Collaborate Disseminate
A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. “Robots are destined t… Continue reading Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint … Continue reading Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations
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,… Continue reading NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground
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 mov… Continue reading Does Fidelity’s Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for ‘Small-Team Agile’?
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… Continue reading Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD
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 Pa… Continue reading New Linux ‘Dirty Frag’ Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Repli… Continue reading Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web
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. T… Continue reading Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs
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 wh… Continue reading Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
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 sav… Continue reading AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder