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Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response ift.tt/8aOKzEy

Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica...

A New Mexico jury on Friday "found Facebook liable for deceiving users" about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press. A New Mexico newspaper calls it "another massive legal victory"...

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There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption ift.tt/MHXG1vr

There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption - Slashdot

"Signature forgery." It's a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn't require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to "reduce the current RSA security level to...

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Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic ift.tt/1ioAlqc

Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic - Slashdot

"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com. Yankovic's asteroid was championed...

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Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size) ift.tt/irG7ByV

Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size) -...

Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings "jumped 90% to $256.9 million," reports...

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F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan ift.tt/CfyQMta

F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verific...

"F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google's Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,"...

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How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability? ift.tt/R7Ct9TQ

How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability? - Slashdot

Google has synthesized "expressive face-to-face experiences" for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They're now offering a Live Avatar "with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid...

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People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI ift.tt/gjTIDCd

People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI - Slashdot

404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired for using AI to train the AI: That's not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great...

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Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis ift.tt/CfP3TrG

Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis - Slashdot

"Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes," reports the Washington Post. They cite their past...

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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards ift.tt/zkFHYbW

OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards - Slashdot

"The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designin...

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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux ift.tt/6QAeNwV

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux - Slashdot

Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series "is...

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Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks ift.tt/Rbq7TCa

Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving...

OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university...

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Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules ift.tt/jW4ykOa

Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules - Slashdot

Ars Technica reports: Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The...

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Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean? ift.tt/29GdwnO

Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean? -...

More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert. Whatever happened to those barrels? Scientists...

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Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative ift.tt/4VRqnkz

Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative - Slashdot

TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen...

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Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment ift.tt/UWcYNgb

Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experim...

August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance: The token held near $86,000 on...

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Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform ift.tt/rcGjTso

Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform - Slashdot

Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify...

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Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents ift.tt/Sp8eWhq

Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents -...

U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to constr...

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Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off? ift.tt/0huOGpn

Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off? - Slashdot

On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share." It's a small...

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'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit ift.tt/ZWfw0i6

'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit - Slashdot

The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But...

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Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced 'Googlebook' Laptops ift.tt/Kx8VQNd

Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced 'Googlebook' Laptops - Slashdot

Monday Google opened preorders for its "Googlebook" laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google's blog post added that "At launch, you can choose between Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Snapdragon X Elite...

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