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Hackers targeting Australia's major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, Reuters is reporting, citing a source, and compromised more than 20,000 accounts. From the report: National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a statement she was aware of "cyber criminals" targeting accounts in the country's A$4.2 trillion ($2.63 trillion) retirement savings sector and was organising a response across the government, regulators.
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Remember Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law? The unconstitutionally vague law imposed such unclear restrictions on teachers who speak about sexual orientation or gender identity that many feared they could be fired merely for mentioning their spouses. Eventually, Florida agreed to a settlement which affirmed its right to do things like excluding Harvey Milk from the […] Read more ›
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Our first look at the long-awaited remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion comes from a leak of screenshots and details taken from port developer Virtuos' website. Read more Read more ›
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Qube Research's net short position in Trump Media & Technology Group represents 2.5% of the Truth Social owner's outstanding shares. Read more ›
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Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff policy, in which he declared trade war on the entire world simultaneously, was a bizarre and nonsensical undertaking, seemingly shaped only by the president’s own whims. But since that initial announcement, the policy has been modified to bear at least a little bit more of a resemblance to what Trump’s […] Read more ›
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John Boyega spent $43 traveling across London to Mayfair to meet with J.J. Abrams about 'Star Wars.' Boyega said he pretended to be busy at first. Read more ›
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"If you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, there will be an armed guard following you," said Wang, who described escape as "impossible." Read more ›
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Sweden's submarines are small and quiet, perfect for the Baltic Sea that many NATO allies share with Russia. Read more ›
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An AI Elon Musk voice can be heard in a video recorded at one California crosswalk saying, "Will you be my friend? I'll give you a Cybertruck." Read more ›
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Tesla sales continue to fall in the US and globally despite a growing EV market. GM, VW, and Chinese automakers are picking up the slack. Read more ›
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The OnePlus 13T has been shown off in pink, black, and gray, ahead of its launch on April 24. Read more ›
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Just before the weekend, the US Customs and Border Protection published a list of products excluded from Trump’s tariffs, including smartphones, PCs, memory chips and let’s say 80 percent of everything we write about at Engadget. However, that’s more because they’ll be siloed into a specific product category. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview on Sunday: “Those products are going to be part of the semiconductor sectoral tariffs,... Read more ›
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One said he entered Russia as a rehab therapist, the other as a tourist. Both were eventually captured on the front lines, Ukraine says. Read more ›
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Chinese retailer DHgate, popular for selling dupes of brands like Birkenstock and YSL, became the number two free app on the US App Store on Tuesday. Read more ›
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FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company Read more ›
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Cheap retro handhelds, one of the only cheap entry points for the gaming, could be meeting their end, but the retro spirit should live on. Read more ›
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Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven’t unlocked them for a while, making it harder for other people to access the data inside. The feature included in the latest Google Play services update says that Android phones will automatically restart “if locked for 3 consecutive […] Read more ›
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A former developer who worked on the cancelled PlayStation console exclusive Concord has called out online commenters comparing it with Bungie's recently showcased Marathon. Read more Read more ›
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Allie Larsen wanted to elope rather than have a traditional wedding. She doesn't regret it but wishes she'd done a few things differently. Read more ›
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Remember Skull and Bones, Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate adventure? Having been announced in 2017, the game finally released in February of last year after numerous delays and setbacks. However, Skull and Bones failed to make positive waves on its debut, with players calling out the underwhelming gameplay and poorly designed end game, among other gripes. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo positioning Switch 2 as simply a bigger and better follow-up to Switch 1 is damaging to the company's brand identity. Read more Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border under President Donald Trump threaten the world's most lucrative air routes. Visitors from western Europe who stayed at least one night in the US fell by 17 per cent in March from a year ago, according to the International Trade Administration. Travel... Read more ›
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"Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed," writes SciTechDaily, "so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use." A new study has found that general cognitive abilities, such as perception, reasoning, and memory, are more important than previously believed in determining a person's ability to perform everyday tasks on a computer... "It is clear... Read more ›
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Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in order to accept the fellowship.) And now Palantir "is taking a similar approach as it maneuvers to attract new talent," reports financial... Read more ›
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Meta is partnering with Blumhouse to launch "Movie Mate" technology that encourages moviegoers to use their phones during theatrical screenings, beginning with an April 30 showing of "Megan" at Blumhouse's "Halfway to Halloween Film Festival." According to Variety, the system enables viewers to chat with a Megan-themed AI chatbot, answer trivia questions, and access behind-the-scenes information while watching the film in theaters. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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New submitter toutankh writes: The UK government is developing a tool to predict murder. The scheme was originally called the "homicide prediction project", but its name has been changed to "sharing data to improve risk assessment". The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it "chilling and dystopian".The existence of the project was uncovered by Statewatch rather than announced by the UK... Read more ›
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Established software companies hoping to ride the AI wave are facing a stiff headwind: many of their potential customers are building AI tools themselves. This do-it-yourself approach is channeling billions in spending towards cloud computing providers but leaving traditional software vendors struggling to capitalize, complicating their AI growth plans. Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services are pulling in an estimated $22 billion from AI services, with Azure... Read more ›
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Skype is shutting down after two decades on May 5th, notes the Washington Post. But the bigger problem for retired attorney Karen Griffin is that Microsoft won't refund the money they paid into a Skype account for cheap international phone calls: "They're no longer offering this service that I prepaid for, and now they're not giving me my money back," Griffin said. "There's a lot of people out there who... Read more ›
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When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall "packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others," according to the web site for the resulting "FreeDOS" project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30 years later he's "keeping the dream of the command prompt alive," writes Ars Technica. In a new article they note that last week the FreeDOS team... Read more ›
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Ubisoft has triggered fresh debate over digital ownership by claiming in court that customers who purchased The Crew never truly owned the game. The legal battle began when California plaintiffs sued after Ubisoft deactivated servers for the 2014 racing title, rendering it unplayable beyond a restricted demo version. Unlike most delisted games where previously purchased copies remain accessible, Ubisoft completely removed The Crew from customers' libraries. The plaintiffs, who bought... Read more ›
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Adobe has deleted all its posts on Twitter-alternative Bluesky after a disastrous April 8 debut that drew over 1,600 angry comments from digital creators. The software giant's innocuous first post asking "What's fueling your creativity right now?" triggered immediate criticism targeting Adobe's controversial subscription model, continual price increases, and AI implementation. "Y'all keep raising your prices for a product that keeps getting worse," wrote one user, while another referenced Adobe's... Read more ›
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