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PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently ift.tt/mcePBTq

PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more...

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Tesla-SpaceX Merger Being Considered ift.tt/Mtu57Rd

Tesla-SpaceX Merger Being Considered - Slashdot

Elon Musk says a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is under active consideration, with special committees at both companies evaluating a deal that could combine businesses valued at roughly $3.5...

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Russian Satellite's Close Shadowing of Radar Imaging Satellite Is a Big Deal ift.tt/ImqtHv3

Russian Satellite's Close Shadowing of Radar Imaging Satellite Is a Big Deal - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TWZ: A Russian satellite, Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to...

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Judge Orders Meta To Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive, Libgen ift.tt/CfQGiV2

Judge Orders Meta To Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive, Libgen - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last month, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ordered Meta to hand over the command histories of the servers it used to torrent pirated books....

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Ukraine Claims World's First Drone Evacuation of Wounded Soldier ift.tt/5LVKZ2O

Ukraine Claims World's First Drone Evacuation of Wounded Soldier - Slashdot

Ukraine says it carried out the world's first evacuation of a wounded soldier by aerial drone, using a heavy-lift hexacopter after enemy drones and landmines made conventional ground evacuation too...

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Sony Updates the Walkman As a $5,900 Gold-Plated MP3 Player ift.tt/xf7hGNP

Sony Updates the Walkman As a $5,900 Gold-Plated MP3 Player - Slashdot

Sony has revived its Walkman lineup with three Android 16-powered high-end music players ranging from $1,900 to $5,900, topped by the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 with 256GB of storage. The Register...

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AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds ift.tt/bIzFsmB

AMD Is Bringing FSR 4.1 to Xbox Consoles and Handhelds - Slashdot

AMD is expanding its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology beyond Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs to Xbox Series X/S consoles, Xbox Ally handhelds, laptops, and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. The Verge...

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Google Support Pages Start Defaulting to AI Chatbots ift.tt/H50s9Aw

Google Support Pages Start Defaulting to AI Chatbots - Slashdot

Google is beginning to replace traditional support articles with "Ask Google Help," a Gemini-powered interface that summarizes documentation and lets users troubleshoot through a chatbot. 9to5Google...

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DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone ift.tt/p3T6I8d

DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone - Slashdot

New court records reportedly show that DHS targeted Stop Cop City activist Samuel Tunick at an Atlanta airport because he was under investigation for suspected "terrorist activities." However, the...

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OpenBSD 8.0 Released ift.tt/0IYReyK

OpenBSD 8.0 Released - Slashdot

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support....

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Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations ift.tt/NXkdTYE

Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations - Slashdot

Security researchers say Meta's Muse AI assistant exposed thousands of users' shared conversations because conversation titles were placed in subdomains that could be discovered through public DNS...

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US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use ift.tt/2jyVtud

US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use - Slashdot

The Trump administration has banned DeepSeek AI from most US civilian federal agencies, ordering the removal of the Chinese company's models and technology developed using them. The Department of...

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Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal ift.tt/h60pBLO

Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nscale is in talks to sell AI computing power to Claude maker Anthropic in a new deal that could be worth about $45 billion, a person familiar with...

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Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up ift.tt/j3VLYRI

Microsoft Abandons UK AI Supercomputer As Grid Struggles to Keep Up - Slashdot

Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might not receive suffic...

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Japan Launches Historic MMX Sample-Return Mission to Mars' Moon Phobos ift.tt/IpDtv3O

Japan Launches Historic MMX Sample-Return Mission to Mars' Moon Phobos - Slashdot

Japan has successfully launched its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scheduled to arrive in August 2027, "MMX will become the first spacecraft to...

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Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant ift.tt/XbB6lKy

Amazon To Fund 12 Small Nuclear Reactors At Former Indiana Coal Plant - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies...

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Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society ift.tt/g567YHJ

Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society - Slashdot

joshuark writes: Professor Christopher Marquis makes a provocative argument about business schools: "We need to abolish them." A 20-year business educator at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge, Marquis...

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TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban ift.tt/RBNmO2g

TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban - Slashdot

TP-Link plans to begin assembling routers in Mississippi as early as 2027 after the FCC banned imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns. Engadget reports: The company has...

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Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine ift.tt/sBJ2ROK

Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted...

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A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents ift.tt/QeXxJkO

A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security...

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