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To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power ift.tt/L8qYDKd

To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power - Slashdot

Google is funding one of the nation's largest "virtual power plants," paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can...

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Microsoft Says October Updates Didn't Actually Fix VPN Issues ift.tt/imz3IO9

Microsoft Says October Updates Didn't Actually Fix VPN Issues - Slashdot

joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always...

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The Browser Company Retires Its Arc Browser, Pushes Users to Dia ift.tt/L6vyhwk

The Browser Company Retires Its Arc Browser, Pushes Users to Dia - Slashdot

The Browser Company is shutting down its Arc browser on December 22 and encouraging users to migrate to Dia, its newer AI-powered browser for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. Thurrott reports:...

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Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data ift.tt/dXwbQBo

Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data - Slashdot

Moderna shares plunged as much as 25% after partial clinical trial data leaked for its personalized cancer vaccine developed with Merck, despite the full results showing promising outcomes for...

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Bose Is Buying Skullcandy ift.tt/DSaxUmT

Bose Is Buying Skullcandy - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Longtime audio giant Bose announced on Wednesday that it's acquiring Skullcandy, the lifestyle brand known for its bass-heavy headphones. Skullcandy...

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Zoe Kleinman: PHP Is the Cyber Equivalent of an Unexploded Bomb ift.tt/WqzMPbv

Zoe Kleinman: PHP Is the Cyber Equivalent of an Unexploded Bomb - Slashdot

BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman likens the recently discovered PHP security vulnerabilities to an unexploded bomb, writing, "The PHP story feels like the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb --...

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Anthropic Takes On Muse With Claude Duet ift.tt/KirJdph

Anthropic Takes On Muse With Claude Duet - Slashdot

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at professionals and small businesses that competes with Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots. Here's Anthropic's description of what it can do: Each...

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Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List ift.tt/oev136a

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List - Slashdot

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0...

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Airbnb Bans Making Guests Do Dishes, Take Out the Trash ift.tt/LZEHXej

Airbnb Bans Making Guests Do Dishes, Take Out the Trash - Slashdot

Airbnb is banning hosts from requiring guests to perform time-consuming checkout chores, including washing dishes, stripping beds, doing laundry, and taking trash off-site. The updated policy applies...

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America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use ift.tt/ST8RMbi

America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader destinyland shares a report from CNN: The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potenti...

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Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient ift.tt/7XJA6Sp

Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient. Researchers...

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eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce ift.tt/cHTVjwB

eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce - Slashdot

eBay plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or 9% of its workforce, as CEO Jamie Iannone moves to redirect resources toward the company's fastest-growing businesses. Reuters reports: The company had 12,300...

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AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux ift.tt/fm4DdnG

AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux - Slashdot

AMD has published Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver that allows users to adjust CPU power and current limits through a firmware interface exposed via sysfs. Phoronix...

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More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked ift.tt/YpxLsqJ

More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked - Slashdot

A CBC investigation found that more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips spanning 25 years were exposed in a breach of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform. About 850,000 records...

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Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox ift.tt/jXcHYrN

Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We haven't heard many details about Microsoft's upcoming "Project Helix" gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device...

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Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook ift.tt/fvitznh

Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook - Slashdot

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez...

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EA Is Shutting Down BioWare ift.tt/FPYlV9f

EA Is Shutting Down BioWare - Slashdot

"According to a recent report by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (paywalled), EA has reportedly decided to shut down BioWare," the studio behind the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, writes longtime...

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OpenAI Models Are Now On All Three Major US Cloud Platforms ift.tt/TxIuQg1

OpenAI Models Are Now On All Three Major US Cloud Platforms - Slashdot

OpenAI is bringing its models to Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool, putting its technology on all three major U.S. cloud platforms after Microsoft's exclusive license ended...

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Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed ift.tt/AzDKs0B

Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed - Slashdot

"PHP disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in their programming language and urged web site operators to immediately apply the fix," writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. "As a result,...

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PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently ift.tt/mcePBTq

PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more...

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