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Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/2045213/flock-cameras-are-being-destroyed-across-the-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/07/27/1842211/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-and-llm-generated-code-projects?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/2140220/new-york-city-911-system-missed-1700-calls-due-to-software-update?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

GOG Officially Expands Linux Support With Native Galaxy Client In Development https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/02/2019202/gog-officially-expands-linux-support-with-native-galaxy-client-in-development?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Risks of Parkinson's Disease May Increase With Prolonged Exposure to Road Traffic Noise https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/24/2246224/risks-of-parkinsons-disease-may-increase-with-prolonged-exposure-to-road-traffic-noise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

US Police Now Armed With Israeli Spy Vans Simulating Mobile Phone Towers https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/0541215/us-police-now-armed-with-israeli-spy-vans-simulating-mobile-phone-towers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Zilog Z80 8-Bit CPU Turns 50, Open-source Replacement Heads To Drop-in DIP40 Silicon https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/0046231/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/22/211256/stanford-economist-now-believes-an-ai-job-apocalypse-is-unlikely?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/11/0544250/england-set-to-eliminate-hepatitis-c?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

LibreOffice Once Again Slams Microsoft For Using 'Lock-In' With Office Files https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/0431217/libreoffice-once-again-slams-microsoft-for-using-lock-in-with-office-files?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Rogue Police Officers Have Turned Flock's Nationwide Camera Network Into a Stalking Tool https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/023205/rogue-police-officers-have-turned-flocks-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-stalking-tool?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/11/0532213/reddit-bans-11-year-account-for-gpl-game-post-testing-the-eus-dsa?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

EU Fines Google $1 Billion For Breaking Digital Antitrust Regulations https://search.slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/2034235/eu-fines-google-1-billion-for-breaking-digital-antitrust-regulations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Group of Teen Hikers Relied on Google Maps. It Was a Disaster. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/01/0552202/group-of-teen-hikers-relied-on-google-maps-it-was-a-disaster?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/24/2212248/instagram-is-now-banning-pickup-artists-pranksters-who-use-meta-glasses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Researchers Discover First Known Transmissible Cancer In Fish https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/0610239/researchers-discover-first-known-transmissible-cancer-in-fish?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

GM Is Quietly Becoming a Subscriptions Company https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/22/2010225/gm-is-quietly-becoming-a-subscriptions-company?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/0053206/drinking-5-cups-of-coffee-a-day-could-reduce-heart-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/05/1918253/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

IT Teams are Spending 11 Hours a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/02/2331237/it-teams-are-spending-11-hours-a-week-on-cloud-connectivity-problems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/1748239/catastrophic-mod-data-breach-caused-by-lack-of-training-on-excel?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/1655219/googles-gemini-can-now-stomp-around-as-a-humanoid-robot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Claude Opus 5 Became Downright Ruthless When Tasked With Running a Vending Machine https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/29/2047205/claude-opus-5-became-downright-ruthless-when-tasked-with-running-a-vending-machine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/28/0047230/earths-biggest-disasters-strike-in-a-hidden-pattern-every-27-million-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/28/0037231/a-missing-underscore-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/26/0536218/ai-equipped-garbage-trucks-could-soon-start-spying-on-people-in-the-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Comic-Con 2026 Debuts Trailers for 'Coyote vs Acme' Movie, Plus 'Neuromancer' and 'Blade Runner 2099' Series https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/07/26/038200/comic-con-2026-debuts-trailers-for-coyote-vs-acme-movie-plus-neuromancer-and-blade-runner-2099-series?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/24/021238/humans-can-learn-to-echolocate-in-just-10-weeks-and-it-rewires-the-brain?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/24/0144247/google-adds-selfie-video-as-a-log-in-option?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Verisign Is Finally Bringing .web Domains To the Internet https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/0542238/verisign-is-finally-bringing-web-domains-to-the-internet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/22/179241/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

'Grok Build' Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/034258/grok-build-coding-tool-open-sourced-this-week-promises-to-respect-zero-data-retention?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Microsoft Responds to LG Monitors Installing McAfee Ads On Windows https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/2137202/microsoft-responds-to-lg-monitors-installing-mcafee-ads-on-windows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You're a Real Human https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/25/064249/facebook-offers-a-verification-system-certifying-to-other-users-that-youre-a-real-human?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

LG To Ban Residential Proxies From Smart TV Apps https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/07/22/0426218/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/20/0451204/the-brain-is-actually-two-completely-separate-organs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/233245/an-ai-supervised-remote-exam-went-so-badly-that-58000-students-must-retake-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files, Calls It 'Honest Mistake' https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/0129228/openai-acknowledges-gpt-56-may-accidentally-delete-files-calls-it-honest-mistake?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/07/28/212240/ai-found-bugs-arent-proving-any-easier-to-exploit-despite-the-hype?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/05/2157224/anthropics-ai-used-fake-identities-malware-in-rogue-attack-on-github-project?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/1833219/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/26/0138257/typo-squatting-scammers-con-south-carolina-town-out-of-545k?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/234246/hackers-are-exploiting-recently-patched-wordpress-bugs-putting-millions-of-websites-at-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Hacker Wipes Romania's Entire Land Registry Database https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/172249/hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns? https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/25/1747227/did-virginia-regulators-downplay-data-center-health-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/1639202/publishers-are-losing-google-traffic-as-ai-answers-replace-links?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Shut Off Chinese Open Weight AI https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/23/0623233/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/20/0712211/to-enforce-its-proposed-social-media-ban-for-450-million-pre-teens-eu-builds-an-open-source-app?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

New Spinning Drone Hides In Plain Sight https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/02/220231/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Dozens of Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic Calls For Emergency Services https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/236218/dozens-of-robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-calls-for-emergency-services?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon