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Wired describes the recent Canvas breach as an unusually disruptive ransomware-style extortion incident because one attack on Instructure's learning platform temporarily paralyzed thousands of schools during finals and end-of-year assignments. The hackers using the "ShinyHunters" name claim more than 8,800 schools were affected, while Instructure says exposed data included names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and platform messages. From the report: Higher education has long been a target of ransomwar
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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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Tesla's push toward Full Self Driving has led to some "highly dangerous" testing procedures, at least according to a lawsuit filed by a former manager. Read more ›
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Сегодня про background jobs в .NET: Hangfire, Quartz.NET, Worker Service и тот неловкий момент, когда job “почти точно выполнилась”, но система не уверена.Снаружи все выглядит спокойно: задача ушла в фон, worker что-то сделал, retry настроен, lock вроде есть. А внутри остается неприятный вопрос: внешний эффект уже произошел или job просто упала до записи статуса?Разберем без магии: почему retry не равен идемпотентности, чем lock отличается от dedup, зачем нужен operationId и... Read more ›
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F1 has a host of rules and regulations that aren't necessarily obvious at a glance, one of which is the 90% rule. Here's what the rule means for drivers. Read more ›
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OpenAI’s chatbot is on the precipice of having 1 billion weekly active users, a milestone the company was hoping to hit by the end of last year, according to information the company has shared internally. Though the milestone comes seven months after the company originally expected to hit it, ChatGPT is still one of the fastest, if not the fastest, internet applications to reach that many users less than four... Read more ›
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Quick Commerce’s New Battleground It is poaching season in India’s quick commerce arena. Swiggy Instamart has brought in a CEO… Read more ›
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There's no need to spend hundreds of dollars on a good tablet — Samsung's A series Tabs offer excellent bang for buck and the latest Galaxy Tab A11+ is now 35% off on Amazon for the 256GB flavour. Read more ›
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В проде подход «включил и готово» почти никогда не работает. Для автономного узла техническая последовательность короткая: включить auth, перезапустить Manticore, создать администратора и обновить клиентов. В топологии с распределёнными таблицами или репликационными кластерами нужна дополнительная подготовка, потому что узлам тоже приходится аутентифицироваться друг у друга.Относитесь к внедрению как к небольшому релизу. Сначала инвентаризируйте клиентов и узлы, подготовьте данные аутентификации и отрепетир Read more ›
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Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint faces higher borrowing costs and tighter covenants in latest debt deal Read more ›
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Choosing between AirTag and Tile trackers gets more complicated when battery life, replacement costs, sealed designs, and GPS models enter the picture. Read more ›
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X Money was supposed to launch last year - back in January that was the plan anyway. Obviously, that didn't happen. But it has finally launched today in the US for those who have a Premium or Premium+ X subscription. Your money, on the world’s most powerful network𝕏 Money is rolling out to U.S. Premium and Premium+ subscribers starting today pic.twitter.com/2c1UMkB4Kn— X Money (@XMoney) July 27, 2026 With X Money,... Read more ›
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Cadillac's lauded lineage of high-performance V-Series sedans owe their existence to the original CTS-V from 2004. Here's why it was such a special car. Read more ›
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OpenAI's hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup taking shape behind them. AI Smart Speaker OpenAI's first product is a portable, screenless smart speaker developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, designed to act as a personal companion in the home rather than a conventional voice assistant.... Read more ›
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An intrepid Redditor has built a 3D movie player that supports three different generations of 3D, with an eye to the future of TV and projector tech. Read more ›
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Audi's biggest and most luxurious SUVs don't play it safe on power or technology. Read more ›
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Wind turbines are a highly effective, but also somewhat complicated way of generating energy. How does the U.S. Department of Energy plan to change that? Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: France's parliament has approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15, making it the first European country to bar children from apps such as TikTok. The president, Emmanuel Macron, has championed the ban as a key reform of his final term in office and pledged to enforce it by September. "France is leading the way in Europe when... Read more ›
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"GPT-5.6 Sol and an 'even more capable' model used stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face API to obtain secret information used to cheat on evaluations," writes longtime Slashdot reader Dr. Bombay. The Associated Press reports: "We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it... Read more ›
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Scientists have rediscovered a healthy coral reef off the coast of Benin more than 60 years after surveyors first hinted at its existence. "At least eight coral types and eight fish species have formed a thriving ecosystem on this long-forgotten site," reports Inside Climate News. "What they had captured was a wealth of marine life: six types of soft coral; two black corals; and eight species of sheltering fish, from... Read more ›
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Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, an open-source workplace collaboration platform that combines messaging, project management, and software development workflows for teams of both humans and AI agents. Dorsey described Buzz as "a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes" that is "model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign and open source." SmartCompany reports: According to the Buzz website, users can invite specialized AI agents into team chats, allowing... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG's webOS store allow unknown third-parties to... Read more ›
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At a Galaxy Unpacked event in London today, Samsung unveiled a new foldable smartphone designed to compete with the still-unannounced iPhone Fold. Called the Galaxy Z Fold 8, it features a wider 4:3 form factor with a 7.6-inch inner AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chip, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. "The inner display has enough extra real estate for multi-tasking and entertainment,"... Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC, a new preservation program that will let players run select classic Xbox games on Windows PCs and handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally. Tom's Hardware reports: "This marks the beginning of a broader effort to preserve XBOX games from the past and bring them to PC over time," the company said in a blog post authored by Xbox "VP next generation" Jason... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. "Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering... Read more ›
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Apple is reportedly launching a Klarna financing deal that will let U.S. customers spread the cost of devices over up to three years, pushing the company closer to a hardware-as-a-service model. "The only thing you don't get under the new arrangement is AppleCare, for which you'll allegedly need to pay extra," notes Computerworld. From the report: The introduction of the scheme gives consumers a way to purchase the company's popular... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader alanw shares a post from the OSS Security mailing list, where sysadmin Jan Schaumann wonders what to do after the Linux kernel cranked out 432 CVEs in a little over 24 hours: "I understand the position that CVEs were always a flawed way to track or prioritize security changes... But this onslaught really shows it's not feasible to attempt to prioritize individual kernel changes. I'm not sure... Read more ›
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