Collaborate Disseminate
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 entir… Continue reading Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List ‘Almost Entirely Unmanageable’
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 a… Continue reading America’s Library of Congress Officially Inducts… the Soundtrack for the Videogame ‘Doom’
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 … Continue reading Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI
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”… Continue reading Small Town Fights Over Flock’s AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras
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 significa… Continue reading Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability Actively Exploited, in a Bad Week for Microsoft
“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 disce… Continue reading ‘We Still Can’t See Dark Matter. But What If We Can Hear It?’
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… Continue reading Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
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… Continue reading US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
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 w… Continue reading How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit
Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to “the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like ‘Copy Fail’ and ‘Dirty Frag'”:
Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker “Jasper Nuyens” got tired o… Continue reading Sysadmin Creates ‘ModuleJail’ To Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules