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Iranian Hackers Target Satellite and Defense Firms, Microsoft Says

Iranian Hackers Target Satellite and Defense Firms, Microsoft Says - Slashdot

Iranian hackers have hacked dozens of companies in the defense, satellite and pharmaceutical sectors this year using a fairly unsophisticated, blun...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Three in Four Americans Believe AI Will Reduce Jobs - Gallup Poll

Three in Four Americans Believe AI Will Reduce Jobs - Gallup Poll - Slashdot

Gallup blog: Most Americans think artificial intelligence (AI) will negatively affect the U.S. job market, with 75% saying it will decrease the tot...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Developers Respond To Unity's New Pricing Scheme

Developers Respond To Unity

Unity announced a new pricing model this week, charging developers per game install beyond certain thresholds. This move has faced severe backlash ...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

HBO's Max Cancels the Most Shows Among Streaming Services, Study Shows

HBO

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Streaming Era began with a promise of nurturing shows without fear of ratings pressure and quick cancellat...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea

Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea - Slashdot

Oil companies have been granted licences by the UK government that it hopes will enable them to store up to 10% of the UK

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

TikTok Fined $370 Million Over Handling of Children's Data in Europe

TikTok Fined $370 Million Over Handling of Children

TikTok has been fined 345 million euros ($370 million) for breaching privacy laws regarding the processing of children

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Google Won't Repair Cracked Pixel Watch Screens

Google Won

If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless'

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player

An anonymous reader shares a report: Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 42 this week, a tragedy that rat...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Google Extends Lifespan of Chromebooks With 10-Year Update Policy

Google Extends Lifespan of Chromebooks With 10-Year Update Policy - Slashdot

Google is working to push back the expiration date of Chromebooks, addressing concerns held by school administrators that the laptops are too short...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

HP's $5,000 Spectre Foldable PC Has a Lot To Prove

HP

HP is the latest company to announce a foldable-screen PC. From a report: The 17-inch Spectre Foldable PC has a keyboard that can be used wirelessl...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Lithuania Was the Country That Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI

Lithuania Was the Country That Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI - Slashdot

Slash_Account_Dot shares a report: The FBI had a problem. In 2019 the agency was secretly running an encrypted phone company called Anom. Serious ...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Asteroid Behaving Unexpectedly After NASA's Deliberate DART Crash

Asteroid Behaving Unexpectedly After NASA

One year ago NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid "Dimorphos" (which orbits around a much larger asteroid named "Didymos&...

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NASA's 'MOXIE' Experiment Successfully Generated 122 Grams of Oxygen on Mars

NASA

CNN reports: The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Small Protest Against Cruise Robotaxis Cites Concerns for Safety - and Displaced Workers

Small Protest Against Cruise Robotaxis Cites Concerns for Safety - and Displaced Workers - Slashdot

Last Monday the U.S. celebrated Labor Day, the federal holiday honoring America

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Polish Senate Says Use of Government Spyware is Illegal in the Country

Polish Senate Says Use of Government Spyware is Illegal in the Country - Slashdot

A special commission within Poland

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug

Windows File Explorer Gets Nostalgic Speed Boost Thanks To One Weird Bug - Slashdot

An exploit for a bug in Windows appears to increase the performance of File Explorer in Microsoft

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Starfield's Missing Nvidia DLSS Support Added By a Mod - With DRM

Starfield

tlhIngan writes: Starfield, a Bethesda space-based RPG that was recently released, was criticized for not having Nvidia DLSS support -- instead the...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Microsoft Billing 3 Cents a Minute To Revisit Tedious Teams Meetings via API

Microsoft Billing 3 Cents a Minute To Revisit Tedious Teams Meetings via API - Slashdot

Microsoft has announced billing in public preview for Teams recording and transcription APIs, with pricing starting at 3 cents per minute for recor...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

EU Prepares To Push For 'Global Phase-Out' of Fossil Fuels at COP28, Draft Document Shows

EU Prepares To Push For

A proposal to phase out CO2-emitting fossil fuels at COP27 last won backing from more than 80 countries but oil and gas-rich nations opposed it. Eu...

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Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories

Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories - Slashdot

CNN reports that newspaper chain Gannett "has paused the use of an AI tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made sev...