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• As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong

  21-09-2026 21:04 via tech.slashdot.org
  "In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors):
  It peaks around 180 on average (and sometimes reaches towards around 200 people) then shrinks again hitting bottom around 110 persons on average in 2017... Since then, we had two major events happening. First, 2018 is the year where we had the first set of KDE Goals being picked by the community,
  
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• Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?

  21-09-2026 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher's Weekly.Yet "While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges."Google recently announced a partnership with Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan, O'Reilly Media, and Penguin Random House to enhance e-books from its Google Play store with AI, allowing readers to interact with the t
  
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• Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection

  21-09-2026 12:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports Reuters, "in what it said could be the first ban of its kind."
  But meanwhile "more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta's smart glasses have sued the social media giant," reports the Los Angeles Times, "claiming their intimate and sensitive images were exposed to workers abroad who are paid to review and label photos and videos."The contractors in Kenya work for c
  
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• North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide

  21-09-2026 07:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  "I would like to verify your technical abilities, so please download the specified file and complete the assigned task..."
  Fake job listings aimed at software developers and IT professionals led to 30,000 infected devices in over 100 countries — and 7,000 compromised cryptocurrency wallets, leading to over $10 million (USD) transferred to North Korea. Inc. reports:
  The hacks occurred from December 2025 through July 2026, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory issued Friday by Japanese
  
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• Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown

  21-09-2026 03:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  Tom's Hardware reports:
  Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that this agreement would "reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions" and that this coordination started in July 2026 after the leading AI labs signed a statement admitting there is "intense co
  
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