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America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use ift.tt/ST8RMbi

America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader destinyland shares a report from CNN: The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potenti...

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Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient ift.tt/7XJA6Sp

Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient. Researchers...

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eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce ift.tt/cHTVjwB

eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce - Slashdot

eBay plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of its workforce, as CEO Jamie Iannone moves to redirect resources toward the company's fastest-growing businesses. Reuters reports: The company had 12,300...

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AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux ift.tt/fm4DdnG

AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux - Slashdot

AMD has published Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver that allows users to adjust CPU power and current limits through a firmware interface exposed via sysfs. Phoronix...

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More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked ift.tt/YpxLsqJ

More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked - Slashdot

A CBC investigation found that more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips spanning 25 years were exposed in a breach of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform. About 850,000 records...

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Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox ift.tt/jXcHYrN

Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We haven't heard many details about Microsoft's upcoming "Project Helix" gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device...

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Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook ift.tt/fvitznh

Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook - Slashdot

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez...

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EA Is Shutting Down BioWare ift.tt/FPYlV9f

EA Is Shutting Down BioWare - Slashdot

"According to a recent report by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (paywalled), EA has reportedly decided to shut down BioWare," the studio behind the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, writes longtime...

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OpenAI Models Are Now On All Three Major US Cloud Platforms ift.tt/TxIuQg1

OpenAI Models Are Now On All Three Major US Cloud Platforms - Slashdot

OpenAI is bringing its models to Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool, putting its technology on all three major U.S. cloud platforms after Microsoft's exclusive license ended...

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Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed ift.tt/AzDKs0B

Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed - Slashdot

"PHP disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in their programming language and urged web site operators to immediately apply the fix," writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. "As a result,...

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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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