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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/24/2026 03:34 EDT

'Underminr' CDN Vulnerability Hides Malicious Traffic Behind Trusted Domains

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and can bypass DNS filtering and protective DNS controls, potentially enabling stealthy command-and-control communications and other evasive attacks. Dubbed "Underminr," the exploit "presents the SNI and HTTP Host of a domain," writes SecurityWeek, "while fo Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 23:34 EDT

Tesla's Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever

Tesla's upcoming Cybercab "has been certified at 165 Wh/mi," reports Electrek — which makes it "the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide margin." The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which represents a certified rating — not a marketing claim or internal target. It's an... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 21:34 EDT

Linus Torvalds on How AI is Impacting the Hunt for Linux Kernel Bugs

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development: "In the last six months, we've seen a lot more commits," Torvalds noted, estimating that "the last two releases, it's been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years.... The real change that happened in the last six... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 18:34 EDT

Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA: A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president's backing. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will work "very hard" to sign the so-called Sunshine Protection... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 17:34 EDT

AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool

Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes: AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool... Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, which is supposedly the carrot. The stick, however, is the removal of certain... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 16:34 EDT

US Layoffs Haven't Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings

"The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic," reports the Washington Post, "although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life... "A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs affected about 1.2% of employed people in March, a number that has been steady for years... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 15:34 EDT

Air France, Airbus Guilty of Corporate Manslaughter In 2009 Air France 447 Crash

Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC: Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer "solely and entirely responsible" for the incident, in which flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The passenger jet stalled during a storm and plunged... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 14:34 EDT

Free Software Foundation's Call for 'LibreLocals' Answered on Six Continents - With More Coming

The Free Software Foundation announced this week that "its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far." (And new dates and locations are being added daily.) The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 13:34 EDT

Friday Google's AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word 'Disregard'

On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word "disregard". Google's AI Overview responded "Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!" below an icon for hearing the word "disregard" pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace. "The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll..." Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 12:34 EDT

Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away

Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that "modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating." That's the good news. But the same research "also confirmed that there's no chance to limit warming to the international goal set in 2015." Researchers' new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing aside two staples of climate policy:... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 11:34 EDT

Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Access Root-Only Files, Execute Arbitrary Commands as Root

Qualys's Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel "that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions." Friday their blog pointed out "The bug has resided in mainline Linux since November 2016 (v4.10-rc1)." "Upstream patches and distribution updates are already available." Working exploits are circulating publicly, and administrators should... Read more ›

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 10:34 EDT

Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives?

The Washington Post looks at arguments that "AI's coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans". But they also look at some of the alternatives: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, including, potentially, universal basic income, or UBI. Eventually "our current economic setup will no longer make sense," he wrote in a blog post, adding that "there will be a need for a... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/23/2026 03:00 EDT

Caltech Could Lose Control of JPL For First Time In Decades

NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech's historic role managing the iconic deep-space lab could come to an end when its current agreement expires in 2028. According to JPL, Caltech has managed the lab since the its inception in the 1930s, and has done so for NASA since the agency was established in 1958. Space.com reports:... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 23:30 EDT

Pentagon Releases Second Batch of UFO Videos, First-Hand Testimony

The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA recordings. Despite the reports, the agency stresses that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin. The Guardian reports: In one video from the Middle East in 2019, taken "likely from an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform operating within the US Central... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 20:30 EDT

SpaceX's Upgraded Starship V3 Launches For First Time

SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 launched today from Starbase, Texas, for the first time, successfully deploying 22 dummy Starlink satellites and completing a planned fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Reuters reports: The towering vehicle, consisting of the upper-stage Starship astronaut vessel stacked atop a Super Heavy booster rocket, blasted off at about 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday (2230 GMT) from SpaceX facilities in Starbase, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 19:00 EDT

Google API Keys Remain Active After Deletion

Aikido Security found that deleted Google API keys can continue authenticating for a median of about 16 minutes and as long as 23 minutes, despite Google Cloud's UI claiming that once a key is deleted it can no longer make API requests. Dark Reading reports: Joe Leon, researcher at Belgian startup Aikido Security, recently analyzed the revocation window -- the time between a key's deletion and its last successful authentication... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 18:00 EDT

Major Streamers Must Pay 15% of Revenues To Canadian Content, CRTC Says

Canada's broadcast regulator says major streaming services such as Netflix must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian and Indigenous content. "That's three times the five-per-cent initial contribution requirement the CRTC set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by major streamers, including Apple and Amazon," reports Global News. "Contribution requirements for traditional broadcasters, which currently pay between 30 and 45 percent, will be lowered to 25... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 17:00 EDT

NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash

The NTSB temporarily closed public access to nearly all investigation dockets after people used a spectrogram image from a PDF in the UPS flight 2976 crash file to reconstruct approximate cockpit voice recorder audio and post it online. "We show our work and we've been doing this type of thing for years. Nobody was aware that you can recreate audio from a picture," a spokesperson for the board said. "NTSB... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 16:00 EDT

Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses

Trump Mobile confirmed that a third-party platform exposed customers' personal data to the open internet. The data included names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs. TechCrunch reports: Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is investigating the exposure and has not found evidence that content or financial information spilled online. The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile's... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/22/2026 15:00 EDT

Spotify, UMG To Let Fans Make Their Own Music With AI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Billboard: Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal for recorded music and publishing rights, enabling Spotify to launch generative AI music models in the future. With this deal, Spotify's models will allow fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters signed to UMG. The new deal was announced on Thursday (May 21) as... Read more ›

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