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• OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined'

  07-03-2026 23:16 via hardware.slashdot.org
  In a tweet that's been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI's head of robotics announced their resignation. They said they "care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together," so this "wasn't an easy call," but offered this reason for resigning:AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.
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• Astronomers Think They've Spotted a Galaxy That's 99.9% Dark Matter

  07-03-2026 22:07 via science.slashdot.org
  Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN — and it's so faint, it's almost invisible:CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called "dark galaxies," which are believed to contain few or no stars.... [Post-doctoral astrophysics/statistics fellow Dayi Li at the University of Toronto was lead author on a study ab
  
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• How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla to Improve Firefox's Security

  07-03-2026 21:07 via news.slashdot.org
  "It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude
  
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• How Anthropic's Claude Helped Mozilla Improve Firefox's Security

  07-03-2026 21:07 via news.slashdot.org
  "It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude
  
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• Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships

  07-03-2026 19:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region's waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire," reports CNN, "erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land.
  "The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems."
  Used by all sides in conflict zones to disrupt the paths of drones and missiles, the process involves militaries and affi
  
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• Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

  07-03-2026 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers.
  "The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today's 4+TB per disk toward 10TB per disk, eventually enabling 100TB-class drives."In a one-exabyte deployment, Seagate est
  
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• First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera

  07-03-2026 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "Reservation holders, it's finally time to get ready," writes long-time Slashdot reader AirHog. The EV news site Electrek reports:Aptera Motors, "the little startup that could," announced another important milestone... completing the first example of its flagship solar EV on its validation assembly line in Southern California...
  While the validation line at its headquarters remains a low-volume assembly process, its successful operation represents the startup's transition from hand-built validat
  
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• Prediction Market 'Kalshi' Sued for Not Paying $54 Million for Bets on Khamenei's Death

  07-03-2026 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
  A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report.
  Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real-world events, offered customers favorable odds on Khamenei, 86, being "out as Supreme Leader" in response to the announcement of joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran in the early hours of Satur
  
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• Indonesia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16

  07-03-2026 14:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content, addiction, and online threats. The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on
  
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• China Releases First Homegrown Quantum Computing OS

  07-03-2026 11:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence and to achieve t
  
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• Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Impact the Moon

  07-03-2026 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a report from the European Space Agency (ESA): Last year, an approximately 60 meter near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032. Now, that risk has been eliminated. Astronomers have confirmed that 2024 YR4 will not im
  
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• Humanity Heating Planet Faster Than Ever Before, Study Finds

  07-03-2026 04:00 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen
  
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• Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems

  07-03-2026 02:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled that importers impacted by the tariffs are entitled to ref
  
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• Oura Buys Gesture-Navigation Startup DoublePoint

  07-03-2026 00:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands as examples of products that benefit from its technology, but Oura will clearly be looking to incorporate it into its rings, in theory allowing you to control your connected devices with hand movements.Oura said in a press release that the deal sees it inherit an "exceptional team of AI architects an
  
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