On May 10th, 2026 with 40 comments
"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements...
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On May 10th, 2026 with 92 comments
CNBC reports:
The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments' use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data,...
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On May 8th, 2026 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands...
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On May 7th, 2026 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI ended its second week, the Tesla CEO started scoring...
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On May 7th, 2026 with 106 comments
In honor of World Password Day, Kaspersky researchers revisited their study on the crackability of real-world passwords and found that 60% of MD5-hashed...
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On May 6th, 2026 with 19 comments
Sam Altman's management style came under scrutiny on the seventh day of Elon Musk's high-stakes OpenAI trial, as former OpenAI figures Mira Murati, Shivon...
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On May 6th, 2026 with 107 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Security researcher Tom Joran Sonstebyseter Ronning has found that Microsoft Edge stores passwords in plaintext...
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On May 6th, 2026 with 76 comments
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg "personally authorized and actively encouraged"...
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On May 5th, 2026 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: OpenAI President Greg Brockman concluded his testimony on Tuesday, where he largely rebutted Elon Musk's account...
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On May 5th, 2026 with 37 comments
Apple has agreed to a proposed $250 million settlement over claims that it misled iPhone buyers about the availability of Apple Intelligence and its upgraded...
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On May 4th, 2026 with 167 comments
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's testimony dominated the fifth day of the trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against the AI company. Brockman took the witness stand...
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On May 4th, 2026 with 126 comments
The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The...
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On May 4th, 2026 with 37 comments
Age verification became mandatory for chat access on Roblox in January — and Friday morning Quartz reported it's apparently impacted the company's...
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On May 3rd, 2026 with 10 comments
An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country's national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, "after it was found the draft policy was compiled...
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On May 1st, 2026 with 21 comments
The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies -- SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS -- to deploy their tools on...
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On April 30th, 2026 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Elon Musk wrapped up his testimony on Thursday as the trial in his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...
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On April 30th, 2026 with 56 comments
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a rule banning senators from trading on prediction markets effective immediately. CNBC reports: The move came amid rising...
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On April 30th, 2026 with 95 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from ZeroHedge: The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Cloudera, accusing the enterprise data and artificial...
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On April 29th, 2026 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: Elon Musk returned to the witness stand Wednesday in Oakland federal court for a second...
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On April 29th, 2026 with 38 comments
A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, calling his claims of DOJ witness intimidation "wildly conspiratorial" and unsupported by...
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On April 28th, 2026 with 83 comments
Elon Musk testified on day two of his trial against OpenAI, saying he helped create the company as a nonprofit counterweight to Google and would not have...
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On April 28th, 2026 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard a dispute over labels on the popular Roundup weed killer, which...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial...
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On April 27th, 2026 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 131 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Pres:
Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he...
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On April 26th, 2026 with 25 comments
The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 76 comments
After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune:
14-year-old in...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 29 comments
Colorado's "age-attestation" bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and...
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On April 25th, 2026 with 62 comments
It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's...
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On April 24th, 2026 with 96 comments
Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed the nation's first statewide moratorium on new data centers, saying she supported the idea in...
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