and well-being...
questions about that AI vision are now growing more urgent: When, if ever, will this payoff arrive? And what will the fallout be for American...
"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku.
Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52)
The bundle is pay-what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD...
NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports:
The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far...
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
Hollywood ain't big enough for two 'Nightmare on Elm Street' revivals, and WB and Paramount are fighting over who can make it.
Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of the global memory shortage on the company's business."
During Apple's third quarter earnings call, Cook said the company paid significantly more for memory in the quarter and expects that to further increase in the current period. And while Apple is able to offset some of that price jump, it won't be able to tackle it all... The CEO said that iPhone and Mac sales outpaced Apple'...
He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per tok
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen More than 1,000 bitcoin, wort
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen More than 1,000 bitcoin, wort
This Barbie could get a sequel if Warner Bros. is willing to accept the terms of the talent's deals.
Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine. This tutorial guides you through configuring fused GPU kernels, implementing FP8 delayed scaling, and benchmarking m
There are times when a physical connection will perform better than a Wi-Fi hotspot. Here's when you want to use USB tethering, and how.
The Social Media Victims Law Center accused the companies of creating addictive and dangerous platforms.
A price may come into play "when people use it a lot," he said.
Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of its bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and was carefully moved into place over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
iPhone stickers are a clever way to make conversations more personal and fun, but a good sticker library requires creating new and deleting old, overused ones.
"GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports SecurityWeek, "by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long-stable releases."
To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before ope...
The horizontal handheld will be released in navy and orange colorways.
Apple's CarPlay is a convenient way to listen to music or safely use navigation, but it can be a finnicky system that requires the occasional troubleshooting.
Pour some blood out for Marvel's daywalker as everything comes up suck for him this year in the most frustrating ways.
OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers says GPT 5.6 Pro solved two problems he had spent cons
Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices for used EVs in the U.S. "are up 5.1% from January to June 2026, according to a Recurrent analysis published this month."
The trend continued into the second half of the year: Prices are up 7% year to date through mid-July, it said. Recurrent compared EVs according to the same make and model year across 108 combinations and weighted price growth according to inventory volume. "...
xAI filed a lawsuit a few days ago to prevent Minnesota's law banning 'nudify' apps from taking effect.
The automaker is gearing up to make some big changes to its EV line in the near future. Here's what to expect.
The company said it's "rolling back" the feature after just one day.
The popular TTRPG is doing its own version of 'Universes Beyond,' starting with two properties with some tabletop experience.
OpenAI: OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science Read the paper(opens in a new win
If you've got a drawer or box full of old cables, here are some things you can do to thin them out. You don't need that many.
A number of major Chinese smartphone makers have adopted silicon carbon batteries in their handsets, and now Samsung has embraced it in the new Fold lineup.
Elon Musk’s AI company has about a year to remove the unpermitted turbines.
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which process multiple types of sensory information, such as text, images and audio, at the same time, are rapidly expanding the range of applications for art
Hardware obsoletion or ended support are significant considerations when buying a new laptop, so just how long can you expect a new MacBook to last?
A Beginner's Guide to Working with Claude Design • 5 Best AI Tools for Data Analysis You Should Try in 2026 • 5 Books That Will Deepen Your Understanding of Large Language Models • Is KimiClaw a Usefu
A fresh start for Peter Parker gives 'Brand New Day' freedom to stand with the 'Home' trilogy while doing its own distinct thing.
A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget.
The chief executive of Hugging Face said Friday that developers should be held accountable if their AI models go rogue, after his startup faced a recent cyberattack by autonomous OpenAI software.
