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Longtime Slashdot reader linuxwrangler writes: Dark Reading reports that a team of researchers has determined that signals from tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMSs), required in U.S. cars since 2007, can be used to track the presence, type, weight, and driving pattern of vehicles. The researchers report (PDF) that the TPMS data, which includes unique sensor IDs, is sent in clear text without authentication and can be intercepted 40-50 meters from a vehicle using devices costing $100. "Researchers have d
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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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Magico's exhaustive pursuit of audio excellence harnesses cutting edge tech — and understandably, that doesn't come cheap Read more ›
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Leak suggests ChatGPT may get templates to match your tone and structure, plus an Animate feature for images. Read more ›
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Comedian KevOnStage, has drawn inspiration from his brother's untimely death as material for his latest stand-up act. Read more ›
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Project near Caltrain includes studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units Read more ›
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MLB.TV is once again free, though the MLS Season Pass situation is a bit different this year. Read more ›
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Today, NordVPN is launching a call protection feature to Android users in the US, the UK, the EU, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Australia, and Canada. This warns you about potential scams before you pick up the phone. It obviously needs to know what numbers are calling you in order to work. It analyzes "various intel", according to the official press release, to "define phone number reputation". If it thinks... Read more ›
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Leaders from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon signed the pledge at the White House on Wednesday. Read more ›
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"Survivor" host Jeff Probst has plenty of experience asking questions. Maybe that's why his TV show of choice is watching police interrogation videos. Read more ›
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Korea's tech-heavy Kospi has plunged 20% in the last two trading sessions, potentially pushing that country's fast-money chasing traders back into crypto. Read more ›
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The US State Department is urging Americans in 14 Middle Eastern nations to "depart now" as strikes from Iran conflict spill over in the Gulf region. Read more ›
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sent a 1,600-word memo to employees Friday as OpenAI announced a deal to provide AI to the Pentagon. The OpenAI move came hours after the Pentagon said it would sever ties with Anthropic over the company’s safety requirements. In the strongly worded memo, Amodei heavily criticized OpenAI’s actions and the initial deal it announced with the Pentagon. Below is Amodei’s memo, which has been edited to... Read more ›
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Officials in the organizing committe — and three host countries — have several key issues to resolve before the first ball is kicked. Read more ›
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Ubisoft shared its upcoming plans for the Assassin's Creed franchise today. Along with the news of a remake for its piratical entry, the game company also announced that a visual upgrade is coming for a title from way back in 2014. Assassin's Creed Unity will receive a free patch tomorrow to offer 60 fps performance on the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X/S. The company bringing a performance upgrade... Read more ›
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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra brings new features, but also some surprising compromises. After digging through the specs and tests, I decided to skip the upgrade, and here’s why. Read more ›
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Just a year after the events of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' season one, Westeros' course was changed not by a war but by a terrible sickness. Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from Reason Magazine: Effective January 1, 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implement age verification. That's just part of a wave of state and national laws attempting to limit children's access to potentially risky content without considering the perils such laws themselves pose. Now, not a moment too soon, over 400 computer scientists have signed an open letter warning that... Read more ›
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Apple's press release and marketing materials for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR models do not mention which chips are inside the monitors, but MacRumors has confirmed this information in the latest Studio Display firmware. The firmware reveals that the second-generation Studio Display is equipped with an A19 chip, while the Studio Display XDR has an A19 Pro chip, according to code reviewed by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris.... Read more ›
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Next time you glance out the window mid-flight, look closer at those tiny fins on the engine. They're small, subtle, and surprisingly important. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a maker of license plate readers. It has faced criticism for allowing federal... Read more ›
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Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are now actively tracking adoption and, in several cases, tying it to performance reviews. Google is factoring AI use into some software engineer reviews for the first time this year, and Meta's new performance review system will do the same -- it can track how... Read more ›
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Kalshi, the prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an insider trading investigation, naming an editor for YouTube's biggest creator as the offender. The company identified Artem Kaptur, an editor for MrBeast, who it says traded around $4,000 on markets tied to the streamer and achieved "near-perfect trading success" on low-odds bets -- a pattern investigators flagged... Read more ›
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Anthropic last week promoted Claude Code Security, a research preview capability that uses its Claude Opus 4.6 model to hunt for software vulnerabilities, claiming its red team had surfaced over 500 bugs in production open-source codebases -- but security researchers say the real bottleneck was never discovery. Guy Azari, a former security researcher at Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks, told The Register that only two to three of those 500... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi -- internally dubbed "Dara AI" -- and have been using it to rehearse and fine-tune presentations before delivering them to the actual Khosrowshahi, he revealed on a recent podcast. Khosrowshahi said a team member told him that some teams "make the presentation to the Dara AI as a prep for making a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94% of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens. The purpose of the experimental project was not to show off AI coding, but to address an issue with Next.js, the popular React-based framework sponsored by Vercel. According to Cloudflare engineering director Steve Faulkner, the Next.js tooling is "entirely bespoke... If you want... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn't definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus -- negative net migration -- as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy... Read more ›
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EBay is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities. From a report: "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the San Jose, California-based company said early Thursday in a statement. "We are grateful for the contributions of... Read more ›
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HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. From a report: The streamer first started cracking down on password sharing in the United States late last August. Subscribers are now able to add an additional out-of-household account for $7.99 a month. Before that August change, Warner Bros. Discovery had been testing for months to determine who may or may not be a "legitimate user," as CEO... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compiled information from franchisees... Read more ›
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