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Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers

Today at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — meaning that full recovery...

Microsoft’s Xbox Mode Is Now Available For All Windows 11 PCs

Today at 01:00 AM, via Slashdot

Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam’s Big Picture Mode. “Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks,” says the Xbox team. The Verge reports: Xbox mode aims to try and bridge the...

AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company’s Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor –powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model — deleted the company’s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud...

Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

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 classified Defense Department networks. The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection,...

ICANN Opens Applications For New Generic Top-Level Domains

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

ICANN has opened applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012. The Register reports: ICANN hasn’t offered new gTLDs since 2012, but on Thursday opened applications for new domains in 27 scripts. A 439-page Applicant Guidebook explains the process. The Register suggests paying attention to the string evaluation FAQ, which explains which gTLDs are valid, and those...

The Case Against an Imminent Software Developer Apocalypse

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Given the dour headlines as of late concerning the diminishing amounts of entry-level software development jobs, coupled with predictions of applications entirely AI-generated, one could be forgiven for assuming that software developers may soon be an endangered species. However, the data tells a different story. James Bessen, professor at Boston University,...

GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecurity Tests

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to “critical industry partners.” But new research from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) suggests that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which launched publicly last week,...

The MiCA Effect How New EU Regulations Paved the Way for Institutional Investment in Blockchain Entertainment in 2026?

Yesterday at 19:48 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA — As of mid-2026, the European blockchain entertainment market has decisively transitioned from a phase of experimental launches to a fully-fledged, high-performance economic vertical. This tectonic shift was driven by the full implementation of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). While the world watched the initial steps of regulation back in 2024, […]

HotelPORT Launches EnGAIgeVIEW™, an AI-Powered Guest Engagement Platform Anchored in PropertyVIEW®

Yesterday at 19:45 PM, via Tech Financials

Miami Beach, Florida  HotelPORT® today announced the launch of EnGAIgeVIEW™, an AI-powered guest engagement platform anchored in PropertyVIEW™, the hospitality industry’s source of truth for verified hospitality content. Developed by BIG Tech Group, the platform introduces a new standard for real-time, intelligent guest interaction across voice, text, and chat. “This isn’t an...

The Super Shoe’s Step-by-Step Evolution

Yesterday at 18:35 PM, via New York Times

The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug In cPanel, Used By Millions of Websites

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical cPanel and WHM vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, that allows remote attackers to bypass the login screen and gain full administrative access to affected web servers. Major hosts including Namecheap, HostGator, and KnownHost have taken mitigation steps or patched systems, but cPanel is urging all customers and web hosts to update immediately...

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