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IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called "Project Lightwell," which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source soft
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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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The Trump administration spent $14.8 million painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool an "American Flag Blue." See why the pool is green again. Read more ›
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Через квартал-другой в переговорку зайдёт финансовый директор и задаст инженерному руководителю простой вопрос: «Мы потратили на AI вот столько — что получили?» И руководитель откроет дашборд: adoption 87%, 100 ежедневных пользователей ассистента, тысячи промптов. А финдир посмотрит и скажет: «Это сколько вы потратили. Я спросил, что получили». Я работаю приглашённым CTO и этот разговор наблюдал уже не раз. Расскажу, почему дашборд адопшна его не переживает и что мерить вместо него.... Read more ›
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Google’s Pixel Watch 4 highlights the benefits of repairable wearables and why the industry should embrace easier device repairs. Read more ›
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Brandon Sardi found success sharing the "non-glamorous side" of entrepreneurship — the 80-hour workweeks, slow sales days, and mistakes. Read more ›
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Nintendo has reportedly been threatened with a $2 million ransomware demand. The company says its systems are secure. Read more ›
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After weeks of testing, it's time to share our experience with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro: a generational leap in action camera power and feature capabilities. Read more ›
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Analysts say the exchange's push into derivatives, payments and infrastructure broadens its growth story beyond crypto trading. Read more ›
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Behind closed doors, experts and policymakers fear the US isn’t a “good-faith actor” on AI safety. Read more ›
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Power outages may be unavoidable, but Jackery’s new FridgeGuard and HomePower Series are designed to make them a lot less disruptive. Read more ›
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Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programmable BTC, or just a better way to borrow, lend and earn yield on it? Read more ›
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New data reveals AI traffic is growing 6.5x faster than human traffic, forcing businesses to rethink infrastructure, content discoverability and more. Read more ›
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Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use […] Read more ›
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Katherine Howe says she bought a ticket to see Scotland at the World Cup, only to learn days later it was unavailable. Read more ›
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In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at how FIFA is using the Avalanche blockchain to test out a new ticketing system. Read more ›
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The Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 is a tiny professional desktop that can still handle some serious work. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech had gone too far and that it would relax the rules around what speech was allowed. "We have been over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate political debate and censoring too much trivial content and subjecting too many people... Read more ›
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Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cards and says it will stop restocking them as retailers sell through remaining inventory. In a blog post, the company blamed persistent gift card scams as the reason, though Steam Digital Gift Cards will remain available and existing physical cards can still be redeemed. PC Guide reports: Valve says it has "responded to gift card scams over the years" -- but this doesn't stop... Read more ›
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Visa is integrating its payment network with ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and complete purchases on users' behalf. "It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete the purchase on the user's behalf, at potentially any merchant that accepts Visa," reports the Associated Press. "The payment network's previous attempts at this technological leap were confined to a single retailer or a small set of enrolled merchants." From... Read more ›
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A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can spawn a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges through a Defender race condition. The release came just hours after Microsoft fixed two previously disclosed flaws during its latest monthly Patch Tuesday drop -- its largest Patch Tuesday release ever. BleepingComputer reports:... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. That's a dramatic shift in the U.S. power mix. Just five years ago, coal generated 19.7% of U.S. electricity in May, while... Read more ›
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fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Tests reveal that when people are ambling about, they have a natural tendency to turn to the left and walk in an anticlockwise direction. "If you simply ask someone to start walking, whether they are wandering around a museum, a supermarket, or even an empty room, it is surprisingly likely that they will drift counterclockwise," said Dr Inaki Echeverria Huarte at University of... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist, captioned: "For years we've had unconfirmed reports, rumors, hints... now we know." From the report: Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defense industry, marking a watershed moment in warfare. The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled "Terminator" drones on the front... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: China was likely behind an online influence operation to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence technology and reshape the debate in Washington around the infrastructure needed to support it, according to research from OpenAI published Wednesday. OpenAI said it caught the influence campaign because China-backed operatives were using ChatGPT to create content for the social media campaign. [...] OpenAI's researchers identified two... Read more ›
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told staff that Xbox's current economics "cannot continue," citing more than $20 billion in spending over five years, declining revenue outside Activision Blizzard King, console supply constraints tied to RAMaggedon, and an overextended studio portfolio. The memo stops short of announcing layoffs, but a Bloomberg report says substantial Xbox cuts are expected after Microsoft's fiscal year ends on June 30.... Read more ›
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Opendoor is shutting down its India operations less than two years after opening offices there. Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a post from Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian: "I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs." TechCrunch reports:... Read more ›
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