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• Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data

  17-09-2026 22:34 via slashdot.org
  Ars Technica reports:Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
  Amazon Web Services was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian
  
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• Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

  17-09-2026 18:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED," according to an article published on both sites.
  Though Flock has described its system as protected by on-device encryption, "The hackers were able to copy the camera's storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections."
  The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the
  
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• 'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions

  17-09-2026 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  The New York Post reports:A new app called Zuckoff can detect if a user is near someone with Meta's creepy AI-powered glasses, which have drawn criticism for enabling creeps to record video of women without their consent. Programmer Pawel Szydlowski says tales of dirtbags recording themselves perving on women or harassing strangers prompted him to launch the app...
  Zuckoff — which detects Bluetooth signatures broadcast by smart glasses and can estimate their distance — has gained som
  
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• OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively

  17-09-2026 09:04 via slashdot.org
  OpenAI announced Wednesday that "We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer."But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it "found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training," reports CNN.
  And they add that OpenAI is also "introducing a new process for the company to publicly report such instances."Under the new sy
  
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• Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards

  17-09-2026 04:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released "CircuitPython" in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython microcontroller-optimized programming language).
  Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update:
  Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer, then loads them onto compatible microcontroller boards.
  It builds on MicroPython's Native and V
  
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• As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?

  17-09-2026 00:04 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind," reports the Los Angeles Times.
  He was thinking about "the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant.""Rising sea levels, storm waves, El Niño which increases wave height ... these could wash away a section of the walkway that protects the San Onofre
  
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