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Škoda’s New EV Will Likely Be Its Most Expensive Yet

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via Wired

The Škoda Peaq, which will debut this summer as the European automaker’s flagship model, seats seven and has an intriguing design. It will almost certainly come with a hefty price tag.

Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)

Yesterday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He’s now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that “Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of Java will reach end-of-support within a single three-year window.” That’s Java 17 in 2029, Java 8 in 2030, Java 21 in 2031, and Java 11 in...

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence

Yesterday at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

The Sunday Times reports:A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a “number of cases”. Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected perverting the course of justice. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed it was engaging with defence lawyers and the courts over...

How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras

Yesterday at 03:47 AM, via Slashdot

A few weeks ago on a bike ride “inspiration struck” for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate…Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn’t own a smartphone. “It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence,” Eggers said… It’s a funny predicament for Eggers, given that he’s arguably the city’s biggest proponent of the written word… Now age 56, Eggers’ latest...

State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI

Yesterday at 01:25 AM, via New York Times

OpenAI said that a coalition of states had opened an investigation over a wide range of its practices, including its handing of user data, safety of minors and advertising activities.

Amazon CEO’s Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

Yesterday at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports:The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said. Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide...

Shutterstock ‘Evolves’ Into ‘Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform’

Saturday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goal is to help creators move from idea to finished...

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries

Saturday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.” Or As Fortune put it, “America’s electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand...

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork

Saturday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut’s CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 2026 after he...

Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages

Saturday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579… Even at 1,579 packages listed, that...

OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America’s State Attorneys General

Saturday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,” reports the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter.”OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to...

BlockDAG, Ethereum, Chainlink & BNB: Why These Four Keep Appearing in Best Crypto to Buy Now Discussions

Saturday at 19:00 PM, via Tech Financials

The digital asset landscape is shifting in ways that reward careful analysis over reactive decision-making. Utility, ecosystem depth, real adoption, and sustained development are becoming the filters serious investors apply when identifying the best crypto to buy now. Chasing price charts alone is increasingly being replaced by examining what a network actually delivers. BlockDAG, Ethereum, […]

New UK Referendum Would Flip ‘Brexit’ Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds

Saturday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That’s the inverse of...

BlockDAG, XRP, BNB, & Ethena Are the Best Crypto Coins Set to Dominate the Market

Saturday at 17:52 PM, via Tech Financials

The crypto market is moving forward with incredible speed, opening up exceptional possibilities for forward-thinking investors ready to catch the next major wave of growth. Capital is flowing rapidly into projects that boast strong liquidity and clear strategic roadmaps. Acting early on these volume shifts allows participants to maximize their potential before the wider market […]

US Congress Lets ‘Warrantless Wiretap’ Law FISA Lapse

Saturday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

It’s the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than 60% of the president’s...

Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House

Saturday at 16:03 PM, via Slashdot

The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin says it will fly again this year after explosion. Nasa needs it to

Saturday at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

The company’s response to the launchpad blast has become a key test for Artemis III

As Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.

“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the...

World’s First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation’s Future

Saturday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

The Helios Horizon has completed what its developers call the first crewed, fixed-wing flight powered by solid-state batteries. New Atlas reports: On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off from Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida at the controls of the Helios Horizon — the first crewed, fixed-wing aircraft ever to fly on solid-state batteries. The flight was neither spectacular in...

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