With the war on Iran, Ukraine, AI and climate breakdown increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock stands closer to midnight than ever before. So who decides how many seconds we have left – and can we buy ourselves more time?
The Earth is getting hotter. Conflicts are raging, in the Middle East and Ukraine, each increasing the chance of nuclear war. AI is infiltrating almost every...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City’s sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital’s cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The teetering of many of the...
Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: “The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an ‘agile’ makeup — comprising smaller, siloed squads — and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects.” OMG, as they say: “Sudden outbreak of common sense.” According to the Boston Globe, Fidelity is cutting about 1,000 jobs...
BrianFagioli writes: Micron says it is now shipping the world’s highest-capacity commercially available SSD, and the numbers are honestly hard to wrap your head around. The new Micron 6600 ION packs 245TB into a single drive and is aimed squarely at AI infrastructure, hyperscalers, and cloud providers dealing with exploding data growth. According to the company, the SSD can reduce rack counts...
mrspoonsi shares a report: Dirty Frag is a vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel), that can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write vulnerability. Dirty Frag extends the bug class to which Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail belong. Because it is a deterministic logic bug...
The Pentagon has begun releasing new UFO/UAP files through a newly launched public website, starting with 162 documents from agencies including the FBI, State Department, NASA, and others. Officials say more files will be released on a rolling basis. The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on...
In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a sudden, unexpected wheel separation, thanks to the wrong grease and loose nuts.
Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It’s still unclear which Apple products would use Intel-made chips, but the deal would mark a major potential win for Intel’s foundry ambitions and give Apple another...
College Park, MD – Mblue Labs, a biotechnology-driven skin and hair health company, today announced the launch of Bluelene Hair Density Renewal Serum+. This next-generation hair regeneration technology is powered by methylene blue, a clinically studied molecule with unique mitochondrial and stem cell–protective properties. Developed through cutting-edge research at the University of...
The crypto market rarely moves in a straight line, and this week is no different. The Litecoin news tells a bearish story, with the coin stuck below key averages and technical indicators flashing red despite a modest 2.5% weekly gain. Meanwhile, the Bittensor TAO price 2026 is turning heads after a sharp breakout above $280, […]
Despite higher demand driven by seasonal conditions, including a sharp rise in evening consumption as temperatures dropped, with peak demand at times reaching nearly 2 000MW above anticipated levels, the system has remained stable, Eskom said late on Friday. “This has been achieved alongside the natural tapering of solar generation at sunset, demonstrating enhanced operational resilience […]
Romford, England — In the era of rapid development in artificial intelligence, AI technology is continuously driving the comprehensive upgrade of digital finance and intelligent computing power ecosystems. More and more users are focusing on intelligent, automated, and more transparent digital return models, and AI intelligent systems are gradually becoming an important trend in industry […]
The current trajectory of the Avalanche price and the explosive recovery of the Solana price have long dominated investor headlines, serving as benchmarks for market health and retail momentum. While these established giants fight for dominance, savvy investors are already hunting for the next big crypto that offers more than just theoretical scalability. This search […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more...
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy’s Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user’s installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H...
Hong Kong — May 8, 2026 — Financial Layer 1 Pharos Network today announced LI.FI Protocol, Vishwa, Pleasing Market, KUN, Yuzu Money, Agra, and Amber Group as the third strategic cohort of the RealFi Alliance. This expansion marks a decisive shift from foundational infrastructure toward active onchain utility, seamless settlement, and real-economy integration. With the […]
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
