[ad_1] 25 years ago today on Slashdot… Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released...
[ad_1] An anonymous reader shares this report from the Associated Press: Myanmar’s military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand,...
[ad_1] Critics question why basic flaws like buffer overflows, command injections, and SQL injections are “being exploited remain prevalent in mission-critical codebases maintained by companies whose...
[ad_1] Thursday Ubuntu-maker Canonical “officially launched Canonical Academy, a new certification platform designed to help professionals validate their Linux and Ubuntu skills through practical, hands-on assessments,”...
[ad_1] “Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday,” reports Reuters, “challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related...
[ad_1] Long-time Slashdot reader theodp took a good look at the images on a promotional web page for Databricks’ “context-aware AI assistant”: If there was an...
[ad_1] The Associated Press reports that “North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars” by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and by creating fake identities to get...
[ad_1] “OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,” warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. “It...
[ad_1] Thursday the Washington Post profiled “the people who dare to say no to AI,” including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says “she doesn’t...
[ad_1] An AI system “apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm,” reports the Guardian, “and called local police to tell them...
