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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...

Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability Actively Exploited, in a Bad Week for Microsoft

Yesterday at 22:56 PM, via Slashdot

Forbes describes it as “definitely already out there, and under active exploitation according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, urging all organizations to prioritize timely remediation as the attack vector poses a significant risk.” “We have issued CVE-2026-42897 to address a spoofing vulnerability affecting Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA),” Microsoft told...

‘We Still Can’t See Dark Matter. But What If We Can Hear It?’

Yesterday at 21:09 PM, via Slashdot

“We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019,” writes ScienceAlert. “What if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead?” asks Space.com:New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves” that ring through the cosmos when two black holes slam together...

Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 grades. This means that students were 60% of one school year behind where their peers were in reading a decade...

How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. No more over-the-air updates. No more connected services. No more warranty. The...

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