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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital "murder map" of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the approximate location of 142 homicide cases in late medieval London. The Medieval Murder Maps project has since expanded to include maps of York and Oxford homicides, as well as podcast episodes focusing on individual cases. It's easy to lose
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Ozzy Osbourne, the cofounding member of Black Sabbath who earned the nickname "Prince of Darkness," died on Tuesday, his family confirmed. Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel are beefing after CBS canceled Stephen Colbert's show. Trump said Kimmel would be next to go. Read more ›
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A new report from OpenAI highlights the 15 states that are adopting ChatGPT the fastest. Read more ›
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They can also spend $20,000 on home security, doubled from $10,000. Read more ›
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With the fourth beta of iOS 26, Apple has again made changes to the Liquid Glass design that's available across the operating system, tweaking how the menus and buttons appear in apps. In response to criticism about too little Liquid Glass in beta 3, Apple has upped the translucency in several areas. Beta 4 on left, beta 3 on right Navigation bars in apps like Photos, Music, the App Store,... Read more ›
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For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services' once enviable lineup of indie games dwindles, […] Read more ›
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Coca-Cola said it's going to offer "more choices" for consumers with a soda using cane sugar. Read more ›
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The influential heavy metal icon passed away today, just weeks after Black Sabbath's farewell show July 5. Read more ›
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Barbara Krasnoff is officially the reviews editor for The Verge, but although she has done a great deal of reviewing in her time, she doesn’t tend to do a lot of it in her current position. “I was originally hired here to write and edit to-do articles,” she explains. “Now, I spend most of my […] Read more ›
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Your self-driving cars get into a few fatal accidents and all of a sudden you're not "safe" or "reliable." Read more ›
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Summer travel is never stress-free, so here's what to expect when you're traveling through the airports of London, Athens, Florence, and more. Read more ›
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A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched “7950 XTX,” the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg once dressed simply. Now, the Meta CEO accessorizes almost every outfit with a luxury watch from his collection of pricey timepieces. Read more ›
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When you can't build the city of your dreams, maybe just settle for a new industrial park. Read more ›
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Stephen Colbert has responded directly to Trump's gloating Truth Social post over "The Late Show"s cancellation. Read more ›
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Washington Black, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Bear are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month. Read more ›
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Stewart said CBS was hoping to get into President Donald Trump's good books by cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Read more ›
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Feeling down? You could give yourself a serotonin boost by eating these foods. Read more ›
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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk Collaboration. Stories of struggle flow unceasingly from our public lands — here, a senior botanist pulled from invasive species removal to check campgrounds for unattended fires; there, a trail crew fired, leaving backcountry areas inaccessible after […] Read more ›
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With the fourth betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26, Apple has re-enabled Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries for apps in the News and Entertainment categories. After installing the betas, there is a pop up for enabling notification summaries across these and other categories. Users can opt-in or opt-out of notification summaries on a per-category basis. Apple says that it has improved notification summaries in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages -- including from chat apps such as Signal -- images, location histories, audio recordings, contacts, and more. In a report shared exclusively with TechCrunch, mobile cybersecurity company Lookout detailed the hacking tool called Massistant, which the company said... Read more ›
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ABC News reports that Ukrainian drones struck Moscow last night — over 100 of them — closing all four of Moscow's international airports and diverting at least 134 planes. And Ukrainian commanders estimate that drones now account for 70% of all Russian deaths and injuries, according to the BBC — which means attacks on the front line are filmed, logged, and counted. "And now put to use too, as the... Read more ›
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Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and even disabling the doors in the facility. "Or, as described by the hacking collective (per Google translate), they 'deeply penetrated' the drone manufacturer 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization and denazification,'" reports The Register. From the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP -- a Northamptonshire transport company -- is just one of tens of thousands of UK businesses that have been hit by such attacks. Big names such as M&S, Co-op and Harrods have all been... Read more ›
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The UK secretly relocated thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country's worst ever data breaches, putting them at risk of Taliban retaliation. The operation cost around $2.7 billion and remained under a court-imposed superinjunction until recently lifted. Reuters reports: The leak by the Ministry of Defence in early 2022, which led to data being published on Facebook the following year,... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader bobdevine shares a report from OSTechNix: For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It's a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community. While many might think of Linux as a niche choice, this new data shows a significant shift is happening. According to the latest StatCounter Global Stats for June 2025, Linux... Read more ›
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Hackers are hiding malware inside DNS records, allowing malicious code to bypass security defenses that typically monitor web and email traffic. DomainTools researchers discovered the technique being used to host Joke Screenmate malware, with binary files converted to hexadecimal format and broken into chunks stored in TXT records across subdomains of whitetreecollective[.]com. Attackers retrieve the chunks through DNS requests and reassemble them into executable malware. The method exploits a blind... Read more ›
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San Francisco-based startup Orchid Health "screens embryos for thousands of potential future illnesses," reports the Washington Post, calling it "the first company to say it can sequence an embryo's entire genome of 3 billion base pairs." It uses as few as five cells from an embryo to test for more than 1,200 of these uncommon single-gene-derived, or monogenic, conditions. The company also applies custom-built algorithms to produce what are known... Read more ›
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Felix Baumgartner has died. He was 56. In 2012 Slashdot extensively covered the skydiver's "leap from the edge of space." ABC News remembers it as a Red Bull-financed stunt that involved "diving 24 miles from the edge of space, in a plummet that reached a speed of more than 500 mph." Baumgartner recalled the legendary jump in the documentary, "Space Jump," and said, "I was the first human being outside... Read more ›
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Daniel Stenberg, creator of the curl utility, is considering ending its bug bounty program due to a surge in low-quality, AI-generated reports that are overwhelming the small volunteer team. Despite attempts to discourage AI-assisted submissions, these reports now make up about 20% of all entries in 2025, while genuine vulnerabilities have dropped to just 5%. The Register reports: "The general trend so far in 2025 has been way more AI... Read more ›
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