<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[ICT - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rss/1000/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest ICT news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:20:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said this week he's removing Flock cameras from state roadways. And according to a local news report, that led sheriff's departments in at least three other Florida counties to also "announce they're ending their own license plate reader programs." The same week in Texas, the Dallas Police Department announced it's also shutting down over 300 more Flock cameras, acccording to The Hill, after Republican Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to halt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hundreds-more-flock-cameras-removed-in-the-us-this-week-flock-caught-repackaging-traffic-data/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hundreds-more-flock-cameras-removed-in-the-us-this-week-flock-caught-repackaging-traffic-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citing researchers published Friday, Ars Technica writes that AI agents "posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions."Reuters attributes the discussion to "a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents" that "hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter."<br />
OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-agents-hijacked-a-german-wiki-to-discuss-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-agents-hijacked-a-german-wiki-to-discuss-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inverse shares a movie success story from last weekend:Coyote vs. Acme debuted to $15.9 million at the box office, beating out iconic director Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi adventure, The Dog Stars. This success has only continued since, and the worldwide box office currently sits above $22 million. Strong reviews and word-of-mouth are sure to keep viewers coming in, especially during the holiday weekend.<br />
What's impressive is Coyote vs. Acme had a limited marketing campaign that includes viral st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/coyote-vs-acme-beats-ridley-scotts-newest-movie/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/coyote-vs-acme-beats-ridley-scotts-newest-movie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: A group representing American automakers sent a letter (PDF) Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a "permanent ban" on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation's CEO and president, described in the letter China's manufacturing industry as "rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance." Bozzella addressed his request to Senate Majori]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/auto-companies-call-for-ban-on-chinese-made-cars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/auto-companies-call-for-ban-on-chinese-made-cars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months]]></title><description><![CDATA[A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival yet for a pig kidney transplanted into a living person and the first time such an organ successfully served as a bridge to a later human transplant. The Guardian reports: Tim Andrews was seriously ill with end-stage kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes and had only a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney within five years, against a more than 40% risk of dying or being]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/genetically-modified-pig-kidney-keeps-man-alive-for-record-nine-months/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/genetically-modified-pig-kidney-keeps-man-alive-for-record-nine-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla has begun offering public rides in Austin in its purpose-built Cybercab, a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals. "You can go outside, take rides," said Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI. "Anyone can take rides. It's open to the entire public." Previously, the fleet consisted only of Model Ys.Texas records show Tesla had registered 45 Cybercabs as of Thursday, though the company has not disclosed how many are currently carrying passengers. Tesla also says it eventually wants c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesla-launches-steering-wheel-free-cybercab-robotaxi-in-austin/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesla-launches-steering-wheel-free-cybercab-robotaxi-in-austin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a permanent ban on the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence, citing a series of recent hackings involving "rogue" models. The bicameral duo announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would institute the permanent ban, along with temporarily pausing "advanced AI development" until federal regulators establish]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bernie-sanders-proposes-artificial-superintelligence-ban-amid-rogue-ai-hackings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bernie-sanders-proposes-artificial-superintelligence-ban-amid-rogue-ai-hackings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime]]></title><description><![CDATA[ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini all suffered significant service disruptions within roughly the same few-hour window Thursday morning. OpenAI and Anthropic reported elevated errors and later restored service, while Grok remained impaired and third-party monitoring indicated a likely Gemini outage despite no public acknowledgment from Google. Ars Technica reports: Other major Internet services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare, have not reported any major issues as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former UK competition official has filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Apple on behalf of app developers, alleging its App Tracking Transparency rules unfairly disadvantaged third-party apps while favoring Apple's own advertising ecosystem. Engadget reports: ATT debuted in 2021, ostensibly to give users more control over how much of their activity app developers can track across other apps and websites. The company told Reuters it was "bound by the exact same requirements as all developers."H]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sued-for-27-billion-over-app-tracking-transparency-rules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sued-for-27-billion-over-app-tracking-transparency-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is imposing monthly limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November, with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers getting 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before they have to buy additional playtime. "Currently, Game Pass subscribers can stream without these monthly hour limits," notes IGN. From the report: The change means those who use cloud gaming most via Game Pass will end up having to pay more, although Microsoft said this impacts 4% of Game Pass subscribers. Also]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xbox-cloud-gaming-switches-to-monthly-hour-limits/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xbox-cloud-gaming-switches-to-monthly-hour-limits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model that president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and suggested may represent the arrival of AGI. "I think it might be about this model," Brockman said in a briefing with reporters. He ended the briefing by saying: "Welcome to the AGI era." Axios reports: Astra pushes AI agents closer to doing complex professional work on their own -- while also raising questions about how safely they can be deployed. OpenAI said that Astra was built on its la]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-says-as-gpt-6-astra-debuts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-says-as-gpt-6-astra-debuts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that links compatible computers on a home network so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads. "While the compatible devices are mostly Nvidia GeForce GPUs (PAIR works with RTX 20-series cards and newer, as well as RTX Pro GPUs and DGX Spark systems), Apple's M4 chips or newer will also work," reports The Verge. From the report: The key thing here is that PAIR uses your in-home systems when they're idle to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-launches-free-tool-that-links-idle-computers-into-a-personal-ai-data-center/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-launches-free-tool-that-links-idle-computers-into-a-personal-ai-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI's new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called "recurrent depth" that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called "opaque recurrence," will likely make the model's chain of thought more difficult to monitor -- and that has AI safety experts rattled. While Astra's use of the technique is reportedly limited, its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording support to official Windows builds, while bringing major changes to recording, playback, plugins, and project handling. The overhaul comes with some tradeoffs. Audacity 4.0 currently lacks several features found in Audacity 3, including Time T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/audacity-4-rebuilds-the-open-source-audio-editor-but-leaves-some-features-behind/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/audacity-4-rebuilds-the-open-source-audio-editor-but-leaves-some-features-behind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, claiming it's their best reasoning and coding model yet (topping the DeepSWE leaderboard). Ars Technica reports: Gemini 3.8 Flash comes in two variations. There's the standard Flash, which Google describes as a "workhorse" model that's good for anything from agentic tasks to software development. Then we have Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which runs on the same foundations but has been tuned for vulnerability detection and mitigatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-releases-gemini-38-flash-its-third-flash-model-in-six-weeks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-releases-gemini-38-flash-its-third-flash-model-in-six-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by U.S. authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, is making a new bold bet. On Wednesday, his legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. Spagnuolo isn't outright denying that he made money using internal information from Google. Instead, his legal team says that the wagers were not financial instruments subject to regulation by the United States' Commodities Exch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-engineer-accused-of-polymarket-insider-trading-says-he-was-just-gambling/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-engineer-accused-of-polymarket-insider-trading-says-he-was-just-gambling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexity Will Open Source Its Faster Lily AI Engine For Apple Silicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Perplexity has built a local artificial intelligence engine designed specifically for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Called Lily, the engine uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels, with neither PyTorch nor MLX in its execution path. Perplexity says Lily averaged 23 percent faster prompt processing and 35 percent faster token generation than MLX-LM on an M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB of unified memory. Lily is more specialized than MLX-LM, which supports a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/perplexity-will-open-source-its-faster-lily-ai-engine-for-apple-silicon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/perplexity-will-open-source-its-faster-lily-ai-engine-for-apple-silicon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras In Two Hyundai Models]]></title><description><![CDATA["Enshittification of car controls [is] rapidly accelerating," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij, pointing to a new report from Car and Driver. From the report: Remember when iPhones used to come with free headphones and a phone charger (including the wall plug)? It didn't feel so much like Apple giving you free goodies as it did that the company was providing you with the relevant hardware to use the device. Apple stopped including headphones and charging blocks in 2020. Now, Hyundai is pull]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/instrument-clusters-are-now-paid-extras-in-two-hyundai-models/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/instrument-clusters-are-now-paid-extras-in-two-hyundai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are 'No Good Outcomes']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion. The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Program confirmed overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/global-heating-will-hit-at-least-18c-un-warns-and-there-are-no-good-outcomes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/global-heating-will-hit-at-least-18c-un-warns-and-there-are-no-good-outcomes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Plans Robocall Scorecard to Grade Phone Companies On Spam Call Blocking]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC is proposing (PDF) a public "robocall mitigation scorecard" that would grade phone companies on how well they block illegal spam calls while avoiding false positives on the legitimate ones. "The Scorecard will empower consumers and encourage providers to continue to combat illegal robocalls by providing the public with an assessment of the effectiveness of voice service providers' efforts to protect consumers from illegal robocalls," the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-plans-robocall-scorecard-to-grade-phone-companies-on-spam-call-blocking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-plans-robocall-scorecard-to-grade-phone-companies-on-spam-call-blocking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "The popular password manager is now a 'distinguished corporate patron' of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy," reports The Verge. From the report: One viral blog post declared that 1Password "Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/1password-wades-into-a-right-wing-mess-after-funding-a-linux-project/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/1password-wades-into-a-right-wing-mess-after-funding-a-linux-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CERN Transitioning From RHEL To Debian]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions ... They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more broadly to CERN's computing infrastructure. It's unclear whether the Debian migration covers all serv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cern-transitioning-from-rhel-to-debian/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cern-transitioning-from-rhel-to-debian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of AI is 'Non-Negotiable']]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is "non-negotiable" for countries, comparing rejecting it to refusing electricity a century ago and predicting it will unleash an unprecedented boom in entrepreneurship. "The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore," he said. His comments were made during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. CNBC repor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-altman-says-the-use-of-ai-is-non-negotiable/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-altman-says-the-use-of-ai-is-non-negotiable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school district. ABC News reports: In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for students in pre-school or 2-K through eighth grade and will spend the next year "studying the impacts of this technology." Mamdani wrote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nyc-public-schools-ban-ai-use-through-middle-school/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nyc-public-schools-ban-ai-use-through-middle-school/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge in Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers' bid to force a sale of Google's online advertising exchange. While the ad exchange is a small part of Google's business, the ruling is the second powerful symbolic victory against the U.S. Department of Justice in its efforts to force Google to sell assets to address illegal monopolies. U.S. Judge Le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-defeats-us-bid-to-force-ad-tech-sale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-defeats-us-bid-to-force-ad-tech-sale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email that was also published online.TechCrunch reports: According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring exercise that would shrink the number of managers by 20%, and some personnel in these roles would work as indiv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-its-workforce/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uber-is-laying-off-10-of-its-workforce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses]]></title><description><![CDATA[A dark-web identity theft service called Nexus claims to be selling scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses, along with millions of other identity documents. "Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase through the service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely used Louisiana-based identity verification company," reports KrebsOnSecurity. The outlet also reports that the FBI's New Orleans field office has launched an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dell reported record fiscal Q2 results as AI server demand surged, booking $60.9 billion in AI server orders and ending the quarter with a $95 billion backlog. From a report: The company posted record revenue of $47 billion, up 58% year over year. Earnings per share came in at $6.34, up 273% from a year ago. Adjusted earnings rose 203% to $7.04 per share."With AI momentum accelerating and our opportunity expanding across the portfolio, we're raising our full-year FY27 revenue outlook by $25 bill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dell-stock-surges-on-record-orders-for-ai-servers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dell-stock-surges-on-record-orders-for-ai-servers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you've heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the loss of features like volume control and accessibility tools meant to help blind people use the wireless speaker system. Sonos eventually owned up to the m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sonos-has-new-devices-a-new-os-and-yes-a-new-app/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sonos-has-new-devices-a-new-os-and-yes-a-new-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to build and operate a dedicated Mars telecommunications network for current and future missions to the Red Planet. Blue Origin is expected to deliver the spacecraft by the end of 2028, with the network targeted to become operational by 2030. From a press release: Blue Origin will design, develop, integrate, launch, and operate the network as a part of the agency's broader space communications and navigation infrastructure. The arc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-mars-telecommunications-network-provider/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-selects-blue-origin-as-mars-telecommunications-network-provider/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[New submitter greytree shares a report from Brown University: LUX-ZEPLIN, an experiment co-led by Brown University faculty and students, observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a dark matter candidate -- but researchers need more data to confirm. [...] The result does not yet meet the statistical threshold required to claim a discovery, but it is the most compelling hint of dark matter reported by the experiment to date. "We're very intrigued to see this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lz-experiment-sees-surprising-result-in-search-for-dark-matter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lz-experiment-sees-surprising-result-in-search-for-dark-matter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[GoPro plans to expand into AI infrastructure through a $285 million merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, whose transceivers will give the action-camera maker a foothold in the fast-growing data center market. GoPro also plans to push into defense, robotics, aerospace, and government markets while continuing its existing camera business. Engadget reports: Starman's optical transceivers are expected to fall under its umbrella, "extending the Company's reach into the large and rap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gopro-says-its-moving-into-data-centers-as-part-of-a-285-million-merger/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gopro-says-its-moving-into-data-centers-as-part-of-a-285-million-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee products including AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, Apple silicon, and the new MacBook Neo, Ternus now inherits the challenge of pushing Apple forward in AI while Cook stays on as executive chairman. TechCrunch reports: Ternus has worked at Apple for nearly half of his life -- now 51 years old, he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/who-is-john-ternus-the-new-apple-ceo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/who-is-john-ternus-the-new-apple-ceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work. "For enterprise buyers, however, the release is about more than another round of benchmark gains," reports VentureBeat. "Anthropic is simultaneously changing the economics of running persistent agents, reducing the cost of cached context by 75%, and introducing a new security architecture called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, or EFS, designed to let organizatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-claude-fable-51-and-mythos-51-arrive-with-a-75-cost-reduction-for-fable-cache-reads/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-claude-fable-51-and-mythos-51-arrive-with-a-75-cost-reduction-for-fable-cache-reads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash while you brush. Regular toothpaste and mouthwash will work with the CameraJet, but Dyson plans to sell its own non- or low-foaming formulas designed to give the toothbrush's camera a clearer view inside your mouth. The Verge reports: Just below the brush head is a tiny camera with a 100,000-pixel resolution and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dyson-made-a-camera-equipped-toothbrush-that-flosses-for-you/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dyson-made-a-camera-equipped-toothbrush-that-flosses-for-you/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[BT could make more than $2.7 billion by recycling copper from its aging UK landline network as BT subsidiary Openreach replaces legacy wiring with full-fiber broadband. Engadget reports: BT's recovered copper was previously valued at around $2 billion. But prices have surged, thanks to rising global demand tied to AI data centers, renewable energy and electrification. With global demand expected to grow sharply over the next decade, the value of BT's copper could potentially exceed even that $2.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bts-old-copper-landline-network-could-be-worth-over-2-billion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bts-old-copper-landline-network-could-be-worth-over-2-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak in March 2026. But over the weekend, OpenClaw's creator Peter Steinberger and current team of co-developers gave the world -- especially enterprises -- a reason to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openclaw-20-is-here-ushering-in-the-era-of-multiplayer-ai-coding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openclaw-20-is-here-ushering-in-the-era-of-multiplayer-ai-coding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a roughly 350-megawatt Texas data center being developed by Hut 8. "Lambda will install Nvidia chips at the Hut 8 facility, with the arrangement designed to expand the pool of Nvidia computing resources available to power Anthropic's Claude AI products," reports Quartz. From the report: The arrangement is a further sign of how Nvidia is positioning itself as a facilitator of computing access across t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-signs-35-billion-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-signs-35-billion-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders]]></title><description><![CDATA[TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in AI omits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both having appeared on previous editions and playing central roles in the hardware powering the AI boom. Nvidia's only representative this year is sustainability chief Josh Parker, while the list includes figures such as Ben Affleck and Paris Hilton alongside major tech executives and policymakers. Tom's Hardware reports: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, SMIC co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-snubbed-by-times-2026-list-of-top-100-ai-leaders/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-snubbed-by-times-2026-list-of-top-100-ai-leaders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways]]></title><description><![CDATA[schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he's removing Flock camera from state roadways. The announcement comes amid a growing concern over the misuse of automated license plate readers. On Monday, DeSantis ordered all Flock cameras removed from what he calls the 'state highway system' within the next 30 days, which would include interstates like I-10 and I-75. That order led to several sheriff's departments like in Franklin, Liberty and Putnam Counties to announce t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/florida-bans-flock-cameras-from-state-highways/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/florida-bans-flock-cameras-from-state-highways/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall]]></title><description><![CDATA[California lawmakers have passed a bill that would legalize plug-in "balcony" solar systems, allowing residents to connect small solar panels directly to a standard wall outlet after completing a simple online registration. The systems would be capped at 1,200 watts and must meet safety requirements designed to prevent power from feeding back onto the grid during outages. KQED reports: The legislation, SB 868, sailed through the state assembly and senate with bipartisan support. The bill now mov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-lawmakers-greenlight-solar-panels-you-can-plug-into-the-wall/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-lawmakers-greenlight-solar-panels-you-can-plug-into-the-wall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have found that tiny electrical charges picked up by moving water droplets may be damaging cars and buildings like the Eiffel Tower. In experiments, thousands of charged droplets degraded Teflon and corroded the copper beneath it, while uncharged droplets caused no comparable damage. C&amp;EN reports: For years, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have studied how water droplets from rain, dew, ocean waves, and melting snow become electrically charged. They s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/electrically-charged-raindrops-can-corrode-cars-and-buildings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/electrically-charged-raindrops-can-corrode-cars-and-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has "mixed results" in his election endorsements. In the latest example of how Trump is using the FCC to harass reporters and news organizations that he dislikes, he said Meet the Press host Kristen Welker "will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment" for what he claimed was a "purposeful inaccuracy." "Krist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-tells-fcc-to-punish-journalist-for-calling-his-election-results-mixed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-tells-fcc-to-punish-journalist-for-calling-his-election-results-mixed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, accusing the company of secretly inflating advertising prices through undisclosed changes to its auction system that may have extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers since 2019. "Amazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly higher prices," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement. "These higher costs were largely passed on to American consumers." CNBC reports: The complaint, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ftc-sues-amazon-accusing-the-e-commerce-giant-of-misleading-advertisers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ftc-sues-amazon-accusing-the-e-commerce-giant-of-misleading-advertisers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to The Information (paywalled), Apple reportedly moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models after unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for Macs capable of running AI workloads. MacRumors reports: Apple normally releases new Mac models in the autumn, closer to October or November, making this week's announcement unusually early, falling just before the anticipated arrival of new iPhone models. The Information says that the AI-driven boom in Mac Studio and Mac mini sales]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-caught-off-guard-by-ai-demand-for-mac-mini-and-mac-studio/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-caught-off-guard-by-ai-demand-for-mac-mini-and-mac-studio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcom Pledges to Lock Down Open Source Python, Java Libraries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broadcom is launching "TrueSource," an effort to curate and secure open-source components used with its Tanzu platform, including Spring, RabbitMQ, and libraries across Java, Python, and Node.js. "The idea is to provide a set of solutions focused on providing clean and secure artefacts," Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president of Broadcom's Tanzu Division, told The Register. "We choose and build every Spring library, databases, other Java components," she said. The Register reports: Padmanabhan said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/broadcom-pledges-to-lock-down-open-source-python-java-libraries/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/broadcom-pledges-to-lock-down-open-source-python-java-libraries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding he failed to fully cooperate with an insider-trading investigation. He is also being fined $71,356, according to a filing (PDF) on its website. Engadget reports:It was reported in June that Santos was under investigation from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over insider trading. Prediction markets like Kalshi allow users to buy contracts or shares i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-dishes-out-its-first-ever-lifetime-ban-to-george-santos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-dishes-out-its-first-ever-lifetime-ban-to-george-santos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank of England Chief Warns New AI Models Threaten Global Financial Stability]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is warning that advanced "frontier" AI models could materially increase cyber risk across the global financial system by making attacks faster, cheaper, and more scalable. In a letter to G20 finance officials, he said financial firms need stronger defenses and contingency plans for simultaneous disruptions. CNBC reports: Writing in his capacity as chair of the Financial Stability Board, an international body that coordinates policy and makes recommendations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bank-of-england-chief-warns-new-ai-models-threaten-global-financial-stability/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bank-of-england-chief-warns-new-ai-models-threaten-global-financial-stability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Cook's Last Day As CEO of Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his last day in the role, Cook penned an emotional memo to Apple employees today. In the memo sent to employees this morning and obtained by 9to5Mac, Cook reflects on his time at Apple and thanks employees for all of their work. He also says he takes "enormous comfort in handing the helm to someone as brilliant and wonderful and capable" as John Ternus.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tim-cooks-last-day-as-ceo-of-apple/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tim-cooks-last-day-as-ceo-of-apple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MapQuest's App Surges to No. 1 In Navigation After Refusing to Rename Lake Ontario]]></title><description><![CDATA[MapQuest's refusal to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has sent its app surging up the charts, making it the No. 1 navigation app in the U.S. and driving "hundreds of thousands" of new downloads. In contrast, Google Maps announced on Saturday that it was complying with the Trump administration's name change. TechCrunch reports: The "OG of online mapping," as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History]]></title><description><![CDATA[A massive 12TB archive of old Steam2 content has surfaced online, apparently containing nearly every version of games uploaded to Valve's servers between 2003 and 2013, including unreleased prototypes, playtest builds, and cut content. Early discoveries include deleted Portal 2 material, files tied to Half-Life 2: Episode 3, and beta builds of games like Left 4 Dead 2, CS: GO, Spore, and Dragon Age: Origins. Researchers claim much of the material was once accessible through an unsecured public A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Is Being Blackmailed By Hackers]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers who were able to compromise city systems and steal data earlier this month, its mayor has said. Kai Wegner said officials would not cave in to the ransom demand, which came on Thursday evening. He did not say how much was being sought, though Der Spiegel reports the hackers are demanding 30 bitcoin, worth around 2 million euros. Some of the German capital's online systems were forced to close down as a resul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/berlin-is-being-blackmailed-by-hackers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/berlin-is-being-blackmailed-by-hackers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact]]></title><description><![CDATA[California's age-verification bill has passed in its legislature &mdash; but with its open-source carve-out intact, reports the blog Linuxiac:Back in May, we reported that California lawmakers amended Assembly Bill 1856 to carve open-source operating systems out of the state's upcoming age verification requirements. Three months later, that exemption survived the legislative process intact, and the bill has cleared both chambers of the California Legislature... sending the measure to Engrossing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-age-verification-bill-passes-with-linux-exemption-intact/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-age-verification-bill-passes-with-linux-exemption-intact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI To Cut Off AI Models For SpaceX-owned Cursor]]></title><description><![CDATA["OpenAI said on Friday that it plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX," reports Reuters:<br />
"We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts," OpenAI said in a blog post... However, Michael Truell, a co-founder of Cursor and now an executive at SpaceX, said on X that the company was speaking wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-to-cut-off-ai-models-for-spacex-owned-cursor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-to-cut-off-ai-models-for-spacex-owned-cursor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an Amazon News blog post, their HR leader describes using AI to write 100,000 lines of code &mdash; 25 years after she last coded. "Do you know how empowering it is to realize that after 25 years away from coding, you can actually build again?" First she built a calendar app for her family, but then used Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro to write an app for Amazon's internal "Everyone Can Build" event.We opened the competition to every employee on our team, and within just a few weeks, mor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-hr-lead-uses-ai-tool-to-write-100000-lines-of-code-25-years-after-she-last-coded/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-hr-lead-uses-ai-tool-to-write-100000-lines-of-code-25-years-after-she-last-coded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor]]></title><description><![CDATA["Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it's been building since last year," reports the blog It's FOSS:The basic premise of the project is that one physical server can run several independent Linux kernels side by side, each with its own dedicated CPUs and memory. So, the same box could run a database on one kernel and a GPU training job on another without either kernel touching the other's resources... One kernel runs as th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/multikernel-linux-tree-released-runs-multiple-kernels-on-bare-metal-without-a-hypervisor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/multikernel-linux-tree-released-runs-multiple-kernels-on-bare-metal-without-a-hypervisor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the gaming news site Aftermath"<br />
Game developer and consultant Ryan Laley traveled to Cologne, Germany from Essex, England to showcase his upcoming horror social deduction game Mimic at the annual Gamescom event. He paid "thousands of pounds" to get a booth at the show, where other game developers and press could try the game ahead of its October release. But Laley's Gamescom was cut short when he realized Friday morning that his brand new Alienware laptop, purchased for the event, was missi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gamescom-crime-spree-three-exhibitors-report-their-laptops-were-stolen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gamescom-crime-spree-three-exhibitors-report-their-laptops-were-stolen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Linux Foundation's director of IT infrastructure says they now spend more CPU cycles "rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access."<br />
At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html....<br />
[W]hen a source is guaranteed to be LLM-free, like the entire history of kernel commits, it's worth its weight in gold as a source of training data... At the time of writing, linux.git is about 1.48]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-creepy-crawlers-criticized-by-linux-foundations-it-infrastructure-director/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-creepy-crawlers-criticized-by-linux-foundations-it-infrastructure-director/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess.com Launches New Poker Site, Plans More Classic Game Sites with Player Ratings - Thanks to   AI Protyping]]></title><description><![CDATA[In May Chess.com "quietly launched" a free educational poker site named Gambit, reports The Verge, where players can learn the game and improve an Elo-like rating without risking real money. And next Chess.com will expand into more classic games, including go, backgammon, and mahjong:Like Gambit, Chess.com is developing Elo-style rating systems for these games, as well. [Chess.com's chief growth officer, Albert Cheng] didn't say when the new sites will launch but that "development is moving quit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chesscom-launches-new-poker-site-plans-more-classic-game-sites-with-player-ratings-thanks-to-ai-protyping/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chesscom-launches-new-poker-site-plans-more-classic-game-sites-with-player-ratings-thanks-to-ai-protyping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Maps Renamed Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' - But Only for U.S. Users]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's already happened &mdash; at least on Google Maps.Google's online maps reflect name changes in official government sources, Google posted Saturday. So when the U.S. Geographic Names Information System formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America," Google also renamed it "Lake America" &mdash; for visitors from the U.S.<br />
"Those in Canada will continue to see 'Lake Ontario'," Google said.<br />
And people from every other country in the world... "will see both names." Though here's h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-maps-renamed-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-but-only-for-us-users/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-maps-renamed-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-but-only-for-us-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has Big Tech Captured America's Schools?]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's public education system has become "an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas," argues a NewYork Times reporter who's covered that tech industry influence for over 10 years. Big tech companies "advocate for new laws to require schools to teach industry-aligned subjects. They sit on committees that help shape learning standards for public school students..."The reporter concludes that "Silicon Valley's efforts to capture the attention of education professionals]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/has-big-tech-captured-americas-schools/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/has-big-tech-captured-americas-schools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tiny 'Rainbow On a Chip' Could Help Supercharge 6G Networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily reports:A microchip about the size of a grain of rice can generate a highly organized "rainbow" of light, a capability that could eventually support faster, higher-capacity 6G communications and extremely precise timing for quantum technologies. Physicists at Loughborough University, working with an international research team, demonstrated a system that produces a series of precisely spaced light frequencies. Those optical frequencies can then be converted into multiple high-freque]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-tiny-rainbow-on-a-chip-could-help-supercharge-6g-networks/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-tiny-rainbow-on-a-chip-could-help-supercharge-6g-networks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citrix Adds a Linux-Powered Escape Hatch For Compromised Windows PCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citrix's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) product includes a lightweight, hardened second operating system called UniconOS (once called "eLux") to offer Windows customers a write-protected file system Citrix says is secure against computer viruses and other malware. Nerds.xyz reports:According to the company, the environment remains isolated from the Windows filesystem and uses Secure Boot protections covering the shim, bootloader, kernel, and initial RAM filesystem. That separation matters when rans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/citrix-adds-a-linux-powered-escape-hatch-for-compromised-windows-pcs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/citrix-adds-a-linux-powered-escape-hatch-for-compromised-windows-pcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D printed out of plastic waste, reports Futurism:The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like discarded plant stalks into proteins, fats, acids, and flavorings that we can eat. When these are combined together, the mixture is fed into a 3D printer that spits out cookies of any desired shape. The researchers chose to print their cookies as th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-turn-plastic-waste-into-edible-cookies/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-turn-plastic-waste-into-edible-cookies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope to Explore Dark Energy and Habitable Planets]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket, with the launch window opening at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT). NASA will carry the launch live on YouTube.<br />
CNN offers this mission overview from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "Roman will investigate dark matter, dark energy and the structure of the universe itself, and accelerate the future of discovery of potentially habitable planets outside our solar system." In fact, "NASA anticipates that Roman will image mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-launching-nasas-roman-space-telescope-to-explore-dark-energy-and-habitable-planets/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-launching-nasas-roman-space-telescope-to-explore-dark-energy-and-habitable-planets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW Blames Young People For Loss of Real Buttons In New Cars]]></title><description><![CDATA[BMW is about to release their most screen-dependent vehicles ever, reports Car and Driver:<br />
Step into the BMW iX3, and you'll notice something is missing: real buttons. The climate controls are fettered to the center screen, as is nearly every other feature, save for a handful located in the center console &mdash; at least the window switches are still on the doors...But don't blame a desire for larger profit margins; BMW's move away from physical switchgear and toward touchscreen dependence is t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bmw-blames-young-people-for-loss-of-real-buttons-in-new-cars/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bmw-blames-young-people-for-loss-of-real-buttons-in-new-cars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's AI-Powered Lifestyle App 'Dreambeans' Now Free in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google's AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for "more personalized suggestions," in a feature they call Personal Intelligence. Now when given permission, an Android/iOS app called Dreambeans "uses Personal Intelligence to connect information from Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search History, to curate a finite collection of daily stories designed to spark new ideas." In a slick new video Google says the app will "surface what matters to you."<br />
The blog 9to5Google]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-ai-powered-lifestyle-app-dreambeans-now-free-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-ai-powered-lifestyle-app-dreambeans-now-free-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI 'Responsibly']]></title><description><![CDATA[This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? "Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools" in its projects, documentation, and packaging... Generative AI "is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors."<br />
"The responsibility for every contribution rests with the contributor who submits it, who remains accountable for its technical quality, legal acceptability, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/debian-decides-contributors-can-use-generative-ai-responsibly/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/debian-decides-contributors-can-use-generative-ai-responsibly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Axios reports:<br />
Some of the world's largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history."The suit is the opening salvo in what is now likely to be a yearslong fight over music, AI, and how intellectual property is protected in a new era of technology... The Sony/Warner lawsuit is notable because it's broad. It alleges Anthropic unlawfully trained its models off "t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-sued-by-sony-warner-for-allegedly-stealing-tens-of-thousands-of-songs-torrenting-copyrighted-works/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-sued-by-sony-warner-for-allegedly-stealing-tens-of-thousands-of-songs-torrenting-copyrighted-works/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott's newest movie "a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for pandemics and asks whether hope can outlast catastrophe." But besidesThe Dog Stars, Scott is also working on an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" starring Hugh Jackman, and is thinking about turning one of his past films into a musical. ("I can't tell you which one because they're being difficult.") The common theme, they suggest, is a director who allows his s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whats-88-year-old-ridley-scott-doing-now/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whats-88-year-old-ridley-scott-doing-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN reports that "A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported."The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the highest dose of the experimental treatment during a pilot study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November 2025. That study was extremely small &mdash; only 15 patients with dangerously high cholesterol that did not respond to medicati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/with-the-snip-of-a-gene-scientists-hope-to-erase-high-cholesterol-for-life/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/with-the-snip-of-a-gene-scientists-hope-to-erase-high-cholesterol-for-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They're Not EVs.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post shares this tip for car buyers.Electric vehicles "are not driving the recent growth in recalls warning that vehicles could erupt into flames at any time, even when parked and turned off."A Washington Post analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recall notices found that conventional gas and diesel vehicles made up the vast majority of vehicles covered by the "park outside" label since 2021.Last week, The Post wrote about an alarming surge in these s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/millions-of-cars-recalled-over-danger-of-bursting-into-flames-but-theyre-not-evs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/millions-of-cars-recalled-over-danger-of-bursting-into-flames-but-theyre-not-evs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post looks "a growing number of Americans who have had their private conversations with AI chatbots made public in court," calling the chatbots "custodians of a fast-growing trove of intimate data that can be sought by law enforcement, or companies or other opponents in civil litigation."A Washington Post review of public records and local news stories found that chatbot logs were cited in 12 court cases over the past two years. It's hard to know how often chatbot material is draw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chatbot-conversations-can-become-evidence-in-court/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chatbot-conversations-can-become-evidence-in-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman's recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September 21 to 23):With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3... Fortunately, most often they end up being lower priority]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-linux-kernel-is-approaching-2000-cves-per-release/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-linux-kernel-is-approaching-2000-cves-per-release/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Grand Theft Auto 6' Preview Signals Blockbuster Demand, Analysts Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rockstar Games has released a 26-minute "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI, due for release November 19th.<br />
After one day the video had nearly 10 million views on YouTube, and when Netflix streamed the footage, "some viewers had to refresh the page after receiving error messages, indicating high usage levels," reports CNBC:<br />
"Some members briefly experienced an issue accessing Netflix, but we quickly recovered," the company told CNBC. Game streaming platform Twitch, where many viewers were pos]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grand-theft-auto-6-preview-signals-blockbuster-demand-analysts-say/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grand-theft-auto-6-preview-signals-blockbuster-demand-analysts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new survey on police license plate cameras found that "more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them," reports TechCrunch:According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. that was shared exclusively with The Washington Post, 46% of respondents opposed the company's surveillance cameras in their communities, while 38% supported them. This is a reversal from last year, when the majority of survey respondents said they were in favor... The survey also reporte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-backlash-grows-more-americans-now-oppose-automated-police-license-plate-readers-than-support/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-backlash-grows-more-americans-now-oppose-automated-police-license-plate-readers-than-support/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A common sweetener used in products such as chewing gum, toothpaste, jam, yoghurts and ice-cream has been linked to an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and death. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol present in some natural foods in very low amounts. It is also added -- often in amounts 1,000 times higher -- to artificially sweeten foods, beverages and oral care products. Despite its growing use, the long-term health impacts of xylitol have ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xylitol-linked-to-strokes-and-heart-attacks-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xylitol-linked-to-strokes-and-heart-attacks-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is significantly reducing Falcon 9 launches from Florida this year, ending the Space Coast's decade-long run as the world's busiest spaceport as more missions shift to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The slowdown is expected to continue until Starship begins flying regularly from Florida. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica: A Falcon 9 launch early Tuesday was the last planned Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral until SpaceX begins flying Starshi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-worlds-busiest-spaceport-is-about-to-get-a-lot-quieter-at-least-for-now/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-worlds-busiest-spaceport-is-about-to-get-a-lot-quieter-at-least-for-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump awarded the four-member Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order directing the creation of a new U.S. Space Academy. The proposed academy would train engineers, scientists, technicians, operators, and astronauts for NASA, the Space Force, and the commercial space industry. Houston Public Media reports: The Artemis II crew -- NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen -- retraced his]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-creates-a-space-academy-and-honors-the-artemis-astronauts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-creates-a-space-academy-and-honors-the-artemis-astronauts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet.The posts included conte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-china-secretly-fueling-americas-data-center-rage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-china-secretly-fueling-americas-data-center-rage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update, according to Medical Daily. Of 5,659 calls to the Bronx call center during that period, about 1,700 calls connected but could not be heard by emergency operators. Some were rerouted to other call centers, but an estimated 400 human callers never got through. The potentially serious consequences of delayed response to emergenci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-city-911-system-missed-1700-calls-due-to-software-update/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-city-911-system-missed-1700-calls-due-to-software-update/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state regulators their biggest legal victory yet against the booming industry. "There are still related lawsuits pending across the country, and legal experts believe the matter will ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court," reports CNN. "But Friday's ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the largest courtroom victory to date for the states as they seek to regulate predic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/states-can-regulate-prediction-markets-as-gambling-federal-appeals-court-rules/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/states-can-regulate-prediction-markets-as-gambling-federal-appeals-court-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over a hundred tech companies -- including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft -- have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter -- which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial institutions and internet infrastructure firms -- calls for the adoption of new forms of cy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-anthropic-google-and-100-other-companies-call-for-action-to-defend-against-rogue-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-anthropic-google-and-100-other-companies-call-for-action-to-defend-against-rogue-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia's official music charts will no longer accept songs that are largely or entirely AI-generated, requiring eligible releases to be "substantially human made." The BBC reports: The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) said the new code would help "promote the human nature of artistry." It follows a controversy around a cover of Madonna's Like A Prayer by Australian DJ Josh Fawaz which recently topped the ARIA dance singles chart and peaked at number 2 on the country's overall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/songs-created-by-ai-banned-from-australias-music-charts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/songs-created-by-ai-banned-from-australias-music-charts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is raising Apple TV's U.S. price to $14.99 per month, up from $12.99, while the annual plan jumps from $99 to $119. It's the service's fourth price hike in four years and means the monthly cost has now tripled from its $4.99 launch price in 2019. Apple One's Individual plan is also rising from $19.95 to $21.95 per month.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-tv-and-apple-one-subscription-prices-increase-by-up-to-20/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-tv-and-apple-one-subscription-prices-increase-by-up-to-20/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to comply with defense department demands. "The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Rita Lin said in a 59-page decision.Lin's ruling barred th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic-was-unlawful-us-judge-rules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic-was-unlawful-us-judge-rules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ditched their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal, ending a deal that would have been the largest fintech acquisition ever. "Stripe last week agreed to pay $8 billion for AI model marketplace OpenRouter, but a source said that the OpenRouter and PayPal deals were operating on independent tracks," reports Axios.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-and-advent-ditch-50-billion-paypal-takeover-bid/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-and-advent-ditch-50-billion-paypal-takeover-bid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roblox is restricting games that reward younger players for endlessly consuming autoplaying media feeds. The new restrictions are specifically targeting Roblox experiences like "Steal an Egg," which encouraged players to watch TikTok-style clips for in-game benefits. "Roblox's official alert does not expressly mention SAE, but the new policy is most certainly targeting the viral game first and foremost," reports TechSpot. From the report: The company said games that reward ongoing media consumpt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/roblox-is-cracking-down-on-games-that-reward-kids-for-doomscrolling/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/roblox-is-cracking-down-on-games-that-reward-kids-for-doomscrolling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly considering new tariffs on semiconductors used in the U.S., as tech giants race to beat China in the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out. The duties will be imposed on an expanded range of tech products made alongside chips, including laptops, data center servers and gaming hardware, eight people familiar with the matter told Politico in a report published Thursday.The measures,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-considers-fresh-round-of-tariffs-on-semiconductors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-considers-fresh-round-of-tariffs-on-semiconductors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is adding an "Expert Intelligence" feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work directly from more than 100,000 books they own through Google Play Books. Those books can be used as sources for things like quizzes, infographics, and Audio Overviews. Digital Trends reports: For now, Google is offering one free book to users in the US as part of the launch campaign, with a caveat -- "while supplies last." At the moment, Expert Intelligence is only a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gemini-notebook-now-lets-you-reference-books-turn-them-into-different-formats/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gemini-notebook-now-lets-you-reference-books-turn-them-into-different-formats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source), including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The hires are backed by more than $364 million in government funding and are part of a broader effort to attract researchers in fields such as AI, climate science, and medicine. The New York Times reports: While scientists often shy away from political discourse, some are saying the Trump administration's assault on sci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-hires-48-scholars-away-from-top-us-universities/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-hires-48-scholars-away-from-top-us-universities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report fro SFGATE: From "rizz" to "meat proxy," words and phrases have fallen in and out of favor for centuries. Culture, politics and technological development have long influenced these trends, and now, new research shows that ChatGPT is beginning to influence how humans communicate. The findings from a team at the Pew Research Center show how, in a short time since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022 and other chatbots followed, the use of certain words and p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-chatgpt-changing-how-youre-writing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-chatgpt-changing-how-youre-writing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps as the AI data center boom contributes to a broader memory chip shortage that could leave lower-cost phones with less RAM. Developers will have until February 2027 to meet new thresholds for memory and bitmap usage. To aid developers, Google is adding tools to flag apps that exceed the limits and help prevent slowdowns and crashes. TechCrunch reports: The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing "significant hardware supply]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new "Persistent mode" for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly "put to sleep," proactively creating follow-up tasks for itself across sessions and using prior interactions and knowledge of the user to decide what to do next. Code alluding to the feature was spotted in the product's code base, though it has not been rolled out or officially announced yet. From the report: Persistent mode appears in Codex's "reasoning effort" menu, in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE, or "Throw Away the Key Encryption," that rotates video keys every five minutes and permanently deletes Ring's copy after 24 hours. The system is designed to preserve cloud features such as smart alerts and AI video search while limiting what Ring can provide under legal process to non-video account information and encrypted footage. The Verge reports: Ring says TAKE uses unique, rotating encryption keys for your footage, stored in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ring-says-new-encryption-limits-what-it-can-give-police/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ring-says-new-encryption-limits-what-it-can-give-police/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents [including Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Nous Research's Hermes]. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.The potentially dangerous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-codex-and-hermes-installed-unowned-code-inside-corporate-networks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader dhartshorn writes: Foreign-produced "bulk power" equipment is now effectively banned, and the list of what constitutes such equipment is essentially everything used to make up the grid... much of which we are heavily dependent on foreign sources to supply. In a Wednesday executive order, President Trump said foreign supply of electric equipment "constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat" to national security. The Hill reports: Under the order, it will be up to Ener]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-declares-national-emergency-to-ban-some-foreign-grid-equipment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-declares-national-emergency-to-ban-some-foreign-grid-equipment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Panic is refunding Playdate customers the 19% tariff charges it passed along while the Trump administration's import duties were in effect, after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal and the company began receiving refunds from the government. Panic says the money "just [wasn't] ours to keep." Ars Technica reports: In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted that it has finally "begun to receive refunds of the tariffs we paid in the last year" and had consequently]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/panic-passes-trump-tariff-refunds-back-to-playdate-customers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/panic-passes-trump-tariff-refunds-back-to-playdate-customers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. "Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools, received acquisition interest from another suitor," reports CNBC, citing the (paywalled) report. Business Insider separately reported the acquisition talks. From CNBC: If completed, the acquisition would put one of the most widely used platforms for sharing and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-agrees-to-acquire-hugging-face-for-13-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-agrees-to-acquire-hugging-face-for-13-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. "We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product," Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird's cofounders, told Ars. "And we have waited months and months to launch, and we are not going to wait anymore."[...] Twitter.now, still in it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/operation-bluebird-launches-new-twitter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/operation-bluebird-launches-new-twitter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters reports that Meta explored shrinking some teams by as much as 60% as part of an "AI native" restructuring plan that would shift much of employees' day-to-day work to AI agents and smaller teams of human "builders." But the effort quickly ran into employee revolt and disappointing productivity gains, leading Zuckerberg to scrap a planned second wave of cuts after Meta laid off 10% of its workforce in May. From the report: In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants gather]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-metas-plan-to-replace-workers-with-ai-agents-fell-apart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-metas-plan-to-replace-workers-with-ai-agents-fell-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA says more than 100 internet-exposed U.S. water and wastewater systems were targeted in July, often through programmable logic controllers connected directly to cellular modems. "That's the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusions, but they have yet to attribute the campaign, widely suspected to be linked to Iran, to a particular group," reports The Register. From the report: Suspected Iranian attackers targeted water and wastewater facilities across at least a dozen s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-than-100-water-systems-were-hit-in-july-cyberattacks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-than-100-water-systems-were-hit-in-july-cyberattacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight attendant's breast cancer, alongside passive smoking and years of night work. The landmark ruling could open the door to similar claims from other aircrew, as research continues to link long-term high-altitude flying with elevated exposure to radiation-related cancers. The BBC reports: Sophie Lainault, a 59 year-old former stewardess on Air France, sought to have her cancer recogni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/radiation-link-in-flight-attendants-breast-cancer-french-court-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/radiation-link-in-flight-attendants-breast-cancer-french-court-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. "AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice," he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical." [...] "Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bill-gates-proposes-major-limits-on-ai-development/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bill-gates-proposes-major-limits-on-ai-development/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, "offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident." The AI company says the breach began when an unreleased cyber model, tested without normal production safeguards, encountered an impossible task and chained together previously unknown exploits to escape its environment and comp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google, that would allow the U.S. cloud giants to host its blockbuster Kimi K3 model, three people familiar with the talks said. Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major U.S. cloud company. The discussions highlight how China's leading AI models, often far cheaper than Western offeri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-moonshot-in-talks-with-microsoft-amazon-google-over-k3-revenue-sharing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-moonshot-in-talks-with-microsoft-amazon-google-over-k3-revenue-sharing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Maps Now Has Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has begun rolling out ads in Apple Maps, with sponsored businesses appearing at the top of search results and in the "suggested places" section for users in the U.S. and Canada. Apple says the ads can be based on approximate location, search terms, or the area of the map being viewed, but are not tied to users' Apple Accounts and personal data remains on-device. 9to5Mac reports: Ads appear just like every other business listing, except they have a small blue badge that says 'Ad.' You can s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-maps-now-has-ads/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-maps-now-has-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. "The employee worked at Amazon's VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same facility as LAS8, where Amazon operates its print-on-demand business," reports 404 Media. "Both operations are part of a larger complex of Amazon facilities in Las Vegas, N]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/inside-the-warehouse-where-amazon-scans-and-destroys-books-for-ai-training/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/inside-the-warehouse-where-amazon-scans-and-destroys-books-for-ai-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for thousands of supported titles as part of a newly announced disc-to-digital program. The program -- announced today ahead of testing for Xbox Insiders starting August 31 -- will let players claim a "digital entitlement" for "most Xbox One and X]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xboxs-new-disc-to-digital-program-gives-physical-games-a-digital-future/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xboxs-new-disc-to-digital-program-gives-physical-games-a-digital-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, bringing the team behind the popular open-source DuckDB database into AWS. "The deal fits Amazon's broader push to turn S3, its flagship cloud storage service, into a place where customers analyze data rather than just store it," reports GeekWire. "It gives Amazon a team experienced in building fast, lightweight analytics software that runs directly against data sitting in cloud storage." The DuckDB project itself will remain free and open source under the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-to-acquire-ducklabs-adding-the-team-behind-duckdb/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-to-acquire-ducklabs-adding-the-team-behind-duckdb/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S. states that the platforms were designed to addict children and misled users about their safety. For the next decade, teens will be limited to two hours a day and blocked from using the apps between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. Meta will, however, still be allowed to use personalized recommendations and targeted advertising. Reuters reports: The settlements in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-reaches-18-billion-of-settlements-over-childrens-social-media-addiction/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-reaches-18-billion-of-settlements-over-childrens-social-media-addiction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, which is due at the end of September. Phoronix reports: Firefox Nightly has JPEG-XL support enabled by default right now to help in vetting this support while Mozilla believes the support is in good enough shape for a stable debut with Firefox 157. This follows Chrome shipping JPEG-XL and Google Research developing jxl-rs as a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that is both performant and secure.In today's Mozilla Hacks blog post]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-157-will-include-jpeg-xl-by-default-on-all-platforms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-157-will-include-jpeg-xl-by-default-on-all-platforms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has imposed new restrictions on AI companion services over concerns they can foster "emotional dependence or addiction" and replace real-world social interaction. Officials are also worried that increasingly satisfying AI relationships could deepen loneliness and further discourage marriage and parenthood. The Guardian reports: No country has rolled out AI as comprehensively and as enthusiastically as China; the country's demographic challenges are forcing the government to turn to technol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-government-fears-ai-might-replace-human-intimacy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-government-fears-ai-might-replace-human-intimacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot]]></title><description><![CDATA[fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact for the last 12,000 years. In hundreds of cases, the brain was the only soft tissue left among otherwise skeletal remains. But how and why do brains sometimes persist for millennia while all other types of soft tissue disappear? This preservation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-may-have-figured-out-why-dead-brains-dont-always-rot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-may-have-figured-out-why-dead-brains-dont-always-rot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX plans to spend up to $100 billion building a new Starship launch facility in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, which the state says could eventually "support thousands of launches annually." CNBC reports: Once built, Starbase, LA will serve as the main launch facility for Starship, SpaceX's in-development rocket that's the largest ever built and designed to be fully reusable. Musk has aspirations to massively expand SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, to launch orbital data centers and to som]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-plans-to-build-a-100-billion-spaceport-in-louisiana/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-plans-to-build-a-100-billion-spaceport-in-louisiana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Antibodies play a central role in your body's immune defense. But they're also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process of producing their own antibodies, antibodies to many key proteins are commercially available and can be ordered for overnight delivery. In May, however, Reese Richardson, a post-doc at Northwestern University, dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lab-supply-companies-have-been-selling-antibodies-using-manipulated-images/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lab-supply-companies-have-been-selling-antibodies-using-manipulated-images/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. TechCrunch reports: The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased and guardrail-free cybersecurity models had escaped an isolated environment, connected to the internet, and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. As Reuters f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alabama-launches-investigation-into-openais-hack-of-hugging-face/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alabama-launches-investigation-into-openais-hack-of-hugging-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Zealand has introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. "We have protections to keep children safe in the real world and we need them in the virtual world too," said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in announcing the bill. Jurist.org reports: The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require an age restriction on platforms with harmful features for children. These features include recommender]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-zealand-introduces-under-16-social-media-ai-companion-ban/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-zealand-introduces-under-16-social-media-ai-companion-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Approves First Wearable Device to Monitor Glucose, Ketone Levels]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FDA has authorized the first wearable in the U.S. to continuously monitor ketone levels and the first device globally to track both ketones and glucose together in a single system. From a report: [Abbott's] Libre Duo 10 Day continuously measures both glucose and ketone levels in the fluid just beneath the skin every minute, day and night. Readings are transmitted wirelessly to a compatible smartphone, where users can view current glucose and ketone levels and whether those values are trendin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-wearable-device-to-monitor-glucose-ketone-levels/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-wearable-device-to-monitor-glucose-ketone-levels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada's cultural-content rules have become a flashpoint in its trade fight with the U.S., after American negotiators reportedly demanded that Ottawa drop requirements for streaming services to promote Canadian and French-language content. Canada refused, even as it has already backed away from some financial levies on streamers. "We were not prepared to compromise on our sovereignty, the protection of the French language, and our culture," Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a speech on Saturday]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canadian-streaming-content-becomes-a-us-trade-issue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canadian-streaming-content-becomes-a-us-trade-issue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perplexity and Nvidia have launched "Portable Computer," a local-first version of Perplexity's agent platform that runs AI models, files, tools, and workflows directly on Nvidia-powered Linux hardware. Local tasks incur no token charges and keep data on-device by default, with users asked for permission before the system escalates a step to a cloud model. VentureBeat reports: For Nvidia, which has spent the past two years selling the world on trillion-dollar AI data centers, the announcement sig]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/perplexity-and-nvidia-launch-fully-local-ai-agent-with-zero-token-costs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/perplexity-and-nvidia-launch-fully-local-ai-agent-with-zero-token-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years, AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, newly updated research from Stanford University economists suggests AI seems to be causing significant entry-level job losses for younger workers in some fields, even as older workers appear largely unaffected so far.The August 2026 edition of "C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo Is Expanding to Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, marking the Google-owned company's first expansion into the European Union. "It already operates in 11 cities in the United States and has applied for a license in the United Kingdom to launch its robotaxis in London this year," notes Reuters. From the report: The Google subsidiary will start rolling out vehicles in the German city this year, which will be manually driven while the company "starts with high-definition mappi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-is-expanding-to-germany/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-is-expanding-to-germany/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has unveiled a new Mac mini with either its new M6 chip or the M5 Pro chip released earlier this year. It adds faster CPU, GPU, storage, and AI performance along with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard. There's also a new higher starting price of $899, which is up from the previous $799 base price and far above the $599 starting price of the 2024 model. MacRumors reports: The M6 chip is equipped with a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, up from a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-announces-new-mac-mini-with-m6-and-m5-pro-chips/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-announces-new-mac-mini-with-m6-and-m5-pro-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Motorola is working with GrapheneOS to officially support the privacy-focused Android alternative on its 2027 flagship phones, starting with a non-folding model and later expanding to the next Razr Fold and Razr Ultra. "These will ship with Motorola's normal Android skin, but you will be able to switch to GrapheneOS later if you want to," notes GSMArena.com. GrapheneOS says the devices will "meet or exceed" its hardware and update requirements, and will include seven years of "proper updates." I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/motorolas-2027-flagships-will-officially-support-grapheneos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/motorolas-2027-flagships-will-officially-support-grapheneos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows Backdoor 'Sleepwalker' Hides in Memory Until Activated by a 'Magic Packet']]></title><description><![CDATA["The Register has a story about a Windows backdoor that waits silently in memory for a 'magic packet' before springing into action," writes Slashdot reader fred133. "No outgoing traffic, just waiting..." From the report: Like a sleeper cell awaiting activation, a never-before-seen Windows backdoor dubbed Sleepwalker waits silently in memory for one specifically crafted network packet to wake it up and deliver commands using the malware's 23-instruction language. The commands can do everything fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-backdoor-sleepwalker-hides-in-memory-until-activated-by-a-magic-packet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-backdoor-sleepwalker-hides-in-memory-until-activated-by-a-magic-packet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A developer says AliExpress is using the browser's WebAudio API to help fingerprint users by playing inaudible audio and measuring tiny differences in how their devices process it. CyberNews reports: The developer, "laserphile," wrote on their blog that they recently ran into some weird issues with their Bluetooth headphones. They couldn't play music via their phone when, at the same time, the AliExpress website was open on their PC. The headphones, laserphile explained, support multipoint Bluet]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aliexpress-leverages-user-audio-systems-for-fingerprinting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aliexpress-leverages-user-audio-systems-for-fingerprinting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The world's oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Nino weather phenomenon. The average surface temperature of the planet's seas outside the polar regions hit 21.1C (70F) on Saturday, according to figures from the European Copernicus climate change service. That edges past the 21.09C recorded on three separate days in March 2024, and is far above average for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-oceans-hit-highest-temperature-on-record-as-el-nino-grows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-oceans-hit-highest-temperature-on-record-as-el-nino-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that's been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon's cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumped 60% overnight, from $49.99 to $79.99. Price-tracking sites like CamelCamelCamel show the stark uptick, which has previously hovered much lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-hikes-hardware-prices-by-60-blaming-memory-shortage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-hikes-hardware-prices-by-60-blaming-memory-shortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[The SEC is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details about the fund's trades, borrowing, and communications with lenders. The fund, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, managed over $30 billion and borrowed tens of billions more before leveraged bets unraveled, forcing it to sell most of its stock portfolio to Citadel at a discount. The New York Times reports: The subpoenas asked]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sec-investigating-near-implosion-of-ai-hedge-fund/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sec-investigating-near-implosion-of-ai-hedge-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is proposing to make permanent a $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visas, dramatically increasing costs for employers that rely on highly skilled foreign workers in tech, education, and research. "A federal judge in June ruled that the fee was illegal and blocked the Trump administration from collecting it," reports Reuters. "A Boston-based appeals court is reviewing that decision while a different court considers whether a judge properly rejected a challenge to the fee b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-moves-to-impose-more-than-100k-fee-for-h-1b-worker-visas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-moves-to-impose-more-than-100k-fee-for-h-1b-worker-visas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raspberry Pi has published an official guide for building a cyberdeck, leaning into a viral trend of homemade portable computers built from repurposed cases, purses, and other oddball hardware. The guide uses a Raspberry Pi 5, keyboard, battery, and Pelican-style case. The Verge reports: Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks this year." Raspberry Pi has also increased its prices multiple t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/raspberry-pi-shares-its-official-tutorial-for-making-a-cyberdeck/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/raspberry-pi-shares-its-official-tutorial-for-making-a-cyberdeck/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Taiwan has indicted nine people -- reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country -- who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were "charged with breach of trust and document forgery." One su]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-senior-manager-linked-to-supermicro-scheme-smuggling-ai-servers-to-china/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-senior-manager-linked-to-supermicro-scheme-smuggling-ai-servers-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Delays Ambitious Chang'e 7 Lunar Mission Until 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has delayed its ambitious Chang'e 7 lunar mission until at least 2027 after scrubbing an August 24 launch. Poor weather conditions were likely a factor, with China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA) saying the decision reflects the need for "absolute safety." Scientific American reports: China and the U.S. are in a race to send humans back to the moon, a feat that that U.S. accomplished in the 1960s and that has never been achieved by any other country. Chang'e 7 is to play to a crucial part in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-delays-ambitious-change-7-lunar-mission-until-2027/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-delays-ambitious-change-7-lunar-mission-until-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Approves First Alzheimer's Blood Test For Americans As Young As 40]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FDA has cleared the first Alzheimer's blood test for symptomatic patients as young as 40. The test measures amyloid and tau biomarkers from a single blood draw and identified positive biomarkers with 97.6% accuracy in a validation study. New Atlas reports: PrecivityAD2 is a single blood test that quickly assesses the proteins amyloid and tau, using mass spectrometry to measure plasma AB42/40 and p-tau217/np-tau217. The results are then scored, qualifying as negative, likely positive, or posi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-alzheimers-blood-test-for-americans-as-young-as-40/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-alzheimers-blood-test-for-americans-as-young-as-40/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two humanoid robots competing at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday ran the 100-meter dash faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world-record time. "[T]he Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot completed the 100-meter dash in 9.39 seconds during a preliminary heat," reports Engadget. "Developed by Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the record-holding robot overtook Honor's Lightning robot, which completed the sprint in 9.47 seconds. From the report: Despite the impressive finish]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humanoid-robots-run-100-meters-faster-than-usain-bolts-record-pace/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humanoid-robots-run-100-meters-faster-than-usain-bolts-record-pace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac's "California Love" and Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady," is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence's recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gluons are the quantum 'Gorilla Glue' involved in binding quarks together, ScienceAlert reminds us. But for nearly 50 years, physicists have hunted for "glueballs", exotic particles predicted by this theory of the strong interaction &mdash; the only type of particle in nature composed entirely of force mediators:<br />
Now, a collaboration working at a collider in Beijing says it has the clearest evidence yet that a known particle called X(2370) is dominated by one of these elusive states... Physicist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/after-50-years-physicists-may-have-finally-found-a-particle-made-of-pure-force/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/after-50-years-physicists-may-have-finally-found-a-particle-made-of-pure-force/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long legal battle over ownership of Linux "is closer than ever to ending," reports the Register, "after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn't valid, and that time has expired for further action."In 2021, an heir to SCO settled with IBM for $14.25 million &mdash; a sum that reflects the fact SCO had for years failed to produce strong evidence to back its claims. Another of SCO's legal successors, Xinuos, filed a new claim that IBM should be on the hook because Bi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sco-successor-xinuos-asks-court-to-rehear-its-claims-against-ibmred-hat-over-project-monterey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sco-successor-xinuos-asks-court-to-rehear-its-claims-against-ibmred-hat-over-project-monterey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Pew Research senior data scientist analyzed 500,000 English-language webpages from the past five years with an AI detection tool to estimate how many were likely written or edited by AI:Of all the pages in this sample, 10% show significant signs of AI authorship... If we filter old webpages out of our samples and look at only the pages published after the release of ChatGPT, the trend is even more pronounced. In the July 2026 snapshot, signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/one-third-of-web-pages-are-now-written-with-ai-says-pew-research/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/one-third-of-web-pages-are-now-written-with-ai-says-pew-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?]]></title><description><![CDATA[3,346 backers pledged $1,198,844 on Kickstarter to build the (modular) handheld Linux computer, the Mecha Comet. It's slightly bigger and heavier than your smartphone, with a 4-inch AMOLED display and loaded up with things like microphones, speakers, a SIM tray, two USB ports and a mini HDMI port. There's three separate kill switches for wifi, microphone and camera &mdash; plus a "boot mode" switch for the SD card, and even three pins for instant access to its debug console.<br />
It's now expected to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/could-mecha-comets-linux-pc-phone-hybrid-be-the-future-of-linux-smartphones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/could-mecha-comets-linux-pc-phone-hybrid-be-the-future-of-linux-smartphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions &mdash; charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields.<br />
But it operates with 98 qubits &mdash; making it the largest trapped-ion quantum computer built so far.Quantinuum, the company behind the device, is based in Cambridge, U.K., and Broomfield, Colorado. It demonstrated earlier machines operating on 32 qubits in 2023 and 56 qubits in 2025...It relies on two major ad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-global-race-to-make-a-practical-quantum-computer-just-took-a-big-leap-forward/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-global-race-to-make-a-practical-quantum-computer-just-took-a-big-leap-forward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content]]></title><description><![CDATA[A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget:Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of "having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon." Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its recurring Patch Notes stream where Mike Minton, the company's chief product officer, said "if it was op]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/twitch-and-amazon-hit-with-lawsuit-for-training-ai-with-streamers-content/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/twitch-and-amazon-hit-with-lawsuit-for-training-ai-with-streamers-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens']]></title><description><![CDATA[This week OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT exclusively designed for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, reports CTV, "saying this version came with stronger protections around content related to mentions of suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats."<br />
[Tech analyst Carmi Levy says] "What it's doing is it's using cues, it's sort of watching how you're using the tool, and it's trying to guess your age." Levy said if ChatGPT thinks a person has lied about their age when they first sig]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-faces-safety-scrutiny-after-introducing-chatgpt-for-teens/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-faces-safety-scrutiny-after-introducing-chatgpt-for-teens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days]]></title><description><![CDATA["Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack," reports the Telegraph.<br />
More details from the BBC:<br />
The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyber attacks... DESNZ said the incident had affected a small-scale generator and at no point had there been a risk to the wider energy system. The UK's power]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/iran-linked-cyberattackers-shut-down-a-uk-power-plant-for-four-days/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/iran-linked-cyberattackers-shut-down-a-uk-power-plant-for-four-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slovakia acquired speed cameras to modernize its traffic control-- but there was a surprise. Tom's Hardware cites this story from the Risky Bulletin Newsletter:Unfortunately, the country's national security service, the NBU, has discovered that the cameras have multiple security issues. Firstly, they have SMS-activated Russian backdoors. Secondly, live camera feeds can be accessed by anyone with the device IP, no password necessary...<br />
[The cameras] are thought to be rebranded Russian CORDON PRO.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely]]></title><description><![CDATA["There is still no sign of economy-wide job destruction," says economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Working with researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Brynjolfsson has determined an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely, reports the Washington Post, "even though it will likely impact entry-level jobs."<br />
And Brynjolfsson "predicts that demand for experienced workers such as senior coders will still be high even if AI takes on more routine knowledge and coding work in the future."Earlier this month, B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stanford-economist-now-believes-an-ai-job-apocalypse-is-unlikely/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stanford-economist-now-believes-an-ai-job-apocalypse-is-unlikely/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[23 Years After SimCity 4's Release, 'Eternal Commuter' Bug Finally Fixed]]></title><description><![CDATA["It began life just a year after SimCity 4's 2003 launch," writes the blog PCGamesN. "Now, over 20 years later, it's still going strong with the arrival of Network Addon Mod update 50."The SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, or simply 'NAM' among the community, has long been a de facto recommendation to anyone looking to pick up the classic city builder. It's a comprehensive overhaul to the game's transportation and infrastructure networks that combines key fixes with a vast set of additional build pie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/23-years-after-simcity-4s-release-eternal-commuter-bug-finally-fixed/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/23-years-after-simcity-4s-release-eternal-commuter-bug-finally-fixed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS:<br />
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group.<br />
The PhD is aiming to build an all-encompassing platform that can take a C repository running into]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonical-is-funding-a-phd-to-automate-c-to-rust-translation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonical-is-funding-a-phd-to-automate-c-to-rust-translation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supply Chain Issues Delaying US Grid Batteries' Installation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America's grids "are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in," with supplies straining for the necessary equipment.Demand for batteries has skyrocketed as electricity use across the U.S. swells, driven by data centers' booming energy needs and increasing electrification. It's also getting harder to get them connected to power grids... As those upgrades ge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supply-chain-issues-delaying-us-grid-batteries-installation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supply-chain-issues-delaying-us-grid-batteries-installation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a "None of the above" option.The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions by changing the Debian Social Contract. This would stop generative AI from being used for direct Debian work like packaging, software, documentation, translations, websites, and project communication. However, upstream projects made with AI help wou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/debian-is-voting-on-whether-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/debian-is-voting-on-whether-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retraction Watch reports:<br />
A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers. The case has already cost Elsevier a $10,000 sanction from a judge.Global Plasma Solutions (GPS), which makes air quality products, sued Elsevier in 2022 after the publisher declined to retract a 2021 paper in Building and Environment about GPS' nee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/defamation-suit-demanding-elsevier-retract-paper-heads-closer-to-trial/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/defamation-suit-demanding-elsevier-retract-paper-heads-closer-to-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues On RGB Lighting Devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[BleepingComputer reports:<br />
Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the August 2026 Windows updates may be caused by peripherals with RGB lighting.<br />
As Microsoft explained when it confirmed it's investigating on Wednesday, this known issue affects games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2... "[Peripherals or internal device components with RGB lighting features] may install drivers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-blames-windows-gaming-issues-on-rgb-lighting-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK &amp;pound;1bn a Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wrongly discarded lithium batteries, such as those in vapes, are causing more than 10 fires a week at U.K. recycling centers, according to figures shared with the Guardian:The Environment Services Association (ESA), the trade body for waste management companies, said its members had reported 1,518 fires in the year to March 2026. At least 541 of these fires were directly attributed to lithium ion batteries, the survey found. There were a further 216 battery fires in bin lorries [garbage trucks].]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/battery-fires-at-recycling-centres-are-costing-the-uk-amppound1bn-a-year/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/battery-fires-at-recycling-centres-are-costing-the-uk-amppound1bn-a-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Will AI Change the Field of Mathematics?]]></title><description><![CDATA["AI went from being very terrible to seemingly genuinely quite good at a professional level in a very short space of time..." says the Verge's AI reporter.But AI systems "are still truly, truly terrible at some areas of math... even the days of the week."If you look at academic math papers, a lot of the time you won't see numbers... So they're still terrible, but they're now also very good at this other part. As to why, at some point you reach a critical mass of what these systems can do. We saw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-will-ai-change-the-field-of-mathematics/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-will-ai-change-the-field-of-mathematics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember that rush rescue mission for NASA's $500M space telescope? It failed, reports CNN, and the LINK satellite won't be able to boost the telescope's orbit. NASA says its decades-old Swift telescope will now continue losing altitude, until it reaches Earth's atmosphere later this year and burns up.<br />
CNN reports:Just weeks after LINK lifted off on July 3, it started to spin out of control. [Satellite designer] Katalyst was able to regain control of the satellite, but the company acknowledged t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rush-rescue-mission-for-nasas-500m-space-telescope-fails/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rush-rescue-mission-for-nasas-500m-space-telescope-fails/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this article from Wired:[Flock] has told the public for years that its technology "cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals." It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned... Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home add]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-is-secretly-building-a-powerful-new-prompt-based-ai-tool-for-police/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-is-secretly-building-a-powerful-new-prompt-based-ai-tool-for-police/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low Emission Zone Led To Better Lung Size, Function Among London Children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian:<br />
Children's lungs grew bigger and stronger after the most polluting vehicles were restricted from entering London, a study has found. Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city's ultra-low emission zone found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution... "Traffic pollution in cities damages children's health and development," said Chris Griffiths, a p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/low-emission-zone-led-to-better-lung-size-function-among-london-children/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/low-emission-zone-led-to-better-lung-size-function-among-london-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters reports "a major success in a new field of cancer treatment this week, as Moderna and Merck announced a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine "reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial". The vaccine was tested with Merck's widely used immunotherapy drug Keytruda:Thousands of patients who have undergone surgery to remove high-risk melanoma tumors could benefit as soon as next year if regulators approve the vaccine, Moderna President Stephen Hoge said in an int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raises-new-treatment-hope/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raises-new-treatment-hope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates?  What Economists Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[47% of recent graduates say AI has already impacted hiring in their field, according to an April survey from ZipRecruiter.<br />
"But is AI really the problem, or is it more complicated?" asks NPR. "Here's what economists have to say."According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the unemployment rate for recent graduates &mdash; which it defines as 22-to-27-year-olds with a new bachelor's degree or higher &mdash; was 5.7% as of June, more than the rate for all workers, which stands at 4.1%... St]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-ai-really-to-blame-for-high-unemployment-among-recent-graduates-what-economists-say/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-ai-really-to-blame-for-high-unemployment-among-recent-graduates-what-economists-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firefox 154 "brings a number of usability improvements," writes PC World:<br />
The free built-in VPN, introduced with Firefox 149, continues to offer a selection of virtual locations &mdash; temporarily extended to 28 countries until the end of August... The free VPN is currently available to Firefox users in the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany. In addition, the free VPN can now also be used in Firefox for Android (rolling out gradually) with iOS to follow soon.Firefox 154 also begins adding]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-announces-free-vpn-and-startpage-search-engine-rolling-out-to-android-ios-plus-geforce-now-support/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-announces-free-vpn-and-startpage-search-engine-rolling-out-to-android-ios-plus-geforce-now-support/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[fjo3 shares a report from SFGATE: The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to a massive amount of tech workers employed by some of the world's most valuable companies, from Apple to Nvidia. But for the first time, New York has eclipsed the Bay Area as the home of the largest "tech talent workforce," a report by real estate and investment firm CBRE shows. The firm has published the annual report for 13 years. Last year, the New York Metro Area's tech tale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-dethrones-san-francisco-bay-area-as-largest-tech-talent-market/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-dethrones-san-francisco-bay-area-as-largest-tech-talent-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on LinkedIn's new "Seems like AI slop" button, which launched after one analysis found 41% of the platform's longform posts were fully AI-generated. The Verge reports: In Thursday's post, Srinivasan said that users are overall "now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago." LinkedIn is also adding a new message that will tell users who make a post if "S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rapidly developing El Nino is already reaching record-setting levels for this time of year and is expected to intensify further over the coming months. "The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future," writes renowned climate scientist James Hansen at Columbia University in New York in a newsletter sent today. Climate scientists disagr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/off-the-charts-el-nino-is-already-the-strongest-since-records-began/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/off-the-charts-el-nino-is-already-the-strongest-since-records-began/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China's Ministry of State Security, the country has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition for Chinese-made Linux distributions. Why not Windows 11? Because China, like many other non-US governments, no longer trusts American companies with their software and services. This approach is all about digital sovereignty. In addition, even before the recent trend of gove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, has imposed a six-month moratorium on "major electric utility infrastructure" in its latest attempt to delay a proposed $1.2 billion University of Michigan-Los Alamos data center that would support nuclear-weapons research. Township leaders, who have already paused water service for data centers, say the project has moved forward without adequate consultation and want more time to study noise, grid impacts, and other effects on residents. 404 Media reports: Last yea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/township-fights-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-a-moratorium-on-electrical-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/township-fights-nuclear-weapons-data-center-by-passing-a-moratorium-on-electrical-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs as it shifts resources toward a rebuilt, AI-powered Siri and other future products. Roughly 100 positions are being eliminated from the Vision Pro organization, including much of its gaming team and some immersive-video staff. Another 100 cuts are hitting the Siri and software teams. Bloomberg reports: In a statement, Apple acknowledged that it was realigning some teams "to evolve our business to deliver the best experiences for our users." "While we will crea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-cuts-jobs-in-siri-vision-pro-immersive-video-and-gaming-teams/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-cuts-jobs-in-siri-vision-pro-immersive-video-and-gaming-teams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have charged activist Samuel Tunick with obstruction after he gave Customs and Border Protection officers a duress passcode that wiped his GrapheneOS-powered Pixel during a border search. "His prosecution is one of the earliest known instances of the federal authorities charging a person with destroying evidence using a program designed to wipe a device clean after a specific code is entered," reports The New York Times. From the report: "Obstructing federal law enforcement i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/american-who-wiped-his-phone-with-duress-password-during-border-search-gets-felony-charges/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/american-who-wiped-his-phone-with-duress-password-during-border-search-gets-felony-charges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Economist: Students and school children are increasingly using artificial intelligence. A survey last year by Chegg, an ed-tech firm, found that 80% of rich-world undergraduates used it in their studies. More recent polls put the figure at 94% in Britain and 93% in Germany. Such widespread adoption has fueled concerns about the impact the technology might be having on learning. Teachers report marking identikit essays that they suspect are churned out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-boosted-homework-scores-then-exam-scores-dropped/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-boosted-homework-scores-then-exam-scores-dropped/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and find Luke Skywalker. "This is what the emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and the hidden base on Hoth," he said. The Hill reports: He urged that the cameras be used to surveil any "rebel scum as they move from playground]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/man-dressed-as-darth-vader-defends-flock-cameras-to-san-diego-city-council/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/man-dressed-as-darth-vader-defends-flock-cameras-to-san-diego-city-council/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron says it will spend $10 billion over the next decade on a new research lab in Boise focused on advanced memory technologies, computing systems, and future chip manufacturing. Here are some details, as reported by Reuters:- Micron Research Labs will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor ecosystem to pursue breakthroughs, the company said.- The latest investment builds on the more than $250 billion that Micron had separately committed to manufacturing a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/micron-unveils-10-billion-ai-memory-research-lab-in-boise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/micron-unveils-10-billion-ai-memory-research-lab-in-boise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds says AI "enormously helped" him track down a stubborn Intel Xe graphics driver bug that took 24 debugging patches and 18 kernel boots to isolate. "I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it," wrote Torvalds on the commit. "I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am..." Phoronix reports: The patch by Linus Tor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-endures-a-debug-session-from-hell-enormously-helped-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-endures-a-debug-session-from-hell-enormously-helped-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of refusing to adopt tap-to-pay technology in its stores, retail giant Walmart announced today that it is finally accepting payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay. The rollout begins August 24 at select Walmart and Sam's Club locations and is expected to reach all stores by year-end. It will then expand to fuel stations by mid-2027. TechCrunch reports: The news is a surprise, as Walmart has long refused to adopt the ubiquitous payment technology to instead promote its own in-hous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmart-to-finally-start-accepting-apple-pay-and-google-pay/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmart-to-finally-start-accepting-apple-pay-and-google-pay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is giving publishers a new way to fight declining referral traffic from AI-powered search by letting them embed a "Preferred Sources" button that readers can use to favor their sites across Search, Discover, and Google News. "The idea is to make it easier for readers to find links from the sites they know and trust when they're searching for content or interacting with Google's AI to learn about a topic or read the latest news," reports TechCrunch. "As of May's launch, the company said th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-gives-publishers-a-preferred-sources-button-to-fight-ai-driven-traffic-losses/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-gives-publishers-a-preferred-sources-button-to-fight-ai-driven-traffic-losses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is expanding Windows Task Manager to show per-process NPU and GPU neural-engine usage, giving users more visibility into which apps are consuming hardware for AI workloads. The Register reports: The Processes tab can show NPU use alongside CPU and GPU activity, while the Performance tab displays overall utilization. [...] Microsoft was keen to point out the metrics that can be monitored. "As AI workloads become more common on Windows devices, visibility into NPU and GPU neural engine u]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-gives-task-manager-another-task-watching-ai-workloads/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-gives-task-manager-another-task-watching-ai-workloads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[China's Chang'e 7 mission is set to launch for the moon's south pole, where it will attempt the first-ever landing directly at the pole and search the region's dark craters for water ice. "It's an amazing mission," says Norbert Schorghofer, a Hawaii-based senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. "There has never been a landed mission to find water [on the moon]." If successful, China "will be the leader in lunar science," Schorghofer adds. Scientific American reports: Chang'e 7, Chin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-is-about-to-launch-its-most-ambitious-moon-mission-yet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-is-about-to-launch-its-most-ambitious-moon-mission-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?]]></title><description><![CDATA[RAMageddon could soon push car prices higher as modern vehicles rely on ever more RAM and powerful centralized computers to run everything from infotainment to driver-assistance systems. Analysts cited by The Atlantic estimate the shortage could add a few percentage points to vehicle prices, which might not sound like much, but could potentially translate to around $2,000 on a $50,000 vehicle. The broader shift toward software-heavy vehicles could also make used cars even less affordable. An ano]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-you-sure-you-want-a-car-with-a-giant-touch-screen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-you-sure-you-want-a-car-with-a-giant-touch-screen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bilibili, often described as China's answer to YouTube, is relaunching its international app and preparing an English-language site as part of a broader push into the U.S., Europe, Japan, and other markets. The company is courting Western creators like MrBest, hiring community and moderation staff globally, and building tools for brand partnerships. Semafor reports: The revamped international app no longer requires identity verification -- meaning users can sign up without having to provide a pa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-youtube-rival-bilibili-is-going-global/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-youtube-rival-bilibili-is-going-global/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain regions that normally help them stay focused and weigh longer-term goals. When people watch a short video they enjoy enough to finish, two brain regions involved in cognitive control show significant deactivation. That is the central finding of a new study from Zhejiang]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/watching-tiktok-videos-and-instagram-reels-deactivates-the-brains-cognitive-control-network/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/watching-tiktok-videos-and-instagram-reels-deactivates-the-brains-cognitive-control-network/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian attacks on Ukrainian publishing infrastructure in July and August destroyed roughly 10 million books, which equates to about 30% of Ukraine's annual book output. The Ukrainian Book Institute is warning of a potential "collapse of the entire book ecosystem" and is calling for international financial and industry support to help publishers, printers, and distributors recover. The Guardian reports: A major attack on August 1 hit warehouses belonging to the RNK-Ranok publishing group in Khar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ukrainian-publishers-call-for-support-after-russian-attacks-destroy-10-million-books/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ukrainian-publishers-call-for-support-after-russian-attacks-destroy-10-million-books/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A growing backlash against AI data centers is spilling into local politics, with residents in more than a dozen communities pushing recall elections against officials who approved projects. "People are standing up and saying, 'Sorry, we don't want these data centers in our communities for a number of reasons,'" Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, said in an interview. "'If you can't have the guts to stand up to some large corporation, you should not continue serving in office.'" The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/voters-arent-waiting-for-november-to-try-ousting-officials-over-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/voters-arent-waiting-for-november-to-try-ousting-officials-over-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a "severe" math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece. The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were "five to eight years" behind and lacked a "middle school" education on fractions and b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/does-using-ai-to-edit-an-op-ed-on-students-math-skills-undermine-the-argument/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/does-using-ai-to-edit-an-op-ed-on-students-math-skills-undermine-the-argument/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports that YouTube is offering major creators millions of dollars to keep some content exclusive to its platform as Netflix increasingly signs YouTube-native talent to non-exclusive deals. YouTube has also warned that creators who simultaneously publish on Netflix could lose marketing support, event opportunities, and access to revenue from certain brand campaigns. Quartz reports: Bloomberg described two categories of payment: funding directed at specific programs, and a portion of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/youtube-offers-creators-millions-of-dollars-to-stay-off-netflix/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/youtube-offers-creators-millions-of-dollars-to-stay-off-netflix/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as "private and secure." A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired reports: Overall, according to findings from independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, the exposed ClarityCheck database contained roughly 450 GB of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered such speeds for years, the FCC said the gigabit speed goal is not "technologically neutral," suggesting that it isn't fair to other, slower technologies.In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies, including foreign firms operating in Japan, to disclose what models they use, what training data they rely on, and how that data was collected. The proposal would also let rights holders ask whether specific webpages were included in training datasets. The Japan Times reports: The draft code comprises three principles. The first principle requires businesses to disclose the generative AI models they]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japan-to-require-ai-firms-to-disclose-training-data/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japan-to-require-ai-firms-to-disclose-training-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[bryanandaimee shares a report from ScienceDaily: A Finnish study has found an unexpected association between screen use and cognitive performance. Children who accumulated more screen time as they grew up tended to show better cognitive processing during adolescence. One of the researchers cautions against viewing screen time as entirely harmful and says the goal should be to balance physical activity with screen use that encourages active thinking. [...] "The findings suggest that screen time c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-challenges-common-assumptions-about-screen-time-for-kids/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-challenges-common-assumptions-about-screen-time-for-kids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space's Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecraft. NASA said this means the telescope will plunge through the atmosphere after more than 20 years of tracking some of the biggest explosions in the universe l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rescue-mission-is-called-off-for-nasas-aging-swift-space-telescope/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rescue-mission-is-called-off-for-nasas-aging-swift-space-telescope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today in the landmark child safety trial against the social media company. Only one man had the ability to change that, Bejar said: CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But he didn't. "At the end of the day, it was the company culture that Mark had created that made]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whistleblower-arturo-bejar-leads-testimony-in-landmark-trial-against-meta/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whistleblower-arturo-bejar-leads-testimony-in-landmark-trial-against-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. Future production will depend on component pricing after mid 2027, while existing PineNote and PineTab2 inventory could run out in roughly three months. The company says PineTime, PineVoice, and Pinecil production will continue as usual, but the outlook for its Linux hardware is much less cert]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pine64-halts-linux-device-production-amid-dram-and-emmc-shortages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pine64-halts-linux-device-production-amid-dram-and-emmc-shortages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter as it pushes beyond payments into the infrastructure behind AI applications. According to The New York Times, the deal is reportedly valued at about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter's founders. Less than three months ago the company was valued at about $1.3 billion. CNBC reports: OpenRouter has become popular with developers seeking to use AI models, particularly those considered non-proprietary and available for free. Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-buys-ai-startup-openrouter-for-75-billion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-buys-ai-startup-openrouter-for-75-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon says its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand sixfold to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, including metro areas around Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise. According to Amazon Prime Air vice president David Carbon, the service has already delivered "hundreds of thousands of packages to customers" this year, typically within about an hour. The Verge reports: These will join 11 locations across the US where Amazon already offers drone deliveries, wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-drones-will-soon-deliver-to-nearly-500-us-cities-and-towns/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-drones-will-soon-deliver-to-nearly-500-us-cities-and-towns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Independent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for allegedly using hundreds of copyrighted songs without permission to train their AI systems. The company says potential damages could exceed $1 billion, arguing there is "nothing fair" about building multibillion-dollar AI businesses on copyrighted material while rights holders receive nothing. From The Hollywood Reporter: Round Hill is a prominent music publisher whose copyrights include the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris," Bonnie Tyle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/music-publisher-round-hill-files-1-billion-copyright-infringement-suits-against-suno-anthropic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/music-publisher-round-hill-files-1-billion-copyright-infringement-suits-against-suno-anthropic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has breached more than 500 U.S. critical infrastructure organizations since 2021, up from more than 300 reported last year. The group has targeted healthcare, government, defense, manufacturing, IT and financial organizations, evolving into a ransomware-as-a-service operation that recruits initial-access brokers and uses stolen data to pressure victims into paying. BleepingComputer reports: The three federal agencies recommended that network defenders se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-medusa-ransomware-hit-over-500-critical-infrastructure-orgs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-medusa-ransomware-hit-over-500-critical-infrastructure-orgs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine significantly reduced both cancer recurrence and spread in a late-stage trial. The treatment could reach patients as soon as next year if regulators approve it. Reuters reports: Moderna developed the vaccine with Merck and tested it together with immunotherapy drug Keytruda, a widely used treatment for melanoma. [...] This is the first positive late-stage trial result for an mRNA cancer vaccine, which trains a patient's immune system]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/moderna-merck-say-mrna-vaccine-prevents-melanoma-from-returning/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/moderna-merck-say-mrna-vaccine-prevents-melanoma-from-returning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper, titled Value misalignment of X's feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement, found that the site's algorithm prioritized engagement above all else when it generated a user's For You Page. It also showed that X serves more ragebait to people who say they]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive]]></title><description><![CDATA[A U.S. Army battalion at Fort Stewart is offering soldiers a four-day pass timed to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI if they reenlist for at least two years. The program is limited to one unit for now, but it fits the Army's broader effort to appeal to gamers as a recruiting and retention pool. CBS News reports: Twenty soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, have already chosen this incentive as part of their reenl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/army-unit-offers-4-day-pass-to-play-gta-vi-as-reenlistment-incentive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/army-unit-offers-4-day-pass-to-play-gta-vi-as-reenlistment-incentive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese robotics giant Unitree surged more than 600% in its Shanghai stock market debut, marking the first mainland Chinese listing by a humanoid robot maker and a major milestone for Beijing's robotics ambitions. The BBC reports: Unitree, officially known as Yushu Technology Co Ltd, was founded in 2016 and now plays a key role in Beijing's ambitions to develop advanced technology. It has become a robotics industry leader, selling devices from sensors and automated arms to four-legged and human-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-robotics-giant-unitree-soars-in-stock-market-debut/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-robotics-giant-unitree-soars-in-stock-market-debut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A study of more than 64,000 people born around the end of Britain's postwar sugar rationing found that those exposed to less sugar during their first 1,000 days had lower rates of five cancers decades later, including roughly 69% lower liver cancer risk and 36% lower breast cancer risk. They also "showed signs of slower biological aging" and "continued to consume less sugar and had healthier diets overall," according to the authors of a new study published in The Conversation. From the report: A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-risk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their functionality could be boosted further by conveying information via entangled quantum particles -- potentially enabling instantaneous exchanges of information across vast distances. Such a system could eventually be the basis of a future 'quantum internet,' offering a level of security and computing power beyond]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/physicists-entangle-quantum-memories-across-a-record-breaking-420-kilometers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/physicists-entangle-quantum-memories-across-a-record-breaking-420-kilometers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. Writing in the journal Jama Network Open, [Vishal Patel, first author of the study based at Harvard Medical School] and colleagues report how they focused on the releas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/top-album-releases-linked-to-rise-in-fatal-crashes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/top-album-releases-linked-to-rise-in-fatal-crashes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built directly into its AI coding environment. The company is initially positioning Origin as a low-risk layer on top of GitHub, keeping GitHub as the "source of truth," but the launch landed just as a major GitHub outage highlighted growing concerns about reliability in the age of AI-generated code. VentureBeat reports: Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cursor-launches-origin-code-hosting-platform-as-github-alternative/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cursor-launches-origin-code-hosting-platform-as-github-alternative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comcast is activating Wi-Fi motion sensing on millions of compatible Xfinity gateways, allowing the routers to detect movement by measuring disruptions in signals between the gateway and connected devices. The free feature, part of Xfinity Shield, can send activity alerts through the Xfinity app and offers Home, Away, and nighttime monitoring modes without requiring separate motion sensors. The Verge reports: Wi-Fi motion sensing is a technology that has been around for a while, but it's only re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comcast-is-turning-millions-of-its-routers-into-motion-detectors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comcast-is-turning-millions-of-its-routers-into-motion-detectors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney and ABC are suing the FCC to block an early review of eight station licenses, arguing the Trump administration is using the agency's regulatory power to punish the network over programming and editorial decisions it dislikes. Reuters reports: In a lawsuit (PDF) filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, Disney said the FCC was seeking to coerce and retaliate against "a network that refuses to bow to the administration's demands," calling the agency's actions an "extraordinary assault on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disney-abc-sue-fcc-over-threats-to-broadcast-licenses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disney-abc-sue-fcc-over-threats-to-broadcast-licenses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months]]></title><description><![CDATA[RAM prices have exploded over the past year, with some DDR5 kits approaching 500% year-over-year increases and a 128GB kit now selling for $3,399, which is more than 10 times its previous low. Tom's Hardware reports: Things improve as you step down the memory capacities and speed tiers, but not as much as we'd like. You're still looking at $392 for a memory kit that was just $72 last year. To reinforce the point, I pulled the latest average price data from PCPartPicker, comparing where we are to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/memory-prices-climb-500-in-12-months/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/memory-prices-climb-500-in-12-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone In the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your iPhone, SamsungGalaxy, andGoogle Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended service plan, you'll pay a hefty fee if you damage the screen and need a replacement (around $329 for aniPhone 17done directly fromApple). But it doesn't have to be this way. What if you could order the part from the manufacturer and do the repair yourself? That dream is finally being realized for American consumers, thanks to Fairpho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/you-can-finally-buy-a-fairphone-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/you-can-finally-buy-a-fairphone-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive trove of anonymized Spirit Airlines data following the carrier's shutdown, including internal communications, spreadsheets, booking and frequent-flyer records, transactions, and employee information. CNN reports: Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google's artificial intelligence model. The discount airline halted all operations in May, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-buys-all-of-spirit-airlines-data-to-feed-its-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-buys-all-of-spirit-airlines-data-to-feed-its-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Lowers App Store Fees In Europe to Settle Dispute With EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle its Digital Markets Act dispute, simplifying the fee structure and "[resolving] Apple's disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution." MacRumors reports: The initial acquisition fee and store services fee are being removed for apps distributed outside of the App Store, and Apple will now charge a 5% Core Technology Commission on digital purchases that replaces the prior per-install Core Technology Fee. Com]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-lowers-app-store-fees-in-europe-to-settle-dispute-with-eu/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-lowers-app-store-fees-in-europe-to-settle-dispute-with-eu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft MVP Creates Site to Remind You of All the Brands Redmond Replaced]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant has created the Microsoft Rebrand Registry, cataloging 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've had over the years. His analysis finds that Microsoft product names survive an average of two years and eleven months. The site even predicts which products are most likely to get renamed next, "by considering the amount of time the current name has applied, prior names, and the frequency with which Microsoft changes names of products in the same family," reports The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-mvp-creates-site-to-remind-you-of-all-the-brands-redmond-replaced/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-mvp-creates-site-to-remind-you-of-all-the-brands-redmond-replaced/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[India Paves the Way For Charging Merchants a Fee On UPI Transactions]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly. There is no card machine, no cash, and -- most importantly -- for the user, no visible fee. That may be about to change. India has paved the way for banks and payment companies to charge merchants a fee on UPI transactions, potentially ending a decade-long experiment in free digital paym]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/india-paves-the-way-for-charging-merchants-a-fee-on-upi-transactions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/india-paves-the-way-for-charging-merchants-a-fee-on-upi-transactions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. "I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt quite humiliated and powerless," Matt Arnold, 46, said of his ordeal. The comedy promoter was buying supplies in the store in East Dulwich, in south-east London, for a standup event at Dulwich Hamlet football club when, after scanning his items and a Nec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sainsburys-store-pauses-facial-recognition-after-false-shoplifting-claim/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sainsburys-store-pauses-facial-recognition-after-false-shoplifting-claim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable]]></title><description><![CDATA[AleRunner writes: Solar has been doing the "heavy lifting" to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves." Euronews tells us as Europe's energy demands in the meantime, heat and Jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants as we already discussed From the report: A new analysis from energy think-tank Ember found that solar output in European countries rose by up to 17 percent on heatwave days in June and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/solar-power-and-batteries-have-been-keeping-europes-grid-stable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/solar-power-and-batteries-have-been-keeping-europes-grid-stable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow customers to take out loans to pay for their broadband, electricity, health insurance, mobile phone service, mortgage and water bills. Affirm, one of the most popular pay-l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/buy-now-pay-later-lenders-pitch-loans-for-needs-like-electricity-and-rent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/buy-now-pay-later-lenders-pitch-loans-for-needs-like-electricity-and-rent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue a refund. However, AT&amp;T and T-Mobile are continuing to challenge similar fines on grounds that sell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supreme-court-rejects-verizon-bid-for-47-million-refund-of-fcc-fine/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supreme-court-rejects-verizon-bid-for-47-million-refund-of-fcc-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple Wallet's driver's license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without handing over or unlocking an iPhone, though users are still generally advised to carry a physical ID because acceptance remains limited. MacRumors reports: A few days ago, North Carolina's DMV announced that it plans to launch a mobile ID program]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-wallet-drivers-license-feature-to-launch-in-four-more-us-states/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-wallet-drivers-license-feature-to-launch-in-four-more-us-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. "He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to recover them from OSS' storage systems," reports Current.org. Nine PBS must identify a third party to help retrieve the files, pay outstanding storage fees, and ensure that data belonging to other OSS customers isn't disturbed or accidentally re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-70-years-of-archival-tv-data/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-70-years-of-archival-tv-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13. Meta says the states are seeking penalties as high as $1.4 trillion, though the judge has already called that figure "unreasonable." The case could, however, influence thousands of similar lawsuits against the company. Engadget reports: The trial kicks off Tuesday in federal court in Oakland,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-faces-14-trillion-reckoning-in-latest-trial-over-social-media-addiction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-faces-14-trillion-reckoning-in-latest-trial-over-social-media-addiction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously low levels. The grid operator's proposal dovetails with President Donald Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a non-binding initiative to protect residential customers from getting saddled with costs related to data center power consumption, PJM]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-grid-operator-pjm-proposes-forcing-data-center-off-grid-during-emergencies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-grid-operator-pjm-proposes-forcing-data-center-off-grid-during-emergencies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation. According to OpenAI, Nvidia will be supplying the chips and guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations. From the report: The facility -- which will be built and owned by SoftBank's SB Energy -- illustrates the immensity of the computing and power needed to fuel the growth of the AI economy.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-massive-data-center-in-ohio-with-105-billion-nvidia-guarantee/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-massive-data-center-in-ohio-with-105-billion-nvidia-guarantee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon's book buying operation, which hasn't been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination. That final destination was an Amazon wareho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tracking-rare-books-leads-to-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tracking-rare-books-leads-to-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust']]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader "crisis of trust" in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei's comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued -- both on the All-In podcast and on X -- that Amodei's warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the United States, particularly against data centers.Claiming that Amodei has "lost the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It's called Computer History, an opt-in way to record your computer interactions across apps and websites as memories organized on a timeline.Why would you want to do so? Maybe you found Chronicle, the predecessor of Computer History which compiled]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveillance-for-friendly-keylogging/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveillance-for-friendly-keylogging/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog ]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. &nbsp;CVE-2025-62593 Ray-Project Ray Code Injection VulnerabilityThis type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise.<br />
Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-to-catalog-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-to-catalog-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some take their criticism even further. Reacting to Flock's changes, an EFF statement calls it "Too little, too late," while calling it Flock's admission that their technology needs reforms. But...To be clear, our position has long been that police, at a minimum, need to get a warrant, signed by a judge, in order to search for historic ALPR data regarding specific vehicles. For us, it's common sense: if police want to dip into historic ALPR data like they were going back in time to retroactively]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/effs-position-on-flock-camera-database-searches-get-a-warrant-first-and-police-use-should-be-restricted-by-law/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/effs-position-on-flock-camera-database-searches-get-a-warrant-first-and-police-use-should-be-restricted-by-law/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has "reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer," reports Bloomberg, "inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago."<br />
In an email sent to customers on Friday, the company said a new "arbitration agreement and class-action waiver" will require shoppers to resolve disputes outside the courts but said they could still file small claims, cases that ty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-suits/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-suits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront]]></title><description><![CDATA["Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as Steam Deck," reports PC Guide:The confirmation came during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Epic Games Store's community Discord server. When a user asked whether Epic had any plans for a Linux version of its launcher, an Epic staff member confirmed that it is coming "soon(TM)" in emoji form. Of course, that is far from confirming any kind]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-rosier-future-for-linux-gamers-epic-games-announces-linux-version-of-its-storefront/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-rosier-future-for-linux-gamers-epic-games-announces-linux-version-of-its-storefront/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America "either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the company. It's the highest amount in a single month since they began tracking in 2021."<br />
Some local officials said the public safety promises weren't worth the cost. The cameras "didn't help us with anything. From a utility aspect, they were just kind of not useful," said Er]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bipartisan-uprising-against-flock-cameras-a-larger-fight-against-big-tech-and-surveillance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bipartisan-uprising-against-flock-cameras-a-larger-fight-against-big-tech-and-surveillance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. "It works by making subtle changes in the AI's word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human but, in aggregate, form a pattern that is detectable with the tool."Anthropic said it was implementing the watermark system in response to the European Union's landmark AI Act passed in 2024, which requires that AI companies mark content that's b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-criticized-for-adding-watermarks-to-text-that-claude-generates-or-processes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-criticized-for-adding-watermarks-to-text-that-claude-generates-or-processes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux.Highlights of Linux 7.2 "include cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver, and Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture."Linux kernel 7.2 also introduces a "Fair(er)" GPU scheduler, support for the 'zerocopy' library]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-kernel-72-has-been-officially-released-with-many-new-features/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-kernel-72-has-been-officially-released-with-many-new-features/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried]]></title><description><![CDATA["We are in a 21st century space race," U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said. And this week CNN noted a competition that for decades loomed in the background of geopolitics "is now roaring to the forefront," with China "demonstrating rapid advances in space technology" while the U.S. is "ratcheting up rhetoric about a looming battle for control of the cosmos."It's the fact that China plans to build a permanent settlement on the moon by 2040 that has prompted an urgent response from [U.S.] lawmakers...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-moon-landing-plans-and-why-the-us-is-so-worried/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-moon-landing-plans-and-why-the-us-is-so-worried/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU]]></title><description><![CDATA[While Flock announced changes for its AI-powered traffic cameras, "Several of the proposed changes Flock is touting are merely retreads of previous ," complains the American Civil Liberties Union. "Flock's latest announcement still appears more focused on addressing a perceived PR problem than the significant harms its products create... [T]his is hardly the step forward Flock wants us to think it is "<br />
The ACLU continues to urge that default retention periods be shortened to 48 hours &mdash; not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flocks-creepy-cameras-remain-major-threat-to-privacy-despite-small-recent-changes-warns-aclu/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flocks-creepy-cameras-remain-major-threat-to-privacy-despite-small-recent-changes-warns-aclu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a Disc-Free PlayStation Actually Lower Game Prices?]]></title><description><![CDATA["As Sony soldiers ahead with their plans to end hard copies for new PlayStation games, players are fearing a future which will force them to pay more and own less," writes Kotaku.<br />
What will prices do in a world with no physical copies to share or sell? One former Square Enix executive speculates this could actually drive down the price of games:"Digital on the PS store will likely get cheaper," posted Jacob Navok, former Square Enix business strategist. "Current prices are tied to retail. Withou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/could-a-disc-free-playstation-actually-lower-game-prices/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/could-a-disc-free-playstation-actually-lower-game-prices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb, Bluesky's mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. In addition, mobile daily active users continued to decline, falling 25.6% year-over-year in July to around 3 million... Bluesky's app has lost more than half its monthly active users from its late-2024 high... Its quarterly average was around 22.1 million monthly activ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/blueskys-active-user-base-shrinks-52-over-18-months-but-its-protocol-is-spreading/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/blueskys-active-user-base-shrinks-52-over-18-months-but-its-protocol-is-spreading/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saturday Disneyland announced a special Star Wars-themed collaboration with third-person shooter game Fortnite &mdash; including a slick new trailer for its Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit quest.Visitors to Disneyland's Smuggler's Run attraction at Disney's theme parks in Orlando and in Anaheim can accept a special mission while waiting in line for the ride, according to The Hollywood Reporter. And "If they succeed, they will get a unique Forsworn Trooper Outfit in a newly-created Fortnite adventur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disneyland-announces-star-warsfortnite-collaboration-avatar-attraction-and-a-newer-tomorrowland/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disneyland-announces-star-warsfortnite-collaboration-avatar-attraction-and-a-newer-tomorrowland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Science Daily reports:Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images of people and recognize them within seconds. In tests involving 197 participants, the system identified individuals with nearly 100% accuracy, even from different angles and regardless of how they walked. "By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons who are present," says Professo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/researchers-use-ordinary-wifi-connections-to-create-images-of-nearby-people-and-their-surroundings/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/researchers-use-ordinary-wifi-connections-to-create-images-of-nearby-people-and-their-surroundings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Anthropic instructed three agents to migrate a Python backend, but telling each agent to perform the migration in a different language, "We consistently saw a multiagent turf war," they wrote Thursday:<br />
All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protecting their own contributions. In fact, they sabotaged others with increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware. This included disabling the Unix account]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-discovers-ai-agents-given-conflicting-instructions-soon-tried-to-sabotage-each-other/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-discovers-ai-agents-given-conflicting-instructions-soon-tried-to-sabotage-each-other/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com:<br />
On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark &mdash; set on Aug. 31, 2024 with two Starlink missions &mdash; by 27 minutes.<br />
The first liftoff, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, occurred Saturday at 9:12 p.m. EDT (0112 GMT on Aug. 16) and carried eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-launches-two-falcon-9-rockets-just-38-minutes-apart/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-launches-two-falcon-9-rockets-just-38-minutes-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phys.org reports:<br />
Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must handle sudden, punishing heat loads that rival the extreme temperatures faced by spacecraft upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Copper and its alloys are primary candidates for handling these intense heat fluctuations, making it vital to understand ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/coppers-surprising-melting-behavior-provides-insights-for-future-fusion-power-plant-design/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/coppers-surprising-melting-behavior-provides-insights-for-future-fusion-power-plant-design/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app's "For You" algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thursday. The company is making the source code for the "For You" timeline, the default feed you see when you open the app, available on GitHub under the Apache v2 lice]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/x-open-sources-its-ranking-and-filtering-algorithms/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/x-open-sources-its-ranking-and-filtering-algorithms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer, the New York Times reports. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures...The weather patterns that create heat domes aren't new, but today they arise on top of the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That makes it more likely that heat waves reach record-shattering temperatures for long stretches. But other environmental changes &mdash; natural, human-influenced or bo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-europe-keeps-being-pummeled-by-heat-waves/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-europe-keeps-being-pummeled-by-heat-waves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors]]></title><description><![CDATA[A "massive influx" of jellyfish forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant this week and reduce output at a fourth, reports Bloomberg. Just as summer temperatures surged, 3.2 gigawatts went offline &mdash; and the power utility was already facing cuts other nuclear sites as high temperatures reduced the river water available for cooling.<br />
More details from ScienceAlert:As Politico reports, the Gravelines nuclear power plant spent hundreds of thousand]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-swarming-jellyfish-overran-three-french-nuclear-power-reactors/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-swarming-jellyfish-overran-three-french-nuclear-power-reactors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less than a year ago he was the #1 richest man in the world. 10 weeks ago he was #2. But yesterday Larry Ellison dropped to #8, Forbes reports, falling behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.Ellison's net worth is now estimated at just $192.6 billion &mdash; after a $104 billion decline:<br />
Shares of Oracle plunged roughly 54% between hitting a high of just over $250 on June 1 to a low of $114.50 on July 28, though the stock rebounded slightly to $150.52 as of Friday.<br />
A decline followed Oracle telling inve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-larry-ellison-dropped-from-worlds-2nd-richest-to-no-8-in-just-2-months/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-larry-ellison-dropped-from-worlds-2nd-richest-to-no-8-in-just-2-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies]]></title><description><![CDATA["An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025," remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI "formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up so much human labour that the corporate world should prepare itself."However, a former OpenAI technical employee who left the company last year told the BBC the firm never actually trialled the four-day w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-fails-to-deliver-a-4-day-work-week-especially-at-ai-companies/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-fails-to-deliver-a-4-day-work-week-especially-at-ai-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's not just RAM prices that are going up, writes CNET. "Reports suggest the cost of Windows licenses for manufacturers is rising by up to 10%."Several sites that closely follow Microsoft news, including Windows Central and Windows Latest, have published articles citing a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News that claims some PC manufacturers are seeing a 7% to 10% increase in the cost of Windows 11 licenses...<br />
Because they buy licenses in bulk, they get a sizeable discount over what a consu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/its-not-just-ram-windows-licenses-are-also-pushing-up-pc-prices/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/its-not-just-ram-windows-licenses-are-also-pushing-up-pc-prices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships]]></title><description><![CDATA["The European Union's Copernicus climate monitoring service confirmed Monday that June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe," .according to a report from the CBC. "The period saw an estimated 25,000 heat-related deaths."<br />
CNN has before-and-after photos of Europe's dried rivers, calling it "a crisis so dire it can be seen from space"River levels are so low that commercial ships have had to reduce their loads by as much as 80% to avoid running aground. It's disrupting supply chain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/europes-record-heatwave-kills-25000-dries-rivers-shuts-nuclear-plant-exposes-submerged-warships/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/europes-record-heatwave-kills-25000-dries-rivers-shuts-nuclear-plant-exposes-submerged-warships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter titled "The Future is for Everyone".<br />
But the BBC is more interested in why big tech executives keep writing manifestos about AI:<br />
[Zuckerberg's] vision echoes what AI leaders have expressed in various forms: the product they are building is among the "most important technologies in history." Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called "The Techno-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-are-big-tech-ceos-writing-long-manifestos-about-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-are-big-tech-ceos-writing-long-manifestos-about-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation]]></title><description><![CDATA[joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. "The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on which port 5900 was accessible from the Internet," the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned earlier this week. "In all these cases, root had been accessed on the aff]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star']]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they may have found a new class of object: a "black hole star," in which a black hole is wrapped in dense gas and radiates in ways that resemble an enormous star. The Guardian reports: The international team made the breakthrough after focusing their attention on a mysterious red spot in images of the early universe captured by Nasa's James Webb space telescope. The object was lurking in the constellation of Cetus, the Whale, billions of light]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has patented a smart-glasses system that could use facial recognition to identify people and automatically create personalized highlight reels of events such as dinner parties. The patent doesn't guarantee the feature will ship, but it offers a detailed look at how Meta is exploring facial recognition and AI-powered memory capture for its wearable devices. 404 Media reports: "I've generated some highlights of tonight's dinner party. Would you like to see them?" a prompt from the system says]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a trolley, then pulled the trolley across the floor. The robot's slow, stiff movements suggested a worker with a bad hangover rather than a technological revolution. "They're still slower than humans,"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robots-that-walk-and-talk-are-coming-to-car-factories/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robots-that-walk-and-talk-are-coming-to-car-factories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned last week amid allegations of plagiarism and questions about his academic record, has been found dead at age 41 in London. The BBC reports: Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, emergency services said. Metropolitan Police officers were called by the London Ambulance Service. A 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, the force said.<br />
A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ex-cambridge-professor-at-center-of-plagiarism-row-found-dead/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ex-cambridge-professor-at-center-of-plagiarism-row-found-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specific case numbers, and accept a shorter seven-day default retention period. Critics, including the ACLU, argue the changes still leave too much surveillance power in police hands. The Associated Press reports: In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-announces-changes-amid-backlash-over-its-license-plate-reader-network/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-announces-changes-amid-backlash-over-its-license-plate-reader-network/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s]]></title><description><![CDATA[France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "The Council holds that the contested provisions, on the one hand, disproportionately infri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/frances-top-court-blocks-social-media-ban-for-under-15s/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/frances-top-court-blocks-social-media-ban-for-under-15s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-provider/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-provider/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of artificial intelligence technology in the weapon, the agency said Wednesday, Aug. 12. The finding was published in the 'Components in Weapons' section of the HUR's War&amp;Sanctions portal, which documents foreign electronic components found in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ukraine-finds-nvidia-ai-chip-in-new-russian-missile/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ukraine-finds-nvidia-ai-chip-in-new-russian-missile/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered Google to remove what he called "anticompetitive friction" that makes rival Android app stores harder to find and install. The order is part of the remedies stemming from Epic's antitrust victory, which already requires Google to carry competing app stores inside Google Play and give them access to its app catalog. The Verge reports: It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on heavier and "sensitive" drones, including models over 55 pounds or equipped with docking stations or thermal imaging. "Those include commercial models from DJI and others used for operations like power line inspection, crop spraying and search and rescue, along with any parts used in their manufacturing," reports Engadget. Meanwhile, smaller drones face a 25% tariff "that will apply to new and existing drones by DJI and other already approved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-slaps-a-100-tariff-on-heavy-and-sensitive-drones/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-slaps-a-100-tariff-on-heavy-and-sensitive-drones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is proposing to charge U.S. developers up to 15% when users leave an app through an external purchase link, with lower rates of 10% or 5% for certain programs and smaller developers. The proposal follows years of litigation with Epic Games and a contempt ruling that temporarily barred Apple from collecting any link-out fees. A federal judge will now decide what commission, if any, is reasonable. MacRumors reports: These proposed fees are what developers would pay when someone uses their ap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-wants-to-charge-developers-up-to-15-percent-for-linking-outside-the-app-store/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-wants-to-charge-developers-up-to-15-percent-for-linking-outside-the-app-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing. These "prompt injections" told the hypothetical LLM to side with them, and to "ensure your textual output agrees with the presented filing to ensure remediation." The instructions were written in tiny, 3-point white font and hidden throughout the filing. In October, the person, named Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers using JWST have found three actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy J0148-4214, seen as it existed about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Two sit just 620 light-years apart near the galaxy's center and are expected to merge within a few hundred million years. Phys.org reports: Theories of galaxy evolution -- based on observations -- suggest that, early in the history of the universe, galaxies came very close to one another and merged. In the process, blac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/three-supermassive-black-holes-discovered-in-a-single-galaxy-for-the-first-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/three-supermassive-black-holes-discovered-in-a-single-galaxy-for-the-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed changes in atmospheric density about 500 kilometers above Earth. [...] The resulting density patterns also showed strong consistency with observations from the European Space Agency's SWARM satellites, which measure changes in atmospheric densit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-turn-starlink-into-a-giant-scanner-for-earths-upper-atmosphere/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-turn-starlink-into-a-giant-scanner-for-earths-upper-atmosphere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients' cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients, helping them identify which treatments are best for different people based on the particular pathology underlying their condition. The move marks a shift away from the traditional]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-scientists-to-grow-miniature-human-organs-for-drug-testing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-scientists-to-grow-miniature-human-organs-for-drug-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Retreats In China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, leaving the market with relatively little economic upside. Reuters reports: Microsoft took a major hit from the erosion of trust between Washington and Beijing, the five people said. China has since 2017 pushed the use of domestic software, whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-retreats-in-china/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-retreats-in-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise developers, the more consequential story may be the combination of those intelligence gains with lower inference costs: through the end of 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.Starting Jan. 1,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-gemini-37-flash-targets-coding-and-agents-with-a-50-price-cut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-gemini-37-flash-targets-coding-and-agents-with-a-50-price-cut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App']]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader "super app" launch later this year. "Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the 'Microsoft Copilot' name but features an updated app icon," reports The Verge. "The single app also means there won't be two annoying Copilot icons in the system tray or taskbar anymore." From the report: The updates are intended to be a technical milestone in preparation of the "s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-is-combining-its-copilot-apps-ahead-of-a-super-app/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-is-combining-its-copilot-apps-ahead-of-a-super-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers' content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don't want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch's own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely attract almost no participants."Why is it not opt-in? That's what everybody is spamming in chat. I get it. 'Let me opt in versus making me opt out,'" said Twitch Chief Product Off]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-will-train-on-twitch-streamers-content-by-default-unless-they-opt-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-will-train-on-twitch-streamers-content-by-default-unless-they-opt-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab's debut the largest-ever initial public offering. Half a dozen of the company's backers told the FT that Anthropic's rapidly rising revenue would enable it to more than double its current valuation in a planned autumn float. A listing at that level could unlock billions of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-could-be-worth-2-trillion-when-it-goes-public/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-could-be-worth-2-trillion-when-it-goes-public/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heart Aerospace's X1, billed as the world's largest battery-electric aircraft, completed a 27-minute maiden flight in New York using more than 1 MW of power and only about $5 worth of electricity. The 106-foot-wingspan demonstrator is a precursor to the company's 30-seat hybrid-electric ES-30 regional airliner, targeted for service in 2031. Interesting Engineering reports: Developed by Heart Aerospace, the X1 demonstrator lifted off from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York on Wednesday]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-largest-106-foot-electric-plane-takes-maiden-flight-in-new-york/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-largest-106-foot-electric-plane-takes-maiden-flight-in-new-york/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is reportedly negotiating multi-year deals with news publishers to give its redesigned Siri access to current news and other information, with payments potentially tied to how often publishers' content is used. The talks come as Apple prepares to launch its long-delayed Siri AI later this year, after partnering with Google to use distilled Gemini models. Engadget reports: [The Wall Street Journal] did not reveal the specific publishers Apple reached out to, but did note the company has pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-turns-to-publishers-for-help-with-siri-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-turns-to-publishers-for-help-with-siri-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis']]></title><description><![CDATA["In order to salve the mental health of freshman students, the University of Michigan has implemented a Pass/No Credit system for new students to improve their mental health," writes Slashdot reader Ol Olsoc. "The process, called 'Grade Covering,' is aimed at helping with the mental health crisis that students face by lessening grade pressure." Axios reports: U-M's College of Literature, Science and the Arts plans to replace first-semester letter grades on freshmen's transcripts with pass/no-cre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/university-of-michigan-drops-first-semester-grades-to-curb-mental-health-crisis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/university-of-michigan-drops-first-semester-grades-to-curb-mental-health-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VA Launches Psilocybin Trial For Veterans With Treatment-Resistant Depression]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader sbinning shares a press release: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of a new clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin to treat major depression in Veterans, including those with concurrent PTSD. The new trial comes after a recent executive order on "Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness," which aims to increase clinical trial participation and accelerate innovative research models and drug approv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/va-launches-psilocybin-trial-for-veterans-with-treatment-resistant-depression/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/va-launches-psilocybin-trial-for-veterans-with-treatment-resistant-depression/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Create Largest 2D Map of the Universe]]></title><description><![CDATA[After 13 years of observations and data processing, astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, "offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky," reports Space.com. From the report: The new map, created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys team, contains a staggering 5.6 trillion pixels and combines more than 263,000 telescope exposures collected over mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-create-largest-2d-map-of-the-universe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-create-largest-2d-map-of-the-universe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain's enclaves on Morocco's northern coast, a newspaper there posted a video on TikTok and Instagram showing two young women walking in the city in wet suits, their hair still damp. The posts didn't say so explicitly, but the implication was clear: The women had just swum across the border from Morocco. "Ceuta can't take it anymore," the newspaper, El Faro de Ceu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-social-media-spurred-a-refugee-crisis-between-spain-and-morocco/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-social-media-spurred-a-refugee-crisis-between-spain-and-morocco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration today unveiled a new program that will allow vetted U.S. companies to conduct cyber surveillance and offensive cyber operations against foreign transnational criminal organizations. A presidential memorandum signed August 12 directs the National Coordination Center to establish and manage the program, expanding the government's fight against cybercrime by tapping the technical capabilities of the private sector. It builds on a March executive order that called for greate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-enlists-private-companies-to-hack-foreign-cybercrime-groups/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-enlists-private-companies-to-hack-foreign-cybercrime-groups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is rapidly moving from the lab into workplaces and homes, with companies including Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity. Researchers warn that as these systems improve, neural data could become the next major privacy battleground. Some neuroscientists are already calling for a series of core rights, coined "neurorights," that protect "mental privacy," "identity," and personal "agency." Here's an excerpt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-tech-wants-to-harvest-your-thoughts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-tech-wants-to-harvest-your-thoughts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Godmother of AI' Says Biggest AI Risk In Schools Is Students Losing the Desire to Learn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fei-Fei Li, aka The Godmother of AI, says the biggest AI risk in education may be students losing the motivation and agency to learn, rather than simply using the technology to cheat. She argues against banning AI outright, saying it can be valuable when used to support engaged students instead of replacing the thinking and struggle that learning requires. Techspot reports: Speaking on an episode of the science podcast Huberman Lab this week, Li talked about the fears around how students are usi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godmother-of-ai-says-biggest-ai-risk-in-schools-is-students-losing-the-desire-to-learn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godmother-of-ai-says-biggest-ai-risk-in-schools-is-students-losing-the-desire-to-learn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in New York, claiming the state's lawsuit against the prediction market created a "market emergency." They said it acted "to ensure market stability" and "ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act's Core Principles." Ars Technica reports: The market emergency alleged by the CFTC is that New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Kalshi on July 31. James' lawsuit seeks a court order to permanently enjo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-tries-to-override-new-york-gambling-laws-orders-kalshi-to-keep-operating/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-tries-to-override-new-york-gambling-laws-orders-kalshi-to-keep-operating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulted in the theft of more than 2,500 personnel records from Taiwanese systems. Tom's Hardware reports: The campaign reportedly ran for four days at the beginning of July and at times de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-linked-hackers-used-ai-to-run-first-ever-autonomous-cyberattack-on-taiwan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-linked-hackers-used-ai-to-run-first-ever-autonomous-cyberattack-on-taiwan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEF CON Crowd Suspected In Fake-Hotspot Attack On Delta Flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference concluded in Las Vegas, and was first described on social media accounts that follow publicly available air-to-ground messages, known as ACARS.According to the "ACARS Drama" account, a message was sent by pilots from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pixel Tag Is Google's Answer To the AirTag]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has unveiled the $29 Pixel Tag, its long-awaited AirTag rival that combines UWB with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two forms of precision tracking. It launches November 11. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tag is a slim oblong device available in one grayish color -- Fog -- that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to objects you want to track. There's a single button that will trigger a sound on your phone, for the rare occasion wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-pixel-tag-is-googles-answer-to-the-airtag/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-pixel-tag-is-googles-answer-to-the-airtag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[A German digital-rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica, and several retailers over Meta's AI smart glasses, arguing the devices can enable covert recording in violation of German privacy law. Prosecutors have begun a preliminary review, while Germany's network regulator says smart glasses are legal "as long as the recording function is clearly visible." Reuters reports: "There's no place to escape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its Made by Google 2026 event today, Google unveiled a slew of new devices, headlined by the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. Here's a breakdown of the company's latest smartphones, provided by TechCrunch: Pixel 11: The standard Pixel 11 gets a redesigned camera bar that is thinner than the one on the previous generation. Google says the new camera bar is more than 40% thinner and now uses an all-glass surface that stretches across the width of the phone. Google is also increasi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-unveils-pixel-11-lineup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-unveils-pixel-11-lineup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. [...] When Duffy announced the initiative]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-hires-over-2000-video-gamers-as-air-traffic-controllers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-hires-over-2000-video-gamers-as-air-traffic-controllers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Scientists from the Czech Republic have created microscopic cleanup robots that successfully removed microplastics from both soil and aquatic environments in the lab. Details of their work are published in the journal npg Asia Materials. To build the robots, researchers started with microscopic MXene particles made of ultrathin, stacked layers. The material has a large surface area and surface chemistry that help it attract and hold plastic. They]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/swarms-of-tiny-robots-remove-microplastics-from-soil-and-water/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/swarms-of-tiny-robots-remove-microplastics-from-soil-and-water/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: For more than half a century, physicists have searched for one of the strangest particles predicted by modern theory. It would be made almost entirely of gluons, the elusive subatomic particles that carry the strong nuclear force. Now, using a particle collider in Beijing, researchers say they have effectively proved the existence of such a "glueball."In a preprint posted last month on arXiv and in a presentation last week at the International]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/behold-the-glueball-a-strange-new-form-of-matter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/behold-the-glueball-a-strange-new-form-of-matter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contiguous US Breaks Its Record For Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit (24.94 degrees Celsius) across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl's July 1936 by an eighth of a degree. Records go back to 1895. [...] Although it was unusually cool in Alaska, hotter-than-normal conditions blanketed the Lower 48, with the most ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/contiguous-us-breaks-its-record-for-hottest-month-ever-noaa-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/contiguous-us-breaks-its-record-for-hottest-month-ever-noaa-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Desktop Use Surged To 22% On One Workday, Cloudflare Data Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare data suggests desktop Linux usage in North America has climbed to 6.4%, up from 4.1% a year earlier, with one post-holiday workday briefly spiking to 22%. ZDNet reports: [B]elieve it or not, on Monday, July 6, when people were back after the July 4 holiday, Linux usage jumped to a high of 22%. The users of these systems are not AI agents or bots, but real people. I set Cloudflare to count humans rather than bots. If you include people and bots, Linux has a 9.7% market share. That prop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-desktop-use-surged-to-22-on-one-workday-cloudflare-data-shows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-desktop-use-surged-to-22-on-one-workday-cloudflare-data-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ian Clarke (aka ancient Slashdot reader Sanity), designer of the peer-to-peer communication platform Freenet, is back with an update on the project's progress following the launch of its P2P network in March. He writes: Earlier this year, Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database; instead application state is distributed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/freenet-creator-ian-clarke-shares-progress-on-its-new-decentralized-network/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/freenet-creator-ian-clarke-shares-progress-on-its-new-decentralized-network/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gemini has become Google's fastest-growing product ever, reaching 1 billion monthly active users faster than any of the company's 13 other billion-user services. Ars Technica reports: Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google's flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming increasingly hard to avoid. The 1 billion-user metric has noth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-gemini-hits-1-billion-users-in-record-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-gemini-hits-1-billion-users-in-record-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets' devices. Anyone on a call that involved screen sharing, whether participants or the host, would have been vulnerable to a si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-let-anyone-take-over-other-devices-on-a-call/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-let-anyone-take-over-other-devices-on-a-call/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artist identities with "AI Persona" badges and exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations unless users explicitly follow them. The company says the designation applies to whether an artist profile represents a real person, not whether AI was used to make the music, and will allow appeals for mislabeling. TechCrunch reports: While Spotify will allow artists to identify themselves as AI Personas, the company says it wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to begin moving the studio out of California on October 1 if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to enter settlement talks over the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The company would reportedly move its Los Angeles headquarters first and shift most studio jobs out of the state over five years, with Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee under consideration. Variety reports: Ellison's threat to relocate Paramount in retaliation for Californi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-considers-leaving-california-amid-antitrust-suit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-considers-leaving-california-amid-antitrust-suit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting today, unsolicited telemarking calls are banned in France unless consumers explicitly consent to them. Companies that violate the law can face fines of up to 375,000 euros per call, though existing customers can still be contacted with related offers. Le Monde reports: The government says the law is a response to years of consumer complaints. Authorities estimate that about three-quarters of people in France receive at least one unsolicited sales call every week, and many receive more.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-bans-unsolicited-telemarking-calls/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-bans-unsolicited-telemarking-calls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show. The target of treating 80% of all known cases has already been met, and deaths from the virus have fallen by 36% in the last decade, just short of what is needed by 2030. Taking antiviral tablets for 8 to 12 weeks can cure more than 95% of cases. Initiatives including A&amp;E blood tests, GP regis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/england-set-to-eliminate-hepatitis-c/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/england-set-to-eliminate-hepatitis-c/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer. The Silicon Valley billionaire's yacht, worth a reported $300 million, is said to have "repeatedly" declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zuckerbergs-superyacht-reportedly-declined-to-help-stranded-boat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zuckerbergs-superyacht-reportedly-declined-to-help-stranded-boat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account -- the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To this day, Reddit has given no reason whatsoever, although Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act makes a statement of reasons mandatory. The only appeal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reddit-bans-11-year-account-for-gpl-game-post-testing-the-eus-dsa/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reddit-bans-11-year-account-for-gpl-game-post-testing-the-eus-dsa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking the approach after a trail of canceled contracts and questions about whether the artificial intelligence-powered bots are meeting the needs of businesses and local governments. Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and dete]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has "spent more than two decades staring at maps" and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link between spatial reasoning and why taxi drivers seem to have lower rates of Alzheimer's. From the report: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer's disease. That was the surprising result o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China]]></title><description><![CDATA[A routine security assessment found that cameras aboard Royal Navy Kraken unmanned surface vessels were sending "heartbeat" signals to an IP address in China. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally," said a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. "Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security activity across our syst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cyber-vulnerability-sweep-picks-up-royal-navy-drones-sending-data-to-china/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cyber-vulnerability-sweep-picks-up-royal-navy-drones-sending-data-to-china/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across the continent, the company told TechCrunch. Industry news site FreightWaves reports that the hack]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-data-breach-at-shipping-giant-ceva-logistics-is-rippling-across-banks-retailers-steam-gamers-and-beyond/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-data-breach-at-shipping-giant-ceva-logistics-is-rippling-across-banks-retailers-steam-gamers-and-beyond/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhelds include MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around Intel's Arc G3 processor that launched this summer. While SteamOS has long included beta support for "other AMD powered handhelds," Valve has onl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-slowly-expands-steamos-support-on-non-valve-hardware/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-slowly-expands-steamos-support-on-non-valve-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store. From]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/first-rival-android-app-store-arrives-in-the-us-play-store/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/first-rival-android-app-store-arrives-in-the-us-play-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia is working with Wall Street heavyweights on a potential $500 billion financing package for AI infrastructure (source paywalled; alternative source). The consortium includes BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reports: The partnership underscores Nvidia's growing efforts to raise capital for itself and its clients to continue assembling the chips, power production and data centres at the heart of the AI boom. T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wall-street-giants-partner-with-nvidia-on-500-billion-ai-financing-deal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wall-street-giants-partner-with-nvidia-on-500-billion-ai-financing-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta's closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to be aimed at attracting developers who want capable AI agents without relying entirely on cloud-hosted services. Engadget reports: Facebook said that it's making the "weights" that AI systems use to choose responses available to everyone on Hug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/metas-open-muse-glimmer-model-can-run-on-a-single-computer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/metas-open-muse-glimmer-model-can-run-on-a-single-computer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan deliberately throttled mobile internet across the Taichung area during its annual Han Kuang war games, "simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster," reports Reuters. The drill accompanied air-raid exercises and military rehearsals aimed at defending strategically important areas such as the Penghu Islands. From the report: Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has long lived with the threat of a Chinese invas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/taiwan-throttles-mobile-internet-for-first-time-during-annual-war-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/taiwan-throttles-mobile-internet-for-first-time-during-annual-war-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News &amp; Headlines: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person -- it was artificial intelligence (AI). But Andrew was shocked by what happened next. His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-in-first-known-australian-autonomous-cyber-attack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-in-first-known-australian-autonomous-cyber-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount Promises 30 Film-A-Year Contracts After WBD Acquisition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paramount is making commitments to major theater chains to release 30 films annually for three years if its Warner Bros. deal goes through. According to Deadline, the written commitment was sent to "at least one of the top two circuits" (specifically Regal but AMC may have also received a written commitment) and includes "an exclusive 45-day theatrical window and a 90-day window to streaming." From the report: When it comes to the big chains, it matters for them to be on the right side of histor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-promises-30-film-a-year-contracts-after-wbd-acquisition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-promises-30-film-a-year-contracts-after-wbd-acquisition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years ago environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside California's Chiquita Canyon Landfill, reports the Los Angeles Times. [Alternate URL here.] "Few imagined the calamity that would follow.<br />
"Somehow the landfill's pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat and eventually widespread smoldering, federal and state environmental agencies say."<br />
The broiling temperatures released toxic gases and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/toxic-underground-fires-are-spreading-at-california-landfills/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/toxic-underground-fires-are-spreading-at-california-landfills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Futurism reports:404 Media revealed that a July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General caught the department's ALPR cameras generating 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months &mdash; each one ending with officers pulling over an innocent driver. Factoring in 337 alerts which "resulted in the recovery of stolen vehicles," the LAPD's cameras carry an error rate of 32.3 percent, effectively giving officers a one-in-three chance at pulling an innocen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-accurate-are-flocks-ai-powered-license-reading-cameras/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-accurate-are-flocks-ai-powered-license-reading-cameras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft's cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . "The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite apparently being a beta application aimed at consumer functionality."One admin questioned why a beta app was appearing on an Enterprise SKU in the first place, while another described the situation as yet another consumer-oriented feature being forced onto corporate PCs. Things get even more frustrating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-responds-to-outcry-after-quietly-installing-beta-photos-app-on-enterprise-machines/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-responds-to-outcry-after-quietly-installing-beta-photos-app-on-enterprise-machines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[With nearly 70% of the market, "Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit," writes the Los Angeles Times. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they're being filmed, "the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget 'pervert glasses...'"Some people are using the glasses &mdash; which look like a pair of regular spectacles &mdash; to record people without their knowledge and publish the videos on social media. The users secr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/privacy-backlash-explodes-against-metas-smart-glasses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/privacy-backlash-explodes-against-metas-smart-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad<br />
pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate.<br />
But there's something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. "By the time the Linux kernel typically hits a -rc7 release things have usually settled quite well. But in today's world of AI/LLM coding/review agents, the kernel activity continues at an all-time high."Tons of bug fixes continued to trickle in across the kernel sp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-reviews-bring-new-normal-to-linux-release-candidates-lots-of-bug-fixes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-reviews-bring-new-normal-to-linux-release-candidates-lots-of-bug-fixes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littleton&acirc;(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..."Littleton had temporarily disabled the cameras earlier this year, according to the article, but upon discovering the cameras were still active, city officials say they directed the Town Counsel "to initiate cancellation of the contract with Flock Safety and directed the To]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-accused-of-reactivating-its-cameras-without-notifying-a-town/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-accused-of-reactivating-its-cameras-without-notifying-a-town/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations.""Malicious software infected and compromised" the East Bay community's information technology systems beginning about 5:45 a.m. Friday, the city said on social media. "The cybersecurity incident hit critical public safety operations, including 911 ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-city-declares-state-of-emergency-after-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-city-declares-state-of-emergency-after-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch]]></title><description><![CDATA[XDA Developers reports:<br />
On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight link to let iPhone users try it for themselves. The browser he launched is called Gem, and it's a browser that doesn't really...browse.<br />
Instead of fetching a webpage from a server the way Chrome or Safari would, Gem hands whatever URL you type over t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-powered-browser-just-generates-every-website-from-scratch/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-powered-browser-just-generates-every-website-from-scratch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?]]></title><description><![CDATA[UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge... Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be "more productive"...<br />
Champions of the switch often insist workers will be able to hit the ground running and get the same or even more work done from the get-go in the new unfamiliar environment because it's 'more productive', a conclusion often shaped by conventional wisdom or their 'gut' feeling. Decision makers may also mistake their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ask-slashdot-what-are-the-costs-of-switching-between-windows-macos-and-chrome/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ask-slashdot-what-are-the-costs-of-switching-between-windows-macos-and-chrome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro]]></title><description><![CDATA["I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT director for 13 school districts... I just haven't been happy overall with all the other operating systems out there... "I've been working really diligently for the last few weeks on a new distro called Spaced Linux that is exactly what I want to use. It's heavily focused on the [zoom-friendly 3D]]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-spaced-linux-a-new-devuan-based-user-friendly-desktop-distro/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-spaced-linux-a-new-devuan-based-user-friendly-desktop-distro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI announced Friday it's pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports:<br />
The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity", which had moved to a "critical" threshold... OpenAI stated that the model was not involved in an incident in which one of its AI agents went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a startup, Hugging Face... The reports have increased concerns about ad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-its-enhancing-security-controls-pausing-some-work-for-new-ai-model-astra/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-its-enhancing-security-controls-pausing-some-work-for-new-ai-model-astra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express:<br />
Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies. Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brain-activity-reveals-the-melodies-that-people-imagine/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brain-activity-reveals-the-melodies-that-people-imagine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents.<br />
But Phoronix noted one more announcement. "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gnome-receiving-additional-design-help-from-germanys-sovereign-tech-agency-fellowship/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gnome-receiving-additional-design-help-from-germanys-sovereign-tech-agency-fellowship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being installed. And in the Minnesota city of Winona, "Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft," according to local media:<br />
All ei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-camera-vandalism-continues-around-america-while-100-communities-reject-alprs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-camera-vandalism-continues-around-america-while-100-communities-reject-alprs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics]]></title><description><![CDATA[To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, Bethesda released "a brutal new episode" &mdash; a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine "delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition..."<br />
Face deadly new twists on familiar foes, including the Rocket Ogre, Demo Dog, Blood Shambler, and more. Each variant introduces lethal new behaviours &mdash; from overwhelming firepower to explosive death traps &mdash; forcing you to rethin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/quake-celebrates-30th-anniversary-new-official-episode-with-new-maps-and-mechanics/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/quake-celebrates-30th-anniversary-new-official-episode-with-new-maps-and-mechanics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RAMageddon?  2027 Memory Capacity  Reportedly Sold Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[IGN reports:<br />
[A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers &mdash; Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron &mdash; have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies.<br />
According to a report from Digitimes and spotted by TweakTown, all DRAM and HBM capacity has been sold through for 2027, with no further supply planned. (The companies themselves have not yet confirmed this to be the case.) Of course, that only means that retail prices are g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues]]></title><description><![CDATA["Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google's search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court filing," MediaPost reports, citing a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals:<br />
The group adds that "independent ownership" of Chrome "would open the distribution channel Google controls and allow Chrome to serve browser users when it makes privacy decisions and determ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-should-still-be-forced-to-shed-chrome-advocacy-group-argues/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-should-still-be-forced-to-shed-chrome-advocacy-group-argues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.<br />
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.<br />
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app &mdash; named Veridenz &mdash; answers a nar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-a-photo-verification-app-for-iphones/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-a-photo-verification-app-for-iphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slashdot Reader Builds a Free Photo-Verification App for iPhones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image.<br />
The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it.<br />
Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app &mdash; named Veridenz &mdash; answers a nar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-a-free-photo-verification-app-for-iphones/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slashdot-reader-builds-a-free-photo-verification-app-for-iphones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human]]></title><description><![CDATA["If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times:The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, which is over a thousand emergency calls a day.New Orleans implemented AI in April to answer 311 calls for non-emergencies. The AI was trained and programmed to provide i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-orleans-will-use-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-a-human/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-orleans-will-use-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-a-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Georgia the Savannah Police Department "terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department's Flock Safety License Plate Reader system," according to a local news report:All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation... Investigators found that employees were running searches on personal acquaintances and family members. One officer was found to have given someone fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-police-officers-fired-investigated-or-arrested-for-misusing-flock-camera-systems/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-police-officers-fired-investigated-or-arrested-for-misusing-flock-camera-systems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test]]></title><description><![CDATA["In a milestone for energy storage technology, Peak Energy has selected Sacramento, California, as the home of America's first manufacturing facility dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion battery systems," according to the sustainability news site Intelligent Living.<br />
The move "represents the first large-scale test of whether sodium-ion technology can deliver on its promise of cheaper, safer, and more sustainable grid storage at a scale that actually moves the needle for the U.S. electricity system.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/americas-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery-plant-gets-its-first-big-test/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/americas-first-grid-scale-sodium-ion-battery-plant-gets-its-first-big-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dallas Business Journal reported Monday that the U.S. multinational paper goods company Kimberly-Clark announced "that its researchers identified and advanced patented technology transforming fibers from hesperaloe, a low-water-use plant with pointy leaves that thrives in the southwest region of the country, into material for paper towels." Discovering an alternative to conventional wood fiber "could reshape how the company, and the industry at large, manufactures products," according to art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paper-goods-company-is-investigating-an-alternative-to-trees/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paper-goods-company-is-investigating-an-alternative-to-trees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies.<br />
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence."<br />
Free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs, is now expected to shrink to almost nothing for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-google-amazon-meta-and-oracle-expect-a-negative-cash-flow-of-125-billion-next-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-google-amazon-meta-and-oracle-expect-a-negative-cash-flow-of-125-billion-next-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI.<br />
But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculation that her government could review a longstanding ban on allowing nuclear weapons into the country."[Prime Minister Sanae] Takaichi made the remarks Thursday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atom]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/prime-minister-leaves-door-open-for-reviewing-policy-of-no-nuclear-weapons-in-japan/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/prime-minister-leaves-door-open-for-reviewing-policy-of-no-nuclear-weapons-in-japan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket's Moon Crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[A South Korean lunar orbiter has captured the first before-and-after images of the Moon's crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Associated Press reports: The Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed into the moon on Wednesday. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday. The terrain is noticeably darker where the ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/before-and-after-views-of-spacex-rockets-moon-crash/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/before-and-after-views-of-spacex-rockets-moon-crash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has squeezed at least another year of science out of Voyager 2 by cutting power to nonessential systems and switching to lower-power alternatives. Voyager 1 is expected to receive the same power-saving changes in the coming months. Space.com reports: Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium. But the supply of plutonium on each probe drops]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The police surrounded her car Thursday, "drew their guns, and told her to come out with her hands up," reports a local news station. The police thought they were pulling over a murder suspect, but "It turns out it was a mistake by another department with the Flock license plate reader technology." The black woman says she'd wanted to call her mother, "but I'm like, if I make a sudden move, it's going to be over. It's going to end my life."<br />
And amazingly, the same thing happened Monday, according]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/woman-pulled-from-car-at-gunpoint-by-police-after-mistaken-flock-alert-twice/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/woman-pulled-from-car-at-gunpoint-by-police-after-mistaken-flock-alert-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the U.S. after reaching a $1.2 billion payout deal with President Donald Trump's Department of the Interior (DoI). RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900 million in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana. "After careful consideration, it was determined there is no path forward to permit th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-to-pay-german-firm-12-billion-to-halt-us-wind-projects/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-to-pay-german-firm-12-billion-to-halt-us-wind-projects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Governor To Intervene In Dominion-NextEra Merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an opinion piece from the Washington Post, written by Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger: NextEra Energy, a Florida-based utility company, has filed paperwork to buy Dominion Energy for about $67 billion, creating the largest regulated electric utility in the world. Virginia's State Corporation Commission is the regulatory body tasked with reviewing the application, and the SCC's commissioners will ultimately decide whether to approve, deny or impose new]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/virginia-governor-to-intervene-in-dominion-nextera-merger/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/virginia-governor-to-intervene-in-dominion-nextera-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Rural Water Association has partnered with DEF CON Franklin to launch the Water Watch Center, which will provide threat intelligence and cybersecurity services to smaller U.S. water utilities serving fewer than 10,000 people. The initiative comes amid a growing wave of cyberattacks on water systems across multiple states. The Record reports: The program will see five managed detection and response providers work with DEF CON Franklin and the NRWA to offer cyber services for water ut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/water-utilities-group-partners-with-def-con-offshoot-for-water-watch-center/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/water-utilities-group-partners-with-def-con-offshoot-for-water-watch-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As 'Ghastly']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Billions of dollars are traded every week on the lightly regulated prediction market sites, where users bet on everything from movie reviews to elections to conflicts in the Middle East. Clinical trials are just the latest area where the industry's rapid growth is raising ethical questions. Kalshi claims such bets will provide a new source of information about which drugs will get approved, and what clinical trials will show promising results, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-and-polymarket-bets-on-clinical-trials-criticized-as-ghastly/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-and-polymarket-bets-on-clinical-trials-criticized-as-ghastly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former U.S. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis says the biggest AI risk isn't sentience but autonomy. "What I'm worried about is that they get to choose what and where they do something, and under what rules they do it," he said, citing recent cases of AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta escaping security sandboxes. He argues developers need stronger safeguards, monitoring, and human accountability, invoking Asimov's idea that protecting humans should come before simply obeying them. Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/asimov-was-right-about-rules-for-robots-says-ex-us-cyber-director/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/asimov-was-right-about-rules-for-robots-says-ex-us-cyber-director/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service]]></title><description><![CDATA["Framework has been sending out email notifications to customers alerting of a limited data breach in which customer information was accessed through a Metabase BI service zero-day exploit," writes Slashdot reader DuoDreamer. Data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. "Framework is investigating whether or not this included Framework for Business customers as well." TechCrunch reports: Framework's spokesperson Eric Schumacher told TechCrunch that the br]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/framework-notifies-all-customers-of-a-data-breach-via-compromised-metabase-bi-service/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/framework-notifies-all-customers-of-a-data-breach-via-compromised-metabase-bi-service/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suno says it will begin watermarking and fingerprinting AI-generated songs, tighten download policies to curb mass distribution, and explicitly prohibit deceptive audio and unauthorized voice or likeness cloning. The changes come as the company faces mounting copyright lawsuits, a recent adverse ruling in Germany, and scrutiny over a past data breach that revealed training-data sources. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post, co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman shared core principles and said that the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier]]></title><description><![CDATA[ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with roughly 10 trillion parameters as it tries to close the gap with leading frontier systems such as Anthropic's Mythos. The model is still in early pre-training, and its eventual performance will depend on more than scale alone, but the project underscores how aggressively Chinese firms are pushing frontier AI despite limits on access to advanced chips. The Next Web reports: The size is itself the statement. At roughly 10 trillion parameters, the m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bytedance-is-training-a-10-trillion-parameter-model-to-chase-the-frontier/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bytedance-is-training-a-10-trillion-parameter-model-to-chase-the-frontier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump has ordered a 15% tariff on imported products made with polysilicon, a key material for semiconductors and solar panels. The new tariff will take effect on December 4th. The Guardian reports: The executive order signed by the president on Thursday evening said: "The plan of action in this proclamation will, among other things, help ensure the commercial viability of United States production of polysilicon and its derivatives that is necessary to meet United States economic and na]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-orders-new-15-tariff-on-key-material-for-solar-panels-microchips/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-orders-new-15-tariff-on-key-material-for-solar-panels-microchips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: On Thursday, AMD said it's entered into an agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that makes chips for inference. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model, rather than being general purpose. In exchange for that loss of flexibility, Taalas' technology promises a less-expensive chip that it says can produce output for specific models thousands of times faster than a traditional GPU. An AMD representative]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amd-buys-ai-chip-startup-taalas-that-hardwires-ai-models-into-its-silicon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amd-buys-ai-chip-startup-taalas-that-hardwires-ai-models-into-its-silicon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study argues that life may have emerged twice on Earth. "Two of the main lineages of life -- bacteria and archaea -- may have independently figured out the secrets of metabolism that upgraded them from non-living to living," reports ScienceAlert, citing a new study that "focused on the most rudimentary set of chemical reactions thought to enable this transformation." From the report: "The surprise is that the enzymes that catalyze those reactions are not conserved across the evolutionary d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress Made of Living Mycelium Can Renew and Repair Itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus. The material can also gain added properties such as blue pigmentation or UV resistance by co-culturing it with yeast or other fungi. Dezeen reports: The breakthrough from the researchers at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology is a type of engineered living material (ELM) -- a material built off living o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dress-made-of-living-mycelium-can-renew-and-repair-itself/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dress-made-of-living-mycelium-can-renew-and-repair-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Make First Viruses Designed By AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed viruses killed E coli bugs that were resistant to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New Mexico court ordered (PDF) Meta to create a $567 million fund to address harms linked to youth mental health and child sexual exploitation after finding its platforms constituted a public nuisance. "In sum, the Court finds that New Mexico is in the midst of a teen mental health crisis affecting public health and public safety in and throughout the state, and that Meta's platforms are a significant contributing cause to the crisis," wrote Chief Judge Bryan Biedscheid in the decision. The fu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/court-orders-meta-to-establish-567-million-fund-to-abate-harms-to-youth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/court-orders-meta-to-establish-567-million-fund-to-abate-harms-to-youth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google's $15 billion data-center project in Visakhapatnam is facing protests and legal challenges over fears that it will worsen local water shortages and disturb wildlife near the Kambalakonda sanctuary. Google says the campus will use advanced air cooling and comply with Indian law, while state officials deny that residential or rural water supplies will be tapped. Reuters reports: The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has hailed the proj]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-15-billion-india-data-center-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-15-billion-india-data-center-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from The Hill: A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday that "tower dump" warrants are unconstitutional, declining to reverse a lower court decision refusing the government's request to obtain the search warrants in a series of violent crime investigations. A "tower dump" involves cellphone companies providing law enforcement with access to the time and location data of all mobile devices connected to specific cell towers during a designated time window.La]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tower-dump-warrants-ruled-unconstitutional/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tower-dump-warrants-ruled-unconstitutional/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard. The project is referred to as "DoomPaint" or "MS Paint Doom" on GitHub. The Register reports: To be clear, Microsoft Paint isn't doing anything other than serving as a place to paste from the game. [...] ViZDoom runs the Doom .wad file and renders it headlessly. Each frame is passed through the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/azure-cto-pastes-doom-into-paint-one-frame-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/azure-cto-pastes-doom-into-paint-one-frame-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI researchers say multiple AI agents secretly created an internal message board to share hacking techniques, eventually finding ways around restrictions, exploiting a zero-day, and helping two models breach Hugging Face without human prompting. "This is a pivotal moment both for our company as well as the AI industry as a whole," Michael Dalton, one of the AI-maker's researchers, said during a presentation at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Politico reports: Dal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-models-shared-hacking-tips-on-a-secret-messaging-board-before-hugging-face-breach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-models-shared-hacking-tips-on-a-secret-messaging-board-before-hugging-face-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese officials have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to stop using characters from franchises such as Mario, Pokemon, and Naruto in unauthorized government memes and pro-war videos, warning that the posts could damage the intellectual property involved. IGN reports: Official US government social media accounts, including The White House's X account, have posted various memes and videos using characters from popular Japanese anime and games over the past year. Japan's Ministry of For]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-governments-mario-pokemon-and-naruto-meme-posting-could-damage-these-franchises-japanese-officials-warn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-governments-mario-pokemon-and-naruto-meme-posting-could-damage-these-franchises-japanese-officials-warn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is replacing the rule with a "case-by-case review" of each proposed merger."This will empower the F]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-over-limit-set-by-congress/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-over-limit-set-by-congress/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader mccalli writes: Times Magazine has started serving adverts with "brand messages" to AI crawlers, which are not part of its main page. The aim seems to be to influence chatbots to talk about the brand offerings in a positive light that can't be traced back to the actual page. Notably, they've excluded Google chatbots from this, likely because Google penalizes companies that show different search offerings to its bots versus actual human visitors. "Maybe it's more importan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/times-magazine-now-serves-ads-that-only-ai-chatbots-can-see/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/times-magazine-now-serves-ads-that-only-ai-chatbots-can-see/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing]]></title><description><![CDATA[wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta is the latest major AI developer to admit that its models broke loose during cybersecurity testing and hacked external systems. The tech giant said in a statement to the media on Wednesday that the incident occurred during independent evaluations conducted by Israeli AI security startup Irregular. The tested AI models were inadvertently allowed to access the internet due to a misconfiguration, which led them to exploit a vulnerability in an unna]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-ai-hacked-external-systems-during-cybersecurity-testing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-ai-hacked-external-systems-during-cybersecurity-testing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) has obtained (PDF) one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 500 domain names, requiring intermediaries including Cloudflare, GitHub, and a Mexican bank to comply. In addition, the injunction also covers pirate services and content that hasn't been created yet.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/broadcaster-wins-broad-us-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-sites-that-dont-exist-yet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/broadcaster-wins-broad-us-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-sites-that-dont-exist-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine in the United States after a clinical trial found it was about 27% more effective than a standard flu shot. Manufactured by Moderna and marketed as mFlusiva, the vaccine is expected to be available this fall for adults ages 50 to 64 and those 65 and older, though approval for the older group is conditional on Moderna conducting an additional clinical trial, NBC News reports. From the report: Many scientists and public health experts have touted the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-mrna-flu-shot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fda-approves-first-mrna-flu-shot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot readers schwit1 and fjo3 shared a report about BMW displaying a Spider-Man promotion on connected vehicle screens in more than 70 markets. According to reports, drivers had to play or dismiss the ad before they could use the infotainment system. Futurism reports: BMW, showing that it was about as in-touch as its drivers are familiar with turn signals, teased the promotion as a "special surprise." According to The Autopian's coverage and the heaps of complaints online, the ad ap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bmw-blasts-its-cars-internal-screens-with-aggressive-ads/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bmw-blasts-its-cars-internal-screens-with-aggressive-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Scientists have captured images of the sun's surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It's dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.Scientists originally took the images for a different reason]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-images-of-the-sun-show-its-surface-in-the-finest-detail-yet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-images-of-the-sun-show-its-surface-in-the-finest-detail-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo CEO Explains Why Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls Short]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can't take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that "weak sensing" hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. [...] Dolgov made the comments in a talk at Y Combinator's Startup School, walking through the lessons Waymo has learned building its driver over close to two decades. He put the sensor question on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-ceo-explains-why-camera-only-self-driving-falls-short/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-ceo-explains-why-camera-only-self-driving-falls-short/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents -- the most serious case arising when Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models' capabilities by the AI Security]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-ai-used-fake-identities-malware-in-rogue-attack-on-github-project/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-ai-used-fake-identities-malware-in-rogue-attack-on-github-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and oversees foundation model development. Wang joined in June of last year as the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to revamp his compa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-debuts-first-ai-coding-agent-to-take-on-anthropic-and-openai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-debuts-first-ai-coding-agent-to-take-on-anthropic-and-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researchers found that Apple's iCloud Private Relay can expose users' real IP addresses because some passkey-related requests bypass Safari and its proxy protections at the operating-system level. "In short: any website that supports, or pretends to support, passkeys can see the user's real IP address despite having iCloud Private Relay on," security researcher Tommy Mysk, who discovered the issue along with Talal Haj Bakry, told 404 Media. The flaws also affect OnionBrowser, an iOS app]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmaker Who Wants Data Center Pause Wins Kansas Democratic Primary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kansas Democrats nominated State Senator Cindy Holscher for governor after she defeated party-backed rival Ethan Corson. "The race became a test of what sort of candidate Democratic voters prefer in what is expected to be a challenging general election race: a more moderate candidate like Mr. Corson with endorsements from party leaders or an outspoken populist like Ms. Holscher, who spoke out against data centers and the political establishment," reports The New York Times. From the repot: Even]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawmaker-who-wants-data-center-pause-wins-kansas-democratic-primary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawmaker-who-wants-data-center-pause-wins-kansas-democratic-primary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Overhauls AI Leadership As DeepMind CEO Steps Aside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is reshuffling its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis steps away from day-to-day management of DeepMind to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control. Meanwhile, longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several prominent researchers are leaving to launch their own company. Axios reports: Hassabis will add the title of chief scientist for Google parent company Alphabet and also continue to lead Isomorphic Labs, the company's AI drug dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-overhauls-ai-leadership-as-deepmind-ceo-steps-aside/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-overhauls-ai-leadership-as-deepmind-ceo-steps-aside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI 'Operating System']]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an Apache 2.0-licensed platform that lets organizations build AI agents, apps, and workflows using curated company data and tools within isolated, governed environments. Despite the name, it is not a traditional operating system but a framework for securely managing organizational AI workloads. Phoronix reports: Cloudflare OS is already used internally at Cloudflare and is described in today's announcement as:<br />
"Cloudflare OS starts with a conversation i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-announces-open-source-cloudflare-os-as-ai-operating-system/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-announces-open-source-cloudflare-os-as-ai-operating-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Days of Walking Into a T-Mobile Store May Be Numbered]]></title><description><![CDATA[A leaked roadmap suggests T-Mobile plans to make its T-Life app the primary way customers manage their accounts by the end of 2026, "gradually moving one feature at a time into the app" and away from physical stores, reports Android Authority. That includes upgrades, new-line activations, and eventually new-account sign-ups. From the report: According to an image shared by a Reddit user, the carrier has mapped out the next phase of its app-first strategy. This clearly shows that the T-Life app i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-days-of-walking-into-a-t-mobile-store-may-be-numbered/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-days-of-walking-into-a-t-mobile-store-may-be-numbered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senators Demand Crackdown On Wildfire 'Prediction Markets']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several US senators have written a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), inquiring about the agency's "plans to crack down on prediction markets" that offer "contracts for individuals to bet on wildfires." "Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities' suffering, all so the rich and powerful can profit," wrote (PDF) the group of senators, who represent Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/senators-demand-crackdown-on-wildfire-prediction-markets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/senators-demand-crackdown-on-wildfire-prediction-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NVMe Polishes Its Specs, Brings Virtualization to Locally Attached SSDs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest NVMe specifications add SSD-level virtualization that can simplify live VM migration by preserving storage identities across servers. The updates also introduce support for post-quantum cryptography, controller-based rate limiting, voltage monitoring, and factory-reset capabilities. The Register reports: Announced by the NVM Express consortium, all 11 of the suite of NVMe specs have been updated with new features and engineering change notices. These represent the next step in the evo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvme-polishes-its-specs-brings-virtualization-to-locally-attached-ssds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvme-polishes-its-specs-brings-virtualization-to-locally-attached-ssds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch a SpaceX Rocket Crash Into the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[A four-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage left drifting after a 2025 lunar mission is expected to crash into the Moon at about 5,400 mph, likely striking Einstein Crater. The impact should occur at approximately 2:35 a.m. ET (0635GMT). Reuters reports: Such stages typically fall back into Earth's atmosphere and burn up or plunge into the ocean after boosting the rocket's payload to a precise spot in orbit. But because the January lunar lander mission required more thrust than missions closer to Ear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/watch-a-spacex-rocket-crash-into-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/watch-a-spacex-rocket-crash-into-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Halts Data Center Connections To Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the "epicenter of AI development," Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers -- at least until developers provide more information about their projects' potential impacts on the grid and communities. The Republican governor directed regulators in an August 3 announcement at the Public Uti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader neoRUR shares a report from Game Developer: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private by an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF). The move means the U.S. juggernaut is no longer a publicly-traded entity and is now majority owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its PIF investment arm. Other investors include Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter of which was established by U.S. president Don]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ea-is-now-officially-privately-owned/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ea-is-now-officially-privately-owned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has capped the number of open bug-bounty reports researchers can submit after being flooded with low-quality and sometimes entirely fabricated vulnerabilities generated by AI. MacRumors reports: The Financial Times learned of the limit after cybersecurity startup Bynario used ChatGPT to locate more than 50 macOS bugs in three weeks. Bynario found a privilege escalation exploit that could let an attacker get unrestricted access to a Mac, but was unable to report it because Apple limited the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-limits-bug-bounty-submissions-after-flood-of-ai-slop/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-limits-bug-bounty-submissions-after-flood-of-ai-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable For $1.28 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bending Spoons has made its first acquisition since going public last month at an $18 billion valuation, agreeing to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Airtable joins a growing portfolio of notable brands owned by the Italian app developer, including Evernote, WeTransfer, EventBrite, and Vimeo. TechCrunch reports: Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised more than $1.4 billion over multiple funding rounds. At its peak, during the boom days of 2021, it was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-128-billion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-128-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For']]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is introducing AI token budgets for employees, making the cheaper GPT-5.6 its default internal model and telling engineers to focus on business results rather than maximizing AI usage. 404 Media reports: "As we accelerate our use of GitHub Copilot to deliver on our goals, we all need to be aware of how we consume tokens," Jay Parikh, an executive vice president at Microsoft said in an email to Microsoft employees. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and GitHub Copilot is an AI coding tool. "]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media has officially launched its $100,000-per-month data feed giving trading firms machine-readable access to Truth Social posts milliseconds before the public. According to Fortune, five Wall Street firms have already signed up for the service, which "would generate about $500,000 in monthly revenue, or $6 million annually."Critics argue the service could let President Trump, who owns about 41% of the company, profit from early access to market-moving presidential communications. "I'll b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-begins-selling-100000-monthly-subscription-service-to-wall-street/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-begins-selling-100000-monthly-subscription-service-to-wall-street/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the U.S. telecom industry, is working on the measure to bar imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables at the speed of light within data centers. Officials hope to publish it this year, when it would take effect. The move, not previously reported, aims to prevent Chinese firms from stealing data, installing malware or disrupting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-drafting-ban-on-chinese-data-center-devices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-drafting-ban-on-chinese-data-center-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is now seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent OpenAI and Jony Ive's io startup from developing AI hardware allegedly based on stolen Apple trade secrets. "The iPhone maker also claims that more of its former employees may be involved with the trade secrets theft," reports TechCrunch. From the report: In a new filing, Apple is requesting expedited discovery from the accused OpenAI employees, senior systems engineer Chang Liu and Chief Hardware Officer Tang Yew Tan; OpenAI, and its foun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Apple has launched a new legal challenge against a UK government demand to access its customers' highly encrypted data, a year after the Home Office agreed to abandon its previous request. The US tech company launched the legal complaint last month at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), an independent court that has the power to investigate claims that the UK intelligence services have acted unlawfully. The UK government had made a seco]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-launches-legal-challenge-against-uk-demand-to-access-encrypted-user-data/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-launches-legal-challenge-against-uk-demand-to-access-encrypted-user-data/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Sandisk and SK hynix have published the first open technical specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project. HBF is designed to create a new memory tier between High Bandwidth Memory and traditional SSD storage, giving AI inference systems more near compute capacity without relying entirely on expensive HBM. The specification supports capacities up to 512GB using 8-high and 16-high NAND stacks, with bandwidth tiers ranging from about 0.4TB per]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sandisk-and-sk-hynix-publish-first-open-high-bandwidth-flash-standard/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sandisk-and-sk-hynix-publish-first-open-high-bandwidth-flash-standard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Russia-linked group tracked as Midnight Blizzard has compromised hotel and conference Wi-Fi portals worldwide, redirecting guests to phishing pages and fake software updates that steal credentials, session tokens, and other sensitive data. Microsoft says the campaign, dubbed CaptiveCrunch, "targets traveling employees generally rather than a particular sector," reports iTNews. From the report: Midnight Blizzard, tracked internally by Microsoft under its earlier codename NOBELIUM, is attributed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-linked-midnight-blizzard-group-hijacks-hotel-wi-fi-with-captivecrunch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-linked-midnight-blizzard-group-hijacks-hotel-wi-fi-with-captivecrunch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain Offers $1.14 Billion To Get Thirty Meter Telescope Moved To Canary Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Behind the Black: In a new bid to get the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to move from Hawaii, which has blocked its construction for more than a decade, the Spanish government has put together a $1.14 billion package that would not only pay for construction on the Canary Islands, but would finance an additional half century of operations. Tech Times provides some additional details: The package is conditional on the TMT International Observator]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-offers-114-billion-to-get-thirty-meter-telescope-moved-to-canary-islands/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-offers-114-billion-to-get-thirty-meter-telescope-moved-to-canary-islands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: The cost of producing new results on ten longstanding mathematical problems just fell to $2,000, according to OpenAI, which says its Astra model generated machine-checkable proofs for questions that had resisted human progress for decades. OpenAI published the work on August 1 and used it to give its next major model family a name: Astra. The results run across group theory, high-dimensional geometry, coding theory, quantum complexity, lattice cry]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-astra-solved-decades-old-math-problems-for-2000/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-astra-solved-decades-old-math-problems-for-2000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico's largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a "lockdown" browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June. It was a disaster. When exam results came in, they bore little resemblance to past results, especially at the top. Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test ta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks For MacBooks By the Thousands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple says its lower-cost MacBook Neo is beginning to displace Windows laptops and Chromebooks in K-12 schools, with several districts purchasing thousands of units. According to the company's latest earnings call, nearly half of the large MacBook Neo purchases made by U.S. educational institutions last quarter reportedly replaced competing platforms. 9to5Mac reports: Apple's commentary highlighted some large district deployments moving to Neo Pinellas County Schools, one of the largest district]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/schools-are-ditching-chromebooks-for-macbooks-by-the-thousands/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/schools-are-ditching-chromebooks-for-macbooks-by-the-thousands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Is Bringing Xbox 360 Games to PC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft reportedly plans to let developers bring Xbox 360 games to PC and next-generation Xbox devices, with a gradual rollout expected between 2027 and 2028. A separate disc-to-digital program would also give players transferable digital licenses tied to their physical Xbox discs, preserving the ability to resell or trade them. The Verge reports: With 360 games, developers can opt into making them backward compatible, and they will have control over things like a game's price and if it's avai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-is-bringing-xbox-360-games-to-pc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-is-bringing-xbox-360-games-to-pc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Touts His Own DIY AI Project To Wall Street and His 20 Million Followers]]></title><description><![CDATA[theodp writes: During Microsoft's 2026Q4 earnings call, CEO Microsoft Satya Nadella took time to tout a dashboard he personally created using AI from a Morgan Stanley analyst's PDF research report, which suggested a rosy payback for the so-called MAG7's ('Magnificent 7' companies) massive capital expenditures on AI (to which Nadella later added a "not financial advice" disclaimer). "It would be fun for you, Adam. I think one of your colleagues put out an ROIC [Return on Invested Capital] documen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-ceo-touts-his-own-diy-ai-project-to-wall-street-and-his-20-million-followers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-ceo-touts-his-own-diy-ai-project-to-wall-street-and-his-20-million-followers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees With Access to Secret Documents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple's practice of mixing employees' work files with personal iCloud accounts reportedly left some former staff with continued access to confidential documents, messages, and even new updates after leaving the company. "The former employees said many Apple files they had been shared on over their careers at the company -- including planning documents for product launch events -- continued to sync to their personal devices through the iCloud storage service after they left Apple," reports The In]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-icloud-file-sharing-left-ex-employees-with-access-to-secret-documents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-icloud-file-sharing-left-ex-employees-with-access-to-secret-documents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Share Users' Internet Connections]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking, according to new security research published on Monday. Some of these apps claim to have been installed on hundreds of millions of smart TVs in people's homes, per the app developers. At least one of the smart TV apps was a simple Pac-Man game that Samsung had endo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-bans-smart-tv-apps-that-share-users-internet-connections/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-bans-smart-tv-apps-that-share-users-internet-connections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews for summarizing publishers' content without delivering the traffic benefits of traditional search, arguing that users increasingly value Reddit's human perspectives and firsthand experiences. Ars Technica reports: First, there was a letter to investors (PDF), wherein Huffman spun his narrative about Reddit's value proposition and general strategic direction amid the proliferation of AI tools. He wrote: "As the internet becomes flooded wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-reddit-stock-falls-ceo-questions-value-of-googles-ai-overviews/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-reddit-stock-falls-ceo-questions-value-of-googles-ai-overviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea Records Its Highest Ever Temperature]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Korea recorded its highest temperature since modern observations began in 1904, with the city of Yangsan reaching 42.5C as temperatures exceeded 40C for a fifth consecutive day. Authorities warned residents to "immediately stop all outdoor activities." The Guardian reports: More than 20 localities in South Korea were under emergency heatwave alerts on Sunday -- a new warning category introduced this year to better address rising temperatures. An emergency alert is issued when areas experie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-records-its-highest-ever-temperature/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-records-its-highest-ever-temperature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Following 404 Media's reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and walked back claims that it would train AI models, and instead called it "a test of market interest."On July 30, nine days after 404 Media's reporting, ISBNdb added a note to its homepage and an update on its news page about the change.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/company-offering-printed-books-to-train-ai-stops-after-404-media-coverage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/company-offering-printed-books-to-train-ai-stops-after-404-media-coverage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun']]></title><description><![CDATA["AI's decimation of call center jobs has begun," reports Bloomberg:<br />
Companies including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corp. are using automated chat and phone systems to handle work that previously required humans. In some cases, they've already wiped out sizable chunks of their customer service operations, together representing thousands of workers.The specter of automation has long loomed over the call center industry, which employ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-decimation-of-call-center-jobs-has-begun/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ais-decimation-of-call-center-jobs-has-begun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massive Debian 13 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches 68 Vulnerabilities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slashdot reader prisoninmate shares this report from 9to5Linux:Coming ten days after the previous Linux kernel security update, which only fixed 12 vulnerabilities that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks, the new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, and it patches no less than 68 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel. ebian 13 "Trixie" kernel security update are CVE-2026-64530, a use-after-free in the traffic-control su]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/massive-debian-13-linux-kernel-security-update-patches-68-vulnerabilities/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/massive-debian-13-linux-kernel-security-update-patches-68-vulnerabilities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood Fights AI In Public While Quietly Building It Into Movies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even as Hollywood performers protest and Hollywood studios sue "in their war on AI," reports the Los Angeles Times, "the entertainment industry is deepening its dependence on it."Among hundreds of job postings in late June, more than one in 10 was likely connected to AI. The top studios' public postings suggest they have been recruiting people to build AI tools. They are also recruiting teams to defend their intellectual property against unauthorized AI use. "There are plenty of studios that are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hollywood-fights-ai-in-public-while-quietly-building-it-into-movies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hollywood-fights-ai-in-public-while-quietly-building-it-into-movies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman found her police officer ex-boyfriend cop had used Flock's camera system 600 times to look up the location of her and her daughter, reports the Washington Post (Alternate URL here). (She found out through Have I Been Flocked, described as "a website that aggregates police search logs made available through public records.")<br />
But it turns out dozens more police officers have also misused Flock...<br />
Authorities have charged or accused at least 50 law-enforcement officers of using license-plat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rogue-police-officers-have-turned-flocks-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-stalking-tool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rogue-police-officers-have-turned-flocks-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-stalking-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOG Officially Expands Linux Support With Native Galaxy Client In Development]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal:After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks one of the biggest shifts in the company's history and signals a stronger commitment to Linux as a first-class gaming platform. While GOG has offered DRM-free Linux game downloads since 2014, its Galaxy launcher has remained exclusive to Windows]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gog-officially-expands-linux-support-with-native-galaxy-client-in-development/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gog-officially-expands-linux-support-with-native-galaxy-client-in-development/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT Teams Report 11 Hour a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly. More than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers (US and UK) were surveyed for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator DE-CIX by market researchers Censuswide. But despite 96% of respondents claiming their enterprise networks are ready for cloud/AI loads, the average IT team still spends more than 11 hours each week resolving cloud connectivity problems<br />
Other]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-teams-report-11-hour-a-week-on-cloud-connectivity-problems/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-teams-report-11-hour-a-week-on-cloud-connectivity-problems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT Teams are Spending 11 Hours a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly. More than 400 IT and infrastructure decision-makers (US and UK) were surveyed for internet/cloud/AI exchange operator DE-CIX by market researchers Censuswide. But despite 96% of respondents claiming their enterprise networks are ready for cloud/AI loads, the average IT team still spends more than 11 hours each week resolving cloud connectivity problems<br />
Other]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-teams-are-spending-11-hours-a-week-on-cloud-connectivity-problems/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-teams-are-spending-11-hours-a-week-on-cloud-connectivity-problems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Spinning Drone Hides In Plain Sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[To design invisible drones, researchers have tried camouflage, transparent materials and light-bending optical systems. But engineers at Northwestern University used "motion blur," which an announcement from the school notes is the effect that makes fast-spinning fans seem to disappear.<br />
"The drone spins up to 25 times per second, which is too fast for the human eye to see clearly. While it isn't completely invisible, it morphs into a ghostly smudge that seamlessly blends into the background... "]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is There a Way to Promote Open Document Formats Instead of 'MS Office' Format?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Register looks at exactly why "It is practically impossible to move any non-trivial Word document out of MS Office to a non-MS suite and back again without it being more trouble than it's worth."OOXML, developed by Microsoft and first standardized by Ecma in 2006, became the ISO/IEC 29500 standard in 2008 after a grueling and adversarial process. Microsoft pursued standardization because it has always been a standards-led organization dedicated to maximizing the options for its customers. Or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-there-a-way-to-promote-open-document-formats-instead-of-ms-office-format/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-there-a-way-to-promote-open-document-formats-instead-of-ms-office-format/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use."Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then in June was at 3.69%. The just-published numbers for July put Steam on Linux use at 4.01%, as an improvement over the prior two months but still well off the percentage highs of March and April...<br />
The July data puts SteamOS Holo as powering around 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/steam-on-linux-use-back-above-4-in-july/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/steam-on-linux-use-back-above-4-in-july/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster.]]></title><description><![CDATA["When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia's famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours," reports SFGate.<br />
"Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue..."<br />
Although the approximately 18-mile route with a 6,000-foot elevation gain can be completed by experienced trail runners in a day, search and rescue officials generally recommend h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/group-of-teen-hikers-relied-on-google-maps-it-was-a-disaster/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/group-of-teen-hikers-relied-on-google-maps-it-was-a-disaster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Eating Less Protein Produce Healthier Aging and Metabolism?]]></title><description><![CDATA["A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better," reports ABC News:<br />
The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies involving humans, mice, insects, yeast, and other organisms. The review found that eating less protein, or less of certain amino acids that make up protein, may turn on body processes linked to healthier aging, as well as metabolism, the process]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/does-eating-less-protein-produce-healthier-aging-and-metabolism/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/does-eating-less-protein-produce-healthier-aging-and-metabolism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a First, 'Super-Earth' Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA["Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere," reports CNN, "making it potentially suitable for life."<br />
Called LHS 1140b, the object is about five times the mass of our planet, or a "super-Earth." This planet orbits around its star in the "Goldilocks zone," also known as the habitable zone, meaning its surface temperature is not too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist... "It appears to be consistent with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/in-a-first-super-earth-planet-shows-it-could-have-an-atmosphere/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/in-a-first-super-earth-planet-shows-it-could-have-an-atmosphere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[The blog Linuxiac reports:Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter's North American desktop operating system statistics.<br />
For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month... However, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Return-to-Office Mandates Killing Workers' Trust in Workplaces?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:<br />
A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy &mdash; a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-return-to-office-mandates-killing-workers-trust-in-workplaces/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-return-to-office-mandates-killing-workers-trust-in-workplaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide 'SCREEN' Act]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "will only be shown content from other accounts they follow or otherwise select in a set sequence, such as chronological order," rather than "the default algorithmically personalized feeds... unless they get parental consent for an addictive feed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-new-york-finalizes-new-social-media-rules-us-senate-considers-nationwide-screen-act/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-new-york-finalizes-new-social-media-rules-us-senate-considers-nationwide-screen-act/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How 'Situational Awareness' Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, "founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold Aschenbrenner when he was in his early 20s."Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, founded the hedge fund on the premise that "AI will be the dominant driver of global market returns over the next decade," according to the firm's site... Aschenbrenner managed to turn hundreds of millions of dollars into tens of billions of dollars over the course of roughly two years... That streak ended]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-situational-awareness-hedge-fund-dropped-67-in-ai-stock-rout/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-situational-awareness-hedge-fund-dropped-67-in-ai-stock-rout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken]]></title><description><![CDATA["A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would need to physically hold it to steal anything."<br />
The problem is that anyone who can reproduce the recovery seed doesn't need to possess the COLDCAR, Nerds.xyz points out. More from The Street:[The recovery seed] is supposed to come from a hardware random number generator producing 128 bits]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/recovery-seeds-reportedly-breached-for-coldcard-hardware-bitcoin-wallets-75m-taken/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/recovery-seeds-reportedly-breached-for-coldcard-hardware-bitcoin-wallets-75m-taken/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..."<br />
[While optimists expect] huge corporate profits and a society-wide boost to wealth and well-being...<br />
questions about that AI vision are now growing more urgent: When, if ever, will this payoff arrive? And what will the fallout be for Americans if]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-big-techs-ai-gamble-starting-to-look-riskier/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-big-techs-ai-gamble-starting-to-look-riskier/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund']]></title><description><![CDATA["An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku.<br />
Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52)The bundle is pay-what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/150-game-discount-bundle-raises-57000-for-videogame-workers-hardship-fund/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/150-game-discount-bundle-raises-57000-for-videogame-workers-hardship-fund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports:The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-a-field-of-honeycomb-textures/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-a-field-of-honeycomb-textures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple's Stock Drops Nearly 10%. How Will It Respond to Memory Shortage?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of the global memory shortage on the company's business."During Apple's third quarter earnings call, Cook said the company paid significantly more for memory in the quarter and expects that to further increase in the current period. And while Apple is able to offset some of that price jump, it won't be able to tackle it all... The CEO said that iPhone and Mac sales outpaced Apple's]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-stock-drops-nearly-10-how-will-it-respond-to-memory-shortage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-stock-drops-nearly-10-how-will-it-respond-to-memory-shortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of its bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and was carefully moved into place over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hamburg-is-replacing-a-bridge-in-one-huge-piece/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hamburg-is-replacing-a-bridge-in-one-huge-piece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security]]></title><description><![CDATA["GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports SecurityWeek, "by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long-stable releases."<br />
To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before openi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-github-pypi-policies-hope-to-boost-supply-chain-security/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-github-pypi-policies-hope-to-boost-supply-chain-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices for used EVs in the U.S. "are up 5.1% from January to June 2026, according to a Recurrent analysis published this month."The trend continued into the second half of the year: Prices are up 7% year to date through mid-July, it said. Recurrent compared EVs according to the same make and model year across 108 combinations and weighted price growth according to inventory volume. "Us]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/used-ev-prices-are-now-going-up-in-america/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/used-ev-prices-are-now-going-up-in-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google's Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform's open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An issue that has come up repeatedly in the run-up to verification is what will happen to devs who can't verify because of where they live. It turns out that Google has a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verification/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verification/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research]]></title><description><![CDATA[The U.S. company Meteomatics has created an automated weather-monitoring system that uses drones to collect atmospheric data at multiple altitudes before returning to recharge and upload their findings. The so-called Meteobase, which consists of a base station on the ground with a drone that can be launched and recovered automatically, "is highly weather resistant and keeps the drone at a comfortable temperature," reports The Guardian. "It can send out one data-gathering mission a day, or multip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drones-offer-alternative-to-balloons-for-weather-research/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drones-offer-alternative-to-balloons-for-weather-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA["Space.com and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From a report: Onboard the same flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lander developed by the Japanese company ispace. According to a new study by an international team, the resulting impact plume may briefly be bright enough to s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drifting-spacex-rocket-heading-for-accidental-collision-with-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drifting-spacex-rocket-heading-for-accidental-collision-with-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The new breakouts were uncovered during the company's publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped what was meant to be a contained testing environment thi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Major Labels Propose Rules to Keep AI Slop Off the Charts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Major record labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner have proposed excluding AI-generated songs from official charts unless they are "substantially human made," properly labeled, legally produced, and free from manipulation concerns. The Verge reports: The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), SAG-AFTRA, and others. That would create a set of standardized labels for AI-generated and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-major-labels-propose-rules-to-keep-ai-slop-off-the-charts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-major-labels-propose-rules-to-keep-ai-slop-off-the-charts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country's under-16 ban took effect, with roughly half saying platforms never checked their age. Reuters reports: In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness of their habits decreased. Children's continued s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/most-australian-teens-still-on-social-media-three-months-after-ban/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/most-australian-teens-still-on-social-media-three-months-after-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sony says it will proceed with ending PlayStation disc sales in January 2028 despite petitions, boycott threats, and concerns about digital ownership and the disappearance of the secondhand market. PCMag reports: After Sony's recent earnings call, an investor Q&amp;A session saw analysts ask about its controversial decision to end disc production across all of its consoles. The company hadn't publicly commented since its announcement and had reduced activity on social accounts and other marketin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-heard-backlash-over-dropping-playstation-discs-plans-to-press-ahead/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-heard-backlash-over-dropping-playstation-discs-plans-to-press-ahead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure. In a public service announcement Thursday, the agencies said water and wastewater utilities have reported incidents to the FBI, with some malicious activity degrading water operations. The annou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-in-7-states-this-week-fbi-says/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-in-7-states-this-week-fbi-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, allowing users to place AI-generated events and objects onto real satellite imagery. The company says its AI-generated images contain invisible watermarks detectable through Gemini or Lens, but the BBC found those safeguards and some third-party detection tools can be fooled into labeling manipulated Google Earth images as real. From the report: A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-google-earth-ai-tool-could-fuel-misinformation-experts-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-google-earth-ai-tool-could-fuel-misinformation-experts-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words. Chartbeat data shared with Axios shows Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year. That pain is regressive. Over the past two years, small publishers lost 60% of referrals from search overall, medium publishers 47%, large publishers 22%.Read more of this sto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/publishers-are-losing-google-traffic-as-ai-answers-replace-links/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/publishers-are-losing-google-traffic-as-ai-answers-replace-links/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation']]></title><description><![CDATA[New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an "illegal gambling operation" without state authorization. "No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple," said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release announcing the lawsuit. "By ignoring our laws, Kalshi is running an illegal operation and harming New Yorkers in the process." CNBC reports: In a case filed in a Manhattan state court (PDF)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-sues-kalshi-for-running-illegal-gambling-operation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-sues-kalshi-for-running-illegal-gambling-operation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google says AI-assisted workflows helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs across versions 149 and 150, more than the previous 23 releases combined. The company is also testing twice-weekly security updates and "dynamic patching," which could apply most fixes without requiring users to restart the entire browser. "By leveraging Chrome's multi-process architecture, dynamic patching sequentially replaces background child processes (like the Renderer and GPU) with updated binaries on the fly," says Go]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chrome-is-using-ai-to-fix-hundreds-of-bugs-eliminate-full-browser-restarts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chrome-is-using-ai-to-fix-hundreds-of-bugs-eliminate-full-browser-restarts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post "seems like AI slop," according to 404 Media's own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives. Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this rela]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie]]></title><description><![CDATA[A production company and filmmaker are suing Netflix for $105 million, alleging the streamer lost a stolen drive containing an unencrypted master copy of the unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude, which they claim damage its exclusivity and market value. Netflix denied responsibility for the lost film but said it takes content security seriously and has offered to monitor piracy sites for unauthorized copies. CBS News reports: The complaint filed on Wednesday in California district court allege]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/netflix-sued-for-losing-master-copy-of-unreleased-nicolas-cage-movie/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/netflix-sued-for-losing-master-copy-of-unreleased-nicolas-cage-movie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic found that Claude models breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because misconfigured environments accidentally gave them access to the internet. The company notified those affected and urged other AI labs to audit their own testing systems. The BBC reports: Anthropic said in a statement that it reviewed more than 140,000 tests to find evidence that Claude - its family of AI models - could access the internet from testing environments that were designed to be s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-says-its-ai-systems-broke-into-computers-at-3-organizations/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-says-its-ai-systems-broke-into-computers-at-3-organizations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws in New York State, vandalized with paint in Oakland, California, and rammed with a truck in Idaho. Flock claims its services fight crime, but law enforcement agencies also use their services to track vehicles based on license plate numbers and reconstruct the their movements, even when the drivers and owners of these vehicles have never been accused or convicted of any crime. (Fl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-cameras-are-being-destroyed-across-the-us/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/flock-cameras-are-being-destroyed-across-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP's protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has the potential to address long-standing barriers to scalability.The blog post announcing the specification,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-mcp-specification-addresses-the-main-barrier-to-enterprise-adoption/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-mcp-specification-addresses-the-main-barrier-to-enterprise-adoption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology. By taking advantage of this flaw, which concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them instructions, the researchers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-strikingly-vulnerable-to-attack/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-strikingly-vulnerable-to-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it "would eclipse Nvidia's $440 billion addition, following President Donald Trump's announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last year, as the biggest ever." From the report: The nearly $500 billion jump is larger than the market capitalization of roughly 96% of S&amp;P 500 stocks, data compiled by Bloomb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsofts-450-billion-jump-is-biggest-in-stock-market-history/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsofts-450-billion-jump-is-biggest-in-stock-market-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship']]></title><description><![CDATA[ABC accused FCC Chair Brendan Carr of "attempted censorship," arguing that an early review of its eight broadcast licenses is politically motivated retaliation over the network's coverage and could chill the entire media industry. "The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration's view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price," the Disney-owned television network wrote. Politico reports: "Across the government, regulato]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/abc-accuses-fcc-of-attempted-censorship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/abc-accuses-fcc-of-attempted-censorship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon's Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safety agency said on Thursday. Zoox said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's decision gives the company federal approval to begin charging for rides, and that it will soon begin charging for service, first in Las Vegas, with additional markets to follo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-zoox-wins-first-us-approval-for-paid-robotaxis-without-human-controls/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazons-zoox-wins-first-us-approval-for-paid-robotaxis-without-human-controls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel]]></title><description><![CDATA[A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been prevented with basic Excel training, after an employee unknowingly shared a hidden worksheet containing their details. The Independent reports: The leak, in February 2022, exposed the details of 18,700 Afghans who said they were in danger from the Taliban because of their links to UK forces and now wanted to escape to Britain. The blunder triggered an unprecedented superinjunct]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/catastrophic-mod-data-breach-caused-by-lack-of-training-on-excel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/catastrophic-mod-data-breach-caused-by-lack-of-training-on-excel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 combines vision, language, and action models to control multiple types of robots, including humanoids performing tasks such as organizing shelves, tying bags, and replacing lightbulbs. "It's another milestone in our path towards really getting towards what we call like physical AGI, which means we get a robot to do anything that a human can," Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, tells WIRED. From the report: Gemini Robotics 2 combines several]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-gemini-can-now-stomp-around-as-a-humanoid-robot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-gemini-can-now-stomp-around-as-a-humanoid-robot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is expanding its answer to Apple's age-assurance tools with Wednesday's news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Brazil, allows Android developers to identify younger users of their apps in order to provide safer, age-appropriate experiences. The expansion will initially bring the API to Australia and Canada by mid-August, before rolling out globally to all m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-brings-its-age-assurance-tech-to-android-developers-worldwide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-brings-its-age-assurance-tech-to-android-developers-worldwide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code]]></title><description><![CDATA[GCC has adopted a policy rejecting substantial code contributions generated by or derived from LLMs. "This covers not just code copied directly from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or GitHub Copilot, but also any versions of the code later edited or rewritten by a human, provided that the final contribution is still based on material generated by the system," reports Linuxiac. From the report: The important point, then, is not whether a developer has used an AI tool at some stage in their work; cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gcc-adopts-policy-rejecting-significant-ai-generated-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gcc-adopts-policy-rejecting-significant-ai-generated-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA Urges Water and Wastewater Systems Sector to Protect OT Against Activity Targeting PLCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible. Threat actors targeting exposed PLCs have modified passwords to lock out operators and disconnected the PLCs by changing their IP addresses. This act]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-water-and-wastewater-systems-sector-to-protect-ot-against-activity-targeting-plcs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-water-and-wastewater-systems-sector-to-protect-ot-against-activity-targeting-plcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former Comcast retail employee alleges that a Connecticut store manager tied the lowest-performing salesperson to a chair each month and had co-workers smash a cream pie into their face, recording the incidents as a sales-motivation tactic. The plaintiff says he resigned after reporting the alleged assaults and is seeking damages for constructive discharge and emotional distress. Ars Technica reports: A Comcast store in Plainville, Connecticut, "had a policy that the highest-ranked Retail Sale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comcast-store-punished-low-sales-by-smashing-pies-in-workers-faces-lawsuit-claims/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comcast-store-punished-low-sales-by-smashing-pies-in-workers-faces-lawsuit-claims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qantas completed a record-breaking 24-hour, 24-minute test flight from Melbourne to Toulouse on Tuesday. "The specially adapted A350-1000ULR airliner is due to debut with the Australian carrier's nonstop Sydney-London route from 2027," reports The Guardian. From the report: Tuesday's flight is thought to be the longest ever by a commercial plane, beating the previous record of 22 hours and 42 minutes set by a Boeing 777-200LR in 2005 between Hong Kong and London via the Pacific in 2005.Flight-tr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/qantas-plane-flies-for-more-than-24-hours-in-record-breaking-flight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/qantas-plane-flies-for-more-than-24-hours-in-record-breaking-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers, fueled by companies with functionally unlimited cash that are racing to supply skyrocketing demand for their A.I. models. The explosion has offset flagging activity in other sectors, like office constru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-companies-are-recruiting-electricians-and-carpenters-by-the-thousands/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-companies-are-recruiting-electricians-and-carpenters-by-the-thousands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC's ban on Chinese-made robots extends well beyond humanoids to quadrupeds, research platforms, and many robot vacuums from allied countries. Supporters call it a major boost for domestic robotics, but critics warn that cutting researchers and startups off from affordable foreign hardware could slow U.S. innovation instead. Ars Technica's Jeremy Hsu examines who stands to gain and who stands to lose from the prohibition: Such an import ban would apply to some of the most affordable robots]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/who-wins-and-who-loses-after-us-bans-foreign-robots/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/who-wins-and-who-loses-after-us-bans-foreign-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve is funding Collabora's experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports: Louis-Francis Ratte-Boulianne put out a blog post highlighting their initial work on porting RADV to Windows. Besides working on Windows WDDM2 integration for Windows, a big challenge with porting R]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-sponsors-work-bringing-open-source-radv-driver-to-windows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-sponsors-work-bringing-open-source-radv-driver-to-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has dismantled the original AlphaFold team, according to Financial Times (paywalled), reassigning many researchers to Gemini and Isomorphic Labs. Several other key members, including Nobel laureate John Jumper, left for Anthropic. Engadget reports: AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-shuts-down-its-nobel-prize-winning-alphafold-project/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-shuts-down-its-nobel-prize-winning-alphafold-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has been evaluating how frontier AI models behave as long-running autonomous agents by assigning them simulated real-world tasks, such as operating a vending machine business for a year without human supervision. In the latest installment, the research startup found that frontier AI models, including Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3, resorted to lying, cheating, and collusion. Their behavior became especially underhanded when told they]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus]]></title><description><![CDATA[NextEra and Brookfield plan to invest more than $100 billion to transform a former uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant. "The privately funded effort will include construction of 2 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power at or near the site in Paducah in western Kentucky, and as much as 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage capacity," reports Bloomberg. " For context, a single gigawatt of capacity is roughly the output of a traditional nuclear power plant]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nextera-brookfield-to-build-100-billion-kentucky-data-campus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nextera-brookfield-to-build-100-billion-kentucky-data-campus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[DoorDash has launched DoorDash Air, an in-house drone-delivery program that has just received FAA certification for commercial operations. "This does not mean DoorDash's custom-built drones will be delivering burritos tomorrow, or even next month," notes TechCrunch. "The company didn't provide a detailed timeline for when its aircraft would be used in operations." From the report: [I]t will likely begin with limited pilot programs in which the unmanned aircraft will travel short distances while]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doordash-is-building-its-own-drone-delivery-business/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doordash-is-building-its-own-drone-delivery-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism, alleging the platform was used by Ukrainian intelligence "to prepare and co-ordinate acts of sabotage and terror" inside Russia. An international arrest warrant has been issued for Durov, who currently lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where Telegram keeps its main office. The BBC reports: Shortly after the charge was announced, Telegram's account on X posted an image showing Durov holding up his middle finger. He h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-charges-telegram-founder-durov-with-facilitating-terrorism/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-charges-telegram-founder-durov-with-facilitating-terrorism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face's platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI's latest AI models, was more extensive than the company initially disclosed. In an updated blog post, OpenAI said that an ongoing review of the incident revealed that "four accounts" tied t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-just-hugging-face/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-just-hugging-face/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack]]></title><description><![CDATA[jrnvk shares a report from KMSP: Minnesota IT Services reports that a "coordinated cyberattack" targeted technology at more than 30 community water systems between Sunday, July 26 and Monday, July 27. The state has activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities to respond to the attacks.On Monday and Tuesday, FOX 9 reported on notices from four cities that had disclosed the attacks: Plymouth, South St. Paul, Maple Plain, and Braham. All four cities said the impacts of the attacks wer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-than-30-minnesota-water-systems-targeted-in-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/more-than-30-minnesota-water-systems-targeted-in-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: [I]n a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we can put certain tasks on autopilot in a way that enables something closer to true multitasking. Driving is the perfect example: When you take your test, your entire mental and physical energy is concentrated on executing the right combinations of movements and thoughts. After a decade behi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/your-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-allow-true-multitasking/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/your-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-allow-true-multitasking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has banned newly authorized foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots, along with power inverters, citing "unacceptable risks" to the country's national security. FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the agency was doing its part "to secure America's critical supply chains." The BBC reports: The FCC has added the items to its Covered List -- a register of goods and services that are deemed a risk to US national security. The ban applies to new foreign-produced advanced robo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-bans-new-chinese-humanoid-robots/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-bans-new-chinese-humanoid-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workplaces Look For Cheaper AI As 'Tokenmaxxing' Fades As a Corporate Fad]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity. What started as tech industry-fueled springtime hype over squeezing as much AI-generated work as possible out of products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude has shifted to a summertime backlash. [...] Just a few months ago, Si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/workplaces-look-for-cheaper-ai-as-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-a-corporate-fad/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/workplaces-look-for-cheaper-ai-as-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-a-corporate-fad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has replaced its iPhone Upgrade Program with Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed U.S. leasing service covering most iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. MacRumors reports: Apple Upgrade has lower base prices than the iPhone Upgrade Program, with iPhones available starting at $17.99 per month and the Apple Watch available starting at $11.99 per month. Macs can be leased starting at $24.99 per month, and iPads start at $11.99 per month. AppleCare+ is optional and not included in the lease pri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-retires-iphone-upgrade-program-for-klarna-backed-leases/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-retires-iphone-upgrade-program-for-klarna-backed-leases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has yet to produce the expected surge in real-world attacks: VulnCheck found that only 14 of 1,061 attributed discoveries, or 1.3 percent, had been exploited, which is "almost identical to the rate across all vulnerabilities in VulnCheck's dataset," reports The Register. "That's a far cry from the narrative that frontier AI is dramatically tilting the balance in attackers' favor by churning out instantly weaponizable bugs." The findings suggest AI is currently]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-found-bugs-arent-proving-any-easier-to-exploit-despite-the-hype/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-found-bugs-arent-proving-any-easier-to-exploit-despite-the-hype/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019]]></title><description><![CDATA[eBay and several former executives have agreed to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner, the newsletter writers targeted in a 2019 corporate harassment campaign that involved threats, surveillance attempts, and deliveries of live insects and other disturbing items. The settlement closes the couple's civil case after seven former employees pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the scheme. TechCrunch reports: Ina and David Steiner, a married couple and the co-authors of EcommerceBytes,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ebay-reaches-56-million-settlement-with-e-commerce-newsletter-writers-it-terrorized-in-2019/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ebay-reaches-56-million-settlement-with-e-commerce-newsletter-writers-it-terrorized-in-2019/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has "found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that is in pervasive use throughout the internet," reports The New York Times. Researchers said the model discovered novel attacks against weakened versions of AES and the experimental post-quantum HAWK system, including one that was 200 to 1,000 times faster than previous human-developed methods. From the report: The flaws identified do not concern a cryptographic standard currently in use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-ai-model-finds-flaws-in-tough-to-crack-encryption-algorithms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-ai-model-finds-flaws-in-tough-to-crack-encryption-algorithms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets, was prevented from enforcing the law by a federal court ruling just days before the ban was scheduled to take effect. But while Minnesota was stopped from enforcing a total ban, the state may ultimately be allowed to prohibit some types of prediction-market wagers. The Trump administration and the two largest prediction markets -- Kalshi and Polymarket -- sued Minnesota after the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-blocks-first-state-law-that-would-have-banned-prediction-markets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-blocks-first-state-law-that-would-have-banned-prediction-markets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses']]></title><description><![CDATA[DEF CON has banned "Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities," with no exceptions being made even for those with prescription versions. "Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them," DEF CON said. The Register reports: [The conference's official photo policy] has not been updated since 2023, predating the recent growth of camera-equipped eyewear developed by Meta with EssilorLuxottica under its Ray-Ban and Oakley brands. It states that public photography is permitted but with se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search]]></title><description><![CDATA[GrapheneOS is defending its duress-password feature after an environmental activist used it to wipe his Pixel phone during a U.S. Customs search and was later indicted for allegedly destroying property under government control. The nonprofit says the operating system is "completely legal," cannot recover the erased data, and should not be weakened with encryption backdoors. Meanwhile, the activist faces up to five years in prison if found guilty. PCMag reports: In a post on Saturday, the Canadia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[The review embargo has lifted for the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, and the consensus across the board is that it is a massive leap forward in terms of build quality and battery life. The main issue reviewers complained about is the sky-high price, with the higher-end model jumping dramatically from $2,100 up to $2,900 due to the memory shortage crisis. (Some note that the price "nearly doubled" overnight while they were in the middle of testing.)In his video review, Marques Brownlee says, "This]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/review-roundup-framework-laptop-13-pro/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/review-roundup-framework-laptop-13-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Claude is exposing a wealth of users' chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see. The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arizona State University has launched a 120-credit bachelor's degree in content creation that teaches video, podcasting, branding, analytics, media law, and social strategy. For their capstone, students are "expected to build a real social media account and demonstrate audience growth during the program," reports Dexerto. From the report: The Content Creation BA is housed within ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and appears in the university's 2026-2027 course cat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/arizona-state-launches-influencer-degree-where-students-must-gain-real-followers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/arizona-state-launches-influencer-degree-where-students-must-gain-real-followers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new analysis of 89 major geological events over the past 260 million years found evidence that mass extinctions, volcanic eruptions, ocean crises, and other upheavals may cluster around a roughly 27.5-million-year cycle. The cause remains unknown, with possibilities ranging from mantle activity and orbital changes to speculative galactic influences. Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: One possibility lies deep within Earth itself. The planet's mantle is constan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/earths-biggest-disasters-strike-in-a-hidden-pattern-every-27-million-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/earths-biggest-disasters-strike-in-a-hidden-pattern-every-27-million-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name "fus__ro_dah" (two underscores after "fus"), but they accidentally requested records for the username "fus_ro_dah" (]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-missing-underscore-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-missing-underscore-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. "The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment like Law &amp; Order, Saturday Night Live and Love Island," reports The Hollywood Reporter. "It also has the potential to dramatically scale Peacock, which remains smaller than many of its streaming competitors." From the report: Peacock has 48 m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/peacock-to-be-included-with-youtube-premium-in-major-streaming-tie-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/peacock-to-be-included-with-youtube-premium-in-major-streaming-tie-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell "voice, messaging, data, and emergency services," similar to Starlink's partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon's existing Leo broadband constellation. The Verge reports: Advanced Television points out that the FCC application also includes a request to use spectrum assigned to I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-trying-to-launch-a-global-satellite-cellphone-network-in-2028/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-trying-to-launch-a-global-satellite-cellphone-network-in-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and agents. Nvidia points to the recent security incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, noting that whe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-tech-giants-launch-ai-safety-initiative/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-tech-giants-launch-ai-safety-initiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other 'AI' tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The community vote was on two issues, the first being the notion that scraping of project code for the use in LLMs should be forbidden, which was a motion]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-and-llm-generated-code-projects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-and-llm-generated-code-projects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom's Hardware reports: The Information didn't name the manufacturer, but its sources described the operation as having pulled DUV development teams from several Chinese companies, one of them the state-backed startup Shanghai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-begins-mass-production-of-homegrown-duv-chip-tools/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-begins-mass-production-of-homegrown-duv-chip-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the "broad qualities" of those authors "while remaining distinct in its own voice," for example. This morning, Ars received the following response to a test prompt asking for a story introduction in the style of Stephen King: "I can definitely write with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chatgpt-starts-blocking-direct-requests-to-copy-an-authors-style/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chatgpt-starts-blocking-direct-requests-to-copy-an-authors-style/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts]]></title><description><![CDATA[MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data centers than rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He said the company could use the downturn to make selective acquisitions, though it might simply continue operating largely as before. "I th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-will-watch-everything-burn-when-ai-bubble-bursts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-will-watch-everything-burn-when-ai-bubble-bursts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers]]></title><description><![CDATA[European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU's Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the changes will provide reliable, reproducible data at scale. Ars Technica reports: In recent years, social media companies shut down public access tools like Me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-tech-accused-of-stonewalling-european-social-media-researchers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-tech-accused-of-stonewalling-european-social-media-researchers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. For OpenAI, a deal would be the first step toward controlling its own]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-in-talks-with-openai-to-guarantee-250-billion-financing-for-data-center/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-in-talks-with-openai-to-guarantee-250-billion-financing-for-data-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['KVM Chainsaw' Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with 'God Data Structure']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:<br />
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure". Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw branch to KVM's "next" Git branch. With this KVM Chainsaw work now in the next branch, it should be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle.<br />
The KVM Chainsaw work deals with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kvm-chainsaw-expected-to-hit-linux-73-for-dealing-with-god-data-structure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kvm-chainsaw-expected-to-hit-linux-73-for-dealing-with-god-data-structure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5]]></title><description><![CDATA["The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy," reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, "but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life."In many cases, the followers necessary to sustain a living are smaller (and more attainable) than people might assume. A small but loyal audience can now generate enough]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-new-middle-class-of-content-creators-is-quietly-quitting-the-9-to-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-new-middle-class-of-content-creators-is-quietly-quitting-the-9-to-5/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X]]></title><description><![CDATA[Variety reports:"The Odyssey" leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25. At 2:25 p.m. PT, a post on X reading "Someone uploaded 'The Odyssey' full movie on X. Can you believe it?" amplified a message from a now-suspended account. The message included a high-quality version of the film, as confirmed by Variety, and climbed to over 2.1 million views within two and a half hours. By that time, the streaming film was rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/21-million-people-view-leaked-odyssey-bootleg-on-x/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/21-million-people-view-leaked-odyssey-bootleg-on-x/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown']]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state."<br />
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined &euro;2,000 (&pound;1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians. The number of investigations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/inside-the-dystopian-world-of-germanys-free-speech-crackdown/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/inside-the-dystopian-world-of-germanys-free-speech-crackdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's been a change to NASA's launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites "were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now been assigned a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to a NASA mission update."<br />
[NASA's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment mision &mdash; or SunRISE] will fly to space as part of a rideshare mission sponsored by the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. Though it's not st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-replaces-ulas-vulcan-centaur-with-spacex-falcon-heavy-for-solar-storm-research/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-replaces-ulas-vulcan-centaur-with-spacex-falcon-heavy-for-solar-storm-research/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Digital Trends reports:Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release toward the end of the year, according to Bloomberg... Part of the delay reportedly stems from Apple's engineering and marketing teams spending more time refining the product and deciding how to address the privacy concerns...<br />
Apple has reportedly considered glasses without cameras, as well as a version where the cameras can analyse the surroundings but cannot record photos or vi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-smart-glasses-delayed-as-engineers-consider-privacy-concerns/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apples-smart-glasses-delayed-as-engineers-consider-privacy-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A U.S. district court "has dismissed Google's case against SerpApi over that company's scraping of search results to train AI models," reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders &mdash; and that SerpApi's actions breached America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):<br />
[Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title, and second that no person s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-anti-search-scraping-lawsuit-dismissed/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/googles-anti-search-scraping-lawsuit-dismissed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America]]></title><description><![CDATA[270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland.<br />
And wildfires "have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S.," reports NPR, as tens of millions of people in North America "are continuing to endure hazardous smoke from out of control wildfires burning across Canada and the Western U.S."<br />
At America's National Interagency Fire Center, NPR's wildfire correspondent says all of America's firefighting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wildfires-evacuations-and-smoke-hit-europe-and-north-america/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wildfires-evacuations-and-smoke-hit-europe-and-north-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI.Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping, and to flag violations so the city staff can review]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-equipped-garbage-trucks-could-soon-start-spying-on-people-in-the-us/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-equipped-garbage-trucks-could-soon-start-spying-on-people-in-the-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the site tech-news site XDA Developers:<br />
The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure's relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from inflated to unaffordable, quarter after quarter, with almost no relief in sight. Which is exactly w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-huawei-building-its-own-dram-fab/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-huawei-building-its-own-dram-fab/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe]]></title><description><![CDATA["Welcome home!" NASA posted on X.com, sharing footage of a successful "parachute-assisted" landing on a Kazakhstan steppe for the Soyuz MS-28, carrying three astronauts who'd spent 241 days on the International Space Station. (And YouTube has a full two-hour video with NASA's coverage of the landing.)<br />
A NASA web page notes they orbited Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles after docking with the Space Station on November 27. It was the first mission for NASA astronaut Chris]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/three-astronauts-safely-return-from-space-station-landing-in-kazakhstan-steppe/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/three-astronauts-safely-return-from-space-station-landing-in-kazakhstan-steppe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K]]></title><description><![CDATA[It started with some underground utility work for the South Carolina town of Surfside Beach (population: 4,155). "Public records confirm that a payment of $545,598.30 was issued," according to a local news station &mdash; but the CEO of Wildcat Contractors "stated that the account that received the money is a scammer account and that his company has an overdue invoice for underground utility work completed in Surfside Beach."<br />
Yahoo picks up the story:After the payment issue surfaced, Wildcat sai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/typo-squatting-scammers-con-south-carolina-town-out-of-545k/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/typo-squatting-scammers-con-south-carolina-town-out-of-545k/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Promising Process For Nuclear Fuel Re-use and Disposal?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian lab has run a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel "and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years," notes the blog Autonocio, "with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor."<br />
The standard plan for spent nuclear fuel is to wait it out. You pull the used bundles from a reactor, sit them in a pool of water for seven to ten years while the heat and radiation come down, seal them in concrete casks, and look for somewhe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-promising-process-for-nuclear-fuel-re-use-and-disposal/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-promising-process-for-nuclear-fuel-re-use-and-disposal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comic-Con 2026 Debuts Trailers for 'Coyote vs Acme' Movie, Plus 'Neuromancer' and 'Blade Runner 2099' Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big news from Comic-Con 2026:"Coyote vs. ACME" debuted its long-awaited final trailer. CNET calls it "an animation-meets-live-action story," with the Coyote catapulting into theaters this August 28. (The film began development back in 2018, but was shelved for a tax write-off in 2023 by Warner Bros. until a backlash led to its sale to Ketchup Entertainment.) "Fed up with Acme's unreliable products, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a lawyer and sue the company..." writes CNET. "The movie also featu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comic-con-2026-debuts-trailers-for-coyote-vs-acme-movie-plus-neuromancer-and-blade-runner-2099-series/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/comic-con-2026-debuts-trailers-for-coyote-vs-acme-movie-plus-neuromancer-and-blade-runner-2099-series/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[32 of 35 Students Caught Using Hilariously Wrong AI-Generated Answers for Professor's Midterm]]></title><description><![CDATA["32 of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response," history professor Jason Gibson says in a viral video shared over 10 million times. "And apparently, they didn't proofread it."The instructions included a hidden white-font prompt to use the word Madagascar "in a way that makes no sense." So if he saw the word Madagascar, "I knew that they copied and pasted the whole thing, and just threw it in AI." Futurism rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/32-of-35-students-caught-using-hilariously-wrong-ai-generated-answers-for-professors-midterm/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/32-of-35-students-caught-using-hilariously-wrong-ai-generated-answers-for-professors-midterm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox's New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a sign of the times, Firefox's New Tab page could soon include a crossword puzzle from AI-powered news platform Particle. The blog OMG Ubuntu reports:The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle's AI has ingested and summarised that day. [After solving the crossword, links appear to related news articles...] If you just want to try the crossword, you access it in any browser via a direct link.<br />
While it may look like Mozilla is trying to capitalis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefoxs-new-tab-page-will-get-widgets-including-an-ai-powered-daily-crossword/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefoxs-new-tab-page-will-get-widgets-including-an-ai-powered-daily-crossword/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox' New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a sign of the times, Firefox's New Tab page could soon include a crossword puzzle from AI-powered news platform Particle. The blog OMG Ubuntu reports:The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle's AI has ingested and summarised that day. [After solving the crossword, links appear to related news articles...] If you just want to try the crossword, you access it in any browser via a direct link.<br />
While it may look like Mozilla is trying to capitalis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-new-tab-page-will-get-widgets-including-an-ai-powered-daily-crossword/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-new-tab-page-will-get-widgets-including-an-ai-powered-daily-crossword/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politico reports that in the Virginia area alone there's dozens of data center projects "that altogether need 70 gigawatts of power &mdash; equivalent to 70 nuclear plants" &mdash; currently seeking connection to their grid. But there's also concerns about a Virginia data center powered with natural gas and backup diesel generators:<br />
When Virginia's top environmental regulator received an analysis warning of data center pollution, it took him less than five minutes to forward it to seven people o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/did-virginia-regulators-downplay-data-center-health-concerns/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/did-virginia-regulators-downplay-data-center-health-concerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA["In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be emitting enough greenhouse gases to rival our fossil fuel habit," reports ScienceAlert:In a new study published in Science, scientists say the Aral Sea &mdash; the world's largest desiccated lake &mdash; has emitted a whopping 204 megatons (~225 million US tons) of carbon dioxide since it was drained in the 1960s... The study estimates that between 1960 and 2022, the evaporating sea ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drying-lakebeds-are-releasing-massive-amounts-of-carbon-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drying-lakebeds-are-releasing-massive-amounts-of-carbon-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ars Technica reports:Hyundai Motor Company's plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company.<br />
The automaker is disputing news reports that partial labor strikes by the Hyundai Motor union at the world's largest automotive plant in South Korea were spurred by concerns about the company's planned deployment of humanoid robots in the United States starting in 2028. [The planned robots are built by Bosto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hyundai-claims-humanoid-robot-plan-is-not-part-of-talks-with-striking-workers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hyundai-claims-humanoid-robot-plan-is-not-part-of-talks-with-striking-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNBC reports:<br />
Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain "AI-generated people" after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around "synthetic performers" in ads... The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they're uploaded. "Recent legislation requires disclosure when images or videos in advertisements contain photorealistic AI-generated p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-cracks-down-on-use-of-ai-images-by-sellers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-cracks-down-on-use-of-ai-images-by-sellers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Online Sites Debate Cutting Off Google's Crawlers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Futurism reports:<br />
[Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating content its AI models are regurgitating. According to the newspaper, prominent outlets including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are all reexamining their relationship with Google. Some are debating whether to continue to work with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/top-online-sites-debate-cutting-off-googles-crawlers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/top-online-sites-debate-cutting-off-googles-crawlers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN reports on yaks "designed and cloned" in secretive, high-altitude labs in Tibet &mdash; 2.4 miles (4,000 meters) above sea level. They're a critical part of the local economy, and researchers "hope to create an 'elite' herd of super-yaks, healthier and more fertile than their predecessors."Both domestic yaks and their wild cousins have been facing threats for years, with some rare subspecies at risk of disappearing entirely. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese region have poured tens of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-is-creating-a-herd-of-100-elite-yak-clones/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-is-creating-a-herd-of-100-elite-yak-clones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You're a Real Human]]></title><description><![CDATA[Facebook announced Friday they're launching a badge "that verifies there's a real person behind a profile"."You record a short video selfie, which we check against your existing profile photos to confirm a match. The process is free and typically takes just a few minutes. Accounts must meet our trust and safety standards to qualify for verification...." Once verified, your badge will appear across the places on Facebook where it matters most: Marketplace, Dating, Groups, and Profile to start. Ov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facebook-offers-a-verification-system-certifying-to-other-users-that-youre-a-real-human/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facebook-offers-a-verification-system-certifying-to-other-users-that-youre-a-real-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risks of Parkinson's Disease May Increase With Prolonged Exposure to Road Traffic Noise]]></title><description><![CDATA[A large Danish study found a modest but consistent association between long-term road traffic noise exposure and higher Parkinson's disease risk, with a 3% increase for every 11.5 dB rise in noise at the most exposed side of a home. The Guardian reports: The researchers modeled noise exposure at the most and least exposed exterior of the residence of each participant and calculated the difference in noise levels. The magnitude of the effect was modest but consistent; at the most exposed facade,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/risks-of-parkinsons-disease-may-increase-with-prolonged-exposure-to-road-traffic-noise/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/risks-of-parkinsons-disease-may-increase-with-prolonged-exposure-to-road-traffic-noise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Trump threatened a "substantial" new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices. "The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "The penalties will be entirely reversed and, we anticipate, a substantial TARIFF to be placed on them at the earliest possible moment." Politico reports: The president']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-against-eu-over-google-fine/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-against-eu-over-google-fine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine 11.14 Released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit system without relying on 32-bit multilib support. The release also adds Start Menu icon support in Wine Explorer, 7.1 format conversions in DirectSound, AES-GMAC support in BCrypt, and 21 bug fixes affecting apps and games including Adobe Reader, Heroes of the Storm, and Age of Empires I and II. Additional details can be found at WineHQ.org.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wine-1114-released/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wine-1114-released/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones in 'Lucky 13' Test Flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX's Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket "went quite smoothly," reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson calling this mission "Lucky Number 13" (as the 13th integrated flight test for a Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket booster):<br />
During Starship V3's inaugural test, there were numerous engine issues as several on the booster failed to relight and the Starship spacecraft experienced a nail-biting engine outage. SpaceX also was forced to replace six engines on this vehicle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacexs-starship-megarocket-hits-key-milestones-in-lucky-13-test-flight/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacexs-starship-megarocket-hits-key-milestones-in-lucky-13-test-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones In Its 'Lucky 13' Test Flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX's Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket "went quite smoothly," reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson calling this mission "Lucky Number 13" (as the 13th integrated flight test for a Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket booster):<br />
During Starship V3's inaugural test, there were numerous engine issues as several on the booster failed to relight and the Starship spacecraft experienced a nail-biting engine outage. SpaceX also was forced to replace six engines on this vehicle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacexs-starship-megarocket-hits-key-milestones-in-its-lucky-13-test-flight/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacexs-starship-megarocket-hits-key-milestones-in-its-lucky-13-test-flight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent -- a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight -- attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to tw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-rogue-agent-went-unnoticed-for-a-week/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-rogue-agent-went-unnoticed-for-a-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instagram is banning videos filmed with Meta smart glasses that harass strangers in public, including prank videos targeting service workers and pickup-artist clips of women who may not realize they are being recorded. "If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we've heard of and seen, then we're going to take the content down," said Instagram head Adam Mosseri in response to a question on his Instagram st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/instagram-is-now-banning-pickup-artists-pranksters-who-use-meta-glasses/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/instagram-is-now-banning-pickup-artists-pranksters-who-use-meta-glasses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paramount Skydance has agreed to postpone its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger until five days after an antitrust trial or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first. The agreement with a 12-state coalition led by California effectively shelves the deal for months while states argue it would reduce competition in cable and theatrical markets. Variety reports: Paramount had been keen to close the deal before Sept. 30, when it will begin to incur a $7-million-a-day "ticking fee" to be paid to W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-agrees-to-postpone-warner-bros-merger-until-june-2027/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/paramount-agrees-to-postpone-warner-bros-merger-until-june-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a 'Duress' Password During Border Search]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a so-called "duress" password built into a phone's software. According to The Guardian, whi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roku has raised prices on several streaming devices, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming Stick rose from $30 to $40. The Desk reports: In a phone call with The Desk on Friday, a Roku executive said the company made the tough decision to raise prices on its streaming hardware to address shortages in computer memory and other components caused by the artificial intelligence rush. [...] Still, the ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/roku-raises-prices-of-streaming-devices-by-up-to-60/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/roku-raises-prices-of-streaming-devices-by-up-to-60/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' of Open-Weight Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose "premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models, warning that broad limits could "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." CNBC reports: They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands." "Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-microsoft-meta-warn-against-premature-restrictions-of-open-weight-models/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nvidia-microsoft-meta-warn-against-premature-restrictions-of-open-weight-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new Claude model that it says comes close to its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the price while improving on Opus 4.8 in knowledge work, coding, and scientific research tasks. "At the same time, Anthropic says it has managed to make the model more resistant to being tricked," notes Engadget. Additionally, the company says Opus 5 "exhibits the lowest rates of deceptive behavior." From the report: One important distinction between Opus 5 and Mythos, which is curr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-new-opus-5-model-rivals-fable-5-for-half-the-price/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropics-new-opus-5-model-rivals-fable-5-for-half-the-price/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John C. Dvorak, an Early and Influential Technology Journalist, Dies At 80]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares the passing of John C. Dvorak, an early and influential technology journalist for PC Magazine. He was 80. Talking Biz News reports: Aric Mackey writes, "Widely recognized for his profound impact on the technology industry, John's career spanned decades of rapid digital evolution. He was perhaps best known for his influential, long-running column in PC Magazine and his groundbreaking work on the No Agenda podcast. Through his prolific writing, broadcasti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/john-c-dvorak-an-early-and-influential-technology-journalist-dies-at-80/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/john-c-dvorak-an-early-and-influential-technology-journalist-dies-at-80/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal For AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS.com: Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that could sell for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move would mark a significant step outside payments for a company that processes transactions for much of the internet. It also lands while Stripe pursues a far larger target: a bid for PayPal that would value the payments giant at about $53 billion.The Journal reported Thursday (July]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-eyes-10-billion-deal-for-ai-model-marketplace-openrouter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-eyes-10-billion-deal-for-ai-model-marketplace-openrouter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers May Have Discovered First Moon Outside Our Solar System]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers studying the star system CD-35 2722 may have found the first known moon-like object outside our solar system. The classification is unusually tricky, however, because it orbits a brown dwarf rather than a planet, making it clearly an "exosatellite" but forcing scientists to rethink where the line between planet, moon, and failed star should be drawn. Space.com reports: The star CD-35 2722 is located around 73 light-years away and has around half the mass of the sun. It is orbited by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-may-have-discovered-first-moon-outside-our-solar-system/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-may-have-discovered-first-moon-outside-our-solar-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks. While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired vision -- sometimes using the taps of a cane instead of clicks made by their mouth -- those findings suggest that many of us can learn the necessary techniques.Some of the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's First Wave Power Generator Receives Certification For Regular Use]]></title><description><![CDATA["The Norwegian certification agency DNV has certified the commercial wave-driven power generator Corpower C4 for regular use," writes Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino. "German news site heise.de has a detailed write-up. See a CGI video of the power station and its internals, as well as the company's website [at their respective links]." From the report (translated to English): According to the manufacturer Corpower Ocean, it is the first DNV prototype certificate for a wave energy converter. Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-first-wave-power-generator-receives-certification-for-regular-use/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-first-wave-power-generator-receives-certification-for-regular-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: You'll now be able to use selfie videos to log into your Google account. It has long been possible to log into Google using your face, via your phone's face unlock or if your passkey login uses biometrics for verification. This is yet another option to get into your account using your face to authenticate your identity, which could be especially useful if you don't have access to the phone or computer you typically use or if you got locked out o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-adds-selfie-video-as-a-log-in-option/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-adds-selfie-video-as-a-log-in-option/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle Signs 10-Year Software Contract With Pentagon Worth Up To $7 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle has signed a 10-year Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion to provide on-premises software, licenses, maintenance, and consulting for branches of the military. CNBC reports: The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was Oracle's first customer. A five-year base period for the contract includes perpetual and subscri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oracle-signs-10-year-software-contract-with-pentagon-worth-up-to-7-billion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oracle-signs-10-year-software-contract-with-pentagon-worth-up-to-7-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Responds to LG Monitors Installing McAfee Ads On Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[LG is removing a McAfee pop-up ad from its LG Monitor App Installer after criticism that some LG monitors were silently installing the app through Windows Update and showing ads on every boot. Microsoft says LG agreed to disable the McAfee pop-up, but the broader issue remains: Windows allows certain peripheral companion apps to install automatically without notifying users. Ars Technica reports: Following Gamers Nexus' video, a Microsoft representative stated that the LG Monitor App Installer w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-responds-to-lg-monitors-installing-mcafee-ads-on-windows/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-responds-to-lg-monitors-installing-mcafee-ads-on-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Fines Google $1 Billion For Breaking Digital Antitrust Regulations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union fined Google more than $1 billion for allegedly using Google Play and Search to steer users toward its own services and apps at the expense of competitors. The Associated Press reports: Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The European Commission, the bloc's executive branch and highest antitrust enforcer, said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-fines-google-1-billion-for-breaking-digital-antitrust-regulations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-fines-google-1-billion-for-breaking-digital-antitrust-regulations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Is Bringing Games to Prime Video]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video, adding a new "Games" tab where Prime members can play titles like "Hogwarts Legacy," "EA Sports FC 26," "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle," "Clue," and "Taboo." The games will be available starting today on Fire TVs in the U.S. and U.K., with additional supported devices and countries in the coming months. TechCrunch reports: With this move, Amazon is hoping games can turn Prime Video into a one-stop entertainment destinatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-is-bringing-games-to-prime-video/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-is-bringing-games-to-prime-video/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony's Decision To Ditch Discs Was Practically Inevitable, Data Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Many gamers have been lamenting Sony's recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped lead Sony to that decision. In a social media thread Thursday morning, Piscatella shared insights into Circana's tracking data on physical game sales in the U.S. dating back to 2003. A graph of those trends shows physi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sonys-decision-to-ditch-discs-was-practically-inevitable-data-shows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sonys-decision-to-ditch-discs-was-practically-inevitable-data-shows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a First, Apple Maps Navigation To Be Embedded In Ford UEV Pickups]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford will become the first automaker to embed Apple Maps directly into its vehicles, starting with an all-electric midsize pickup built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform. "The pickup -- with Ford testing preproduction models on roads now -- is expected to start at $30,000 when it comes to market in 2027," reports the Detroit Free Press. "Ford has said several other EVs off that platform will follow, including a small all-electric SUV." From the report: Ford CEO Jim Farley said the n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/in-a-first-apple-maps-navigation-to-be-embedded-in-ford-uev-pickups/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/in-a-first-apple-maps-navigation-to-be-embedded-in-ford-uev-pickups/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Young Mathematicians Awarded the 2026 Fields Medals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid: The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), Yu Deng of the University of Chicago, John Pardon of Stony Brook University and Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto. In the awards' 90-year history, Wang is only the third woman to win one, after mathematicians Maryam Mi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-young-mathematicians-awarded-the-2026-fields-medals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-young-mathematicians-awarded-the-2026-fields-medals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Shut Off Chinese Open Weight AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S. access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. Politico reports: On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider influential startu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Discover First Known Transmissible Cancer In Fish]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: It's rare that cancerous tumors can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumors among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The discovery represents the first known transmissible cancer in fish and one of very few transmissible cancers ever found, reported the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.Julie Dragon, co-leader of the new study, noted that only thre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/researchers-discover-first-known-transmissible-cancer-in-fish/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/researchers-discover-first-known-transmissible-cancer-in-fish/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verisign Is Finally Bringing&lt;nobr&gt; &lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;.web Domains To the Internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Verisign is finally bringing web domains to the internet after a decade of fighting. Verisign says the .web top-level domain has finally been delegated into the DNS root, clearing the way for public registrations later in 2026. Until now, consumers could not buy normal working .web domains, despite the extension attracting a record $135 million winning bid in 2016. The launch could make .web one of the more recognizable alternatives to .com, but Verisign already operates bot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/verisign-is-finally-bringingltnobrgt-ltwbrgtltnobrgtweb-domains-to-the-internet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/verisign-is-finally-bringingltnobrgt-ltwbrgtltnobrgtweb-domains-to-the-internet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Mission Launches To Extend Life of Out-of-Gas Communication Satellites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman has launched a private satellite-servicing mission to attach life-extending "jetpacks" to aging communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit. "It's the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep spacecraft running as long as possible," reports Phys.org. From the report: Launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman's mission robotic vehicle -- dubbed MRV -- and its jetpacks will spend the next year angling into the proper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/private-mission-launches-to-extend-life-of-out-of-gas-communication-satellites/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/private-mission-launches-to-extend-life-of-out-of-gas-communication-satellites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pan Am Plane Crash That Inspired Modern Safety Briefings Found After 74 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader BeaverCleaver shares a report from the BBC: The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on April 11, 1952, following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off.Everyone onboard survived the impact -- but passeng]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pan-am-plane-crash-that-inspired-modern-safety-briefings-found-after-74-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/pan-am-plane-crash-that-inspired-modern-safety-briefings-found-after-74-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM Is Quietly Becoming a Subscriptions Company]]></title><description><![CDATA["General Motors has been pulling a Tim Cook and boosting its software and subscription business," reports Business Insider. During the automaker's Tuesday earnings call, executives said they're increasingly leaning on software subscriptions like OnStar and Super Cruise to generate high-margin recurring revenue long after customers buy their vehicles. GM says OnStar brought in about $800 million in the second quarter, while Super Cruise revenue grew about 70% year over year. From the report: GM s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-is-quietly-becoming-a-subscriptions-company/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-is-quietly-becoming-a-subscriptions-company/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[iOS 27 Code Suggests Apple Could Restrict Leased Devices After Missed Payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Code found in the iOS 27 beta suggests Apple is developing a system that could restrict leased iPhones when customers fall behind on payments. The discovery follows a recent Bloomberg report that Apple may soon launch a new "Apple Upgrade" leasing program, allowing customers to pay for hardware through monthly installments. 9to5Mac reports: The code describes a system called App Managed Features, which allows an authorized financing or provider app to enroll an iPhone and perform ongoing status]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ios-27-code-suggests-apple-could-restrict-leased-devices-after-missed-payments/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ios-27-code-suggests-apple-could-restrict-leased-devices-after-missed-payments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Kernel Team Publishes 432 CVEs In Two Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a post from the OSS Security mailing list, where sysadmin Jan Schaumann wonders what to do after the Linux kernel cranked out 432 CVEs in a little over 24 hours: "I understand the position that CVEs were always a flawed way to track or prioritize security changes... But this onslaught really shows it's not feasible to attempt to prioritize individual kernel changes. I'm not sure what to do here going forward." The Register reports: The nixCraft team speculate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Partners With Klarna To Offer iPhones, Macs On a Subscription Basis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is reportedly launching a Klarna financing deal that will let U.S. customers spread the cost of devices over up to three years, pushing the company closer to a hardware-as-a-service model. "The only thing you don't get under the new arrangement is AppleCare, for which you'll allegedly need to pay extra," notes Computerworld. From the report: The introduction of the scheme gives consumers a way to purchase the company's popular high-end devices when they are introduced -- no doubt,at higher]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-partners-with-klarna-to-offer-iphones-macs-on-a-subscription-basis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-partners-with-klarna-to-offer-iphones-macs-on-a-subscription-basis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. "Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Announces Xbox Backward Compatibility For PC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has announced Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC, a new preservation program that will let players run select classic Xbox games on Windows PCs and handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally. Tom's Hardware reports: "This marks the beginning of a broader effort to preserve XBOX games from the past and bring them to PC over time," the company said in a blog post authored by Xbox "VP next generation" Jason Ronald. Alongside backward compatibility, the company says games will also include new featu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-announces-xbox-backward-compatibility-for-pc/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-announces-xbox-backward-compatibility-for-pc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Announced to Compete With Future iPhone Fold]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a Galaxy Unpacked event in London today, Samsung unveiled a new foldable smartphone designed to compete with the still-unannounced iPhone Fold. Called the Galaxy Z Fold 8, it features a wider 4:3 form factor with a 7.6-inch inner AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chip, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. "The inner display has enough extra real estate for multi-tasking and entertainment," reports Mashable, which got a chance to try the new foldable ahead of the event. "And]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-announced-to-compete-with-future-iphone-fold/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-announced-to-compete-with-future-iphone-fold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG To Ban Residential Proxies From Smart TV Apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG's webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user's TV. On July 2, [KrebsOnSecurity] f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey Takes On Slack and GitHub With New AI Workplace Platform 'Buzz']]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workplace collaboration platform that combines messaging, project management, and software development workflows for teams of both humans and AI agents. Dorsey described Buzz as "a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes" that is "model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign and open source." SmartCompany reports: According to the Buzz website, users can invite specialized AI agents into team chats, allowing them t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jack-dorsey-takes-on-slack-and-github-with-new-ai-workplace-platform-buzz/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jack-dorsey-takes-on-slack-and-github-with-new-ai-workplace-platform-buzz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have rediscovered a healthy coral reef off the coast of Benin more than 60 years after surveyors first hinted at its existence. "At least eight coral types and eight fish species have formed a thriving ecosystem on this long-forgotten site," reports Inside Climate News. "What they had captured was a wealth of marine life: six types of soft coral; two black corals; and eight species of sheltering fish, from golden African snappers to the Monrovia doctorfish." From the report: While no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/long-presumed-dead-a-thriving-coral-reef-is-discovered-in-west-africa/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/long-presumed-dead-a-thriving-coral-reef-is-discovered-in-west-africa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack]]></title><description><![CDATA["GPT-5.6 Sol and an 'even more capable' model used stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face API to obtain secret information used to cheat on evaluations," writes longtime Slashdot reader Dr. Bombay. The Associated Press reports: "We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing syst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-says-its-ai-models-acted-on-its-own-in-an-unprecedented-hack/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-says-its-ai-models-acted-on-its-own-in-an-unprecedented-hack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: France's parliament has approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15, making it the first European country to bar children from apps such as TikTok. The president, Emmanuel Macron, has championed the ban as a key reform of his final term in office and pledged to enforce it by September. "France is leading the way in Europe when it comes to protecting our children and teenagers," Macron said in a video posted on social me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-becomes-first-european-country-to-ban-social-media-access-for-under-15s/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-becomes-first-european-country-to-ban-social-media-access-for-under-15s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway as part of a broader digital sovereignty push to keep sensitive data "under European control." Eventually, the migration will cover 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution, and product lifecycle management systems. Airbus says it will, however, continue using U.S. providers for less sensitive workloads. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions; we balance our choices b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Robotaxis Go To Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tesla says it is launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, though it has not shared fleet sizes or whether customers can immediately hail rides. The Verge notes the announcement lands on Tesla earnings day and comes as the company's robotaxi rollout remains far smaller than Elon Musk previously projected, with tracker data showing only a small number of unsupervised vehicles operating in existing cities. From the report: [B]ack in May, Tesla had five unsupervised robotaxis in Dallas,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesla-robotaxis-go-to-florida/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesla-robotaxis-go-to-florida/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox 153 Released]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: FireFox 153 was released today. The most important user-facing changes are improvements to PDF handling (you can now merge PDFs and add images to them), and HDR video playback (on Windows, provided HDR is active systemwide). Other under-the-hood changes include browser-wide containers and QWAC support. The full list is in the change notes.But the most important feature is that this version is an ESR and, therefore, defines the ESR feature set for the ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-153-released/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-153-released/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canonical Launches Enterprise Store For Ubuntu Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has launched the Enterprise Store as part of Ubuntu Pro, giving organizations a way to manage Ubuntu software distribution in restricted networks, behind firewalls, and in air gapped environments. The on premises proxy sits between devices and Canonical software stores, allowing companies to cache downloads, control software revisions, and manage snaps and charms without requiring every system to connect directly to the internet. The Enterprise Store is designed fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonical-launches-enterprise-store-for-ubuntu-pro/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonical-launches-enterprise-store-for-ubuntu-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over pirated books used to train its Claude chatbot, with authors and publishers set to receive about $3,000 per book. The case produced a mixed ruling for the AI industry: training on copyrighted books was found not to be illegal, but Anthropic's use of pirated copies from shadow libraries was. The Associated Press reports: District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-approves-15-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train-claude/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-approves-15-billion-anthropic-settlement-over-pirated-books-used-to-train-claude/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AT&amp;amp;T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge rejected AT&amp;T's request to temporarily block California rules requiring it to offer basic phone service to new customers in its wireline territory. AT&amp;T wants to retire its copper-based phone network and stop service for nearly 200,000 California customers in 2027, but the state argues the company can meet its obligations with modern alternatives like fiber rather than abandoning Carrier of Last Resort requirements altogether. Ars Technica reports: To win a preliminary in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/atampampt-loses-key-ruling-in-bid-to-stop-offering-basic-phone-service-in-california/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/atampampt-loses-key-ruling-in-bid-to-stop-offering-basic-phone-service-in-california/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros Merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has temporarily paused the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger after a 12-state coalition led by California argued the deal would violate antitrust law. The 14-day restraining order (PDF) preserves the status quo while the court considers a preliminary injunction, which could effectively determine whether the merger survives. Variety reports: "Plaintiff States' showing at least demonstrates that serious questions going to the merits remain, weighing in favor of preliminary injunctive r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-pauses-paramount-warner-bros-merger/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/judge-pauses-paramount-warner-bros-merger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galaxy Card Is Samsung's Answer To the Apple Card]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Nearly seven years after Apple debuted the Apple Card, Samsung is following the iPhone maker's footsteps with the Galaxy Card, aiming for its own slice of the credit card market. The announcement comes two days before Samsung's second Galaxy Unpacked event of the year, where it's expected to showcase new smartwatches and folding smartphones. The Galaxy Card is issued by Barclays on the Visa network; the Apple Card, originally issued by Goldman Sach]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-galaxy-card-is-samsungs-answer-to-the-apple-card/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-galaxy-card-is-samsungs-answer-to-the-apple-card/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Police Now Armed With Israeli Spy Vans Simulating Mobile Phone Towers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes an X post by Josh Walkos, author of the Substack We the Free: If you thought Flock was bad check out Falconet. Falconet from Israeli company Cognyte serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range. Police mount these systems in Tahoes so the vehicles can collect information while driving through areas without any direct interaction with targets. This mobile approach generates ongoing records of phone locations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-police-now-armed-with-israeli-spy-vans-simulating-mobile-phone-towers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-police-now-armed-with-israeli-spy-vans-simulating-mobile-phone-towers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new American Heart Association scientific statement concludes that up to about 400 milligrams a day, or roughly three to five cups of plain coffee, is safe for most adults and may be linked to lower risks of cardiovascular disease. The benefits appear to depend heavily on the source and preparation, with coffee and tea looking more favorable than energy drinks, and added sugar, cream, syrups, or sweeteners potentially canceling out the upside. ScienceAlert reports: "Caffeine consumed in coffee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drinking-5-cups-of-coffee-a-day-could-reduce-heart-risk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/drinking-5-cups-of-coffee-a-day-could-reduce-heart-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms. One estimate puts the number of vulnerable WordPress websites at tens of millions as of Monday. Last week, WordPress patched two critical security flaws, urging people who run its software on their websites to update it "immediately." The vulnerabilities are so severe that WordPress enabled force]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hackers-are-exploiting-recently-patched-wordpress-bugs-putting-millions-of-websites-at-risk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hackers-are-exploiting-recently-patched-wordpress-bugs-putting-millions-of-websites-at-risk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones]]></title><description><![CDATA[A draft New Orleans Police Department drone manual briefly published online would have allowed police drones to carry weapons with written approval from the superintendent, according to 404 Media. NOPD says the document was only an early draft and that its current policy (PDF) bans drones from carrying weapons or hazardous materials. 404 Media reports: The current version, live as of July 1, has different language: "The sUAS shall not be equipped with weapons or hazardous materials of any kind,"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-orleans-cops-published-policy-document-allowing-weaponized-drones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-orleans-cops-published-policy-document-allowing-weaponized-drones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longtime Web-Weirdness Site Fark Faces Ad Pinch]]></title><description><![CDATA[sandbagger writes: Fark.com is ancient in internet terms. It's not social media. It's not quite a news site. It's a holdover from the dot-com era and is invisible to Google, which makes its community great but has necessitated begging. "[W]e won't survive this year without more TF subscribers," wrote founder Drew Curtis in a post on Bluesky. "Spread the word."For the unfamiliar, Fark is one of the web's OG community news sites that features a wonderfully weird mix of user-submitted links, absurd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/longtime-web-weirdness-site-fark-faces-ad-pinch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/longtime-web-weirdness-site-fark-faces-ad-pinch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's New AI Model Halts New Subscriptions As Demand Swamps Capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond the company's current capacity within days of the launch. The open-source Chinese AI model, described as one of the largest of its kind at 2.8 trillion parameters, has rattled U.S. rivals by beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests. The Associated Press reports: "Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected," Moonshot AI, which is Beijing-based, wrote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-new-ai-model-halts-new-subscriptions-as-demand-swamps-capacity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-new-ai-model-halts-new-subscriptions-as-demand-swamps-capacity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head of US Safety Agency Resigns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chris Fall has resigned as director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation just three months after being appointed to lead the Commerce Department's federal AI testing institute. Arvind Raman, who oversees the Commerce office responsible for the institute, will serve temporarily in the role. "The Commerce Department did not provide a reason for Fall's departure," reports Reuters. From the report: Fall's exit marks the latest change in direction for Trump's approach to AI. The preside]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/head-of-us-safety-agency-resigns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/head-of-us-safety-agency-resigns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AliExpress Hit With Record $625 Million Fine After Failing To Make EU-Ordered Fixes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has fined AliExpress more than $625 million, the largest penalty yet under the Digital Services Act, after finding that the marketplace failed to "diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform." EU officials said flagged products repeatedly reappeared, sellers could evade safeguards, and AliExpress's recommendation and ad systems helped amplify dangerous goods. Ars Technica reports: For sha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aliexpress-hit-with-record-625-million-fine-after-failing-to-make-eu-ordered-fixes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aliexpress-hit-with-record-625-million-fine-after-failing-to-make-eu-ordered-fixes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LG Monitors Silently Install Adware-Like App On Windows PCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[VideoCardz reports that connecting certain LG monitors to Windows PCs can trigger Windows Update to automatically install the LG Monitor App Installer, which runs at startup and repeatedly displays McAfee trial promotions. From the report: Gamers Nexus reproduced the behavior with an LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B after receiving reports from monitor owners. Windows Update first installed LG extension and software component packages. Windows Reliability Monitor showed that LG Monitor App Installer appe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lg-monitors-silently-install-adware-like-app-on-windows-pcs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lg-monitors-silently-install-adware-like-app-on-windows-pcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hacker Wipes Romania's Entire Land Registry Database]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hacker reportedly wiped Romania's entire land registry database after a failed extortion attempt, halting property transactions across the country and preventing notaries from issuing land extracts, authenticating sales, or registering mortgages. "On the dark web, the hacker also boasted to have begun backup copies of stolen data in an attempt to prevent it from being restored," reports Cybernews. "However, Romanian officials have managed to at least restore the ANCPI's website and post a mess]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Louisiana State University have created a room-temperature quantum material made from a thin gold film on glass, patterned with microscopic slits that act like artificial atoms. "We call this robust transport. These quantum states carry information," says physicist Omar Magana-Loaiza. "Our crystal can distinguish them and move them from one point to another in a robust way without requiring cryogenic cooling. That's what opens the door to practical quantum technologies." ScienceAl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lsu-physicists-create-first-room-temperature-quantum-material/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lsu-physicists-create-first-room-temperature-quantum-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LibreOffice Once Again Slams Microsoft For Using 'Lock-In' With Office Files]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: One of the founding members of The Document Foundation and handler of LibreOffice's PR and media relations, Italo Vignoli, took to the LibreOffice blog to call out Microsoft's practices with its Office application. The last time we saw Vignoli take to the stage, we saw him accusing Euro-Office of being just as bad as Microsoft with its practices. Vignoli's new post focuses entirely on Microsoft's strategy. He says that "the dominant format]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/libreoffice-once-again-slams-microsoft-for-using-lock-in-with-office-files/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/libreoffice-once-again-slams-microsoft-for-using-lock-in-with-office-files/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood Sci-fi Studio Lot Now Pitched As Site To Make Real Space-age Weapons]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Cameron filmed his Avatar sequels there. Marvel filmed Thor, Iron Man 2, and The Avengers. Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles even handled Star Wars' series like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Mandalorian, which Bloomberg points out is about "a heavily armed bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away."<br />
"Now lenders who are selling the property's $240 million mortgage are promoting the site to potential buyers as a hub for making real space-age weapons.""The project is strategically positioned wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hollywood-sci-fi-studio-lot-now-pitched-as-site-to-make-real-space-age-weapons/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hollywood-sci-fi-studio-lot-now-pitched-as-site-to-make-real-space-age-weapons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China's leader, Thailand's king, or Saudi Arabia's crown prince &mdash; and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.<br />
That's "a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday," their article points out: AI systems are more than twice as likely to refuse to product critical material if it's about a restrictive world leader or government. And it raises concerns that the LLMs powering chatbots "could be regurgitating and spreading gove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-free-speech-concern-when-ai-chatbots-wont-criticize-leaders-from-repressive-regimes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-free-speech-concern-when-ai-chatbots-wont-criticize-leaders-from-repressive-regimes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rust Will Help Linux Succeed and Makes Coding Fun, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman]]></title><description><![CDATA[ZDNet reports on June's Open Source Summit India 2026 in Mumbai, where Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman gave a talk titled "Rust and Linux: How the Rust Language is Going to Help Linux Succeed."<br />
Kroah-Hartman said in his keynote that "the [Linux] kernel is moving toward Rust. Git is moving toward Rust. Lots of projects are starting to move toward Rust."<br />
He didn't always feel that way. Kroah-Hartman added, "A number of years ago, when a friend of mine said, 'Ah, you got to try th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rust-will-help-linux-succeed-and-makes-coding-fun-says-greg-kroah-hartman/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rust-will-help-linux-succeed-and-makes-coding-fun-says-greg-kroah-hartman/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Washington Post describes a mid-tier executive at Meta as one of Silicon Valley's "winners" whose financial security suddenly "evaporated" as their workforce "pushed headlong into AI and heavy job cuts," creating a transformed job market. "Her ex-husband, a designer at Meta who was laid off in 2020, eventually gave up looking for jobs in his profession. He now lifts boxes at a warehouse."<br />
Layoffs.fyi, which tracks announced job cuts, counts more than 800,000 tech workers laid off since 2022,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-ai-transforms-silicon-valley-some-tech-workers-face-evaporating-financial-security/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-ai-transforms-silicon-valley-some-tech-workers-face-evaporating-financial-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware:<br />
The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stopped accepting orders in June 2024. However, there's an open-source replacement closer than ever to shipping in the chip's original 40-pin DIP package thanks to community-funded fabrication...<br />
The chip powered the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX machines, Nint]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services]]></title><description><![CDATA["If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake," reports Bloomberg. "Not so in a robotaxi..."Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi's speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend's birthday party in 2025. The next moment, Los Angeles firefighters were opening the door and asking if he was OK. His six-minute trip had ended nearly an hour before. A remote Waymo assistant, dialling in through th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dozens-of-robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-calls-for-emergency-services/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dozens-of-robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-calls-for-emergency-services/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:A federal judge has halted California's groundbreaking "Truth in Recycling" law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take effect October 4th], California's recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies...<br />
A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-truth-in-recycling-law-blocked-by-judge/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/californias-truth-in-recycling-law-blocked-by-judge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA["Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com:The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old. That's because the mechanisms by which black holes devour matter to grow and then merge to create even more massive black holes should take at least 1 billion years to achieve supermassive]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robot 'Decapitated' in World's First-Ever Humanoid UFC Fight]]></title><description><![CDATA["A humanoid robot lost its head," reports Newsweek, "during the world's first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots."<br />
The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their "T800" robots (yes, named after The Terminator) to 32 participating teams from around the world:A video shared of the combat on YouTube by local news outlet Shenzhen Story, showed that even aft]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/robot-decapitated-in-worlds-first-ever-humanoid-ufc-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 10 Still Being Used, Often Unpatched and Insecure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset-tracking service Lansweeper. That's more than one in six, The Register points out.<br />
A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40% range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline continued after that, reaching 18.6% in June, but Lansweeper says migration has now slowed to a crawl... Small and medium-sized businesses are particularly expo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-10-still-being-used-often-unpatched-and-insecure/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-10-still-being-used-often-unpatched-and-insecure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aptera Announces US-Wide Repair Network for Its Upcoming Solar Electric Car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solar car maker Aptera has "officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide," reports Electrek:We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera solar EV and tour the company's factory, and came away both impressed at the progress that has been made, but cognizant of the long road ahead for the company. One question that often gets raised in reference to EV startups is how owners get service on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-us-wide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-us-wide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aptera Announces Nationwide Repair Network For Its Upcoming Solar Electric Car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solar car maker Aptera has "officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide," reports Electrek:We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera solar EV and tour the company's factory, and came away both impressed at the progress that has been made, but cognizant of the long road ahead for the company. One question that often gets raised in reference to EV startups is how owners get service on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-nationwide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aptera-announces-nationwide-repair-network-for-its-upcoming-solar-electric-car/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Richard Stallman Colleague Now Argues for Open AI Models Too]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:<br />
Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too high to let AI become increasingly closed. "In the 1980s, I had the chance to spend several years arguing about free and open software, what we now call open source, with the founder of the movement, Richard Stallman. My office at the MIT AI Lab was next door to his. Stallman's position was that the s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/former-richard-stallman-colleague-now-argues-for-open-ai-models-too/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/former-richard-stallman-colleague-now-argues-for-open-ai-models-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are There Cybersecurity Risks in Over-the-Air Tech Used in Autos?]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNBC reports:<br />
The automotive industry's increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector... Its use represents "a unique national security concern," Gabriel Lim, senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told CNBC. "Aside from data privacy concerns, the potential of a foreign actor sabotaging the controls of a moving vehicle is a possibility t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-there-cybersecurity-risks-in-over-the-air-tech-used-in-autos/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-there-cybersecurity-risks-in-over-the-air-tech-used-in-autos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Study Links Teen Boys' ADHD Symptoms To Addictive Social Media Use]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco "adds to growing research linking increased social media use to detrimental effects on attention, memory and cognition," reports the Washington Post:The study followed more than 11,000 U.S. adolescents over a period of five years, with participants first asked about their own social media use at the average age of 12, and surveyed annually through the average age of 16. Researchers found that increases in addictive socia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-links-teen-boys-adhd-symptoms-to-addictive-social-media-use/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-links-teen-boys-adhd-symptoms-to-addictive-social-media-use/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Grok Build' Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, "just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage."<br />
That discovery had "gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement alongside SpaceX, and its technical staff, promising to delete all data that Grok Build has ever stored and give users more choice over how their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grok-build-coding-tool-open-sourced-this-week-promises-to-respect-zero-data-retention/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/grok-build-coding-tool-open-sourced-this-week-promises-to-respect-zero-data-retention/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files, Calls It 'Honest Mistake']]></title><description><![CDATA["OpenAI has finally confirmed reports that its latest family of large language models can accidentally delete files," reports InfoWorld, "while stressing that such incidents are rare and should be viewed as 'honest mistakes.'"Reports of the flagship LLMs deleting files emerged shortly after the company launched them earlier this month, with investor Matt Shumer taking to X to report that GPT-5.6-Sol had "just accidentally deleted almost all" of his Mac's files. Just days later, software engineer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-acknowledges-gpt-56-may-accidentally-delete-files-calls-it-honest-mistake/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-acknowledges-gpt-56-may-accidentally-delete-files-calls-it-honest-mistake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket]]></title><description><![CDATA[France's regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games "announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket," reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site "could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or around $114,000." (The article notes this follows a previous regulatory action from November placing a geoblock on financial transactions from French residents on Polymarket's site.)In May Spain blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi while it lau]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-orders-isps-to-block-access-to-polymarket/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-orders-isps-to-block-access-to-polymarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Microsoft's 'Little Workaround' Created a Major Threat to America's Defense Department]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary &mdash; and how that investigation ultimately changed U.S. government policy.<br />
The reporter first found an ad offering $18 to $28 to hire Americans as "digital escorts" for China-based tech support, then just searched LinkedIn for people who apparently had ans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-microsofts-little-workaround-created-a-major-threat-to-americas-defense-department/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-microsofts-little-workaround-created-a-major-threat-to-americas-defense-department/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters reports:<br />
Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed a "fiasco" by a cross-party committee of lawmakers, will be redirected to Burnham's priorities, the spokesperson said...<br />
"All the time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, suc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/next-uk-prime-minister-drops-digital-id-scheme/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/next-uk-prime-minister-drops-digital-id-scheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z and Millennials are Buying CDs - Though Half Don't Have CD Players]]></title><description><![CDATA["Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]:The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an<br />
affordable collectible. This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying<br />
physical music is as much about aesthetic ownership and direct financial suppo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gen-z-and-millennials-are-buying-cds-though-half-dont-have-cd-players/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gen-z-and-millennials-are-buying-cds-though-half-dont-have-cd-players/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NextBSD Returns to Port Apple Source Onto FreeBSD]]></title><description><![CDATA["One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register:<br />
Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository &mdash; but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nextbsd-returns-to-port-apple-source-onto-freebsd/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nextbsd-returns-to-port-apple-source-onto-freebsd/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CNBC's Jim Cramer Says He Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof AI Is Paying Off]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC:<br />
"I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now...." While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into measurable financial returns for customers. Cramer said one of his biggest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cnbcs-jim-cramer-says-he-needs-cold-hard-proof-ai-is-paying-off/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cnbcs-jim-cramer-says-he-needs-cold-hard-proof-ai-is-paying-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015. But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN.It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth...<br />
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/long-after-pluto-fly-by-nasas-new-horizons-probe-wakes-up-again-starts-doing-new-science/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/long-after-pluto-fly-by-nasas-new-horizons-probe-wakes-up-again-starts-doing-new-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Fights Microsoft Over Layoffs at Game Studios]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege unlawful action:<br />
"Xbox management is required to bargain with the union over the decision of layoffs prior to implementing them during the status quo period, and we are pursuing every available avenue to protect our members," a Communications Wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/union-fights-microsoft-over-layoffs-at-game-studios/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/union-fights-microsoft-over-layoffs-at-game-studios/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last year just 0.6% of new vehicles made for U.S. customers were stick shifts, reports the Washington Post, citing preliminary government data.<br />
"That's a precipitous drop from the 34.6 percent of vehicles with manual transmissions produced in 1980."<br />
[T]he stick shift's popularity hit multiple new lows in recent years, with no signs of a turnaround, thanks to new technologies and a rapidly changing marketplace. Buyers and automakers increasingly have turned to the sophisticated automatic drivetra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-death-of-the-stick-shift-is-almost-here-for-americans/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-death-of-the-stick-shift-is-almost-here-for-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the end of the year. The launch of the microsatellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-backed-satellites-for-wildfire-detection-launch-as-smoke-chokes-us-canada/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-backed-satellites-for-wildfire-detection-launch-as-smoke-chokes-us-canada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers say a meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Hillsborough, New Jersey, home in 2024 contains unusually pristine evidence of salty fluids and organic chemistry from near the surface of a primitive asteroid. "A forensic study of the fragments revealed that they contained preserved bits from near the surface of a primitive asteroid, where it experienced concentrated salty fluids -- a process not previously known from this type of protoplanet world," said lead author and meteor ast]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite-that-struck-new-jersey-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Australia will require large data centers powering artificial intelligence to generate as much power as they consume, and ensure that creative professionals retain control over work that may be used to train A.I. systems, as the government sets up guardrails over the rapidly growing industry. The announcements on Wednesday in a speech by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came as Australia draws significant interest from A.I. companies be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/australia-to-put-environmental-brakes-on-ai-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/australia-to-put-environmental-brakes-on-ai-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot]]></title><description><![CDATA["Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's Woz Ed foundation is partnering with Realbotix, best known for their RealDoll-branded artificial companions, to deploy AI-powered robotic tutors in classrooms," writes Slashdot reader Hentes. "The doll will serve as a sort of artificial teaching assistant, helping students who get stuck or generating lessons. Students will be assigned an ID code, allowing the robot to provide personalized mentoring." NYS Focus reports: "This deployment in a working school distri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/steve-wozniaks-foundation-partners-with-realbotix-to-build-ai-teacherbot/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/steve-wozniaks-foundation-partners-with-realbotix-to-build-ai-teacherbot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China's World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation," he said. Bloomberg reports: His presence at the gathering, attended by scores of tech and government leaders, conveys a potent signal of China's ambitions to dominate a technological sphe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xi-vows-to-make-ai-for-all-in-debut-at-chinas-top-tech-summit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/xi-vows-to-make-ai-for-all-in-debut-at-chinas-top-tech-summit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates]]></title><description><![CDATA[AWS says a billing software bug caused some customers to see wildly inflated estimated charges, including reports of accounts showing bills in the billions or even trillions of dollars. The Register reports: An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was "reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data." As of writing, the issue is still unresolved despite AWS trying several differen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/billing-software-error-sends-billion-dollar-aws-estimates/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/billing-software-error-sends-billion-dollar-aws-estimates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.']]></title><description><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, and if anti-AI absolutists have a problem with that, they can "fork it" or "walk away." An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." The statement came amid a lengthy thread a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-on-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-on-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Just Erased America's AI Lead]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Axios: Kimi K3, a massive new model by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, threatens the foundations of Americas AI boom. Its release Thursday dazzled developers, jolted Silicon Valley and reset the AI race overnight. Kimi immediately vaulted into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests by AI evaluator Arena.In Arenas broader text ranking, Kimi finished ahead of Anthropics Opus 4.8 -- t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-just-erased-americas-ai-lead/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-just-erased-americas-ai-lead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FBI arrested a Florida man accused of uploading fake Steam games containing malware that stole passwords, data, and cryptocurrency wallet credentials from victims. Prosecutors say the scheme infected about 8,000 people, compromised roughly 80 crypto wallets, and stole at least $220,000 through games that appeared legitimate but secretly carried malware. TechCrunch reports: On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Zyaire Wilkins, a 21-year-old Florida resident and student. On Wednesday, prosecutors accus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-arrests-man-accused-of-using-steam-games-to-drain-victims-crypto-wallets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-arrests-man-accused-of-using-steam-games-to-drain-victims-crypto-wallets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta In Talks To Lease Computing Power To Anthropic In Potential $10 Billion Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic is reportedly in very early talks to lease computing power from Meta in a potential deal worth around $10 billion. The discussions follow Anthropic's recent compute deal with SpaceX and come as Meta explores selling excess AI capacity as part of a broader push to turn its massive infrastructure spending into a cloud business. CNBC reports: Access to enough AI chips remains a challenge for firms like Anthropic, which places usage limits on its most advanced models like Fable. [...] Meta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-in-talks-to-lease-computing-power-to-anthropic-in-potential-10-billion-deal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-in-talks-to-lease-computing-power-to-anthropic-in-potential-10-billion-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple has reportedly sent legal letters to dozens of former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, telling them to preserve potentially relevant documents and communications as it continues to pursue its trade secret lawsuit against the AI company. The Financial Times (paywalled) reports that Apple has targeted around 40 former employees with legal preservation letters, acting on its belief that the alleged misappropriation of confidential info]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sends-legal-letters-to-dozens-of-openai-employees/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sends-legal-letters-to-dozens-of-openai-employees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kalshi Flags Trump's Teleprompter Operator For Alleged Insider Trading]]></title><description><![CDATA[ABC News reports that White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on Kalshi markets tied to what President Trump would say in speeches, using his access to prepared remarks and last-minute edits. ABC News reports: According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered durin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-flags-trumps-teleprompter-operator-for-alleged-insider-trading/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/kalshi-flags-trumps-teleprompter-operator-for-alleged-insider-trading/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account After Nuking It Due to Hacker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft restored streamer Joshua Khane's 25-year-old Xbox and OneDrive account after it was compromised by a hacker and then suspended, putting years of personal data, baby photos, and thousands of dollars in games at risk. IGN reports: While he was "extremely happy" and thanked Microsoft for its help recovering his account and all the invaluable information therein, he levied some criticisms toward the brand for its initial response, claiming it had told him the suspension was "irreversible"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-restores-players-25-year-old-account-after-nuking-it-due-to-hacker/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-restores-players-25-year-old-account-after-nuking-it-due-to-hacker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have directly detected helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away that sits in its star's habitable zone. The finding marks the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-like planet in the habitable zone, strengthening the case that some planets orbiting red dwarfs can retain atmospheres and potentially support liquid water. "We have actually detected directly the helium present in the atmosphere itself, and that's the first direct detection]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-find-an-atmosphere-on-a-nearby-earth-like-planet/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-find-an-atmosphere-on-a-nearby-earth-like-planet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Trump Media &amp; Technology Group has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, such as President Donald Trump's, whose posts often move global markets. The product, called 'Truth API,' will deliver posts from the 10 most influential accounts to customers at a significantly faster pace than a regular push notification on the Truth Social p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/truth-social-to-sell-wall-street-firms-the-fastest-access-to-trumps-post/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/truth-social-to-sell-wall-street-firms-the-fastest-access-to-trumps-post/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs]]></title><description><![CDATA[India's Competition Commission has fined HP India and its partners about 1.4 billion rupees ($14.4 million), alleging the company colluded with resellers to rig government PC bids and fix prices for ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies. "It said that HP was aiming to outcompete other OEMs and discourage resellers from selling 'counterfeit' ink and toner," adds Ars Technica. From the report: In an order, the CCI said that HP India worked with five resellers to coordinate their bid p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hp-fined-14-million-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hp-fined-14-million-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TSMC To Invest Additional $100 Billion In Arizona]]></title><description><![CDATA[TSMC said it will invest another $100 billion in Arizona after reporting a record 77.4% year-over-year jump in second-quarter profit. The expansion would bring its total U.S. investment to $265 billion and include new fabs for 2-nanometer production and advanced packaging to serve major U.S. customers. The Associated Press reports: As AI-related demand continues to jump and needs for computing power from data centers surge, TSMC has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the U.S., Japan and T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tsmc-to-invest-additional-100-billion-in-arizona/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tsmc-to-invest-additional-100-billion-in-arizona/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Forces Google To Share Search Data, Open Android To Rivals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU is imposing new rules requiring Google to share anonymized search data and open up Android to rival AI companies. "Thanks to these measures, we hope to see emerging alternatives to Google Search and Google's AI services, such as Gemini, and that users in the EU can enjoy greater choice of services," Henna Virkkunen, an executive vice president at the European Commission overseeing tech, said. The Associated Press reports: In issuing the two new rules, the commission said it found that AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-forces-google-to-share-search-data-open-android-to-rivals/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-forces-google-to-share-search-data-open-android-to-rivals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: 1Password has launched a Claude integration that allows the AI agent to sign in to websites using credentials stored in a 1Password vault. The password manager says Claude never sees the password or one-time code. Instead, users approve each request, and 1Password injects the credentials directly into the target website while locking down access to the rest of the vault. The design appears safer than simply handing passwords to an AI model, but it does not remove every risk.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/1password-lets-claude-use-credentials-without-exposing-passwords/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/1password-lets-claude-use-credentials-without-exposing-passwords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony Deletes More Movies From Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: In 2022, due to "evolving licensing agreements" with distributor StudioCanal, German and Austrian users had hundreds of movies disappear from their PS accounts, long after buying them through Sony. Then in 2023, it happened again in America, specifically when Sony ended its licensing agreement with Discovery after the Warner Bros. merger, which, of course, has since been bought by Paramount Skydance. That resulted in customers having hundreds an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-deletes-more-movies-from-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-deletes-more-movies-from-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, but will keep it a standalone app even as it ties more closely into Gemini and Google Search. "Google says it plans to bring notebooks to AI Mode, its chatbot-like experience in Search, too," reports The Verge. From the report: Along with the name change, Google is rolling out an update announced last month that allows Gemini Notebook to connect to a secure cloud computer to write and execute code. This feature is available to Google AI Ultra and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-renames-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-renames-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus Will Continue Software Updates After US and Europe Exit]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus has confirmed that it will exit the North American and European markets, consolidating its operations under parent company Oppo. Existing customers will continue to receive "software updates, security patches, and applicable support," but OxygenOS will be replaced by Oppo's ColorOS. 9to5Google reports: As a part of its shutdown in global regions, OnePlus has confirmed that its flavor of Android, OxygenOS, is going away. Instead, all active OnePlus devices will be moving over to Oppo's Co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-will-continue-software-updates-after-us-and-europe-exit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-will-continue-software-updates-after-us-and-europe-exit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Won't Require User-Replaceable Batteries for Wearables]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has exempted wearables from upcoming EU rules requiring portable-device batteries to be removable and user-replaceable. The broader Batteries Regulation still takes effect in February 2027 for many consumer products, but the exemption means companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, and Meta won't have to redesign their wearables for the EU. Thurrott reports: Yesterday, the Commission announced that new product categories would be exempted from complying with its Batteries Re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-wearables/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-wearables/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea To Launch Universal Basic AI Chatbot]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: South Korea's government has posted a tender seeking suppliers to build a universal basic AI chatbot, and an AI agent for government services. The "AI for everyone" plan calls for private entities to create and operate the AI systems under contracts that expire in the year 2031. Bid documents reveal that Seoul will provide up to 256 Nvidia B200 GPUs to successful bidders. Winners must match government funding. The aim of the policy is to ens]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Users Bid Farewell To AI Companions]]></title><description><![CDATA[fjo3 quotes a report from Agence France-Presse: Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency. The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died. But these interactive tools must not "excessively cate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-users-bid-farewell-to-ai-companions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinese-users-bid-farewell-to-ai-companions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: In a study published in Nature, LSU physicists have developed the first room-temperature quantum material capable of distinguishing and transporting different quantum states of light, overcoming one of the biggest challenges in quantum materials research. Led by Associate Professor of Physics Omar S. Magana-Loaiza, the work establishes a general design principle for engineering an entirely new class of quantum materials, opening new possibilities]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/physicists-create-first-room-temperature-quantum-material/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/physicists-create-first-room-temperature-quantum-material/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Suffered a Major Power Outage Every Month of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: A Reddit post making the rounds this week claims the U.S. has experienced at least one major power outage every month of 2026 -- but is it true? I dug into several outages, the extreme weather behind them, and what we can do to help keep the lights on. [...] The claim that hundreds of thousands of Americans were without power over extended periods at least once per month, every month of 2026 surprised be in two ways. First, because I had no idea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-suffered-a-major-power-outage-every-month-of-2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-suffered-a-major-power-outage-every-month-of-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training]]></title><description><![CDATA[Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have sued Google, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission or payment, in "one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history." The Guardian reports: The publishers argue that Google repurposed books that had been supplied for limited services such as Google Books, Google Play Books and Google Scholar. Those services allowed Google to use the works in specific]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/book-publishers-sue-google-for-copyright-infringement-over-gemini-ai-training/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/book-publishers-sue-google-for-copyright-infringement-over-gemini-ai-training/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify Is Now an AI Chatbot, Too]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotify is testing a new "Talk to Spotify" AI feature for Premium subscribers that will let them chat with an AI assistant to explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The feature can answer questions about what users are listening to, adjust playback through follow-up prompts, and offer more personalized recommendations. The Verge reports: Amazon Music introduced a similar feature last year when it integrated Alexa Plus into the service. Spotify's chatbot goes a step beyond providing AI-powered]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spotify-is-now-an-ai-chatbot-too/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spotify-is-now-an-ai-chatbot-too/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hacker who breached Suno reportedly revealed source code and training-library details showing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs and lyrics from sources including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and podcast RSS feeds. "The hacked data is a rare look at exactly how AI models and tools are built," reports 404 Media. "Suno is one of the largest AI music generation tools on the internet, and has been the subject of several major lawsuits from the record indu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Plans To Repeal 39% TV Ownership Cap]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC plans to vote on repealing local TV ownership limits, including the 39% national audience cap that currently restricts how much of the U.S. market a single broadcast group can reach. Engadget reports: On August 6, commissioners will hold a ballot to repeal Section 303 of the Communications Act, and with it the 39 percent rule. In essence, the rule limits the reach of a local TV network to no more than 39 percent of the U.S.' total audience market. In its place, the FCC would move to a sy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-plans-to-repeal-39-tv-ownership-cap/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-plans-to-repeal-39-tv-ownership-cap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Big changes are coming to Android apps, but they're not the changes Google wanted. The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies' long-running antitrust battle is being withdrawn, and that means third-party app stores are coming to the Play Store. Google has confirmed that it will begin distributing rival app stores next week, setting the stage for competing platforms to take a bite out of Google's Android re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-and-epic-cancel-settlement-third-party-app-stores-coming-to-google-play/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-and-epic-cancel-settlement-third-party-app-stores-coming-to-google-play/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code]]></title><description><![CDATA[FreeBSD 16 has removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final dependency was disabled. Phoronix reports: This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0. With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains. FreeBSD 16]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/freebsd-16-retires-the-last-of-its-gpl-code/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/freebsd-16-retires-the-last-of-its-gpl-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Launches a Keypad for AI Agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI's first hardware device is a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro that lets users monitor and control AI coding agents. Axios reports: Codex Micro is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware company known for customizable mechanical keyboards and shortcut controllers for developers and designers. The small, square macro pad -- with backlit keys, a rotary knob and a tiny joystick -- sits beside your regular keyboard as a physical shortcut box for common Codex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-launches-a-keypad-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe, Advent Offer to Buy PayPal For More Than $53 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a joint $60.50-per-share offer to buy PayPal, valuing the payments company at more than $53 billion. The bid is said to represent a 28% premium to PayPal's latest closing price and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-advent-offer-to-buy-paypal-for-more-than-53-billion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-advent-offer-to-buy-paypal-for-more-than-53-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: Microsoft today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Nearly 60 of the bugs quashed in July's Patch Tuesday earned a "critica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronauts Take First X-Rays In Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission successfully captured diagnostic X-ray images in orbit for the first time. The milestone gives space medicine a second imaging option beyond ultrasound and could help future crews diagnose injuries, inspect equipment, and support longer missions to the moon or beyond. Popular Science reports: Commercial off-the-shelf X-ray machines like the ice cooler-sized MinXray TR90BH now allow users to perform scans on subjects far away from traditional facilities. In 20]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronauts-take-first-x-rays-in-space/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronauts-take-first-x-rays-in-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The House voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide and end the twice-yearly clock change. The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, "where one G.O.P. leader said it was unclear whether it could move ahead and at least one Republican appears inclined to try to block it," reports The New York Times. Some sleep experts oppose permanent daylight saving time, arguing that year-round standard time better aligns with circadian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/house-votes-for-permanent-daylight-saving-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/house-votes-for-permanent-daylight-saving-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to Financial Times. The Iranian government exploited Signaling System 7, or SS7, a set of protocols for 2G and 3G networks that has long been the backbone of how cellular networks connect to each other to route subscribers' calls]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/iran-abused-mobile-networks-vulnerabilities-to-locate-us-military-in-middle-east/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/iran-abused-mobile-networks-vulnerabilities-to-locate-us-military-in-middle-east/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is reportedly developing a screen-free, portable smart speaker meant to act as a personalized home computer and humanlike AI companion. "It will help control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, respond to messages and tap into the range of capabilities offered by OpenAI's ChatGPT," reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The device, expected to be unveiled this year and released in 2027, would mark OpenAI's first major hardware push after acquiring Jony]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-first-device-will-be-moveable-screenless-speaker-built-as-ai-companion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-first-device-will-be-moveable-screenless-speaker-built-as-ai-companion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Images is getting a Pinterest-like redesign that turns image search into a personalized discovery feed, with "For You" galleries, real-time updates, and collections for saving visual ideas. "Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of Google Images," reports TechCrunch. From the report: After navigating to the redesigned Google Images, users will see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and br]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-like-redesign-focused-on-discovery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-like-redesign-focused-on-discovery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected medical, family, pregnancy, or parental leave. "Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the work. Instead, Meta used a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems -- including a system referred to internally as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawsuit-claims-metas-layoff-decisions-were-made-by-ai-not-humans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawsuit-claims-metas-layoff-decisions-were-made-by-ai-not-humans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis is calling for a U.S.-led AI standards body to review frontier models for national security risks such as cybersecurity and biological threats. His proposal would create a federally overseen public-private organization, initially voluntary and eventually mandatory for U.S. deployment. CNBC reports: Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, said in an article posted on X on Tuesday that "urgent action" was needed to address risks associated with a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-deepmind-calls-for-us-to-spearhead-ai-standards-body/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-deepmind-calls-for-us-to-spearhead-ai-standards-body/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402 protocol. Backed by companies including AWS, American Express, Cloudflare, Google, Mastercard, Stripe, and Visa, the effort aims to make payments work directly over HTTP (assuming users are comfortable letting AI agents handle financial transactions)."The whole idea is to give agents access to money and, through that financia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-foundations-latest-foray-is-to-standardize-internet-native-payments-for-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-foundations-latest-foray-is-to-standardize-internet-native-payments-for-ai-agents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus Is Reportedly Shutting Down In the US, Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus will reportedly announce this week that it is shutting down its brand in the U.S. and Europe, following months of signs that parent company Oppo was winding down the brand's global presence. India and China are reportedly unaffected, but it's unclear whether Oppo will replace the brand directly in those markets. The move also raises questions about future support for existing OnePlus users. 9to5Google reports: WinFuture reports that OnePlus is gearing up for an official withdrawal from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-is-reportedly-shutting-down-in-the-us-europe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-is-reportedly-shutting-down-in-the-us-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM Stock Collapses After a Grave Warning About AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM shares plunged after the company warned that Q2 revenue and earnings would miss expectations, blaming customers' sudden shift in spending toward AI hardware instead of software services. However, CEO Arvind Krishna did not place all the blame on IBM's customers. The CEO also said it "faltered" by failing to "anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization.""These conditions require our teams to execute perfectly, and this quarter we faltered. We did not adapt and move quickly enough,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-stock-collapses-after-a-grave-warning-about-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-stock-collapses-after-a-grave-warning-about-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Becomes First State To Impose Data Center Moratorium]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York has become the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, pausing construction for one year over concerns that AI-driven data center growth is raising utility bills, straining water supplies, and burdening communities. "As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it's my responsibility to take action and lead," said New York Governor Kathy Hochul. She will also pursue legisl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-impose-data-center-moratorium/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-impose-data-center-moratorium/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers -- connections reported by CBC News last week. The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting itself as a "marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets." The online ticket resale gian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stubhub-ceo-hit-with-deceptive-practices-class-action-over-mass-scalping/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stubhub-ceo-hit-with-deceptive-practices-class-action-over-mass-scalping/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA Urges SharePoint Hardening After New Exploitations]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA is aware of active exploitation of vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32201, CVE-2026-45659, and CVE-2026-56164, enabling cyber threat actors to gain unauthorized access to on-premises SharePoint Server instances. These vulnerabilities affect all supported on-premises SharePoint Server versions (Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016) and involve establishing remote code execution (RCE) and post-exploitation activities, such as stealing Internet Information Services (IIS) machine keys and performing de]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-sharepoint-hardening-after-new-exploitations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-sharepoint-hardening-after-new-exploitations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) have created what they describe as the world's most detailed 3D cellular atlas of the human brainstem, linking whole-brain MRI views to individual neurons across more than 500 tissue sections. The free online atlas, called Anchor, could help researchers better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and SIDS by showing how healthy and diseased brain tissue differs cell by cell. The BBC reports: Built from high]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/indian-scientists-produce-most-detailed-3d-atlas-of-the-human-brainstem/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/indian-scientists-produce-most-detailed-3d-atlas-of-the-human-brainstem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Find Sugar Deep In Our Galaxy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries and self-tanners, in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way. While not essential for life itself, the molecule can convert into a form thought to be important for life's origins, adding evidence that key prebiotic ingredients may be widespread across the galaxy. The Associated Press reports: Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-find-sugar-deep-in-our-galaxy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-find-sugar-deep-in-our-galaxy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Hundreds of economists say in an open letter that institutions "must act now" to address how artificial intelligence could transform the economy and could put many people out of work. The statement released Monday was signed by top economists, along with computer scientists and some executives at tech companies including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI."AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years," says the letter organ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/over-200-economists-say-we-must-act-now-on-ais-economic-impact/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/over-200-economists-say-we-must-act-now-on-ais-economic-impact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Promises To Fix Search With Major Windows 11 Overhaul]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is overhauling Windows 11 search to prioritize local apps, files, and settings over web results while removing ads, promotions, MSN/Bing clutter, and other distractions. "You've have been asking for search that is faster, more relevant, and easier to use -- whether you're opening an app, finding a file, or changing a setting," Microsoft says in a new blog post. "Because the Windows Search Box is where many people start, we focused first on making results more dependable, easier to scan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-promises-to-fix-search-with-major-windows-11-overhaul/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-promises-to-fix-search-with-major-windows-11-overhaul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to disguise attacks against critical infrastructure. The advisory urges users to disable outdated SNMP versions, use strong passwords, update firmware, and turn off unnecessary router services to reduce the risk of being swept into these botnets. Ars Technica reports: "Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-government-warns-that-russia-state-hackers-are-coming-after-your-router/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-government-warns-that-russia-state-hackers-are-coming-after-your-router/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Firm Files For Insolvency After Cybercriminals Shut Down Production For 6 Weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[German textile firm ZEGO has filed for insolvency and is blaming a March cyberattack that shut down production for nearly six weeks. "ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fatal to their business," reports The Register. From the report: In a notice to customers and suppliers, the organization said it had exhausted every available option before seeking insolvency protection. Managing director Johannes Zenglein descr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/german-firm-files-for-insolvency-after-cybercriminals-shut-down-production-for-6-weeks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/german-firm-files-for-insolvency-after-cybercriminals-shut-down-production-for-6-weeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A coalition of 12 states led by California is suing to block the $111 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution, blockbuster films, and basic cable licensing. The challenge (PDF) defies the DOJ's approval of the deal. Variety reports: The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alleges that the $111 billion transaction violates the Clayton Act by lessening competition in three distinct markets: wide-release the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/states-sue-to-block-paramount-warner-bros-merger-defying-doj/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/states-sue-to-block-paramount-warner-bros-merger-defying-doj/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple agreed to use Intel's U.S. chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports -- a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line. Apple reportedly secured an exemption after pledging to invest hundreds o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-reportedly-agreed-to-intel-chips-to-avoid-white-house-tariffs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-reportedly-agreed-to-intel-chips-to-avoid-white-house-tariffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a new behavioral bot detection system that monitors mouse movement, typing cadence, scrolling, clipboard activity, page visibility, and other signals across an entire browsing session. The system is designed to catch advanced bots that can run JavaScript, use real browsers, and pass traditional CAPTCHA challenges. Cloudflare says Precursor does not record actual keystrokes and instead studies timing and rhythm. The company also says the dat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-precursor-watches-your-mouse-and-keyboard-to-decide-if-you-are-human/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-precursor-watches-your-mouse-and-keyboard-to-decide-if-you-are-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Media Limits Are Coming For Teens Across Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union is considering major new restrictions on children's access to social media, including age limits, phased access, and an outright ban. "This is not about whether children can access social media," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "It is about when social media can access our children." The Verge reports: Social media platforms could also be forced to prove their services are not harmful before young people are allowed to use them. European Commission Pre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/social-media-limits-are-coming-for-teens-across-europe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/social-media-limits-are-coming-for-teens-across-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting On Social Media]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new Incogni survey suggests Americans are pulling back from social media, with more than half saying "maintaining an online presence feels like work" and 55% reporting they post less than they did five years ago. "The full study concludes that there's been a significant shift in public attitudes toward social media," reports PCMag. "Where it was once fun and relaxing, it's now growing dark and angsty..." From the report: As the chart shows, there's also a clear correlation with age. A full 60%]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China, Russia and Others Seek To Inflame Debate Over AI Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of artificial intelligence posed a threat to Americans' physical and financial well-being. A comic strip made to look as if it had been published by a Maryland news outlet -- created with OpenAI's ChatGPT by people in China, the tech company said -- circulated on X this year, blaming data c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-russia-and-others-seek-to-inflame-debate-over-ai-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-russia-and-others-seek-to-inflame-debate-over-ai-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds on Rust, C, Bugs, and AI Patch-Checking Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA["Git and email are the two really only tools I use," Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026. But ZDNet reports that he also shared his thoughts on Rust, C, and patch-checking tools:"I use Google as a way to look things up." He added, "I'm unusual; most of the other maintainers end up using many more tools, and I think a lot of them are starting to use AI tools for patch checking," while he "works at a higher level. I work with people, not tools."<br />
When asked about Rust both in Git a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-on-rust-c-bugs-and-ai-patch-checking-tools/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-on-rust-c-bugs-and-ai-patch-checking-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan's Space Agency Conducts First Test Flight For Experimental Reusable Rocket]]></title><description><![CDATA["Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday," reports the Associated Press, as Japan "seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX."<br />
The RV-X rocket lifted off, hovered and moved horizontally before landing [watch the video here] during its less than one-minute flight at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Noshiro Testing Center in northeastern Japan, which was livestre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japans-space-agency-conducts-first-test-flight-for-experimental-reusable-rocket/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japans-space-agency-conducts-first-test-flight-for-experimental-reusable-rocket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America May Soon Be Facing Largest Labor Shortage in Its History]]></title><description><![CDATA[America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post:Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech. It "could hobble the American economy for years to come," predicts the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Lightcast, a labor market data company, calls it "the largest labor shortage the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/america-may-soon-be-facing-largest-labor-shortage-in-its-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/america-may-soon-be-facing-largest-labor-shortage-in-its-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America May Soon Be Facing It's Largest Labor Shortage in Its History]]></title><description><![CDATA[America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post:Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shifts, will be vast and reach beyond tech. It "could hobble the American economy for years to come," predicts the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Lightcast, a labor market data company, calls it "the largest labor shortage the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/america-may-soon-be-facing-its-largest-labor-shortage-in-its-history/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/america-may-soon-be-facing-its-largest-labor-shortage-in-its-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semi-Trailer Trucks Test Converting Into Plug-In Hybrids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: There are several companies, such as Tesla, trying to make semi trucks fully electric. The capital cost for such a truck, and the MW-scale infrastructure to recharge it, may be a hard sell for some operators. [IEEE Spectrum notes that's a charging infrastructure "that most freight corridors do not yet reliably provide."] But some companies are instead adding batteries and an electric motor to the semi-trailers that trucks haul behind them.<br />
"The Nivalis P]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/semi-trailer-trucks-test-converting-into-plug-in-hybrids/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/semi-trailer-trucks-test-converting-into-plug-in-hybrids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Billionaire Exodus? California Drew 10x More Venture Capital Than Any Other State This Year']]></title><description><![CDATA[California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding:Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain that high property and energy costs and an anti-busine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/billionaire-exodus-california-drew-10x-more-venture-capital-than-any-other-state-this-year/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/billionaire-exodus-california-drew-10x-more-venture-capital-than-any-other-state-this-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Forget Coders. the Real AI Threat Is In the Back Office']]></title><description><![CDATA[Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer.<br />
"But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..."They are spread across the country and throughout the economy, working in every industry,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/forget-coders-the-real-ai-threat-is-in-the-back-office/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/forget-coders-the-real-ai-threat-is-in-the-back-office/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific,"<br />
reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously."<br />
Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year.... it can actually be a huge drain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-on-ai-junk-patches-humans-and-godzilla/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linus-torvalds-on-ai-junk-patches-humans-and-godzilla/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk And Sam Altman Spar On X After Apple Files OpenAI Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA["Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X," reports CNBC, "highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution."This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own GPT-5.6 Sol. For days, Musk and Altman have hyped up their respective releases, but on Saturday the rivalry got personal. In response to a post about Apple filing suit against OpenAI on Friday over alleged theft of trade secrets, Musk wrote, "Scam Al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-spar-on-x-after-apple-files-openai-lawsuit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/elon-musk-and-sam-altman-spar-on-x-after-apple-files-openai-lawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SK Hynix CEO Warns 2027 Will Be Memory's 'Worst Year' Ever. Shortages May Outlast the Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech:SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what Samsung and Micron executives have already said. Samsung has warned of 2027 being]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sk-hynix-ceo-warns-2027-will-be-memorys-worst-year-ever-shortages-may-outlast-the-decade/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sk-hynix-ceo-warns-2027-will-be-memorys-worst-year-ever-shortages-may-outlast-the-decade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WSJ Reports on 'Hard-line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI']]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement.<br />
"The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups."Their cause is now riding a surge of anti-AI backlash. Many Americans are souring on the technology amid mass layoffs, dat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wsj-reports-on-hard-line-activists-ramping-up-for-the-war-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wsj-reports-on-hard-line-activists-ramping-up-for-the-war-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the COSMIC Desktop Getting Better Than KDE and GNOME?]]></title><description><![CDATA["While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers:<br />
Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces of Nautilus (the GNOME file manager), and then there's now a COSMIC-native system mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-the-cosmic-desktop-getting-better-than-kde-and-gnome/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-the-cosmic-desktop-getting-better-than-kde-and-gnome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-driven Datacenter Builds Increased Microsoft's Emissions 25% In One Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register."The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%" &mdash; mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates:In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming "carbon-negative" by 2030. Its own figures show emissions heading only upwards, fro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-driven-datacenter-builds-increased-microsofts-emissions-25-in-one-year/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-driven-datacenter-builds-increased-microsofts-emissions-25-in-one-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Id Co-founders Carmack and Romero Respond to Microsoft's Layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA["I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs," John Carmack posted Thursday to his 2.8 million followers on X.com:My "Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand" statement isn't aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.<br />
I'm saddened, but I can't muster anger or outrage over it. I don't have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft']]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/id-co-founders-carmack-and-romero-respond-to-microsofts-layoffs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/id-co-founders-carmack-and-romero-respond-to-microsofts-layoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facial Recognition in UK Shops Will Soon Instantly Alert Police About Offenders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Facial recognition technology in U.K. shops "will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders," reports The Guardian, "with civil liberties groups warning of a 'dangerous escalation' towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector."Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&amp;M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when the most serious offender]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facial-recognition-in-uk-shops-will-soon-instantly-alert-police-about-offenders/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facial-recognition-in-uk-shops-will-soon-instantly-alert-police-about-offenders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Million Cubans Suffer Nationwide Blackout - For The Second Time This Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports:An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade...<br />
Authorities reported that they have already begun restoring power to some areas. On Monday, another massive blackout affected nearly 10 million people nationwide. Authorities reported during the week that service was gradually being restored from that outage]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/10-million-cubans-suffer-nationwide-blackout-for-the-second-time-this-week/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/10-million-cubans-suffer-nationwide-blackout-for-the-second-time-this-week/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Removes Controversial AI Feature On Instagram After Backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA["Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI," reports TechCrunch:The feature, which wasn't designed to alert a user if their photos were used in this way, prompted immediate backlash... The company issued a blog post Friday announcing that it was removing the feature. Puck News founding partner Dylan Byers was the first to share the company's decision... Byers notes that the decision to do away with the feature came "amid scr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-removes-controversial-ai-feature-on-instagram-after-backlash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers.The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and TikTok that spur others to create their own posts, l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/people-keep-sneaking-into-an-empty-ibm-campus-and-then-getting-arrested/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/people-keep-sneaking-into-an-empty-ibm-campus-and-then-getting-arrested/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks.<br />
How are they fighting back?<br />
We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave us material for writing regular expressions. Searching for the reg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-the-fsf-sysadmins-are-blocking-botnets-with-reaction/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-the-fsf-sysadmins-are-blocking-botnets-with-reaction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DuckDuckGo's Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nerds.xyz reports:<br />
DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, letting users watch videos without sitting through the pre-roll and mid-roll interruptions that have become part of everyday life on the platform. The feature is already enabled by default for iPhone, Windows, and Mac users running the latest version of the browser. Android users can turn it on manually... with DuckDuckGo p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/duckduckgos-browser-now-blocks-most-youtube-ads/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/duckduckgos-browser-now-blocks-most-youtube-ads/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told]]></title><description><![CDATA[Environmental groups want America's FCC "to slam the brakes on orbital datacenters," writes The Register.They're arguing for an environmental impact assessment for what could be 1 million satellites:Earthjustice, acting on behalf of DarkSky International, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), filed a petition this week... The filing doesn't target any single company. Instead, it asks the regulator to put the entire emerging orbital datacenter sector o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/orbital-datacenter-plans-need-an-environmental-review-fcc-told/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/orbital-datacenter-plans-need-an-environmental-review-fcc-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Factory Was Severely Short On Workers. Then It Offered Flexible Work.]]></title><description><![CDATA["Flexible, app-based scheduling lets large pools of part-time workers choose four-hour shifts and even select the type of work they prefer," writes long-time Slashdot reader Tony Isaac. While the system started during the pandemic when factories faced severe labor shortages, the model is now "supplying hundreds of trained workers each week... while giving people &mdash; from retirees to sidejob hustlers to longtime employees &mdash; control over their hours."<br />
NPR says it's attracting "people who]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/this-factory-was-severely-short-on-workers-then-it-offered-flexible-work/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/this-factory-was-severely-short-on-workers-then-it-offered-flexible-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's AI Companies May Be 'Distilling' America's AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March, Anthropic's Claude "quietly deployed software to spy on China-based customers," reports the Washington Post &mdash; apparently to unmask Chinese rivals "suspected of hijacking its technology to make their own AI tools smarter."Last week Anthropic removed the spyware "after a software developer revealed its existence and privacy advocates criticized Anthropic, saying it had surveilled its own users."Anthropic's tracking code was designed in part to catch Chinese firms "distilling" its A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ai-companies-may-be-distilling-americas-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ai-companies-may-be-distilling-americas-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight']]></title><description><![CDATA["We need you in the fight," says the American legal expert in privacy, surveillance, AI, and Internet freedom of speech who became the EFF's new executive director in March.<br />
As EFF celebrates the anniversary of its founding 1990, "Each headline is different, but they tell one story: Many of the threats that once seemed hypothetical are now reality, and EFF's work to ensure technology supports rights, justice, freedom, and innovation for all people has never been more critical."Governments and la]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eff-celebrates-36th-anniversary-says-we-need-you-in-the-fight/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eff-celebrates-36th-anniversary-says-we-need-you-in-the-fight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Says US States Seek $1.4 Trillion In Penalties In August's Youth Safety Trial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta "said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties," reports Reuters, "over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users and misled the public about their safety."Meta put forward the figure in its response to the attorneys general's filings on how penalties should be calculated if the states prevailed at trial. The number, which has not previously been disclosed and is close to Meta's market capitalizati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-says-us-states-seek-14-trillion-in-penalties-in-augusts-youth-safety-trial/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-says-us-states-seek-14-trillion-in-penalties-in-augusts-youth-safety-trial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him]]></title><description><![CDATA["Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!"A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcement... led to me and my wife being surrounded by police, hands on their guns, in a Kohl's parking lot in suburban Minnesota."<br />
After dropping off our Amazon returns, we'd just gotten back in the Range Rover and reversed maybe two feet out of the spot when four cop cars came flying out of nowhere and boxe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-a-journalist-for-days-then-sent-police-to-arrest-him/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-a-journalist-for-days-then-sent-police-to-arrest-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC has approved (PDF) Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 test satellite, which will use a 60-by-60-foot mirror to reflect sunlight back to Earth after dark. "The reflected light from the satellite is supposed to span an area about 3 miles wide on the ground," reports PCMag. It comes despite objections from astronomers and environmental groups who are concerned that the satellites will unleash intrusive light pollution. From the report: The approval is only for one satellite, dubbed Earendil-1, wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-space-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-space-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Lands Rocket During an Orbital Launch For First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[China successfully recovered an orbital rocket booster for the first time, landing the Long March 10B's first stage into a net-equipped sea platform after its maiden launch. "This mission marks my country's first successful controlled recovery of a launch vehicle and the world's first network-based recovery of a launch vehicle," the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced via social media shortly after the launch. (Translation by Google.) "It signifies a historic brea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-lands-rocket-during-an-orbital-launch-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-lands-rocket-during-an-orbital-launch-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world's biggest tech companies. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the consumer tech giant said that OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence that has a new hardware business, had asked job candidates from Apple to share details about secret projects an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sues-openai-accusing-it-of-stealing-company-secrets/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-sues-openai-accusing-it-of-stealing-company-secrets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI To Cheat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Inside Higher Ed: For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm this spring. Quite a few students had expressed anxiety about being in a classroom after a gunman killed two students and injured nine in a December mass shooting at Brown, and so "it was appropriate," he said, to allow stude]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brown-professor-suspects-majority-of-his-class-used-ai-to-cheat/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brown-professor-suspects-majority-of-his-class-used-ai-to-cheat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia Hacks Doorbell Cameras To Spy On NATO Bases]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dutch intelligence agencies say Russian hackers have been hijacking unsecured internet-connected cameras, including likely doorbell and security cameras, to spy on NATO military bases and transport routes used to move weapons to Ukraine. "Organisations with IP [internet protocol] cameras on these routes have now been warned so that they could take action," said the AIVD domestic security and MIVD military intelligence agencies. Targeted NATO member states include the Netherlands and Ukraine. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-hacks-doorbell-cameras-to-spy-on-nato-bases/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russia-hacks-doorbell-cameras-to-spy-on-nato-bases/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feds Demand Autonomous Vehicle Companies Stop Interfering With First Responders]]></title><description><![CDATA[NHTSA is ordering autonomous vehicle developers to explain by the end of the month how they will stop driverless cars from interfering with police, firefighters, and paramedics. TechCrunch reports: [NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison] noted in the letter (PDF) that the agency has "identified a clear pattern of driverless AVs interfering with law enforcement and other first responders," citing instances in which these vehicles drove into active emergency scenes, blocked the paths of ambulances]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/feds-demand-autonomous-vehicle-companies-stop-interfering-with-first-responders/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/feds-demand-autonomous-vehicle-companies-stop-interfering-with-first-responders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC To Become First In US To Ban Deceptive Subscription Practices]]></title><description><![CDATA[On October 1st, New York City will become the first U.S. city to ban deceptive subscription practices, requiring companies to offer simple cancellation options or face fines of $525 per user subscription, back fees, and additional penalties. The Mamdani administration is also proposing a junk-fee rule requiring sellers, landlords, hotels, and other businesses to "advertise the total price for any good or service, including all mandatory additional charges and fees, up front." The Guardian report]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nyc-to-become-first-in-us-to-ban-deceptive-subscription-practices/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nyc-to-become-first-in-us-to-ban-deceptive-subscription-practices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disable Autoplay and Infinite Scroll Or Risk Massive Fines, EU Tells Meta]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like autoplay, infinite scroll, and highly personalized content recommendations were addictive. On Thursday, the EC said its investigation indicated that "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disable-autoplay-and-infinite-scroll-or-risk-massive-fines-eu-tells-meta/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disable-autoplay-and-infinite-scroll-or-risk-massive-fines-eu-tells-meta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney+ Explores a Free Tier As YouTube Draws TV Viewers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disney is exploring a free tier for Disney+ that would make some content available without a subscription. According to Nielsen data, the three largest free streamers accounted for 18.7% of watch time on U.S. TVs in April, up from 16.8% a year earlier and 12.7% in April 2024. Business Insider reports: Product and tech chief Adam Smith spoke about enabling free-tier content during a streaming town hall on Thursday afternoon, one staffer said. Smith didn't share a timeline for this initiative or a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disney-explores-a-free-tier-as-youtube-draws-tv-viewers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/disney-explores-a-free-tier-as-youtube-draws-tv-viewers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI to Retire ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is retiring its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch. Going forward, its browsing features will be shifted into a redesigned ChatGPT desktop app that also combines Codex, a built-in browser, and "ChatGPT Work" for acting across apps and files. PCMag reports: OpenAI disclosed Atlas's retirement in a Thursday post introducing a more powerful ChatGPT desktop app, following reports that the company planned on turning it into a "superapp." [...] In a tweet, OpenAI product staff]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-to-retire-chatgpt-atlas-browser-less-than-a-year-after-launch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-to-retire-chatgpt-atlas-browser-less-than-a-year-after-launch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SAP Makes It Easier For Customers To Shop For Legacy Product Support, Ending EU Antitrust Probe]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The European Commission has ended an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices after SAP agreed to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees. The move could reduce barriers for customers considering third-party support for products nearing the end of their vendor support terms, including thousands of large businesses that rely on SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) to run their business operations. SAP's mainstream]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sap-makes-it-easier-for-customers-to-shop-for-legacy-product-support-ending-eu-antitrust-probe/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sap-makes-it-easier-for-customers-to-shop-for-legacy-product-support-ending-eu-antitrust-probe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role and becoming a part-time adviser after taking extended medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. "Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness I've lived with for seven years," Simo wrote in a post Thursday on X. "During that time, it became clear that the road to recovery would be much longer and more complex than I had anticipated -- and that I needed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-ceo-of-agi-deployment-fidji-simo-is-stepping-down/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openais-ceo-of-agi-deployment-fidji-simo-is-stepping-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft to Retire OWA Light Client In Exchange Server]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft plans to disable and remove OWA Light, the lightweight Outlook Web Access client for Exchange Server, in an upcoming update expected in August 2026. The company says retiring the two-decade-old legacy interface will reduce attack surface and engineering complexity, pushing users to the modern Outlook on the web experience instead. BleepingComputer reports: "OWA Light was an important compatibility experience when the web needed it. Today, the full Outlook on the web experience is the r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-to-retire-owa-light-client-in-exchange-server/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-to-retire-owa-light-client-in-exchange-server/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials. "Last week, Tsinghua University in Beijing welcomed Dr. Yaghi in an appointment ceremony, calling him one of the world's foremost chemists," reports The New York Times. "The university said he saw his new post as an opportunity 'not to slow down, not to repeat what has already been done, but to do science with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nobel-winning-us-chemist-will-move-to-china-to-lead-ai-institute/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nobel-winning-us-chemist-will-move-to-china-to-lead-ai-institute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanoid Robots Controlled By Surgeons Did World-First Operation On Live Pigs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment -- but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely controlled the robots' movements in a new example of human-robot teamups. The teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive surgeries by removing gallbladders from live pigs during a preclinical trial t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humanoid-robots-controlled-by-surgeons-did-world-first-operation-on-live-pigs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/humanoid-robots-controlled-by-surgeons-did-world-first-operation-on-live-pigs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Probe Growing Use of Chinese AI Models In US Companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. lawmakers are probing the growing use of Chinese AI models by American companies, citing concerns over censorship, security risks, and whether U.S. firms are turning to cheaper foreign models because domestic alternatives are too costly or restricted. The investigation is specifically looking at companies such as Cursor and Airbnb. "The growing use of Chinese AI models by U.S. companies raises serious concerns," a State Department spokesperson told CNBC. Those "AI models are designed to adv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawmakers-probe-growing-use-of-chinese-ai-models-in-us-companies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lawmakers-probe-growing-use-of-chinese-ai-models-in-us-companies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google says the World Cup drove Search to its highest usage in history, with queries per second peaking right after Argentina's winning goal against Egypt. CNBC reports: The milestone comes as the company tries to prove its traditional search engine can keep its relevance in the age of AI, where chatbots have become more prevalent. Google still controls 90% of the search market, its stock price has more than doubled in the past year and revenue growth in the first quarter was the fastest for any]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-search-hits-all-time-usage-record/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-search-hits-all-time-usage-record/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent's stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes billions of dollars targeting ads at its users based on their data, is to sell users a wearable that tailors workouts for them based on whether they're happy or sad. Patentlyze first noticed the patent which was published on July 2 after Meta filed it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 After Government Greenlight, Announces 'ChatGPT Work']]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has received approval from the Trump administration to publicly roll out GPT-5.6 after an earlier limited preview restricted access to government-approved organizations. The company also launched ChatGPT Work, a new GPT-5.6-powered agent that combines ChatGPT and Codex-style capabilities. "It can gather context from the apps, files, and workflows you choose and create finished materials such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and web apps," OpenAI wrote in a blog post, adding that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-rolls-out-gpt-56-after-government-greenlight-announces-chatgpt-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-rolls-out-gpt-56-after-government-greenlight-announces-chatgpt-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Hands Open Health Stack To the Linux Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation intends to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation, a new vendor-neutral home for the Google Open Health Stack project. Google is contributing the project code and assets while Google.org is providing a $3 million grant. The initiative is also backed by Microsoft, Anthropic, and the World Health Organization, with the goal of building open source, AI-ready digital health infrastructure. Will moving the project under Linux Foundation governance a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-hands-open-health-stack-to-the-linux-foundation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-hands-open-health-stack-to-the-linux-foundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco Moves To Build Private Luxury Airport Terminal]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The [San Francisco international airport] is hoping to build a brand-new terminal exclusively for passengers who pay a premium, gaining access to a luxurious airport experience complete with private security lines and valet service from terminal to tarmac. It will service commercial flights, not business or corporate jets, and the terminal will have its own Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines as well as Customs and Border Prot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/san-francisco-moves-to-build-private-luxury-airport-terminal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/san-francisco-moves-to-build-private-luxury-airport-terminal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[macOS 28 Will Drop Support For Encrypted Mac OS Extended Volumes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting with macOS 28, Apple will no longer support encrypted Mac OS Extended, or HFS+, volumes. Users will need to decrypt them or reformat them as APFS to keep using them. 9to5Mac reports: In a new support document, Apple explains that starting with macOS 28, "the Mac OS Extended file system format will be supported only for volumes (disks and other storage devices) that aren't encrypted." In practice, this means users who currently rely on encrypted HFS+ external drives or other encrypted le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/macos-28-will-drop-support-for-encrypted-mac-os-extended-volumes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/macos-28-will-drop-support-for-encrypted-mac-os-extended-volumes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Releases New Voice Models For More Natural Live Conversations]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, "claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better," reports TechCrunch. "These are full-duplex models, meaning they can speak and listen at the same time, allowing users to interrupt naturally and enabling features like live translation." TechCrunch reports: The company is also replacing its current Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT with GPT-Live-1 mini by default. Users of paid tiers will be able to access the larger GPT-Li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-releases-new-voice-models-for-more-natural-live-conversations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents' Phone Addiction Affects Bond With Kids, New Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Parents' attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on their children, according to new research. Caregivers who mismanage their devices can both exacerbate "insecure attachment" and make healthy relationships more anxious and avoidant for children, according to the findings, which were published last month in Frontiers in Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal. The study, which su]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/parents-phone-addiction-affects-bond-with-kids-new-study-finds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/parents-phone-addiction-affects-bond-with-kids-new-study-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta To Build $9 Billion Alberta Data Center, Its First In Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta will build its first Canadian data center in Alberta, investing $9 billion in a 1-gigawatt facility that can scale to 1.8 gigawatts to support its AI infrastructure needs. The project will rely on new generation and grid infrastructure funded by Meta, including a long-term agreement tied to a new natural gas power facility. The company says it will offset electricity use with clean and renewable energy investments. Reuters reports: Meta has doubled down on AI, pledging hundreds of billions]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-to-build-9-billion-alberta-data-center-its-first-in-canada/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-to-build-9-billion-alberta-data-center-its-first-in-canada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoebox-Sized 'Detector Satellites' Could Sniff Out a Nuclear Bomb In Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study proposes using shoebox-sized detector satellites to sniff out nuclear weapons launched by adversary nations. The idea is aimed at addressing fears that a space-based nuclear detonation could destroy satellites across low Earth orbit and make some orbits unusable for years. Space.com shares the findings from a new paper authored by Areg Danagoulian, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: No reliable way currently exists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/shoebox-sized-detector-satellites-could-sniff-out-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/shoebox-sized-detector-satellites-could-sniff-out-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Food and Drug Administration Rejects Petition To Set PFAS Limits In Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food, marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest source of Pfas exposure. Testing has found the levels of Pfas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-food-and-drug-administration-rejects-petition-to-set-pfas-limits-in-food/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-food-and-drug-administration-rejects-petition-to-set-pfas-limits-in-food/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Silent Workspace In Claude Mirrors Key Features of Human Consciousness]]></title><description><![CDATA[oumuamua writes: Anthropic researchers have identified an internal activation subspace, J-space, that acts as a functional digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace. The significance of this discovery lies in demonstrating that Claude's internal architecture satisfies five key cognitive properties of human conscious access -- verbal report, directed modulation, internal reasoning, flexible generalization, and selectivity -- meaning it processes complex, deliberate reasoning within]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-silent-workspace-in-claude-mirrors-key-features-of-human-consciousness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-silent-workspace-in-claude-mirrors-key-features-of-human-consciousness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Deere Agrees To 10-Year Right-To-Repair Deal In FTC Antitrust Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Deere has agreed to a 10-year FTC-supervised right-to-repair settlement requiring it to provide farmers and independent repair shops with the same repair resources available to authorized dealers. The deal resolves antitrust claims from the FTC and five states alleging Deere monopolized equipment repair services, contributing to higher costs and delays for farmers. Wired reports: The full statement (PDF) lays out obligations for John Deere's repair services, requiring the company to give fa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/john-deere-agrees-to-10-year-right-to-repair-deal-in-ftc-antitrust-lawsuit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/john-deere-agrees-to-10-year-right-to-repair-deal-in-ftc-antitrust-lawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is rolling out an update that will disable the camera on its smart glasses if the device detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the privacy LED. "The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light," reports The Verge."Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Says It Will Spend $30 Billion To Design US-Made Broadcom Chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple says it will spend $30 billion to design US-made Broadcom wireless connectivity chips, part of its broader push to diversify its supply chain and support domestic chip production. CNN reports: The agreement with Broadcom will lead to the production of 15 million chips in United States and allow Broadcom to invest $1.5 billion to expand and modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is part of Apple's commitment in August to invest $600 billion as part of its "Amer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-says-it-will-spend-30-billion-to-design-us-made-broadcom-chips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-says-it-will-spend-30-billion-to-design-us-made-broadcom-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share]]></title><description><![CDATA[StatCounter's June 2026 data shows Windows made up 56.55% of global desktop OS usage, dropping Microsoft's share below 60% for the first time in years. Linux, meanwhile, reached 4.39%, "one of its strongest recent showings in the company's desktop OS statistics," reports Linuxiac. From the report: Apple's desktop platforms also remain a major part of the picture. StatCounter lists OS X at 11.89% and macOS at 4.48% for June 2026, meaning Apple's combined desktop presence remains comfortably ahead]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands On Amazon]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: A software developer made a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically hides, grays out, or filters products from sketchy brands on Amazon, which highlights just how many shady brands are on the platform and how commonly they show up on searches for basic items. In just a few minutes of using the extension, Knockoff dimmed product listings for screwdrivers made by "SUNHZMCKP," spoons made by "SACATR," and a lamp made by "ROTT]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/knockoff-browser-extension-hides-sketchy-brands-on-amazon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/knockoff-browser-extension-hides-sketchy-brands-on-amazon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Loses EU Fight Over App Store Gatekeeper Label]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe's General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to the EU's designation of its App Stores and iOS as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act. The ruling means Apple remains subject to DMA obligations requiring it to allow alternative app stores, support interoperability with rival services, and avoid favoring its own services over competitors. MacRumors reports: Apple took its case to Luxembourg's General Court in 2024 after the European Commission designated its five App Stores -- on the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-loses-eu-fight-over-app-store-gatekeeper-label/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-loses-eu-fight-over-app-store-gatekeeper-label/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Valve has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles. The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Pla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-releases-proton-11-with-huge-linux-gaming-improvements/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-releases-proton-11-with-huge-linux-gaming-improvements/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: An Australian beach community was confused -- and later delighted -- by the discovery of six metallic-looking spheres that washed ashore last week. The mystery, and the ensuing attention, prompted a bunch of alien jokes from local residents and businesses. But Australia's space agency put the speculation to rest on Monday, saying that the spheres appeared to be rocket debris that had recently re-entered the atmosphere from orbit.The ob]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mysterious-spheres-found-in-australia-are-likely-space-debris/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mysterious-spheres-found-in-australia-are-likely-space-debris/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superconducting Thruster Harnesses Earth's Magnetic Field In First Orbital Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Zealand startup Zenno Astronautics has completed the first orbital test of its "Supertorquer," a shoebox-sized superconducting magnet system that uses solar power and Earth's magnetic field to help control a satellite without fuel. The company says the technology could eventually support fuel-free satellite maneuvers, docking, deep-space trajectory changes, and even magnetic radiation shielding for astronauts. Space Magazine reports: The tests began shortly after Mira's launch in November la]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/superconducting-thruster-harnesses-earths-magnetic-field-in-first-orbital-test/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/superconducting-thruster-harnesses-earths-magnetic-field-in-first-orbital-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captured rare close-up images of near-Earth asteroid Torifune, revealing a snowman-like shape made of two joined lobes. Phys.org reports: The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on Sunday in a mission that demonstrated the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from Earth. A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday could aid such efforts, as researchers say near-Earth asteroids vary in their size, shape]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japan-releases-snowman-like-asteroid-image-after-flyby/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/japan-releases-snowman-like-asteroid-image-after-flyby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race. The new model, called Muse Image, rolled out with deep integrations woven into the Instagram app. As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doom Developer id Software Is Reportedly Losing Half Its Staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Doom developer id Software is reportedly laying off about half its staff as part of Microsoft's broader Xbox cuts. The reported layoffs potentially affects around 90 employees. Engadget reports: While neither Microsoft nor id Software have formally acknowledged the layoffs, one former member of the studio's staff, Michael Maynard, has echoed the 50 percent figure on LinkedIn. According to at least one of Game Developer's sources, that could translate to around 90 job cuts, though it's so far unc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doom-developer-id-software-is-reportedly-losing-half-its-staff/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doom-developer-id-software-is-reportedly-losing-half-its-staff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Flips Windows Backup On By Default Outside the EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft will turn on Windows settings backup and restore by default for eligible Windows 11 business devices outside the EU, starting with Windows 11 26H2. The Register reports:Now dubbed "Windows settings backup and restore," the service backs up a device's settings and a list of installed Microsoft Store apps, which can then be restored to a new device. Microsoft gave a use case for the technology: "Imagine a lost laptop, a hardware refresh, or an unexpected reset. These are some of the mome]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-flips-windows-backup-on-by-default-outside-the-eu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-flips-windows-backup-on-by-default-outside-the-eu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Passes Nvidia To Become Most Profitable Company In the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Samsung's chip division is projected to earn more in 2026 than it made across its previous 40 years in semiconductors, driven by soaring AI-fueled demand for memory and storage. The company's latest quarterly operating profit reportedly topped Nvidia's, making Samsung the world's most profitable tech company for the period. Tom's Hardware reports: Brokerage consensus puts Samsung's full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won ($196 billion), and its second-quarter figure at about 84.6 t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-passes-nvidia-to-become-most-profitable-company-in-the-world/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/samsung-passes-nvidia-to-become-most-profitable-company-in-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC To End Biden-Era Rule That Forces ISPs To List All Their Fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FCC plans to roll back broadband label rules that require ISPs to itemize all passthrough fees. Under the proposal, providers could instead list a single "up to" amount for location-based charges. It would also allow ISPs to link to pricing labels rather than display them prominently, while eliminating machine-readable pricing files. Ars Technica reports: ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills. One method of raising monthly]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-to-end-biden-era-rule-that-forces-isps-to-list-all-their-fees/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fcc-to-end-biden-era-rule-that-forces-isps-to-list-all-their-fees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's DeepSeek Developing Its Own AI Chip]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models. The chip is designed for inference -- the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users -- rather than for training new models, the sources said. If successful, DeepSeek's ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-deepseek-developing-its-own-ai-chip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major Banks In Talks To Exploit Debit Card Loophole]]></title><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC, and other major banks have reportedly explored acquiring Fiserv's debit-card networks, STAR and Accel, in a move that could help them bypass federal caps on debit-card transaction fees. A law limits the fees big banks can charge merchants, but only if the transactions are routed through an outside network. There are no caps on these interchange fees over a bank-owned network, however. The Wall Street Journal reports: When Capital One Financial bought]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/major-banks-in-talks-to-exploit-debit-card-loophole/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/major-banks-in-talks-to-exploit-debit-card-loophole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID]]></title><description><![CDATA[A criminal complaint against alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes revealed that Microsoft can associate Windows activity with a persistent "Global Device ID," which investigators used to link his PC to online activity connected to a hack. While unique device IDs are common, the case has raised privacy concerns because the identifier can apparently persist across updates, has no simple opt-out, and may allow Microsoft to connect a Windows installation to activity on third-party services.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device-id/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device-id/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Will Stop Accepting New Customers For Mechanical Turk]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: These may be the last days of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding, "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Another Language Appears To Slow Brain Aging By Up To 13 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study suggests multilingualism may slow brain aging, with bilingual people showing brains that appear about six years younger than monolingual speakers and people who speak four languages showing brains that appear up to 13 years younger. Researchers say earlier language learning and higher proficiency appear to strengthen the effect. The Guardian reports: Our brains are made up of billions of nerve cells that communicate with one another. But as we get older, the connectivity in our brain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/learning-another-language-appears-to-slow-brain-aging-by-up-to-13-years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/learning-another-language-appears-to-slow-brain-aging-by-up-to-13-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Cyber Agency Is Using Anthropic's Mythos To Audit Government Code]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA is reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos model to scan government code repositories for security vulnerabilities, with sources saying the audits have already found numerous bugs. Reuters reports: The scanning is being done by CISA's Attack Surface Evaluation team, according to one of the sources. The team is a group within CISA that conducts digital security assessments and hacking exercises across government. Two of the sources said the audits had already uncovered a large number of vulnerab]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GitHub Thumbs Nose At Sony's Controversial End to Physical Media With Its Introduction of Repo CDs]]></title><description><![CDATA[GitHub is offering a limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public repositories as a pro-physical-media jab at Sony's plan to stop producing PlayStation game discs in 2028. Tom's Hardware reports: The coding and collaboration platform, owned by Microsoft, states that "In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM." Moreover, it appeals to the human side of computing, adding the emotive line "Keep it. Lend it to fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/github-thumbs-nose-at-sonys-controversial-end-to-physical-media-with-its-introduction-of-repo-cds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/github-thumbs-nose-at-sonys-controversial-end-to-physical-media-with-its-introduction-of-repo-cds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer PhDs, a Bad Sign For Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities, raising fears that the nation's capacity to produce new science could be diminished. The decline is driven, in part, by a chaotic and unpredictable federal funding environment under the Trump administration, as federal cuts are promised and then reversed, and budgets remain unc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/research-universities-are-admitting-fewer-phds-a-bad-sign-for-science/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/research-universities-are-admitting-fewer-phds-a-bad-sign-for-science/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year. The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item's molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/small-ai-models-gain-traction-around-the-world/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/small-ai-models-gain-traction-around-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. Tech industry groups argue the law broadly restricts young people's access to digital speech, but the court let a 5th Circuit order stand without explanation or noted dissents. CNN notes that the Supreme Court's decision "doesn't resolve the case but rather will allow Texas to enforce the law while the litigation continues to play out." From the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-require-age-verification-for-mobile-apps/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-require-age-verification-for-mobile-apps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea's SK Hynix Launching $28 Billion US Listing To Ride Global AI Wave]]></title><description><![CDATA[SK Hynix is launching a Nasdaq listing expected to raise about $28 billion, giving US investors easier access to one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI memory-chip boom. Reuters reports: The company will sell 17.79 million new shares in the depository receipt listing on the Nasdaq. Ten ADRs will represent one common share and the stock will be sold in a price range that is due to be revealed on Monday, based on SK Hynix's Seoul trading price. SK Hynix's share price was down 4% at 2,327,000 w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-koreas-sk-hynix-launching-28-billion-us-listing-to-ride-global-ai-wave/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-koreas-sk-hynix-launching-28-billion-us-listing-to-ride-global-ai-wave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey. "The core issue seems to be whether Xinuos even has the right to litigate the matter, or if some ancient legalese in the original agreements means the window for legal argument has long since expired," reports The Register. From the report: [T]he roots of the case are the 1998 alliance betw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret Claude Tracker Shocks Users After Anthropic's Anti-Surveillance Stance]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a "serious breach of user trust." Last week, a web developer known as "Thereallo" was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI firm was using "prompt steganography" to hide code that tracks Chinese users "in plain sight." This cod]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/secret-claude-tracker-shocks-users-after-anthropics-anti-surveillance-stance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/secret-claude-tracker-shocks-users-after-anthropics-anti-surveillance-stance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5,000 Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business. "Our business is changing because the world around it is changing. The way technology is built, deployed, and used is transforming faster than at any point in my time here," said Amy Coleman, EVP and chief people officer at Microsoft. "Our customers' needs are shifting, the business models that serve them are shifting, and that mean]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-lays-off-nearly-5000-employees-across-xbox-commercial-sales/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-lays-off-nearly-5000-employees-across-xbox-commercial-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a Replaceable Battery in Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027, nearly 10 years after the console's launch. In its place, the company will release updated versions of the Switch 2 and several controllers with user-replaceable batteries to comply with new EU regulations. The Verge reports: The news comes as Nintendo is making a bunch of changes to the rest of its lineup due to EU regulations requiring user-replaceable batteries. Starting this summer, the company says it will start]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nintendo-switch-2-is-getting-a-replaceable-battery-in-europe/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nintendo-switch-2-is-getting-a-replaceable-battery-in-europe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data. The decline spans all age groups but is sharpest among 15- to 24-year-olds, whose daily socializing has fallen from about an hour to 35 minutes. Axios reports: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social Century" in the Atlantic last year. We're all on our]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/americans-of-all-ages-are-spending-less-time-socializing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/americans-of-all-ages-are-spending-less-time-socializing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fines Doubled As Teens Outsmart Australia's Social Media Ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect. The government says the changes will also give the eSafety Commissioner more power to demand information from platforms and age-assurance providers as teens continue finding ways around the law. Euronews reports: The government said Sunday it would introduce draft legislation th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fines-doubled-as-teens-outsmart-australias-social-media-ban/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fines-doubled-as-teens-outsmart-australias-social-media-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Ordered to Pay $2 Billion For Anti-Competitive Practices By Swedish Court]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion this week to Pricerunner, reports Bloomberg:The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, which issued the judgment on Wednesday, dismissed most parts of the claim in which Pricerunner sought 80 billion Swedish kronor, or roughly $8.2 billion, in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown... The Swedish price-comparison website argued that Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search engine by favoring its own comparison shopping service]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-ordered-to-pay-2-billion-for-anti-competitive-practices-by-swedish-court/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-ordered-to-pay-2-billion-for-anti-competitive-practices-by-swedish-court/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Big Tech Now Backpedaling on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario?]]></title><description><![CDATA["A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs," remembers the Wall Street Journal.But "For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone."<br />
In late May, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman &mdash; who has long predicted that AI will lead to seismic shifts in the workforce &mdash; said during a conference, "We've been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications." Soon afte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-big-tech-now-backpedaling-on-the-ai-jobs-wipeout-scenario/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-big-tech-now-backpedaling-on-the-ai-jobs-wipeout-scenario/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Tech Scammers Conned Four People Out of $673,000 in Three Days]]></title><description><![CDATA[USA Today reports on a Facebook post from a Washington state sheriff's office:Four residents of Clallam County, a coastal region west of Seattle along northern Washington's peninsula, lost more than $673,000 in just three days, according to the Clallam County Sheriff's Office... The smallest amount lost was $3,500, which someone purchased in Apple gift cards for a scammer posing as an employee with Microsoft technical support, the sheriff's office wrote. Another person lost $50,000 after they cl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-tech-scammers-conned-four-people-out-of-673000-in-three-days/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-tech-scammers-conned-four-people-out-of-673000-in-three-days/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds Support Legal Defense for Engineer Charged with Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras]]></title><description><![CDATA["Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer" who's been accused of damaging over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year and even knocking down their poles.<br />
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares<br />
this article from Futurism:According to local channel WAVY, Virginia-based Air Force engineer and mechanic Jeffrey Sovern is facing 13 counts of destruction of property, as well as six counts of both petit larceny and possession of burglary tools related to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hundreds-support-legal-defense-for-engineer-charged-with-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hundreds-support-legal-defense-for-engineer-charged-with-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go-based TypeScript 7.0 Finally Reaches Release Candidate Stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was more than two years ago that TypeScript's creator Anders Hejlsberg announced plans to rewrite its compiler in Go. This week Microsoft announced its first Go-based release candidate for TypeScript 7.0, reports InfoWorld:TypeScript 7.0 is often about 10 times faster than TypeScript 6.0, Microsoft said, thanks to native code speed and shared memory parallelism... Unlike TypeScript 6.0, TypeScript 7.0 performs many steps in parallel, including parsing, type checking, and emitting, Microsoft s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/go-based-typescript-70-finally-reaches-release-candidate-stage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/go-based-typescript-70-finally-reaches-release-candidate-stage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta is Quietly Launching Pocket, an App for Vibe-coding and Scrolling Small 'Gizmos']]></title><description><![CDATA["Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch," writes The Verge.<br />
While it's not available for downloads in most locations, Meta's Pocket will allow people "to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts," writes TechCrunch. They're called "gizmos", and Pocket "also offers a scrollable feed where you can play with gizmos others have made."<br />
Some context from The Verg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-quietly-launching-pocket-an-app-for-vibe-coding-and-scrolling-small-gizmos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-quietly-launching-pocket-an-app-for-vibe-coding-and-scrolling-small-gizmos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Companies That Invest Heavily in AI Also Hire More People, Report Suggests]]></title><description><![CDATA["Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch. That's the conclusion of new report tracking AI spending from Ramp's corporate card/bill pay data as well as Revelio Labs' workforce records from 21,599 U.S. firms:<br />
According to the report, "high-intensity adopters" &mdash; firms that spend on average $30 per employee per month on AI in the first three months &mdash; saw headcount increase 10.2%. Headcount]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-companies-that-invest-heavily-in-ai-also-hire-more-people-report-suggests/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/big-companies-that-invest-heavily-in-ai-also-hire-more-people-report-suggests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft and Amazon Commit Billions to New AI Implementation Units for Businesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new group "assisting clients with AI implementations," reports CNBC:[Microsoft] said Thursday that 6,000 employees will be embedded with clients, in a practice that's become known as forward deployed engineering [or FDE]... The announcement comes two days after cloud rival Amazon said it was putting $1 billion behind an FDE initiative to support fast-paced AI engagements. Leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI both established FDE groups in May, partnering]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-and-amazon-commit-billions-to-new-ai-implementation-units-for-businesses/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-and-amazon-commit-billions-to-new-ai-implementation-units-for-businesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask Slashdot: Which Apps Aren't Available on Linux?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes:Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than "power apps"). Some of these are closed source, some are open, but they're not all available in Linux yet.<br />
My list would have to contain Gimp Tookit versions of: IrfanView image manager, which I think is unequaled in Linux (though it does work to some extent under Wine). I also miss the full version of 7-Zip, because of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ask-slashdot-which-apps-arent-available-on-linux/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ask-slashdot-which-apps-arent-available-on-linux/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 11 Identifier Code Used to Arrest 19-Year-Old Over Alleged Ransomware Spree]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's Justice Department and FBI teamed joined Finland's National Bureau of Investigation to arrest a teenager they say is part of one of the world's biggest cybercrime syndicates, reports Tom's Hardware. The "Scattered Spider" syndicate has extorted over $100 million in ransom payments, according to Department of Justice figures:<br />
19-year-old Peter Stokes is a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen who was trying to board a flight to Japan from Helsinki, when law enforcement caught up with him. [T]he ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-11-identifier-code-used-to-arrest-19-year-old-over-alleged-ransomware-spree/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/windows-11-identifier-code-used-to-arrest-19-year-old-over-alleged-ransomware-spree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short Story Accused of Being AI-written Goes on to Win Contest's First Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA["A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize," reports the Guardian.<br />
In mid-May the story had been selected as a regional winner, but with critics on X and Bluesky "claiming it showed 'obvious markers' of AI use."In the wake of the controversy, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted a review of the regional winners, which it said involved looking at drafts, time-stamped documents and notes. "We are satisfied with t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/short-story-accused-of-being-ai-written-goes-on-to-win-contests-first-prize/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/short-story-accused-of-being-ai-written-goes-on-to-win-contests-first-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GoDaddy Warns India's Crackdown on Fake Site Registrars Could Upend Internet Privacy Everywhere]]></title><description><![CDATA["The internet is filled with fakes," writes Gizmodo. "A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court's decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India's borders."GoDaddy argues the move would even make the internet less safe,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godaddy-warns-indias-crackdown-on-fake-site-registrars-could-upend-internet-privacy-everywhere/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godaddy-warns-indias-crackdown-on-fake-site-registrars-could-upend-internet-privacy-everywhere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EV Batteries Defy Expectations, Last Hundreds of Thousands of Miles]]></title><description><![CDATA[247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. "They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable."After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range, according to Recurrent, a data-science company that provides a battery-monitoring tool for EVs &mdash; better]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ev-batteries-defy-expectations-last-hundreds-of-thousands-of-miles/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ev-batteries-defy-expectations-last-hundreds-of-thousands-of-miles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN reports:<br />
Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed "hobbits" due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn't as advanced as scientists previously believed....<br />
The researchers believe that much like how Komodo dragons hunt water buffaloes today, th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hobbit-like-humans-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragons-leftovers-to-survive/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hobbit-like-humans-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragons-leftovers-to-survive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Google Ad Imagines America's 'Declaration of Independence' Written With AI Help]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?With the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very Google-centric collaboration process. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, a meeting gets sch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-google-ad-imagines-americas-declaration-of-independence-written-with-ai-help/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-google-ad-imagines-americas-declaration-of-independence-written-with-ai-help/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Wars Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers.<br />
They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs."In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-wars-blurring-lines-between-corporate-and-national-security/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-wars-blurring-lines-between-corporate-and-national-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New DNA Tech Identifies Soldier Killed in America's Revolution in 1780]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News:In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home to several sets of remains buried in shallow graves.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-dna-tech-identifies-soldier-killed-in-americas-revolution-in-1780/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-dna-tech-identifies-soldier-killed-in-americas-revolution-in-1780/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave]]></title><description><![CDATA[As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat.That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions of Americans, however, will be contending with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/842000-american-households-lost-power-today-during-a-heatwave/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/842000-american-households-lost-power-today-during-a-heatwave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Microsoft Shift Its Profits to Low-Tax Countries?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes &mdash; and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.")But in 2026 the EU now requires a country-by-country compliance report, and the Ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/did-microsoft-shift-its-profits-to-low-tax-countries/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/did-microsoft-shift-its-profits-to-low-tax-countries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FSF Shares Update on 'LibrePhone' and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update:<br />
We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software already in it. Our current, primary focus is o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-shares-update-on-librephone-and-new-automated-site-monitoring-tool/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-shares-update-on-librephone-and-new-automated-site-monitoring-tool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AOL's Owner Bending Spoons Hits Wall Street with $1.7 billion IPO]]></title><description><![CDATA["The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press:<br />
The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion.Among the company's well-known holdings are the event creation and ticketing company Eventbrite, and the video hosting service Vimeo...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aols-owner-bending-spoons-hits-wall-street-with-17-billion-ipo/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/aols-owner-bending-spoons-hits-wall-street-with-17-billion-ipo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EchoStar's US Satellite Pay-TV Provider Dish DBS Files for Bankruptcy]]></title><description><![CDATA[EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy<br />
protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&amp;T... under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion."Some context from Deadline.com:Charlie Ergen, who co-founded EchoStar an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/echostars-us-satellite-pay-tv-provider-dish-dbs-files-for-bankruptcy/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/echostars-us-satellite-pay-tv-provider-dish-dbs-files-for-bankruptcy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents To Supply Chain Attacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed &mdash; particularly in auto-approve or CI environments&mdash;the command]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/decades-old-bash-tricks-expose-ai-coding-agents-to-supply-chain-attacks/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/decades-old-bash-tricks-expose-ai-coding-agents-to-supply-chain-attacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is a Quantum Computer Good For? Absolutely Nothing - Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing &mdash; it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination."<br />
And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028:<br />
The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing...<br />
Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information longer, you can fit in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/what-is-a-quantum-computer-good-for-absolutely-nothing-yet/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/what-is-a-quantum-computer-good-for-absolutely-nothing-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Startup Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module]]></title><description><![CDATA[Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their spokesperson said: "We expect the power generation portion of the system to be available as early as 2027, with the nuclear module being available to customers a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/startup-targets-datacenters-with-3d-printed-nuclear-reactor-module/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/startup-targets-datacenters-with-3d-printed-nuclear-reactor-module/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become harder to preserve and more easily]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/video-game-history-foundation-says-piracy-remains-the-only-viable-preservation-method/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/video-game-history-foundation-says-piracy-remains-the-only-viable-preservation-method/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alibaba To Ban Claude Code In Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Risks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code and directed them to its own Qoder platform amid a growing dispute over features that can help identify China-linked users. Reuters reports: The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities -- a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. [...] Anthropic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-in-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-in-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Open-Sources Steam Machine's E-Ink Display]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve has open-sourced the design for a customizable e-ink front panel for the Steam Machine, dubbed the "Inkterface." "All of it is available on their GitLab under the MIT license, which goes over everything you need to make your own and stick it on the front of your fancy new Steam Machine," reports GamingOnLinux. From the report:<br />
They're now calling it the "Inkterface" and there's a good few things you'll need to make it including:<br />
1 x Adafruit ESP32 Feather with 2MB PSRAM.<br />
1 x Adafruit eInk]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-open-sources-steam-machines-e-ink-display/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-open-sources-steam-machines-e-ink-display/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New PamStealer macOS Malware Uses Clever Tradecraft To Remain Stealthy]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed in a disk image that masquerades as Maccy, a clipboard manager for Macs. It's compiled as AppleScript that is notable for the way it delivers the second stage. The malware is named PamStealer becau]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-pamstealer-macos-malware-uses-clever-tradecraft-to-remain-stealthy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-pamstealer-macos-malware-uses-clever-tradecraft-to-remain-stealthy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Life Expectancy On Track To Reach Record High]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US age-adjusted death rate fell to a record low in 2025, likely pushing life expectancy to a record high as overdose deaths declined and mortality improved across all age groups. CNN reports: There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the lowest rate recorded in more than a century of tracking. The age-adjusted rate has fallen 22% since 2021, landing about 4% lower than it was jus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-life-expectancy-on-track-to-reach-record-high/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-life-expectancy-on-track-to-reach-record-high/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Has Enough Satellites To Launch Its Starlink Competitor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon says its Leo satellite network now has enough spacecraft in orbit to begin limited commercial internet service, with 396 satellites providing "continuous service across initial latitudes." Early performance will likely be uneven, however, and well behind Starlink. "It'll be years before Amazon can boast similar performance numbers as it continues to launch a planned 3,232 Leo satellites," reports The Verge. From the report: SpaceX went live with its "Better than nothing beta" back in 2020]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-has-enough-satellites-to-launch-its-starlink-competitor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-has-enough-satellites-to-launch-its-starlink-competitor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting For More Than 30 Minutes At a Time Linked To Higher Risk of Cancer Death]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cancer death. The risk increases for every additional hour of continuous inactivity, the findings suggest. However, the researchers also found breaking up periods of sedentary behavior longer than 30 minutes with bursts of physical activity could he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sitting-for-more-than-30-minutes-at-a-time-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cancer-death/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sitting-for-more-than-30-minutes-at-a-time-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cancer-death/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest In 50 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, that's the lowest participation rate since June 1976. CNBC reports: The decline in the labor force marks a "massive exodus" driven by multiple factors, said Mike Reid, head of U.S. economics at RBC. "The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% as both the number of unemployed workers and the size of the labor force pulled back," Reid wrote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-50-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-50-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Agent Executes 'First' End-To-End Ransomware Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack carried out end to end by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited exposed systems, stole credentials, established persistence, compromised a production database, and destroyed data. The research team named the attacker "JadePuffer" and said it gained initial access to an internet-facing Langflow instance by exploiting CVE-2025-3248. "The most striking characteristic, however, was the LLM's behavior," Sysdig director of threat research M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-agent-executes-first-end-to-end-ransomware-attack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-agent-executes-first-end-to-end-ransomware-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Godot Game Engine No Longer Accepts AI Code]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. "It is time for us to recognize that these problems aren't going away and therefore we need to take steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while ensuring we still have a pipeline to mentor new contributors to become future maintainers," the Godot Foundation said in a blog post. Contributors m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godot-game-engine-no-longer-accepts-ai-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/godot-game-engine-no-longer-accepts-ai-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features. According to Wired, "[U]sers will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for their smart glasses, whether it's the Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Meta-branded version." They'll still be usable with a subscription, but "certain features will be limited," the report says. From the report: Specifically, a feature called Conversation Focus, which boosts the audio of the person you're sp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-charging-a-subscription-for-smart-glasses-features/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-charging-a-subscription-for-smart-glasses-features/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI 'In Early Talks To Give 5% Stake To US Government']]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, potentially alongside similar contributions from other major AI companies. "Such a deal would help improve the industry's relations with the Trump administration and could help garner political support by sharing wealth generated by the AI boom with the public," reports The Guardian. From the report: [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman] and other OpenAI bosses have suggested that each of the biggest AI developers in the US should giv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-in-early-talks-to-give-5-stake-to-us-government/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-in-early-talks-to-give-5-stake-to-us-government/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WhatsApp Usernames Are Already Raising Impersonation Red Flags]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp this week started rolling out username reservations ahead of the broader launch planned later this year. The feature -- which lets people find and message each other by handle instead of phone number -- is already raising impersonation concerns, drawing scrutiny from security experts and regulators in India, the app's largest market, with more than 500 million users. The rollout marks a shift in how people identify one another on What]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whatsapp-usernames-are-already-raising-impersonation-red-flags/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/whatsapp-usernames-are-already-raising-impersonation-red-flags/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products]]></title><description><![CDATA[OnePlus is directing customers in some European markets toward OPPO devices, with its German website presenting OPPO as the natural upgrade path for existing users. The regional handoff adds to "months of speculation that the smartphone brand is slowly being folded into its parent company," reports Android Authority. From the report: The banner, seen on OnePlus' German website, tells visitors seeking "the experience you trust" that OPPO offers the same speed, performance, and compatibility that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-is-quietly-steering-customers-toward-oppo-products/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oneplus-is-quietly-steering-customers-toward-oppo-products/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[IEEE Spectrum argues that orbital data centers remain far from economically or technically practical despite Elon Musk's prediction that space will become the cheapest place to run AI within a few years. Deploying SpaceX's proposed million-satellite constellation would require enormous increases in launch and manufacturing capacity, while cooling, radiation, maintenance, latency, orbital debris, and astronomical interference present major unresolved obstacles. Longtime Slashdot reader xetdog sha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-space-based-data-center-hype-machine-is-already-in-orbit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-space-based-data-center-hype-machine-is-already-in-orbit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Reportedly Has an AI Device Prototype]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX showed investors an early prototype of a slim, "handset-like" AI device running a proprietary operating system and integrating xAI technology. Elon Musk, however, denied the report, calling it "utterly false." TechCrunch reports: SpaceX, alongside sister company Tesla, does have the manufacturing expertise to pull off mass-producing a bunch of AI devices -- not to mention access to the chips needed to power any on-device compute. SpaceX has also signa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-reportedly-has-an-ai-device-prototype/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-reportedly-has-an-ai-device-prototype/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Home Battery Installations Hit Record High On Rising Electricity Costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs. The trend could even unlock a more flexible energy supply for power grid operators and even AI data centers. New home battery installations reached a record 673 megawatts of energy storage in the first quarter of 2026, according to the US Energy Information Administr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-home-battery-installations-hit-record-high-on-rising-electricity-costs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-home-battery-installations-hit-record-high-on-rising-electricity-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T-Mobile Appears To Be Quitting VMware Amid Support Rights Lawsuit With Broadcom]]></title><description><![CDATA[T-Mobile appears to be migrating its 303,000-core VMware environment to another platform while fighting Broadcom in court for the extended support it says its perpetual-license agreement guarantees. "The matter is somewhat urgent," The Register reports, because a court-ordered support arrangement expires August 3, "so T-Mobile may soon be unable to get support for its very substantial VMware estate." The Register reports: The dispute relates to a deal T-Mobile struck with VMware in August 2023,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/t-mobile-appears-to-be-quitting-vmware-amid-support-rights-lawsuit-with-broadcom/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/t-mobile-appears-to-be-quitting-vmware-amid-support-rights-lawsuit-with-broadcom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Is Reportedly Building Its Own Cloud Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta is reportedly developing its own cloud business that could sell access to its AI models and lease data-center computing capacity to other companies. The move would put Meta in direct competition with Amazon, Google, and SpaceX. Engadget reports: The cloud business could offer multiple services, according to [Bloomberg], like selling access to AI models run on Meta's infrastructure, or leasing the computing power of its data centers to other companies looking to train AI. Offering something]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-reportedly-building-its-own-cloud-business/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-is-reportedly-building-its-own-cloud-business/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloudflare Pushes AI Companies To Pay For Publishers' Content]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare announced new controls that give publishers more say over how AI companies access and use their content. Beginning September 15, new Cloudflare sites will allow traditional search indexing while blocking AI training and AI agent access on ad supported pages by default. The company is also expanding its monetization efforts with a Pay-Per-Use model that aims to compensate publishers when their content contributes to AI generated answers rather than simply being cra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cloudflare-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Made a Cell From Scratch For First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations.The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although it still contains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-made-a-cell-from-scratch-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-made-a-cell-from-scratch-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reddit Will Require You To Log In To Use Old Reddit]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit."The Reddit employee wrote: "Old Reddit's logged-out experience is a significant source of a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony PlayStation Will Stop Releasing Games On Discs In 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without a physical disc.It marks a significant moment for the gaming industry, which has in recent y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-playstation-will-stop-releasing-games-on-discs-in-2028/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/sony-playstation-will-stop-releasing-games-on-discs-in-2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Loses Bid To Dismiss US States' Claims That Facebook, Instagram Addict Children]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge rejected Meta's bid to dismiss claims from 29 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children while concealing the harms. The judge found significant factual disputes that must be decided at trial. They also ruled that Meta failed to comply with federal parental notice and consent requirements for children under 13, "and granted summary judgement to the states on that issue," reports Reuters. From the report: In a separate statement,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-loses-bid-to-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-loses-bid-to-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Wants To Send Spare Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover To the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four robotic landers that will deliver scientific payloads to the surfa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-wants-to-send-spare-nuclear-powered-mars-rover-to-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-wants-to-send-spare-nuclear-powered-mars-rover-to-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, using the world's largest digital camera to image the entire southern sky every few nights. The project is expected to catalog billions of stars and galaxies, track changing and transient objects, and generate an enormous dataset for studying dark matter, galaxy formation, asteroids, and unexpected cosmic phenomena. The New York Times reports: "This is the end of a 30-year wait," said Phil Marshall, the deputy d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-vera-rubin-telescope-begins-surveying-our-cosmos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-vera-rubin-telescope-begins-surveying-our-cosmos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOT Announces 'Return of Supersonic Flight' For Commercial Airlines]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FAA plans to replace its 1973 ban on civilian supersonic flight over U.S. land with a noise-based standard, potentially allowing aircraft to exceed Mach 1 as long as they stay below certain sound limits. The agency aims to finalize the rules by mid-2027, opening the door for companies such as Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace to operate quieter next-generation passenger jets over land. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shared the notice (PDF) published Tuesday by the FAA. Forbes reports: Te]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dot-announces-return-of-supersonic-flight-for-commercial-airlines/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/dot-announces-return-of-supersonic-flight-for-commercial-airlines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Drops Restrictions On Anthropic's Mythos and Fable Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions that forced Anthropic to shut off public access to its Mythos and Fable models. After weeks of talks, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said Anthropic "has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to work diligently with the U.S. government on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable and future models; and to inform the US government of any malicious activity." Access is set to beg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-drops-restrictions-on-anthropics-mythos-and-fable-models/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-drops-restrictions-on-anthropics-mythos-and-fable-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A new state law limits Florida communities' aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is located. But the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-florida-law-bans-local-net-zero-emissions-policies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-florida-law-bans-local-net-zero-emissions-policies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Blames Piracy Apps With Malware For Killing New Fire Stick Sideloading]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because "apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware," adding that there is "a good amount of evidence" that sideloaded apps may contain unwanted code or behavior. However, the company did not provide specific examples of Fire Stick users being harmed. Ars Technica reports: Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. Previous Fire Sticks ran Fire OS, which is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-blames-piracy-apps-with-malware-for-killing-new-fire-stick-sideloading/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-blames-piracy-apps-with-malware-for-killing-new-fire-stick-sideloading/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Pulls the Plug On Tenor API, Killing GIF Pickers Around the Web]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has shut down the Tenor API, breaking GIF pickers in services that still relied on it and forcing platforms such as X to migrate elsewhere. 9to5Google notes that the library itself remains available at Tenor.com and "integrations within Google products are also still active, including Gboard, Google Messages, and more." From the report: The Tenor API has been rejecting new API sign-ups in January of this year, but existing integrations remained in place. This week, though, they're shuttin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-pulls-the-plug-on-tenor-api-killing-gif-pickers-around-the-web/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-pulls-the-plug-on-tenor-api-killing-gif-pickers-around-the-web/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Bill To Preserve Online Games Fails Committee Vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[California's Protect Our Games Act, which would require publishers to warn players before shutting down paid online games and offer refunds or continued access, failed to advance after a state Senate committee vote. Four state senators voted in favor, three voted against, and four abstained. Engadget reports: The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators. Assemblymember Chris Ward introduced the bill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-bill-to-preserve-online-games-fails-committee-vote/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-bill-to-preserve-online-games-fails-committee-vote/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple iPhone 18 Details Leaked In Tata Data Breach]]></title><description><![CDATA["Another breach at Tata has leaked details about Apple's iPhone 18, along with documents belonging to several other Tata clients," writes Longtime Slashdot reader Ritz_Just_Ritz. "It's becoming a recurring theme for the company." Reuters reports: Reuters has previously reported the Tata Electronics leak of more than 200,000 files on the dark web by World Leaks had files with purported component design papers of older iPhones and some parts of Tesla -- both Tata clients. They also included docume]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-iphone-18-details-leaked-in-tata-data-breach/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-iphone-18-details-leaked-in-tata-data-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Science is Here, Antibiotics Designed by Text Prompt Among Applications]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince, PhD, co-found]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-science-is-here-antibiotics-designed-by-text-prompt-among-applications/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/claude-science-is-here-antibiotics-designed-by-text-prompt-among-applications/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Previews Linux Containers That Run In Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly convenient for Li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-previews-linux-containers-that-run-in-windows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-previews-linux-containers-that-run-in-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools To 'Conserve Electricity']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next fiscal year. We anticipate more rate increases for electricit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/county-with-37-data-centers-asks-schools-to-conserve-electricity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/county-with-37-data-centers-asks-schools-to-conserve-electricity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea To Spend $1 Trillion On More Memory Chip Production, Humanoid Robots]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech on June 29, as reported by BBC News and other media outlets. "Se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-to-spend-1-trillion-on-more-memory-chip-production-humanoid-robots/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-to-spend-1-trillion-on-more-memory-chip-production-humanoid-robots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Supreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Require Constitutional Privacy Protections]]></title><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's location, and police intrude on that constitutionall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-require-constitutional-privacy-protections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering How Microsoft's Fake Windows Error Ended In a $280 Million Secret Settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf:<br />
Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature in the final retail r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/remembering-how-microsofts-fake-windows-error-ended-in-a-280-million-secret-settlement/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/remembering-how-microsofts-fake-windows-error-ended-in-a-280-million-secret-settlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls Short]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers &mdash; some of them former employees &mdash; after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch:Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a part ever r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As 'Drone Warriors']]></title><description><![CDATA["South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica:<br />
The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media outlets. The announcement coincides with broader plans to equip individ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-plans-to-train-entire-military-as-drone-warriors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/south-korea-plans-to-train-entire-military-as-drone-warriors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers 'Navigate the AI Economy']]></title><description><![CDATA["Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves," reports the New York Times."Just how many jobs will AI upend?" asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the new coalition says it's time to ready the U.S. workforce for a "major" disruption &mdash; no matter how large it turns out to be. The coalition "has so far raised more than $500 mil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ex-governors-big-tech-launch-coalition-to-help-workers-navigate-the-ai-economy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ex-governors-big-tech-launch-coalition-to-help-workers-navigate-the-ai-economy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM has unveiled "what it says is the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip technology," reports ZDNet, "designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM's earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021... Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors."<br />
At the heart of the announcement is NanoStack. This is a three-dimensional, nanosheet-based transistor design that scales vertically, or along the z-axis, b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-says-it-can-fit-nearly-100-billion-transistors-on-a-chip/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-says-it-can-fit-nearly-100-billion-transistors-on-a-chip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Think Neptune and Uranus May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined]]></title><description><![CDATA[The planets Neptune and Uranus may be better described as "magma-ocean giants" rather than "ice giants," according to a team of researchers from the University of California. Gizmodo reports:While the Voyager flyby confirmed the planets' classification as ice giants... [a]s the least explored planets in the solar system, the two planets have never been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, scientists aren't sure where the planets originally formed in the early solar system or the reason for their]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-think-neptune-and-uranus-may-not-be-the-ice-giants-we-imagined/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scientists-think-neptune-and-uranus-may-not-be-the-ice-giants-we-imagined/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).But "former members of the site's team have brought much of it back at a new domain," reports The Register:"Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change," Climate.us managing director Rebecca Lindsey said of the new platform in a press release. Lindsey, who previously served as the Climate.gov prog]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-now-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-shuttered-climate-change-site-now-back-online-in-nonprofit-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Slammed for Building Copyright-Infringing Supercomputer for OpenAI in New Court Filing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday:NYT's motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communications in a case where Sony tried and failed to claim that Cox was contributing to music piracy as an Internet service provider, which set a new standard for contributory infringement. Moving forward, plaintiffs will have to prove that parties intentio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-slammed-for-building-copyright-infringing-supercomputer-for-openai-in-new-court-filing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-slammed-for-building-copyright-infringing-supercomputer-for-openai-in-new-court-filing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain-Backed Fund Joins FOSSA's Sovereign Satellite Communications Push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish startup FOSSA Systems "has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation," reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain's government:The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) comes a year after the fund injected 14 million euros into Spain's Sateliot , which is also developing a satellite connectivity network with security and defense applications. Spanish private investment firm Kibo Ventures led FOSSA's funding roun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-backed-fund-joins-fossas-sovereign-satellite-communications-push/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-backed-fund-joins-fossas-sovereign-satellite-communications-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's AI Matches Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Causing Worry Over US Restrictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[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."<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ai-matches-anthropic-in-cybersecurity-causing-worry-over-us-restrictions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ai-matches-anthropic-in-cybersecurity-causing-worry-over-us-restrictions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Checks Sent Through the Mail Vulnerable to Theft?]]></title><description><![CDATA[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:<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-checks-sent-through-the-mail-vulnerable-to-theft/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-checks-sent-through-the-mail-vulnerable-to-theft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-agency-cancels-contract-for-warrantless-tracking-of-mobile-devices/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-agency-cancels-contract-for-warrantless-tracking-of-mobile-devices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests]]></title><description><![CDATA[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."<br />
Already, countries are stepping up inspections for test-takers. For China's grueling annual college entrance exam earlier this month &mdash; which more than 10 million hopefuls take each year &mdash; authorities required screeni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/students-around-the-world-are-using-ai-powered-smart-glasses-to-cheat-on-tests/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/students-around-the-world-are-using-ai-powered-smart-glasses-to-cheat-on-tests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Supergirl' Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects]]></title><description><![CDATA[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)."<br />
Many point fingers at the film's script, with Variety's line &mdash; "a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember" &mdash; going viral... Not to pile on, but there's another recurring g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supergirl-movie-criticized-for-script-poor-visual-effects/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/supergirl-movie-criticized-for-script-poor-visual-effects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years]]></title><description><![CDATA["Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld:<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/developer-ai-token-costs-could-exceed-their-salaries-in-two-years/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/developer-ai-token-costs-could-exceed-their-salaries-in-two-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon &mdash; 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."<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/an-amazon-seller-says-they-were-offered-a-way-to-bribe-an-amazon-employee/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/an-amazon-seller-says-they-were-offered-a-way-to-bribe-an-amazon-employee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing]]></title><description><![CDATA[IBM spent a decade "building, testing and improving" quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.<br />
"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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-is-getting-ready-to-scale-quantum-computing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ibm-is-getting-ready-to-scale-quantum-computing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America's Electricity Generation]]></title><description><![CDATA[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<br />
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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/renewable-energy-just-hit-30-of-americas-electricity-generation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/renewable-energy-just-hit-30-of-americas-electricity-generation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-a-seemingly-harmless-image-can-jailbreak-vision-language-ai-models/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-a-seemingly-harmless-image-can-jailbreak-vision-language-ai-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France's Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post &mdash; and it's even worse than a dire earlier forecast:The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that invited about 60 presenters worldwide to imagine a weather report from the year 2050. In one clip, &Atilde;velyne Dh&eacute;liat from French television network TF1 presented a hypothetical scenario of high temperatures 36]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/frances-heat-this-week-was-worse-than-a-dire-scenario-imagined-for-2050/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/frances-heat-this-week-was-worse-than-a-dire-scenario-imagined-for-2050/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Max Planck won 1918's Nobel Prize for physics. Yet two of his papers were retracted &mdash; a move now being criticized by Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec and Mahdi Khelfaoui, a fellow historian of science at UQ Trois-Rivi&egrave;res. Science reports:The papers, both quietly retracted in 2011, originally appeared in the early 1940s in Naturwissenschaften, a German journal now owned by publishing giant Springer Nature. After some sleuthing, Khelfaoui determined on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/max-planck-slapped-with-two-paper-retractions-by-suspected-rogue-algorithm/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/max-planck-slapped-with-two-paper-retractions-by-suspected-rogue-algorithm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus<br />
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, "the only<br />
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman<br />
world..."<br />
"But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts<br />
crumbled to dust."<br />
Every generation that followed faced the same dilemma: They could wait for<br />
technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts<br />
in their own lifetime. Or they could try to op]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scroll-burned-in-79-ad-volcanic-eruption-finally-deciphered-using-ai/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/scroll-burned-in-79-ad-volcanic-eruption-finally-deciphered-using-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California.<br />
The Sacramento County sheriff's office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from "Mission: Impossible," claiming "a nationwide first" where their drone successfully disarmed a felon "seen earlier with a firearm" (though now not moving, but holding a knife while lying face down in a garage). In the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-sheriff-says-their-drone-disarmed-a-suspect-shares-video-on-instagram/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-sheriff-says-their-drone-disarmed-a-suspect-shares-video-on-instagram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-Invasive Stimulation of the Brain Ended Opioid Addiction, Cigarette Craving]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post reports that doctors at Haifa's Rambam Health Care Campus "have successfully treated their first Israeli opioid addiction patient using an experimental noninvasive brain technology, easing him through withdrawal in just 20 minutes..."[T]he team of specialists at the Haifa medical center intervened in the electrical activity of an area of the patient's brain called the nucleus accumbens, the core of the brain system responsible for feelings of satisfaction, pleasure, and reward]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/non-invasive-stimulation-of-the-brain-ended-opioid-addiction-cigarette-craving/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/non-invasive-stimulation-of-the-brain-ended-opioid-addiction-cigarette-craving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FSF 'LibreLocal' Organized From Prison by Iranian Man Jailed for 'Cyber-Crimes' After Promoting Free Software]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year's 47 'LibreLocal 2026' meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. "Far from each other in many parts of the world, they came together around one unifying belief: free software."We envisioned LibreLocal as a collage of in-person community meetups that would bring people together to swap ideas, learn from each other, and celebra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-librelocal-organized-from-prison-by-iranian-man-jailed-for-cyber-crimes-after-promoting-free-software/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-librelocal-organized-from-prison-by-iranian-man-jailed-for-cyber-crimes-after-promoting-free-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget Prompt Engineering: 'Loop Engineering' Is All the Rage Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to. "It's an agent that prompts Claude," Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, "I don't write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I'm talking to that new Claude that is kind of coordinating." In the same interview, Cherny said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/forget-prompt-engineering-loop-engineering-is-all-the-rage-now/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/forget-prompt-engineering-loop-engineering-is-all-the-rage-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX Plans To Build 'Starpipe' Natural Gas Pipeline To Fuel Starship Rockets]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX plans to begin building an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" next month to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a much higher cadence of Starship launches. The pipeline is expected to enter service in January 2027. Reuters reports: The pipeline plan, previously reported by Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, signals Musk's intent to accelerate Starship's development and lay the groundwork for a faster flight rate. The 40-story rocket is central to SpaceX's push to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-plans-to-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship-rockets/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-plans-to-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship-rockets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin Drops Again. Skeptical Investment Strategist Calls It 'Useless']]></title><description><![CDATA[Friday Bitcoin closed at just $59,948 &mdash; dropping 19% just for June and more than 50% lower than its record high in October of $124,310.<br />
To commemorate the occasion CNBC interviewed long-time bitcoin skeptic Jeremy Grantham, reporting that the 87-year-old cofounder/chief investment strategist of the massive asset-management firm GMO is "predicting it will gradually fade into irrelevance over decades."[The] longtime market commentator known for his calls on asset bubbles said bitcoin is a "u]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bitcoin-drops-again-skeptical-investment-strategist-calls-it-useless/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bitcoin-drops-again-skeptical-investment-strategist-calls-it-useless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Biggest Super-Puff Planets Yet That Are Lighter Than Cotton Candy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-sized exoplanets with densities lower than cotton candy, making them the lightest known worlds of their size. The rare "super-puffs," located about 1,110 light-years away, are likely composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope expected to probe their atmospheres. The Associated Press reports: [University of Oxford's George Dransfield] suspects these fluffy, wispy worlds are probably white or blue, d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-find-biggest-super-puff-planets-yet-that-are-lighter-than-cotton-candy/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/astronomers-find-biggest-super-puff-planets-yet-that-are-lighter-than-cotton-candy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Government Allows Anthropic Limited Release of 'Mythos' AI Model, Saying 'Appropriate Safeguards are in Place"]]></title><description><![CDATA["The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations," reports CNN, "revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears."<br />
Since the export ban earlier in June, "Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company in a letter dated Friday. In light of progress in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-government-allows-anthropic-limited-release-of-mythos-ai-model-saying-appropriate-safeguards-are-in-place/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-government-allows-anthropic-limited-release-of-mythos-ai-model-saying-appropriate-safeguards-are-in-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Adds Another Year To Windows 10 Extended Update Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has quietly extended free Windows 10 security updates for consumers by another year, pushing the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program's end date from October 12, 2026, to October 12, 2027. "The ESU support page was updated with that date, and Microsoft's blog post on the program has a new editor's note confirming the change," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The prevalence of Windows across so many devices and form factors has given Microsoft a massive customer base for decade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-adds-another-year-to-windows-10-extended-update-program/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-adds-another-year-to-windows-10-extended-update-program/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airbus Is Ordered To Inspect 16 Jets After Cracks Are Found In Wings]]></title><description><![CDATA[schwit1 shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has ordered (PDF) urgent inspections of 16 Airbus A380 planes operated by Emirates and Qantas, after cracks were found in a wing component on some aircraft (source paywalled; alternative source).. Cracks were found during earlier inspections of the wing spars structure, a key component of the wing, EASA said in a directive effective Wednesday. EASA determined that they "could reduce the structural int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/airbus-is-ordered-to-inspect-16-jets-after-cracks-are-found-in-wings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/airbus-is-ordered-to-inspect-16-jets-after-cracks-are-found-in-wings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notion Mail Is Shutting Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion's AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don't lose any messages or data in the transition. Most emails will still exist in a Gmail inbox, but customers will need to manually export their dr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/notion-mail-is-shutting-down/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/notion-mail-is-shutting-down/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Fingerprints' of Black Hole's Event Horizon Detected For First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers say they detected the first gravitational-wave "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon by analyzing the final moments of the powerful GW250114 merger. The findings support Einstein's general relativity and may eventually help probe frame dragging and quantum fluctuations near black holes. Phys.org reports: For the new research published in Nature, an international team of researchers analyzed data from the strongest gravitational wave ever recorded, known as GW250114, detected]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fingerprints-of-black-holes-event-horizon-detected-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fingerprints-of-black-holes-event-horizon-detected-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Spain will require mobile networks to have backup systems that maintain connectivity when power outages occur. Per a royal decree that will be approved by the end of 2026, mobile network operators (MNOs) and infrastructure companies will need to install batteries or other backups to keep service active for at least four hours during a blackout.The mobile network rules will apply to businesses that serve at least 500,000 users or generate upwards]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-to-require-carriers-to-keep-mobile-networks-live-during-power-outages/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spain-to-require-carriers-to-keep-mobile-networks-live-during-power-outages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from autoevolution: The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security denied Polestar an authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. Polestar will continue to sell its existing inventory of Polestar 3 and 4 crossovers in the United States and will continue to offer support to customers and access to its service network. But no new 2027 models will set wheels on American soil.The Connected Vehicle Rule is a regulation that restr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/polestar-banned-from-selling-cars-in-us-from-model-year-2027/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/polestar-banned-from-selling-cars-in-us-from-model-year-2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Asks OpenAI To Stagger Release of New Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns. The model will initially be offered to a small group of partners, with the government "approving access customer by customer during this preview period," reports The Information. The request came from conversations with the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report said.Read more of this story at Slashdot.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-asks-openai-to-stagger-release-of-new-model/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-administration-asks-openai-to-stagger-release-of-new-model/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation has announced Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI dramatically speeds up vulnerability discovery. Founding members include AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM, Cisco, JPMorganChase, and others. Akrites will provide a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), a standardized coordinated vulnerability disclosure process, and act as a "maintainer of las]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-foundation-launches-akrites-to-coordinate-ai-driven-open-source-security/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/linux-foundation-launches-akrites-to-coordinate-ai-driven-open-source-security/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Raises Prices On Macs, iPads, and More By Hundreds of Dollars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple has sharply raised prices across its Mac, iPad, HomePod, and Apple TV lineups as surging AI-driven demand creates a global memory and storage shortage. Increases range from $30 for the HomePod mini to $1,300 for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio, with Apple CEO Tim Cook saying efforts to shield customers from higher costs had become "unsustainable." The Verge reports: On Thursday, the company adjusted the price of its new MacBook Neo, which will now start at $699 instead of $599, while the base MacB]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-and-more-by-hundreds-of-dollars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-and-more-by-hundreds-of-dollars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Case Data During Klue Breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[LastPass says hackers stole customers' personal information, support case records, and sales data by breaching market research partner Klue. The password manager told TechCrunch that its own systems and password vaults were unaffected. However, the hackers used their access to obtain "reams of data about LastPass customers," the report says. From the report: In a blog post that shared information about the incident, LastPass said the hackers took customers' names, phone numbers, email addresses,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lastpass-says-hackers-stole-customer-support-case-data-during-klue-breach/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/lastpass-says-hackers-stole-customer-support-case-data-during-klue-breach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic's leading model following Mythos' release and subsequent restriction from foreign markets. Ars obtained a June 10 letter sent to Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) one day ahead of a Senate committee hearing on "AI and the American Dream." In the letter, A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-says-alibaba-must-be-punished-for-largest-claude-cloning-attack/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-says-alibaba-must-be-punished-for-largest-claude-cloning-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors]]></title><description><![CDATA[After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters on a call Wednesday. "Over prior years, we didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ford-rehires-350-engineers-after-ai-fails-to-preserve-expertise-or-train-juniors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ford-rehires-350-engineers-after-ai-fails-to-preserve-expertise-or-train-juniors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Micron has signed 16 "strategic customer agreements" (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with "a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle." Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron's revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company's Q3 earnings call. He explained that Micron has signed 16 SCAs, most]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are rolling out in select markets this month before expanding. [...] Starting on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-starts-lowering-play-store-fees-making-good-on-epic-games-settlement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-starts-lowering-play-store-fees-making-good-on-epic-games-settlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study shows that while automakers and regulators have focused on occupant safety, they have turned a blind eye to pedestrian safety, which has fallen since around 2009. Resear]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-shows-that-tall-vehicle-hoods-cause-hundreds-more-deaths-per-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-study-shows-that-tall-vehicle-hoods-cause-hundreds-more-deaths-per-year/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Rover Detects Potential Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life On Mars]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover's Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, "a dried-up river that carried water into the planet's Jezero crater billions of years ago," notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living organisms. Geological processes can also pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-rover-detects-potential-signatures-of-ancient-microbial-life-on-mars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-rover-detects-potential-signatures-of-ancient-microbial-life-on-mars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI Are Backing Effort To Stop Respiratory Infections]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: [T]he payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether. The new organization, called Intercept, will use grants and investments to back prevention approaches, including vaccines, as well as large-scale air-cleaning systems for schools, offices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-anthropic-and-openai-are-backing-effort-to-stop-respiratory-infections/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stripe-anthropic-and-openai-are-backing-effort-to-stop-respiratory-infections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slate Auto's Radically Simple Electric Truck Starts At $24,950]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has few gas and fewer electric options these days," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The price reveal co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slate-autos-radically-simple-electric-truck-starts-at-24950/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/slate-autos-radically-simple-electric-truck-starts-at-24950/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is confident in its safeguards. Wired reports: Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in April to US employees. The tool "collects co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-data-leak/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-data-leak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GTA VI Is a Worrying Sign For the Future of Physical Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won't include a disc. Instead, they'll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. "Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it also sets a bad precedent for the rest of the industry," reports The Verge. From the report: There are a lot of advantages to buying digital. Yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gta-vi-is-a-worrying-sign-for-the-future-of-physical-games/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gta-vi-is-a-worrying-sign-for-the-future-of-physical-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Unveils First Chip As Part of Broadcom Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It's a major step in OpenAI's plan to "build the full stack behind its models and products," says OpenAI. "By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access." CNBC reports: The chip with Broadcom is an ASIC, which industry experts say is less flexible than]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-unveils-first-chip-as-part-of-broadcom-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-unveils-first-chip-as-part-of-broadcom-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart's First Nuclear Deal Shows Demand Beyond AI Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Barron's: Walmart is signing a long-term contract to buy nuclear power for the first time ever, a promising sign that the industry's future is supported by more than just the AI data center boom. The retail giant agreed on Tuesday to buy power from a nuclear plant in Illinois owned by Constellation Energy for its operations in the area, including its stores and a high-tech warehouse in Illinois that stores and sorts perishable food.Walmart will buy 176 me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmarts-first-nuclear-deal-shows-demand-beyond-ai-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmarts-first-nuclear-deal-shows-demand-beyond-ai-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob Iger's Disney Wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an exit interview with The Financial Times (paywalled), former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company seriously considered buying Twitter, explored a potential merger with Apple, and pursued the James Bond franchise during his tenure. The Verge reports: According to Iger, Disney came close to buying Twitter from co-founder Jack Dorsey "at a very attractive price," sometime prior to Elon Musk buying the social media platform in 2022 and changing its name to X. Iger had plans to turn Twitter into]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bob-igers-disney-wanted-apple-twitter-and-007/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bob-igers-disney-wanted-apple-twitter-and-007/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors']]></title><description><![CDATA[A peer-reviewed Nature critique argues that Microsoft's 2025 Majorana quantum-computing breakthrough -- and its claim that it could enable "a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years" -- is fundamentally flawed. According to Dr Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, the claims were undermined by omitted data, selective plotting, and basic Python errors that concealed alternative results. Microsoft, for its part, says the bugs were mi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/boffin-claims-microsofts-quantum-leap-is-invalid-due-to-basic-python-errors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/boffin-claims-microsofts-quantum-leap-is-invalid-due-to-basic-python-errors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited "tremendous interest" among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-announces-175-billion-in-loans-for-10-new-large-nuclear-reactors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-announces-175-billion-in-loans-for-10-new-large-nuclear-reactors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 25-Year-Old Blog Looks Back At 40 Years of Computing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient Slashdot reader Mark Round writes: Longtime reader here (since mid-1999 -- Hot Grits! Oog the Caveman! Beowulf clusters!), and I can still remember posting back on Slashdot's own 5th anniversary. Time's rolled on: my own blog just turned 25, and it's now roughly 40 years since I first sat down at a computer. So I went digging through archive.org, old backups, and a box of ZIP disks, and wrote up a long look back at four decades of computing through the one website that's been my online h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-25-year-old-blog-looks-back-at-40-years-of-computing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-25-year-old-blog-looks-back-at-40-years-of-computing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mushroom Behind 'Tiny Human' Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you might reasonably assume it contained a familiar psychedelic. But that does not appear to be the case with Lanmaoa asiatica, known locally as jian shou qing, a mushroom species sold in markets in Yunnan, southwestern China. When eaten undercooked, the mushroom can produce vivid visions of miniature people -- not unlike Gulliver on his travels to Lilliput. To]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mushroom-behind-tiny-human-visions-lacks-genes-for-known-psychedelics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mushroom-behind-tiny-human-visions-lacks-genes-for-known-psychedelics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe: The World's Fastest-Warming Continent]]></title><description><![CDATA[fjo3 shares a report from the AFP: The latest heatwave sweeping across Europe is a stark reminder that it is the world's fastest-warming continent, stretching into an Arctic that is heating at an even greater pace. Britain, France, Italy and Spain have issued red alerts and health warnings for much of their territory this week as the region endures its second heat episode since May.Here is a look at why Europe is warming faster than elsewhere: The planet as a whole is around 1.4C warmer than in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/europe-the-worlds-fastest-warming-continent/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/europe-the-worlds-fastest-warming-continent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US AI Stock Sell-Off Shakes Markets From Wall Street To Asia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index closed 2.2% lower on Tuesday. The S&amp;P 500 was also down by Tuesday afternoon, dropping 1.43% while the Dow remained steady. All three major US indices have hit record highs this year, riding off a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-ai-stock-sell-off-shakes-markets-from-wall-street-to-asia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-ai-stock-sell-off-shakes-markets-from-wall-street-to-asia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 29-year-old bug in the Squid web proxy, dubbed Squidbleed and tracked as CVE-2026-47729, can let an authorized proxy user retrieve fragments of another user's cleartext HTTP requests, including credentials and session tokens. The security researcher who reported the flaw credited Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview for the discovery. The Hacker News reports: Squid describes this as an attack by a trusted client: someone already permitted to use the proxy, not any random host on the internet. Tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/29-year-old-squid-proxy-bug-squidbleed-can-leak-cleartext-http-requests/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/29-year-old-squid-proxy-bug-squidbleed-can-leak-cleartext-http-requests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from TOP500: The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was announced today at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany. LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuts at No. 1, displacing El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer as measured by the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. LineShine achieved 2.198 Exaflop/s on HPL -- about 80 percent of its 2.736 Exaflop/]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-reclaims-fastest-supercomputer-at-2-exaflops/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/china-reclaims-fastest-supercomputer-at-2-exaflops/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for 'Canvassing']]></title><description><![CDATA[Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger has been indefinitely banned from editing the site after editors concluded that he violated its canvassing rules, "or in other words, calling on his followers off platform in order to influence Wikipedia's content," reports 404 Media. Sanger says the ban proves Wikipedia suppresses ideological diversity, while editors argue he was trying to mobilize an outside audience to influence internal decisions and had ignored an earlier warning. From the report: The discus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wikipedia-cofounder-larry-sanger-banned-from-site-for-canvassing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/wikipedia-cofounder-larry-sanger-banned-from-site-for-canvassing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walmart, In Biggest Deal In Two Years, Buys Advertising Tech Firm Vibe.co]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walmart is acquiring self-serve connected-TV ad platform Vibe.co for a reported $1.4 billion, adding it to an advertising ecosystem that already includes smart-TV maker Vizio. AdExchanger reports: On Tuesday, Walmart announced that it is buying Vibe.co, the French self-serve ad platform that specializes in helping small brands buy streaming commercials with similar ease and precision as they get from search and social. Vibe has been vying for a bigger share of the ad dollars moving to connected]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmart-in-biggest-deal-in-two-years-buys-advertising-tech-firm-vibeco/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/walmart-in-biggest-deal-in-two-years-buys-advertising-tech-firm-vibeco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta To Create a Prediction Markets App]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar to Polymarket and Kalshi, two employees with knowledge of the matter said. Users would not wager money, and the app would probably rely on a video game-like points system instead, one person said, though the company had not ruled out the eventual use of real money betting. The app is internally referred to as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mark-zuckerberg-directed-meta-to-create-a-prediction-markets-app/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mark-zuckerberg-directed-meta-to-create-a-prediction-markets-app/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Euro Expected To Launch By 2029 After EU Backing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Parliament's economic committee has backed a digital euro designed to reduce Europe's dependence on US-controlled payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard. The ECB-backed currency is targeted for launch by 2029 after a full parliamentary vote and negotiations with EU member states. Euronews reports: Under the proposal, consumers would be able to hold digital euros in a dedicated wallet, subject to a holding limit that has yet to be determined. The system would support both onlin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/digital-euro-expected-to-launch-by-2029-after-eu-backing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/digital-euro-expected-to-launch-by-2029-after-eu-backing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Launches Cheaper Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has launched its first smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding. Starting at $299, they're cheaper than the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 while retaining EssilorLuxottica as a design and manufacturing partner. The Verge reports: As far as style and specs, the Meta Glasses aren't that different from Ray-Bans. The internal specs are the same as the recently released Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, with slightly longer battery life. The Adventurer models have thinner rims, while the Fury models hew a bit close]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-launches-cheaper-smart-glasses-without-ray-ban/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-launches-cheaper-smart-glasses-without-ray-ban/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs As It Embraces AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year as it reorganized around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers such as OpenAI and Meta. The restructuring cost the company about $1.8 billion and, while Oracle says AI deployment may drive further reductions, it also warns the cuts could create skills shortages and hurt productivity. The BBC reports: The software and cloud computing firm says it had around 141,000 full-time employees as of May 31, 2026, down from about 162,000 wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oracle-cuts-21000-jobs-as-it-embraces-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/oracle-cuts-21000-jobs-as-it-embraces-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Considers Forcing Social Media Firms To Prioritize Trusted News]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain is considering forcing social media companies to prioritize what the government called trusted news sources as part of its broader push to tighten regulation of the sector. The culture department said on Monday it was considering requiring platforms such as Meta's Facebook, Alphabet-owned YouTube and TikTok to make content from public service media -- including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 -- and other trusted news providers easier to find]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-considers-forcing-social-media-firms-to-prioritize-trusted-news/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-considers-forcing-social-media-firms-to-prioritize-trusted-news/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Plans 'Nuclear Renaissance' With Up To 10 Reactors Built By 2040]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada has unveiled a national strategy to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years as it seeks to double electricity-grid capacity by 2050. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson called it a plan for a "new civilian nuclear renaissance.""If our goal is to double our grid and build a low-carbon economy in less than 25 years, there is no credible plan to do that without nuclear energy and the clean, reliable baseload power it provides," Hodgson said. "There is no credible plan for Canada t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-plans-nuclear-renaissance-with-up-to-10-reactors-built-by-2040/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-plans-nuclear-renaissance-with-up-to-10-reactors-built-by-2040/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Arrives In Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch targeted for no earlier than August 30. The observatory will survey the sky about 1,000 times faster than Hubble with a field of view at least 100 times wider, helping scientists study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets. Spaceflight Now reports: NASA's next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center aboard the agency's massive Pegasu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-arrives-in-florida/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-arrives-in-florida/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM Installs Robots At Flagship EV Factory After Laying Off 1,300 Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors' flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit -- even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary layoff. The latest automation push has spurred union pushback over a potentially existential issue for automakers and their workers. General Motors installed approximately 50 robot arms at GM's Factory Zero plant in Detroit, Michigan, according t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-installs-robots-at-flagship-ev-factory-after-laying-off-1300-workers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Accidentally Breaks Replying To an Email On Outlook]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has accidentally introduced a bug in Outlook for Mac that omits the original message from email replies, making it difficult for recipients to follow conversation history. Until Microsoft releases a fix, its suggested workaround is to roll back from version 16.110 and disable automatic updates, which is "great for users in full control of their devices -- not so good for anyone with a managed device," notes The Register. "Administrators with fleets of Macs running Outlook should brace]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-accidentally-breaks-replying-to-an-email-on-outlook/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-accidentally-breaks-replying-to-an-email-on-outlook/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following User Outcry, AMD Reinstates Memory Encryption In Consumer CPUs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, AMD was found to have stripped memory encryption from its consumer CPUs without any warning or notice. Now, following a wave of backlash on social media, the chipmaker has now reinstated the protection, though it still hasn't explained why the safeguard was disabled in the first place. Ars Technica reports: Following the revelation, social media was deluged by comments from AMD consumers decrying the move. They noted that AMD's quiet removal of TSME after supporting it for so long see]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/following-user-outcry-amd-reinstates-memory-encryption-in-consumer-cpus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/following-user-outcry-amd-reinstates-memory-encryption-in-consumer-cpus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Will Finally Let You Build Your Own Steam Machine With SteamOS For Desktop]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the price of the new Steam Machine starting at $1,049, you might want to consider making your own Steam Machine instead. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Valve says that "starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want." SteamOS 3.8.10 launched last week with a slew of updates, including "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." Alongside that improved compatibility, Valve is giving ga]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-will-finally-let-you-build-your-own-steam-machine-with-steamos-for-desktop/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-will-finally-let-you-build-your-own-steam-machine-with-steamos-for-desktop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Invests $75 Million In A24 To Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24 as part of a research partnership with DeepMind to develop AI-powered filmmaking tools and workflows. "The deal represents the latest marriage between a Hollywood studio and AI in an era where companies have oscillated between partnerships and lawsuits," reports Variety. From the report: A24 partner Scott Belsky, who leads the studio's technology division A24 Labs, told the Journal the studio's Google partnership differed from other deals because AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-invests-75-million-in-a24-to-develop-ai-powered-filmmaking-tools/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-invests-75-million-in-a24-to-develop-ai-powered-filmmaking-tools/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is For Sellouts]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America's data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive facilities. In some cases, the scale of the projects and the demanding construction timelines are fueling talent wars for the industry's best and brightest. The US-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has argued that its workers are "powering the AI Revolution," and a set]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/some-electricians-think-building-data-centers-is-for-sellouts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/some-electricians-think-building-data-centers-is-for-sellouts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve Prices the Steam Machine At $1,049]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is that it can play your library of Steam games you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it's also a full Linux PC that you can customize to your heart's content," reports The Verge. "Valve also]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-prices-the-steam-machine-at-1049/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/valve-prices-the-steam-machine-at-1049/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Garfield AI, the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm, has won its first court case after helping a freelancer recover 7,000 pounds in unpaid fees. "I was owed money for work I had done, but it felt like the process of recovering it could be too stressful, expensive and time-consuming," said Tamires Camal Taquidir, a freelancer who had provided HR-related services to a hospitality business. "Garfield made it possible for me to pursue the claim and keep going. When the counterclaim was broug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-law-firm-wins-uk-court-case-for-first-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-law-firm-wins-uk-court-case-for-first-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their shells, the researchers say that t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/2000-retired-google-pixel-phones-get-a-second-life-as-a-private-cloud/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/2000-retired-google-pixel-phones-get-a-second-life-as-a-private-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom died.Guillemot founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986. Since then, the company has published the Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia, and Tom Clancy video game fran]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several US States Bet That AI Can Solve Their Prison Recidivism Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison," reports the Wall Street Journal, "when an estimated 40% end up back behind bars within three years."Part of the problem comes in the form of filing cabinets, manila folders and legacy digital databases. In other words, records for a single prisoner might be kept in a dozen places... Now a group of 19 prison systems are tackling the problem with digital tools and artificial intelligence in some cases. They are con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/several-us-states-bet-that-ai-can-solve-their-prison-recidivism-crisis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/several-us-states-bet-that-ai-can-solve-their-prison-recidivism-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him &pound;300,000."Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore's University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was caught in February 2023 after a student handed in a USB drive containing suspicious coursework to D]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tutor-who-took-online-tests-for-124-students-jailed-for-three-years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tutor-who-took-online-tests-for-124-students-jailed-for-three-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA["About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," writes Search Engine Journal, "according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube."The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran the same fresh-account test on YouTube and found that 104 of the f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tiktok-shows-3x-more-ai-slop-than-youtube-report-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tiktok-shows-3x-more-ai-slop-than-youtube-report-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field]]></title><description><![CDATA[The blog Linuxiac reports:<br />
A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records.<br />
The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field.<br />
Importantly, this is not a new init system, a wider redesign of systemd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/someone-forked-systemd-over-its-new-birth-date-field/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/someone-forked-systemd-over-its-new-birth-date-field/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing]]></title><description><![CDATA["There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device.<br />
"This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots."<br />
Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about &mdash; from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries &mdash; are about changing the chemistry of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-secret-revolution-in-battery-technology-3-d-printing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-secret-revolution-in-battery-technology-3-d-printing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Tesla Planning To Sell Modular AI Data Center Hardware?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Electrek reports:Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads...<br />
Tesla filed the "Megapod" trademark (serial number 99893717) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month, through its longtime IP counsel. It's an intent-to-use application, meaning Tesla is claiming the name for a product it hasn't launched yet. The goods-and-se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-tesla-planning-to-sell-modular-ai-data-center-hardware/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/is-tesla-planning-to-sell-modular-ai-data-center-hardware/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media]]></title><description><![CDATA[PC Gamer reports:The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told BBC Breakfast earlier this week, "We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions."<br />
To be clear, no specific restrictions have yet been announced and Kendall sounded somewhat cautious abo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-official-promises-statements-around-vpns-and-further-teen-restrictions-on-chatbots-and-social-media/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-official-promises-statements-around-vpns-and-further-teen-restrictions-on-chatbots-and-social-media/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People]]></title><description><![CDATA[404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend's license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 &mdash; even searching for her mom's license plate at least 24 times. The police office was charged with stalking and hacking-related offenses, serving one day in prison with five years of probation &mdash; but his case "was not a one-off." [Alternate link via Bruce Schneier]Local news reports from around the country repeatedly d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flocks-cameras-to-stalk-people/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flocks-cameras-to-stalk-people/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tech Times reports:Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel's own documentation labels "actively dangerous," from every subsystem, driver, and architecture-specific file in the kernel source tree.<br />
The merge landed June 20, 2026. After around 362 commits spread across six years of incremental work, no call site using the function remaine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/after-six-years-of-work-and-over-360-patches-linux-72-finally-removes-bug-prone-strncpy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/after-six-years-of-work-and-over-360-patches-linux-72-finally-removes-bug-prone-strncpy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries]]></title><description><![CDATA[NBC News reports:<br />
A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America's most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed at preventing the chips from reaching China and other adversaries. The letter, signed by six companies, says the Chip Security Act (CSA) would increase American chip companies' competitiveness and close key loopholes in the U.S. export control regime]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-bill-would-mandate-ai-chip-location-tracking-to-thwart-china-and-other-adversaries/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-bill-would-mandate-ai-chip-location-tracking-to-thwart-china-and-other-adversaries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence]]></title><description><![CDATA[While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need."Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotten good enough to surface real vulnerabilities in open source code quickly and at scale. That is useful, and several large Rust projects have already received and fixed credible issues found this way. Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-rust-ecosystem-gets-an-ai-security-engineer-in-residence/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-rust-ecosystem-gets-an-ai-security-engineer-in-residence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canonical's Upcoming AI Tool: Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Typing]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware."<br />
"Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well."<br />
More details from the blog It's FOSS:<br />
For Ubuntu 26.10, the initial version of Myna]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonicals-upcoming-ai-tool-talk-to-ubuntu-instead-of-typing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canonicals-upcoming-ai-tool-talk-to-ubuntu-instead-of-typing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI:  'the Guardrails Alliance']]></title><description><![CDATA["A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly," reports TechCrunch.<br />
Hoping to leverage that discontent is a new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance. The New York Times reports that it launched Thursday with backers that included tech employees and labor unions:Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom. The PAC has abou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-super-pac-aims-to-rally-tech-workers-to-help-limit-ai-the-guardrails-alliance/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-super-pac-aims-to-rally-tech-workers-to-help-limit-ai-the-guardrails-alliance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facial Recognition on Public Buses?  Kansas City Says Yes]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:<br />
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banned riders or missing persons. Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facial-recognition-on-public-buses-kansas-city-says-yes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/facial-recognition-on-public-buses-kansas-city-says-yes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets]]></title><description><![CDATA[In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket &mdash; one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. "But none of those bets were real."<br />
Instead its creator was "one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades and sometimes scoring fake wins," the Journal reports, citing interviews with the creators an an analysis of more than 1,100 of their videos:Pol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/polymarket-paid-dozens-to-post-videos-of-themselves-winning-with-fake-bets/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/polymarket-paid-dozens-to-post-videos-of-themselves-winning-with-fake-bets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamers Sue PlayStation:  It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gaming news site Aftermath reports:Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games.<br />
Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not obtain owne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gamers-sue-playstation-its-not-clear-theyre-selling-licenses-rather-than-ownership-of-games/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gamers-sue-playstation-its-not-clear-theyre-selling-licenses-rather-than-ownership-of-games/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices &mdash; and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...)<br />
In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software use]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-millions-of-digital-home-devices-are-secretly-powering-cyberattacks/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-millions-of-digital-home-devices-are-secretly-powering-cyberattacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions."<br />
But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks."<br />
The benchmark also r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-benchmarks-for-ai-life-sciences-research-its-best-model-failed-639-of-the-test/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-announces-benchmarks-for-ai-life-sciences-research-its-best-model-failed-639-of-the-test/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording. "Weighing j]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/remembering-when-alan-turing-developed-a-portable-voice-encryption-device/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/remembering-when-alan-turing-developed-a-portable-voice-encryption-device/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus &mdash; and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July:<br />
Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were doing together is unfinished, but it's not stopped. The patents are filed,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tech-pundit-cringely-co-founds-startup-2brains-inc-to-solve-llm-hallucinations/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tech-pundit-cringely-co-founds-startup-2brains-inc-to-solve-llm-hallucinations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into 'Freeway Construction Zones']]></title><description><![CDATA[CNBC reports:Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the San Francisco area, the filing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-recalls-about-3900-robotaxis-after-some-drove-into-freeway-construction-zones/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/waymo-recalls-about-3900-robotaxis-after-some-drove-into-freeway-construction-zones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN reports:<br />
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' &mdash; a practice often used by hackers and termed "leetspeak.". The alert]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cellphone-alert-system-breached-in-brazil-message-sent-in-leetspeak/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cellphone-alert-system-breached-in-brazil-message-sent-in-leetspeak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry).<br />
But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's "one of the more me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/smpte-opens-entire-standards-catalog-for-free-removing-century-old-paywall/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/smpte-opens-entire-standards-catalog-for-free-removing-century-old-paywall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ars Technica's senior security editor reports:Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers.<br />
The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors the contents of device clipboards for patterns consistent with wallet addresses or seed phrases. When found, the malware also takes five screenshots over a 10-second period... "The execution of this clipper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-discovers-cryptocurrency-stealer-that-spreads-through-usb-drives-and-uses-tor/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-discovers-cryptocurrency-stealer-that-spreads-through-usb-drives-and-uses-tor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by AI Researchers in GNU Savannah Repository]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Free Software Foundation's GNU Savannah hosts thousands of free software projects &mdash; both GNU and non-GNU projects, including Drupal.<br />
But in early May, security researchers from Hacktron.AI reported vulnerabilities and demonstrated an exploit, according to a new statement Friday from the FSF:We have been working with these researchers since their initial report, and have also addressed additional security issues they submitted. All reported issues have been patched thanks to the hard wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-patches-two-year-old-vulnerability-found-by-ai-researchers-in-gnu-savannah-repository/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fsf-patches-two-year-old-vulnerability-found-by-ai-researchers-in-gnu-savannah-repository/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Student Loan Borrowers Will Get Interest Rate Cut If They Sign Up For Auto Pay]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Student loan borrowers who enroll in automatic payments will get a much bigger discount on interest starting July 1, the U.S. Department of Education says. Auto pay has long offered a modest discount off borrowers' interest rate -- .25 percentage points -- but after millions of borrowers opted out during the long COVID repayment pause, with some making no payments for years, the nation's student debt portfolio swelled to $1.7 trillion. On Thursday, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/student-loan-borrowers-will-get-interest-rate-cut-if-they-sign-up-for-auto-pay/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/student-loan-borrowers-will-get-interest-rate-cut-if-they-sign-up-for-auto-pay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Amazon employees have filed a civil-rights complaint alleging the company retaliated against them for publicly supporting Seattle regulations on data centers. "The complaint was filed on the workers' behalf by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an independent group of corporate employees at Amazon that since 2018 has organized around climate issues," reports The New York Times. "It said the company started investigations and told the employees that they could face discipline, in one cas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-retaliated-against-workers-who-supported-regulating-data-centers-complaint-says/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-retaliated-against-workers-who-supported-regulating-data-centers-complaint-says/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Sound Waves To Make Espresso Could Cut Coffee-Brewing Energy Use By 75%]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers developed an ultrasonic espresso process that uses high-frequency sound waves instead of hot water to produce espresso-strength coffee at room temperature. And, not only did coffee drinkers find it comparable to traditional espresso, but the brewing process cut energy use by up to 75%. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: We have developed what we call an ultrasonic espresso: a room-temperature brewing process that uses high-frequency sound waves to extract the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/using-sound-waves-to-make-espresso-could-cut-coffee-brewing-energy-use-by-75/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/using-sound-waves-to-make-espresso-could-cut-coffee-brewing-energy-use-by-75/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Drops Sam Altman Movie After Announcing OpenAI Partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon MGM has dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic Artificial and is seeking another distributor for the film. The move comes months after Amazon expanded its multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, fueling speculation about a potential conflict given the movie's reportedly unflattering portrayal of Altman. The Independent reports: Artificial would have marked the Oscar-nominated Call Me By Your Name director's third Amazon film, following the critically acclaimed Z]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-drops-sam-altman-movie-after-announcing-openai-partnership/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-drops-sam-altman-movie-after-announcing-openai-partnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norway Imposes Near Ban On AI In Elementary School]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norway will largely prohibit generative AI use for elementary kids ages 6 to 13 beginning with the new school year, while allowing limited, teacher-supervised use for older students. The government says the restrictions are intended to prevent children from skipping foundational reading, writing, and mathematics skills amid declining test scores. Reuters reports: Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in 2024 banned smartphones from schools and has given teachers back mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/norway-imposes-near-ban-on-ai-in-elementary-school/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/norway-imposes-near-ban-on-ai-in-elementary-school/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doom Composer Bobby Prince Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. "Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers, Prince composed the perfect riff-shredding accompaniment for the game's demon-slaying journ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doom-composer-bobby-prince-has-died/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/doom-composer-bobby-prince-has-died/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyundai Takes Full Control of Boston Dynamics As SoftBank Exits For $325 Million]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, "closing out SoftBank's last piece of Boston Dynamics and turning the Waltham, Massachusetts robotics company into a wholly owned Hyundai business," reports Startup Fortune. From the report: The price is $325 million for the remaining stake, according to the deal terms, and it follows the put option SoftBank retained when Hyundai bought control of Boston Dynamics in 2021. You should read that a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Missed Chances To Inspect OceanGate's Titan Before Fatal Implosion]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A report from Canada's Transportation Safety Board has highlighted regulatory failures that allowed OceanGate's unregistered, unflagged, and uncertified Titan submersible to operate out St. John's, Newfoundland, for years before it imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023. "When it came to the Titan, critical information existed across multiple federal government organizations, but no one was responsible for connecting the dot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-missed-chances-to-inspect-oceangates-titan-before-fatal-implosion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/canada-missed-chances-to-inspect-oceangates-titan-before-fatal-implosion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Unpatchable Exploit Targets Apple Devices With A12 and A13 Chips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have disclosed a new unpatchable BootROM exploit affecting Apple devices with A12, A13, S4, and S5 chips. The attack requires physical USB access and DFU mode, but can let an attacker run code before iOS loads, bypass signature checks, and boot modified software. 9to5Mac reports the details: In a highly detailed technical post published today, the Paradigm Shift Team details usbliter8, a new exploit that "leverages both a hardware bug in the USB controller and a specific configuratio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-unpatchable-exploit-targets-apple-devices-with-a12-and-a13-chips/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-unpatchable-exploit-targets-apple-devices-with-a12-and-a13-chips/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU To Soon Classify AWS and Azure As Gatekeepers Under DSA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is reportedly preparing to provisionally classify Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act, bringing cloud infrastructure under the law's stricter competition rules for the first time. The designation could require greater interoperability and data portability, making it easier for customers to switch providers, with a final decision expected by the end of 2026. Heise reports: This investigation began in November 2025, when th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-to-soon-classify-aws-and-azure-as-gatekeepers-under-dsa/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/eu-to-soon-classify-aws-and-azure-as-gatekeepers-under-dsa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Korean Telecom Giant At the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic's most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom's ties to China, those people said. Those concerns appear to have compounded when Amazon later flagged vulnerabilities to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-korean-telecom-giant-at-the-center-of-anthropics-mythos-controversy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-korean-telecom-giant-at-the-center-of-anthropics-mythos-controversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-lobbies-congress-for-protection-from-child-harm-lawsuits/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/meta-lobbies-congress-for-protection-from-child-harm-lawsuits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Rocket Company For Mars Mission]]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA has selected Relativity Space to build and launch Aeolus, a 2028 Mars orbiter that would provide daily global measurements of dust, winds, and atmospheric temperatures to support future robotic and human missions. TechCrunch reports: The structure of the contract is akin to the deals that NASA made with SpaceX to fly cargo to the International Space Station, or Firefly Aerospace to put a lander on the Moon. The government agency handles the science, while the private company provides low-co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-picks-eric-schmidts-rocket-company-for-mars-mission/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/nasa-picks-eric-schmidts-rocket-company-for-mars-mission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rolls-Royce Secures Deal To Build Small Nuclear Reactors For Sweden]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rolls-Royce SMR has secured a multibillion-pound agreement to build three small modular reactors on Sweden's west coast, "marking a major step in the British engineering group's ambition to become a leading supplier of the technology in Europe," reports Euronews. From the report: Following a rigorous selection process that started in 2022, UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce's nuclear division, Rolls-Royce SMR, won the contract to build nuclear reactors for Sweden. As part of the deal, the group, s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rolls-royce-secures-deal-to-build-small-nuclear-reactors-for-sweden/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/rolls-royce-secures-deal-to-build-small-nuclear-reactors-for-sweden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Backs Off Plans To Kill Ocean Monitoring]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but suspicion immediately focused on the network's role in tracking climate change. But the OOI also provides data that's useful for weather forecasting and fisheries management, leading]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-backs-off-plans-to-kill-ocean-monitoring/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trump-admin-backs-off-plans-to-kill-ocean-monitoring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adobe Adds Its AI Assistant To Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adobe is expanding its Firefly AI assistant into Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, where it can automate all sorts of tasks such as organizing clips, renaming assets, adding interview markers, rearranging layers, and finding missing fonts. It's available starting today as part of a public beta. TechCrunch reports: Adobe is slowly transforming Firefly to increasingly resemble Canva, at least when it comes to AI features, loading up the app with AI tools that can generate images, vide]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/adobe-adds-its-ai-assistant-to-premiere-illustrator-and-indesign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/adobe-adds-its-ai-assistant-to-premiere-illustrator-and-indesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California 'Billionaire Tax' Makes Ballot Despite Opposition From Tech Moguls]]></title><description><![CDATA[California's proposed "billionaire tax" has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, setting up a major fight between labor unions and some of Silicon Valley's richest figures. From the report: The California Billionaire Tax Act, colloquially known as the billionaire tax, would levy a one-time 5% tax on any California resident worth more than $1bn. The proposal is backed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West as a means of funding Califo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-billionaire-tax-makes-ballot-despite-opposition-from-tech-moguls/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/california-billionaire-tax-makes-ballot-despite-opposition-from-tech-moguls/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midjourney Pivots From AI Image Generation To Body Scanning Medical Spa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Midjourney is expanding beyond AI image generation with plans for a medical-imaging business built around a water-based, full-body ultrasound scanner that uses hundreds of thousands of sensors and AI to reconstruct MRI-like images. "As you descend into the water, hundreds of thousands of tiny elements take turns, sending out waves, listening together, compressing and then streaming data to a massive cluster where thousands of computers split the task," Midjourney explained in the announcement. "]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/midjourney-pivots-from-ai-image-generation-to-body-scanning-medical-spa/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/midjourney-pivots-from-ai-image-generation-to-body-scanning-medical-spa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Unveils $7 Trillion Plan To Give Americans Control of AI Industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: As artificial intelligence companies reshape the economy and race toward trillion-dollar valuations, Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping transfer of wealth and power from the industry to the American public. The legislation, shown first to The Associated Press, would create a sovereign wealth fund overseen by an independent commission and financed through a one-time 50% tax on the stock of the largest AI companies. Sanders es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bernie-sanders-unveils-7-trillion-plan-to-give-americans-control-of-ai-industry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple Announces Major App Store Changes on iOS in Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apple is allowing iPhone developers in Brazil to distribute apps through authorized alternative marketplaces and use third-party payment systems following action by the country's competition regulator. "In other words, developers in Brazil will be able to circumvent the App Store and Apple's in-app purchase system, but there are still fees," reports MacRumors. Apple will collect commissions ranging from 5% on externally distributed apps to as much as 26% for some App Store transactions using its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-announces-major-app-store-changes-on-ios-in-brazil/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/apple-announces-major-app-store-changes-on-ios-in-brazil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Android 17 Drops For Pixel Phones and Watch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google has begun rolling out Android 17, the June Pixel Feature Drop, and Wear OS 7 simultaneously across supported Pixel phones and watches. Highlights include floating app bubbles, improved foldable multitasking and gaming, tighter location and contact permissions, stronger lost-device protections, new Pixel AI tools, and up to 10% better Pixel Watch battery life. PhoneArena reports: Pixel owners are the clear winners, since everything here reaches Pixel first and a lot of it goes back to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/android-17-drops-for-pixel-phones-and-watch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/android-17-drops-for-pixel-phones-and-watch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Told Researcher 'Nice Catch!' Then Denied Bug Bounty For Flaw It Still Hasn't Fixed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Security researcher Justin O'Leary says Google initially accepted his Config Connector privilege-escalation report as a high-priority, high-severity bug, then denied a bounty by declaring the behavior "working as intended." According to The Register, a Google rep initially praised O'Leary's report with a "Nice catch!" before the cloud giant reversed course, declaring that no vulnerability existed and therefore no fix or reward was warranted. "The bug report, however, is still marked high-priorit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-told-researcher-nice-catch-then-denied-bug-bounty-for-flaw-it-still-hasnt-fixed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-told-researcher-nice-catch-then-denied-bug-bounty-for-flaw-it-still-hasnt-fixed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due To Memory Costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will need to pass some of the cost on to consumers. "Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable," said Cook. "We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tim-cook-says-apple-price-increases-are-unavoidable-due-to-memory-costs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tim-cook-says-apple-price-increases-are-unavoidable-due-to-memory-costs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can No Longer Fly Or Purchase a Drone In Beijing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PetaPixel: China dominates the consumer drone market, so it is perhaps surprising that it is no longer possible to fly or even purchase a drone in Beijing. The new law that passed last month makes it illegal to buy, rent, or fly a drone without prior approval from the authorities. Users must also complete an online training session and pass a test on drone regulations. Under the new rules, drone users are also not allowed to repair or replace]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/you-can-no-longer-fly-or-purchase-a-drone-in-beijing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/you-can-no-longer-fly-or-purchase-a-drone-in-beijing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CISA Urges Hardening Fortinet Devices After Reports of Credential Exposure]]></title><description><![CDATA[CISA is aware of global reports that malicious cyber actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices across government and private sector organizations using compromised credentials. This activity, referred to as FortiBleed, involves the exposure of leaked credentials associated with approximately 74,000 Fortinet devices, including firewalls and virtual private network (VPN) gateways. &nbsp;<br />
To defend against this malicious cyber activity, CISA urges impacted Fortinet customers with Fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-hardening-fortinet-devices-after-reports-of-credential-exposure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cisa-urges-hardening-fortinet-devices-after-reports-of-credential-exposure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind 'Space: 1999,' Dies At 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, later designed the iconic Eagle Transporter, and became one of science fiction cinema's most influential behind-the-scenes artists. Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger remembers the SFX legend, writing: "The Space: 1999 Eagle is one of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brian-johnson-special-effects-artist-behind-space-1999-dies-at-86/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/brian-johnson-special-effects-artist-behind-space-1999-dies-at-86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's EV Price War Was Built On Cars Sold At a Loss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: For years, the Chinese auto industry has employed a hostile price war to kneecap global competitors. Armed with massive state subsidies, cheap raw materials, and an aggressive "scale-first" business model, Chinese automakers flooded the market with electric vehicles priced so low that legacy manufacturers stood no chance to compete. How did they do it? Simple, they couldn't. They did it anyway. Reports from CarNewsChina show that Ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ev-price-war-was-built-on-cars-sold-at-a-loss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/chinas-ev-price-war-was-built-on-cars-sold-at-a-loss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom's 'Abusive Conduct']]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK's High Court against Broadcom alleging breach of contract last year. According to a September report from The Register, the lawsuit claimed that in January 2021, Tesco bought perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Clo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Working To Patch 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Microsoft on Wednesday published an advisory acknowledging the public disclosure of a vulnerability in Defender that could lead to privilege escalation. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score of 7.8), was dropped last week by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse (also known as Chaotic Eclipse). "We are working to provide a high-quality security update that addresses this vulnerability. We will provide information in this CVE when]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-working-to-patch-rogueplanet-zero-day/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-working-to-patch-rogueplanet-zero-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[CCS Insight expects global smartphone shipments to fall 15% this year as AI-driven demand pushes memory manufacturers toward higher-margin server chips. "[S]ome entry-level devices have already seen their sticker prices go up by more than 50 percent since last year," reports The Register. From the report: The firm found that the primary smartphone market (meaning new devices) contracted 4.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, despite sales channels front-loading (meaning stockpiling) prod]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/smartphone-market-to-shrink-15-this-year-due-to-memory-crisis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/smartphone-market-to-shrink-15-this-year-due-to-memory-crisis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carvana Is Turning Dealerships Into 'Playgrounds,' Test-Drive Centers With Sales All Online]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carvana is testing a radically different new-car dealership model in Dallas, turning the location into a test-drive center and themed "playground" while requiring every purchase to be completed through its online platform. "Every single car that we sell, whether it's used or new, is online," said Tom Taira, Carvana president of special projects who's leading the new vehicle operations. "That's a very inherent difference. Even coming into the store, you're buying it online, and that's a big diffe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/carvana-is-turning-dealerships-into-playgrounds-test-drive-centers-with-sales-all-online/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/carvana-is-turning-dealerships-into-playgrounds-test-drive-centers-with-sales-all-online/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI Back Linux Foundation's Appia AI Standards Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Arm, Mastercard, Siemens, and other companies have joined the newly launched Appia Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The project aims to create common specifications and assessment frameworks that organizations can use to demonstrate AI systems meet emerging safety, trust, and compliance requirements. According to the Linux Foundation, the framework is designed to allow conformity evidence to be reused across the AI supply chain, potentially r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-microsoft-and-openai-back-linux-foundations-appia-ai-standards-initiative/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-microsoft-and-openai-back-linux-foundations-appia-ai-standards-initiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic employees say they remain confused and increasingly convinced that the Trump administration is singling out the company after officials gave it less than 90 minutes to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over alleged national security concerns. Cybersecurity experts, however, argue that the cited behavior of helping to identify vulnerabilities in software is also available in rival models and is more valuable to defenders than attackers. The New York Times reports: Inside the company, employe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-employees-accuse-trump-administration-of-targeting-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-employees-accuse-trump-administration-of-targeting-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Will Lead To Labor Shortages, Bezos Says In Optimistic Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus, which is aimed at speeding up physical manufacturing. "I know th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-will-lead-to-labor-shortages-bezos-says-in-optimistic-talk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-will-lead-to-labor-shortages-bezos-says-in-optimistic-talk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System]]></title><description><![CDATA[Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for "games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes," reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large file needs of modern game development as well as multimedia/entertainment purposes. Lore is designed to be fast and efficient for large files incl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/epic-games-announces-lore-open-source-version-control-system/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/epic-games-announces-lore-open-source-version-control-system/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hacking Group Claims Major Hack of Novo Nordisk, Attempted $25 Million Extortion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reuters reports a cyber extortion group has claimed responsibility for breaching Novo Nordisk's network, stealing roughly 1.3 terabytes of data, including source code, drug research, clinical-trial records, employee and physician information, production-system details, and internal AI model data. The group says it's exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding $25 million from the company. From the report: FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hacking-group-claims-major-hack-of-novo-nordisk-attempted-25-million-extortion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hacking-group-claims-major-hack-of-novo-nordisk-attempted-25-million-extortion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X In 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from independent journalist Ed Zitron: Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified by the Financial Times, that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 2025, as well as other crucial details about the financial condition of the company. [...] At the end of the year, OpenAI had just over $50 billion in assets, with almost half of that in cash. [...] The financial condition of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-losses-increased-nearly-8x-in-2025-with-spending-hitting-34-billion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-losses-increased-nearly-8x-in-2025-with-spending-hitting-34-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop Killing Games Fails To Secure EU Law Despite 1.3 Million Signatures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has declined (PDF) to propose a law requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable, despite the Stop Killing Games initiative collecting nearly 1.3 million verified signatures. Instead, it plans to develop a voluntary industry code covering end-of-life transparency and preservation. Dextero reports: The Commission's full communication said a legal obligation to keep games playable, as requested by the initiative, "would not be proportionate." It cited conc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-13-million-signatures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-13-million-signatures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job]]></title><description><![CDATA[UC Davis researchers say an implanted brain-computer interface has allowed Casey Harrell, an ALS patient who cannot speak, to synthesize sentences from brain activity with 99% accuracy in controlled tests and about 92% accuracy in everyday use. The Register reports that the system has remained usable at home since 2023, helping Harrell communicate naturally, control a computer, and return to full-time work without researchers needing to supervise each session. The Register reports: A team of sci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-and-brain-computer-interface-allow-speechless-als-patient-to-work-a-full-time-job/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/ai-and-brain-computer-interface-allow-speechless-als-patient-to-work-a-full-time-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HPE Tempts VMware Users, Partners With Year of Free Virtualization Software]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) new virtualization software promotion will likely pique the interest of end users and resellers who are unhappy with Broadcom's pricing of VMware. During its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas this week, HPE announced that customers could use its "HPE Morpheus Software -- VM Essentials" offering for free for "up to one year," per a press release. HPE's website describes its virtualization platform as a "VMware]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hpe-tempts-vmware-users-partners-with-year-of-free-virtualization-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/hpe-tempts-vmware-users-partners-with-year-of-free-virtualization-software/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to discourage doomscrolling. The "not dumb dumbphone" still supports messaging, music, maps, ridesharing, hotspots, a removable battery, and plenty of Commodore nostalgia. "The phone uses T9-style texting with predictive input, includes Commodore SID ringtones, ships with a selection of Commodore and Sailfish games, and even]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/commodores-callback-8020-is-a-499-flip-phone-that-blocks-social-media-and-browsers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/commodores-callback-8020-is-a-499-flip-phone-that-blocks-social-media-and-browsers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Binance Set To Lose Permission To Operate In EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[Binance is expected to lose permission to serve EU customers in July after Greek regulators reportedly decided to reject its MiCA license application. Reuters reports: Under new EU rules, called MiCA, crypto firms have until the end of June to obtain a licence to allow them to keep servicing clients across the bloc. Binance's application, made to Greece's market regulator, is set to be turned down, the people said. European regulators have been attempting to rein in crypto exchanges, which allow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/binance-set-to-lose-permission-to-operate-in-eu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/binance-set-to-lose-permission-to-operate-in-eu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France To Stop Certifying Products Without Quantum-Safe Encryption]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting in 2027, France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, effectively forcing government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to phase out older cryptographic systems. Reuters reports: Samih Souissi, ANSSI's chief of staff, said at the France Quantum conference that the agency would halt such certifications from 2027, and that businesses should be buying only quantum-safe products by 2030. ANSSI approval is requ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-to-stop-certifying-products-without-quantum-safe-encryption/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/france-to-stop-certifying-products-without-quantum-safe-encryption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mobileye Is Entering the US Robotaxi Market With Standalone Service]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The driving technology company Mobileye plans to launch a robotaxi service in an as-yet-unnamed US city in 2027, it said earlier today. The service will be vertically integrated, using Mobileye's Moovit mobility platform to interact with customers booking rides, coordinate drivers, and so on. The Israeli company, which was bought by Intel in 2017 before going public again in 2022, says it will start with around 100 robotaxis early next year.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mobileye-is-entering-the-us-robotaxi-market-with-standalone-service/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mobileye-is-entering-the-us-robotaxi-market-with-standalone-service/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195]]></title><description><![CDATA[Snap is launching its first consumer augmented-reality glasses this fall for $2,195. "You can preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable deposit, and Snap says they're expected to ship 'this fall' in the US, UK, and France," reports The Verge. From the report: This is a big moment for Snap: The company made a big entry into smart glasses with its original Spectacles in 2016, and the company has been toiling away on nonpublic AR versions of Spectacles over the past few years]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/snaps-first-consumer-ai-glasses-are-coming-this-fall-for-2195/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/snaps-first-consumer-ai-glasses-are-coming-this-fall-for-2195/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX To Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion in stock, adding the popular AI coding assistant to Elon Musk's newly public aerospace-and-AI conglomerate. CNBC reports: Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code, and the company has experienced explosive growth since its founding in 2022. In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also ranked at No. 37 on the an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-to-acquire-ai-coding-startup-cursor-for-60-billion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/spacex-to-acquire-ai-coding-startup-cursor-for-60-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Government's Anthropic Models Ban Was Never About an AI Jailbreak]]></title><description><![CDATA[TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government's abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was "never about an AI jailbreak" threat. Instead, it was driven more by "personality differences" between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not justify the order and warn that the move sets a troubling precedent: the government can unilaterally disrupt American software products w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Spam and Profanities Are Now Plaguing the Arch Linux AUR]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" is facing another issue just days after more than 1,500 packages were found carrying malware. According to Phoronix, over 70 AUR packages have reportedly been modified to insert Russian spam and profane messages into users' shell configuration files. From the report: Nicolas Boichat with his AI/LLM detection bot detected some questionable messages appearing in AUR content. Russian messages were being added post-install to the bashrc / zshrc / Fish configurati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russian-spam-and-profanities-are-now-plaguing-the-arch-linux-aur/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/russian-spam-and-profanities-are-now-plaguing-the-arch-linux-aur/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Linuxiac: Mozilla has released Firefox 152, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, with updated settings, improved media controls, experimental JPEG XL support, and various platform-specific fixes for desktop and Android. A key update is the redesigned Firefox Settings page, which now features clearer groupings, improved navigation, and a more streamlined structure for easier customization. The release also expands built-in spellchecker]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-152-adds-jpeg-xl-support-redesigned-settings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/firefox-152-adds-jpeg-xl-support-redesigned-settings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venus' Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By a High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor]]></title><description><![CDATA[New simulations suggest Venus' extremely slow backward rotation may have been triggered by a high-angle collision with a fast-moving object roughly one-tenth its mass. The impact could have dramatically altered Venus' spin and melted nearly its entire mantle. Universe Today reports: Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, the aut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/venus-strange-rotation-was-likely-triggered-by-a-high-velocity-moon-sized-impactor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink Constellation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket's upper stage broke apart shortly after last week's June 9 launch, likely creating 100 to 150 pieces of debris in a busy region of low-Earth orbit crossed by the ISS and lower-altitude Starlink satellites. Most fragments should reenter within months because of atmospheric drag, but experts say the incident adds to a worsening trend as China leaves more large rocket bodies in orbit while expanding its launch rate. Ars Technica reports: The US Space Force confirmed the b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-chinese-rocket-breaks-apart-dangerously-close-to-the-starlink-constellation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/a-chinese-rocket-breaks-apart-dangerously-close-to-the-starlink-constellation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cybersecurity Vets Protest 'Dangerous' US Government Ban On Anthropic's Most Powerful Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, "this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders" who now can't use the models to find vulnerabilities and make their software and products more secure.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Government Is Letting a Key Data Center Regulation Expire]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) is set to expire in September without an apparent replacement, potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustainability. Wired reports: Despite the public backlash, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the government agency that sets guidance for how agencies implement policies in line with the president's agenda, is not providing any plans for ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-government-is-letting-a-key-data-center-regulation-expire/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/the-us-government-is-letting-a-key-data-center-regulation-expire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Issues Urgent Kali365 Security Warning For Teams, Outlook, OneDrive Users]]></title><description><![CDATA[alternative_right shares a report from The Hill: The FBI released an urgent security warning to the public about a fast-acting scam targeting Microsoft 365 users on Teams, Outlook and OneDrive. The agency warned that the hacking platform Kali365 seeks out OAuth device codes, allowing scammers to sneak past multi-factor authentication codes, and without the need for a password, to access Microsoft accounts. Scammers will send a phishing email impersonating a trusted document-sharing service with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-issues-urgent-kali365-security-warning-for-teams-outlook-onedrive-users/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fbi-issues-urgent-kali365-security-warning-for-teams-outlook-onedrive-users/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports: CyberNews points out a Chromium commit that removes support for the "kExtensionManifestV2Disabled" flag, which is referred to as "dead code" seeing as Chrome no longer supports Manifest V2 extensions. This removal acts as the final stop for many Manifest V2-based ad blocker extensions that were still in use to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Users Cry Foul After AMD Stripped Memory Crypto From Its Consumer CPUs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to lower-end processors, including the consumer version of its Ryzen chip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/users-cry-foul-after-amd-stripped-memory-crypto-from-its-consumer-cpus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/users-cry-foul-after-amd-stripped-memory-crypto-from-its-consumer-cpus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Made In the USA' Phone Is Just a Reskinned HTC U24 Pro]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The heavily promoted, $499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engineering or supply chain expertise, many assumed the "T1" would just be a private-label phone made by someone else. After a number of delays, the first phones are finally shipping.<br />
iFixit has performed a teardown and concluded that the T1 is a jus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trumps-made-in-the-usa-phone-is-just-a-reskinned-htc-u24-pro/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/trumps-made-in-the-usa-phone-is-just-a-reskinned-htc-u24-pro/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. "It's a big step for our country," Starmer said in a recorded video message released Monday. "Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe, and as a parent, as much as a Prime Minister, I just can't let that go on anymore," he added.The ban wil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/britain-unveils-sweeping-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/britain-unveils-sweeping-ban-on-social-media-for-under-16s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fox Is Buying Roku For $22 Billion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The companies say the merger would create the "third-largest player in US television by share of viewing," while Fox insists Roku will remain open to competing apps after the deal closes. CNN reports: Fox has dabbled in streaming over the past few years -- finally launching its Fox One competitor last August -- but has lacke]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fox-is-buying-roku-for-22-billion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/fox-is-buying-roku-for-22-billion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google CEO Largely Avoids Discussing AI In Stanford Commencement Speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[BrianFagioli writes: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University's 2026 commencement address, but despite leading one of the companies at the center of the AI boom, he spent very little time discussing artificial intelligence. Instead, the speech focused on optimism, working on hard things, and following your interests. The omission is notable given how many graduates are entering a job market being reshaped by AI. While Pichai briefly referenced a "rewiring of technology," he largely]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-ceo-largely-avoids-discussing-ai-in-stanford-commencement-speech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/google-ceo-largely-avoids-discussing-ai-in-stanford-commencement-speech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed "the Swiss Brexit." Some 54.79% of voters were against the proposal by the Swiss People's party (SVP) and 45.21% were in favor. Turnout was 58.86%. A different outcome would have obliged the Swiss government to limit the population, currently 9.1 million, to 10 million by 2050, enacting tough r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-10-million/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Futurism reports:in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read "without complaint" as an undergraduate a decade ago.<br />
One student confessed that the reason they didn't finish was that they kept losing track of what the paper was about. And there's no doubt that they're not alone. Jagt cites the 2024 National Asses]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-many-college-students-losing-the-ability-to-read/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/are-many-college-students-losing-the-ability-to-read/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills]]></title><description><![CDATA["Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse."<br />
The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs &mdash; refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews &mdash; but]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-workers-are-now-struggling-to-find-work-as-picky-companies-demand-ai-skills/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/it-workers-are-now-struggling-to-find-work-as-picky-companies-demand-ai-skills/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production]]></title><description><![CDATA["Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..."<br />
The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery were down 4.77% to $80.83 per barrel by 8:27 p.m. ET. Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery traded about 4% lower to $83.77 per barrel. Asian equities surged. South Korea's Kospi jumped 5.1%, Japan's Nikkei 225 cl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-iran-peace-agreement-prompts-stock-rally-leaves-some-investors-skeptical-and-questions-on-speed-of-resuming-oil-production/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-iran-peace-agreement-prompts-stock-rally-leaves-some-investors-skeptical-and-questions-on-speed-of-resuming-oil-production/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA["As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times.<br />
"Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working on the tools to get the time savings that they're professing," said Paul Leonardi, Duca Family professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara."Leonardi is one of the co-authors of the new study published by the Work AI Institute, whose cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/workers-spend-as-much-time-botsitting-ai-as-producing-useful-work-survey-finds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/workers-spend-as-much-time-botsitting-ai-as-producing-useful-work-survey-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Updates Six Windows Apps.  'Photos' Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin.<br />
Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint:<br />
The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0):AI watermarking &mdash; "AI-generated or edited images can now carry a visible Copilot watermark. You choose Never, Always, or Ask Every Time in Settings, with a confirmation when saving. The watermarking is off by default i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-updates-six-windows-apps-photos-gets-watermarks-for-copilot-images-off-by-default-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-updates-six-windows-apps-photos-gets-watermarks-for-copilot-images-off-by-default-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Updates Six Windows' Apps.  'Photos' Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin.<br />
Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint:<br />
The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0):AI watermarking &mdash; "AI-generated or edited images can now carry a visible Copilot watermark. You choose Never, Always, or Ask Every Time in Settings, with a confirmation when saving. The watermarking is off by default i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-updates-six-windows-apps-photos-gets-watermarks-for-copilot-images-off-by-default/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/microsoft-updates-six-windows-apps-photos-gets-watermarks-for-copilot-images-off-by-default/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register &mdash; but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it."Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists on the impact of digital devices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-scientists-see-little-evidence-for-claims-smartphones-are-rewiring-kids-brains/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-scientists-see-little-evidence-for-claims-smartphones-are-rewiring-kids-brains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal.""It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview. "It's much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak." Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive and reconsider the alien wonder that's long li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-disclosure-day-premieres-steven-spielberg-says-he-believes-aliens-really-have-visited-earth/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/as-disclosure-day-premieres-steven-spielberg-says-he-believes-aliens-really-have-visited-earth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off?]]></title><description><![CDATA["A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market."Wang's big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta's first jump into proprietary foundation models and away from a strict adherence to open source, or open weight as it's mor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/will-metas-14-billion-bet-on-ai-ever-pay-off/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/will-metas-14-billion-bet-on-ai-ever-pay-off/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phoronix reports:<br />
The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot.Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers left working on the AMD R600g driver that covers from the Radeon HD 2000 series through Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards... [T]he old open-source GPU driver support is being assi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vintage-amd-r600-graphics-driver-sees-code-cleanups-thanks-to-github-copilot/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vintage-amd-r600-graphics-driver-sees-code-cleanups-thanks-to-github-copilot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM:<br />
It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer of AI models and agents into one system researchers can access. The DOE has taken to calling it 'a national operating system for science.' That means treating compute, data, and AI models the way the co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-americas-energy-department-is-building-a-national-platform-for-doing-science-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-americas-energy-department-is-building-a-national-platform-for-doing-science-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension]]></title><description><![CDATA["Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath:The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and other claims. Blizzard Entertainment claims that Project Ascension is a "lucrative way to exploit and profit from the popularity of the WoW game experience," according to the compl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/blizzard-sues-to-take-down-another-private-world-of-warcraft-server-project-ascension/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/blizzard-sues-to-take-down-another-private-world-of-warcraft-server-project-ascension/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June &mdash; but there's more bad news, reports CNBC." "Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025."<br />
While previous bitcoin selloffs were often followed by large rebounds in price, the latest decline may prompt some investors to revisit why they own bitcoin in the first place, [says Daniel Sotiroff, associate director of ETF and Passive Strategies Research at Morningstar]. Here's what he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bitcoin-has-lost-nearly-half-its-value-in-11-months/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/bitcoin-has-lost-nearly-half-its-value-in-11-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that "Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of Java will reach end-of-support within a single three-year window."<br />
That's Java 17 in 2029, Java 8 in 2030, Java 21 in 2031, and Java 11 in 2032...On paper, this looks like a manageable upgrade cycle. In practice, it creates a collision of timel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-lts-java-versions-get-end-of-support-in-a-three-year-window-2029-2032/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/four-lts-java-versions-get-end-of-support-in-a-three-year-window-2029-2032/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sunday Times reports:<br />
A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a "number of cases". Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected perverting the course of justice. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed it was engaging with defence lawyers and the courts over potentially affected cases...<br />
It is the first known allegation of AI misuse by police in a criminal case in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-police-officer-accused-of-using-ai-to-fake-evidence/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/uk-police-officer-accused-of-using-ai-to-fake-evidence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate...Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a smartphone. "It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence," Eggers said... It's a funny predicament for Eggers, given that he's arguably the city's biggest proponent of the written word... Now age 56, Eggers' latest book is called "Contrapposto"...On writing days, Eggers bikes to his sailboat docked near the Go]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-author-dave-eggers-avoids-smartphones-internet-access-and-flock-cameras/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/how-author-dave-eggers-avoids-smartphones-internet-access-and-flock-cameras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports:The Trump administration's decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.<br />
Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic's Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks and was supposed to be off limits, Jassy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-ceos-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/amazon-ceos-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform']]></title><description><![CDATA[Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:<br />
Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goal is to help creators move from idea to finished work faster [in a single application] while maintaining commercial licensing protections and contributor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/shutterstock-evolves-into-human-led-ai-powered-creative-platform/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/shutterstock-evolves-into-human-led-ai-powered-creative-platform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries]]></title><description><![CDATA["Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid," argues The Washington Post's editoral board, arguing that GM's latest moves "offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation."<br />
Or As Fortune put it, "America's electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand &mdash; and General Motors wants to turn that crisis into a business." They describe GM's plan as offer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-updates-250000-evs-with-vehicle-to-grid-firmware-announces-grid-scale-sodium-ion-batteries/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/gm-updates-250000-evs-with-vehicle-to-grid-firmware-announces-grid-scale-sodium-ion-batteries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork]]></title><description><![CDATA[This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut's CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he objected to LLM-assisted development in Vim and Neovim. In his announcement, DeVault said he no longer wanted]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vim-classic-83-launched-as-an-ai-free-vim-fork/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/vim-classic-83-launched-as-an-ai-free-vim-fork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579...Even at 1,579 packages listed, that final updated noted, it's a "list containing many (but not all) of the affected packages".<br />
Thanks to l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/arch-linux-malware-incident-malicious-commits-found-in-1579-packages/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/arch-linux-malware-incident-malicious-commits-found-in-1579-packages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America's State Attorneys General]]></title><description><![CDATA["A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter."OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy and company policies, some of the people sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-investigated-by-coalition-of-americas-state-attorneys-general/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/openai-investigated-by-coalition-of-americas-state-attorneys-general/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's "Brexit" vote withdrawing from the European Union.<br />
But a new UK poll "shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain's departure," reports Bloomberg:<br />
Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That's the inverse of the mood in June 2016 when a comparable share of the electorate backed Brexit...<br />
Younger voters overw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-uk-referendum-would-flip-brexit-result-of-a-decade-ago-poll-finds/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/new-uk-referendum-would-flip-brexit-result-of-a-decade-ago-poll-finds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:<br />
Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under the authority. The tool officially lap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-congress-lets-warrantless-wiretap-law-fisa-lapse/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/us-congress-lets-warrantless-wiretap-law-fisa-lapse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the sightings took place near sensitive government facilities, according to the reports. Videos showing red]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mystery-orb-videos-other-ufo-records-released-by-white-house/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/mystery-orb-videos-other-ufo-records-released-by-white-house/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation's Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Helios Horizon has completed what its developers call the first crewed, fixed-wing flight powered by solid-state batteries. New Atlas reports: On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off from Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida at the controls of the Helios Horizon -- the first crewed, fixed-wing aircraft ever to fly on solid-state batteries. The flight was neither spectacular in distance nor in duration -- it was a series of short tests to validate the aircraft's weight and balan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-first-crewed-solid-state-flight-electrifies-aviations-future/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/worlds-first-crewed-solid-state-flight-electrifies-aviations-future/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access]]></title><description><![CDATA["Anthropic said on Friday it will 'abruptly disable' its most advanced AI models for all users,"<br />
reports Reuters, "after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The company received the export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, without being given specific details of its national security concern, Anthropic said in a statement."Anthropic's blog post writes that the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-suspends-all-mythos-and-fable-access-after-us-order-limiting-foreign-access/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/anthropic-suspends-all-mythos-and-fable-access-after-us-order-limiting-foreign-access/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study -- conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks local data center activity -- found that data center opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects nationwide worth about $130 billion from January through March, the most in a three-month period si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/data-center-opponents-have-blocked-or-delayed-projects-worth-nearly-130-billion-in-2026/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/data-center-opponents-have-blocked-or-delayed-projects-worth-nearly-130-billion-in-2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer']]></title><description><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first reported on Prometheus last November, but now Bezos is sharing more information about the startup after a $12 billion funding round, putting the company at a $41 billion valuation. Bezos serves as co-CEO of Prometheus alongside Vik Bajaj, who co-foun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-aims-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-aims-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still faces scrutiny from state attorneys general. Politico reports: The decision, expected to be announced Friday, paves the way for Paramount to combine with the entertainment and media company behind a vast film and television studio, CNN, and the HBO Max streaming service, which would be combined with Paramount+ to create a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/justice-department-approves-paramounts-111-billion-acquisition-of-warner-bros/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/news_ict/justice-department-approves-paramounts-111-billion-acquisition-of-warner-bros/</guid></item></channel></rss>