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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 23:30 EDT

Colossal Biosciences Is Growing Chickens In a 3D-Printed Artificial Eggshell

Colossal Biosciences says it has grown chickens inside 3D-printed artificial eggshells. "The company says the egg technology could help conserve at-risk bird species," reports MIT Technology. "It could also play a role in a project to re-create the extinct giant moa, a flightless 12-foot-tall bird that once lived in New Zealand and laid four-liter eggs, larger than those of any living bird." From the report: The biotech company today claimed... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 19:00 EDT

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI

Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend continues. Companies such as Amazon, Block, Cisco,... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 18:00 EDT

Google Publishes Exploit Code Threatening Millions of Chromium Users

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch programming interface, a standard that allows long videos and other large files to be downloaded in the background. An attacker can use the exploit... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 17:00 EDT

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance

Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integration. There is also improved visual output via color output enhancements.... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 16:00 EDT

GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension

Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: GitHub has announced on X that their internal repositories have been breached through a compromised VS Code Extension on an employee's workstation. Bleeping Computer reported that the attack is linked to TeamPCP who have been in the news for a recent campaign affecting Checkmarx, Trivy, SAP, TanStack, and Bitwarden. The group appears to be attempting to sell the stolen code on cybercrime forums. "Yesterday we... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 15:00 EDT

Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site's remaining domains. [...] At first glance, the damages award is the... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 14:00 EDT

Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories

Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would "take too long" to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. "If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that would just take too long. You would end up with more capacity, but then you'd slow the rate of growth on that technology," Mosely said. CNBC reports:... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 13:00 EDT

Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial

A long-running lawsuit over Vizio's Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could reverberate across the industry. Because many of today's popular smart TV operating systems are Linux-based, the case may help... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 12:00 EDT

Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots

The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner's story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the report: Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in London, awards its short story prize to one writer in each of five regions: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 11:00 EDT

Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company also said that consumers will be able to use Gemini AI to find the... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 07:00 EDT

Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans

Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick," adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/20/2026 03:00 EDT

Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glimpse into the first stages of galaxy formation. Phys.org reports: In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at Kanazawa... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 23:30 EDT

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry,... Read more ›

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

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That's a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for "long-term development" and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option without officially removing it. At... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 18:00 EDT

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, "getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries," reports the New York Times. "In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google's main search page." From the report: The company will also offer... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 17:00 EDT

NextEra and Dominion's $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory approval, would result in a company that leads in... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 16:00 EDT

OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. "The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent -- and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry's most respected technical minds," reports Axios. From the report: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 15:00 EDT

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital'

The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital" through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. "It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters. "So, the people that want... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 14:00 EDT

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/19/2026 13:00 EDT

Microsoft Launches Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 With Intel Chips

Microsoft is launching three new Intel-powered Surface devices for businesses: the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8, and a smaller 13-inch Surface Laptop model. These new machines come equipped with newer Intel chips, a few business-focused upgrades, and notably higher starting prices. "The high pricing of these three new Surface devices is a sign of things to come for whatever consumer models Microsoft is planning this year," notes The Verge.... Read more ›

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