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An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a "warrantless drone surveillance program" that's "trampling residents' right to privacy":
Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a "runaway spying operation"... according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The North Bay county of Sonoma initially started the 6-year-old drone program to track illegal cannabis cultivation, but the lawsuit alleges that.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Honda is a titan of the motorcycle industry, accounting for nearly half of all bikes worldwide. Where do all these motorcycles come from, though? Read more ›
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Say hey to autumn with deals on WIRED-approved fire pits, headphones, tablets, and home office gear. Read more ›
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Shan Aggarwal says the crypto industry is still underselling how fast and forceful the shift to the stablecoin standard will be, and how quickly AI will accelerate it. Read more ›
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A clogged drain is never fun, but at least Ryobi's USB-chargeable drain auger can make it way easier to fix. Here's why it's worth adding to your toolbox. Read more ›
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The best garage sale finds often include durable tools such as chainsaws, hammers, wrenches, clamps, and even heavy-duty shop equipment. Read more ›
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Every few years, a new headline declares that India’s internet economy has finally been “unlocked”. But what’s quietly unfolding this… Read more ›
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This watch probably would have hated me in high school, but I absolutely love it now. Read more ›
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You may be tempted to buy a DeWalt tool from Walmart in order to save money. But does the retailer actually have the beloved tool brand on its shelves? Read more ›
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When I first turned to ChatGPT to run my social life, I felt weird. But AI made me a better texter and I became someone who actually planned hangouts. Read more ›
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A landslide near one of the East Bay's last roller rinks triggered a development dispute that's kept skaters in limbo for years. Read more ›
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OnePlus unveiled the Pad 3 in June without sharing its Indian pricing and availability details. However, last month, the Chinese brand said it would launch the Pad 3 in India in September. Today, OnePlus announced that the OnePlus Pad 3 will go on sale in India starting September 5 at noon local time. Check it out 👉 https://t.co/0NQyqTbH0AThe wait's almost over⏳#OnePlusPad3 sale goes LIVE Sep 5, 12PM.#OnePlus #NeverSettle pic.twitter.com/S0lbwtm1Fc— OnePlus... Read more ›
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Air Force One is well known as the aircraft that carries the president, but what you may not realize is just how long it can fly for without landing. Read more ›
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I've tested LED floodlights from every brand. Here are the smartest and most useful inside or outside of your home. Read more ›
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This bidet seat delivers comfort and a snug fit for most toilets, making it an easy upgrade without the guesswork. Read more ›
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Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: Volkswagen is offering a subscription model for extra horsepower on its ID.3 electric cars. Want to bump your ride from the standard 201 bhp to the full 228 bhp? That will be about £16.50 per month or £165 per year, or a one-time £649 "lifetime" fee that is tied to the car, not you. If you sell it, you have to pay again. VW defended this... Read more ›
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A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with operating one of the most powerful botnets ever recorded. The network, known as Rapper Bot, launched over 370,000 DDoS attacks worldwide, including against X, DeepSeek, U.S. tech firms, and even Defense Department systems. It was allegedly operated by Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon. The Wall Street Journal reports: Foltz faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on a charge of abetting... Read more ›
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Matt Garman, Amazon's cloud boss, has a warning for business leaders rushing to swap workers for AI: Don't ditch your junior employees. From a report: The Amazon Web Services CEO said on an episode of the "Matthew Berman" podcast published Tuesday that replacing entry-level staff with AI tools is "one of the dumbest things I've ever heard." "They're probably the least expensive employees you have. They're the most leaned into... Read more ›
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A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. "He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details," the Post's reporter notes — but the next day he "saw fishy credit card charges and realized that he'd been fooled by an impostor for Royal Caribbean customer service." And the Post's reporter... Read more ›
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Microsoft is testing a COPILOT function in Excel that uses OpenAI's gpt-4.1-mini model to automatically fill spreadsheet cells through natural language prompts. The function can classify feedback, generate summaries, and create tables based on specified cell ranges. Microsoft warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or scenarios involving legal, regulatory, and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." The feature processes up to 100 functions every 10... Read more ›
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Sony will increase PlayStation 5 console prices by $50 across all models in the United States starting August 21. The standard PS5 rises to $550, the Digital Edition to $500, and the PS5 Pro to $750. The company cited navigating a challenging economic environment for the increases. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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"Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless," writes SC World, citing the presentation of two researchers at the Black Hat security conference: In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%. "Is all of this focus on training worth the outcome?" asked researcher Ariana Mirian,... Read more ›
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ChatGPT now has nearly 700 million weekly users, OpenAI says. But after launching GPT-5 last week, critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, reports CNBC, "ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers." Yet GPT-5 was always about cracking the enterprise market "where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head start," they write. And one week in, "startups like Cursor, Vercel, and Factory say they've already made GPT-5... Read more ›
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Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment the embattled chipmaker. SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel's common stock. The investment is a vote of confidence in Intel, which has not been able to take advantage of the AI boom in advanced semiconductors and has spent heavily to stand up a manufacturing business that has yet to secure a significant... Read more ›
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A complete shutdown of encrypted web traffic isolated China from the global internet for 74 minutes Wednesday morning, blocking citizens from accessing foreign websites and disrupting international business operations that depend on secure connections to offshore servers. The Great Firewall began injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to terminate all connections on port 443 at 00:34 Beijing time on August 20, according to activist group Great Firewall Report. The standard HTTPS... Read more ›
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