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The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...)
In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software used in cyberattack
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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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All the ways to watch New Zealand vs Italy live streams online – including for FREE – as the Azzurri take on the All Blacks in the Nations Championship 2026. Read more ›
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Analysts predict a rally to $300,000 or more by 2029. But key data suggests the era of moonshots may be over. Read more ›
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Speed limit signs are typically pretty standard, but every once in a while, you'll encounter one with a fraction on it. Here's why that happens. Read more ›
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Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention. Read more ›
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The Tecno Camon 50 Ultra, unveiled in March, will make its debut in India on July 17. Tecno is advertising the Camon 50 Ultra in India as a smartphone "designed for creators, storytellers, and photography enthusiasts." The brand also says that Camon 50 Ultra is "built to capture life's best moments as they happen." Tecno hasn't revealed the Camon 50 Ultra's pricing and availability for India yet, so we'll have... Read more ›
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Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life. Read more ›
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Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams. Read more ›
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For roughly a billion years — from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago — Earth's oceans went chemically stagnant, oxygen stalled, and life did nothing much except reproduce as microbial slime. Geologists call it the Boring Billion, and it is the longest uneventful chapter in the planet's history. Read more ›
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SK Hynix's $26.5 billion U.S. market debut is the largest IPO by a non-American company in U.S. history. Read more ›
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The Dreame X50 Ultra robot vacuum and mop is down to AU$1,479 for Prime Day, making this premium self-cleaning robovac much easier to recommend. Read more ›
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US users can now ask YouTube conversational questions to find videos for specific situations, ideas, and activities. Read more ›
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University of Chicago Law School has announced a laptop ban to foster independent thinking amid AI's rise in legal education and practice. Read more ›
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OpenAI and Anthropic are once again competing for the top spot in enterprise AI, with both companies unveiling their most advanced models within weeks of each other. On June 10, Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5, bringing its once-restricted Mythos-class AI ... Read more ›
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On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave […] Read more ›
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Castelion's Blackbeard hypersonic missile now costs under $300,000 per round, prompting the Navy to order 50 production units. Read more ›
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In June of 2025, Amazon said it had put its one millionth robot to work, a unit sent to a warehouse in Japan, across more than 300 sites worldwide. “We’ve just deployed our 1 millionth robot, building on our position as the world’s largest manufacturer and operator of mobile robotics,” said Scott Dresser, a vice ... Read more Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become... Read more ›
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Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their spokesperson said: "We expect the power generation portion of the system to be available as early as 2027, with... Read more ›
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The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination." And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing... Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed — particularly in auto-approve or CI environments—the commands can... Read more ›
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EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T... under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion." Some context from Deadline.com: Charlie Ergen,... Read more ›
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"The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press: The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion. Among the company's well-known holdings are the... Read more ›
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At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software... Read more ›
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Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the... Read more ›
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As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions... Read more ›
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South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News: In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home... Read more ›
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