Coding Error Blamed After Parts of Constitution Disappear From US Website The Library of Congress has reported that a coding mistake led to the disappearance of certain sections of the…
Country’s Strictest Ban On Election Deepfakes Struck By Judge A federal judge has declared California’s strict anti-deepfake election law unconstitutional, citing Section 230 protections. The ruling affects two particular laws…
President Trump has announced a drastic measure of imposing a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports unless companies commit to manufacturing within the US. During a press briefing, he indicated that…
Ask Slashdot: Who’s Still Using an RSS Reader? The ongoing conversation about the relevance of RSS readers continues, as Slashdot asks the community who still relies on these tools. Many…
Summary Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, alerts the cybersecurity community about the alarming rise of authoritarianism in the US, defined by a troubling intertwining of technology and oppressive…
Summary Facial recognition technology recently led to a man falsely being identified as a wanted suspect, resulting in an intimidating encounter with the police. Shaun Thompson, the individual involved, is…
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev An open source developer, Abdelkader Boudih, known as Seuros, has revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) deleted his decade-old…
Summary In a recent interview, US President Donald Trump claimed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will invest $300 billion in Arizona to build what he called the largest chip…
Summary Computer scientist Peter Burke has showcased a remarkable advancement: robots can now programme each other using generative AI models, demonstrated through a drone project. In his preprint paper, Burke…
Summary OpenAI is making its ChatGPT tool available to US federal agencies at a nominal fee of just $1 per year through the General Services Administration’s AI marketplace. This extraordinary…
