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• China's AI Matches Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Causing Worry Over US Restrictions

  28-06-2026 23:04 via slashdot.org
  Chinese AI systems "have matched the performance of Anthropic's powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios," reports the Wall Street Journal.They call it "a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy."
  Security researchers said that a new AI model, released this month by China's Zhipu AI, also known as Z.ai, can match the latest U.S. models when it comes to finding security bugs, although it still lags behind Anthrop
  
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• Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft?

  28-06-2026 21:34 via news.slashdot.org
  The New York Times tells the story of a 63-year-old retiree who wrote a check for several thousand dollaras to pay her taxes. But she discovered much later that her taxes were never paid because that check had been intercepted and then altered to be payable to someone else:
  In some cases, thieves may pilfer one or more checks from local mailboxes. Adam Rust, director of financial services for the Consumer Federation of America, said thieves sometimes "fish" for checks at free-standing drop boxes
  
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• US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices

  28-06-2026 19:34 via news.slashdot.org
  America's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has "canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of mobile devices," reports the Associated Press.
  They note the move comes "after lawmakers, a prosecutor and a judge raised concerns about the legality of the tool in criminal investigations."ATF, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation's gun laws, told The Associated Press that it discontinued what it called a "pilot" program using a
  
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• Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests

  28-06-2026 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. "And in East Asia's test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student's future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem."
  Already, countries are stepping up inspections for test-takers. For China's grueling annual college entrance exam earlier this month — which more than 10 million hopefuls take each year — authorities required screeni
  
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• 'Supergirl' Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects

  28-06-2026 17:34 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world "after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre."Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film's reviews "range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score)."
  Many point fingers at the film's script, with Variety's line — "a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember" — going viral... Not to pile on, but there's another recurring g
  
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• Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years

  28-06-2026 13:34 via it.slashdot.org
  "Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld:
  According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools, it reflects a trend toward consumption-based licensing models as vendors balance infrastructure investments with profitability...Gartner senior
  
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• An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee

  28-06-2026 09:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee "to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy."
  Hoping to ingratiate himself with the company and restart his business, Nekhala offered to provide evidence, including recorded conversations and screen shots, that he said proved Amazon pers
  
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• IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing

  28-06-2026 06:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  IBM spent a decade "building, testing and improving" quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.
  "This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project."IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers needed to make quantum-computing processors. The venture is seeded by a $1 billion investment from the Trump administration a
  
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• Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America's Electricity Generation

  28-06-2026 03:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That's according to new figures from America's Energy Information Administration, cited in this report from Electrek:The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar
  In April alone, wind and solar each produced more electricity than US coal plants, while the combination of solar and wind produced 57.0% more electricity tha
  
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• How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models

  28-06-2026 00:52 via slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on carefully crafted prompts, the attack works through images that appear normal to human viewers. The researchers tested the technique against BLIP-2, a multimodal AI model, and found that manipulated images signific
  
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