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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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Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event ift.tt/zMasCZl

Apple Announces October 28 'Pro and Tell' Event - Slashdot

Following its October 13 HomeView launch, Apple is gearing up for its second hardware event of the month. The event is scheduled for October 28 in Los Angeles and carries the tagline "Pro and tell."...

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Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info ift.tt/OgUxVp2

Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info - Slashdot

Florida's DMV says a September 4 breach exposed driver's license and motor vehicle records after attackers obtained credentials that a local law-enforcement employee had "improperly stored on an...

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Wine Ported to OpenBSD ift.tt/S83OuXI

Wine Ported to OpenBSD - Slashdot

Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. "Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released...

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Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening ift.tt/np5v3GS

Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening - Slashdot

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" earned more than $15 million in its limited opening weekend, making it one of the biggest documentary...

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America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers ift.tt/7ScUBfT

America Tries Reviving Shuttered Nuclear Plants - Partly to Help Power Data Centers - Slashdot

America is "making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand," reports the Los Angeles Times, "Two of the plants have contracts with Big Tech...

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Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users ift.tt/5PxIBkn

Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users - Slashdot

"Mozilla reps tell me they've met with Microsoft about their concerns," reports PC Magazine, "but that the company wasn't responsive." "They'll do the minimum the law requires to respect user...

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Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares ift.tt/39jwSMT

Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares - Slashdot

"Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'," reports TechCrunch, "structured as a wholly-owned entity within the company — with the option to contribute an additional...

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'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California ift.tt/MAqrQsU

'Human Vs. Robot' Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California - Slashdot

"A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco," reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 10 million views on...

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New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' ift.tt/ItBzaVY

New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' - Slashdot

"When you pay for a game, you should own it," says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of "a rental disguised as a sale". Kotaku reports: The fifth...

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Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out ift.tt/cG1N5TK

Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out - Slashdot

July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can't get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web:...

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Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a 'Fast And Full Recovery' ift.tt/faWKyFO

Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a 'Fast And Full Recovery' - Slashdot

Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world's coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, with over half already...

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Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents ift.tt/j9xz4SW

Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents - Slashdot

The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox...

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More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail ift.tt/M2suKRm

More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail - Slashdot

More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room. Previously Alfozan...

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LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts ift.tt/qstcTov

LinkedIn Fights AI Slop, Now 40% of Its Long-Form Posts - Slashdot

"Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts," writes CNN, reporting that the Microsoft-owned, job-oriented social media site "is upping its fight against slop." A report published in...

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Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go) ift.tt/7Uw6t8q

Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go) - Slashdot

TechRepublic reports: The TIOBE Index is a monthly indicator of programming-language popularity based on factors including skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. The October 2026...

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