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MONDAY, 18 MAY 2026, 11:19

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The toll booth at the bottom of the sea

Today at 10:28 AM, via TechCentral

State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Iran’s government “wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz,” reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran’s state-linked media outlets “have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay.”Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab...

Is the glue in ICT governance framework holding?

Today at 09:07 AM, via ITWeb

Despite ICT Steering Committees, public sector ICT programmes continue to fail, as governance arrangements formally exist, but are not effectively operationalised.

Starwatch: A young crescent moon journeys past Venus and Jupiter

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

The slim arc of a two-day-old moon will pass Venus shining brightly

Keep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over several evenings. A young crescent moon moves first past Venus and then Jupiter, creating a chance to track the moon’s movement through its orbit around the Earth.

The chart shows the view on 18 May looking west from London at 22.00....

Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List ‘Almost Entirely Unmanageable’

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list. But he also highlighted “documentation updates” to address a new problem. “The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools.” (The new documentation says the...

America’s Library of Congress Officially Inducts… the Soundtrack for the Videogame ‘Doom’

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

America’s Library of Congress “is preserving a little piece of Hell,” jokes Engadget, “by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry.” The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer’s self-titled debut album (colloquially known as “The Blue Album”), Taylor Swift’s “1989,” Beyonce’s “Single...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI

Today at 01:46 AM, via Slashdot

Today former Google CEO Eric Schmidt “was booed multiple times,” reports NBC News, “while discussing AI during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona.” Schmidt had started by remembering how computer platforms “gave everyone a voice” but also “degraded the public square… They rewarded outrage. They amplified our worst instincts. They coarsen the way we speak to each other, and that...

Small Town Fights Over Flock’s AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras

Today at 00:39 AM, via Slashdot

160 miles north of New York City, a man was convicted of manslaughter “with the help of license plate reader technology,” reports a local news station. In the small town of Troy (population: 51,000), the mayor described the cameras as “a critical tool” in that investigation. But locals and city officials “have raised concerns about who can access the data collected locally, along with data...

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