Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS
The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration’s immigration crackdown.
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AT&T Outlines $250 Billion US Investment Plan To Boost Infrastructure In AI Age
AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also hire thousands of technicians while partnering with AST SpaceMobile to extend coverage to remote areas. Reuters reports: Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and connected devices has prompted telecom operators to invest...
Ig Nobels Ceremony Moves To Europe Indefinitely, Citing US Safety Concerns
Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies — which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. “After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future,” reports Ars Technica. “The reason: concerns about the safety of...
Anker’s Discounted Power Station Can Power Your Next Camping Trip
Go off-grid camping for a long weekend with my favorite portable power station from Anker. It’s on sale.
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
Oracle Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...
OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is...
Our Favorite Earbuds for Samsung Owners Are On Sale
The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE are a great pairing for anyone with a Galaxy phone.
Fortnite-maker raising in-game currency prices ‘to help pay the bills’
Epic Games said it had to increase the price as the cost of running the game had “gone up a lot”
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.
Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO’s 40-Year-Old Apple II Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: “We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery that will be leveraged by both defenders and...
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
The aerospace company said the delay would not prevent it from meeting its 2026 sales goal of about 500 Max jets.
Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X
X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents
Axios reports that Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-like social network designed for AI agents. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. Axios reports: The deal brings Moltbook’s creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Meta did not disclose Moltbook’s purchase price. The deal is expected to...
They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
Delivery apps are glitching and navigation routes are changing abruptly thanks to electronic warfare disrupting the satellite signals that power everything from missiles to your ride home.
Parts of giant Nasa satellite to crash to Earth, posing low risk
The 600kg Van Allen probe A will re-enter Tuesday evening, with most of it burning before reaching Earth’s surface
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Parts of a giant Nasa satellite will crash to Earth on Tuesday evening, the US space agency is warning – but the chance of being struck is extremely low.
According to the US military’s Space Force, the...
German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency
German publishers and advertising groups are urging regulators to fine Apple over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system, arguing it unfairly restricts access to advertising data while allowing Apple to remain the central gatekeeper — without subjecting its own apps to the same restrictions. If Germany’s antitrust authority does rule against Apple, the company could face fines of up to 10%...
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