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A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littleton(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..." Littleton had temporarily disabled the cameras earlier this year, according to the article, but upon discovering the cameras were still active, city officials say they directed the Town Counsel "to initiate cancellation of the contract with Flock Safety and directed the Town ..

Hidden text on a webpage can become a fact your AI assistant "remembers" and acts on weeks later.

Saxon Q built a room-temperature diamond quantum computer using sulfur- stabilized qubits, though scaling and independent verification remain unresolved.

NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations." "Malicious software infected and compromised" the East Bay community's information technology systems beginning about 5:45 a.m. Friday, the city said on social media. "The cybersecurity incident hit critical public safety operations, including 911 ..

XDA Developers reports: On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight link to let iPhone users try it for themselves. The browser he launched is called Gem, and it's a browser that doesn't really...browse. Instead of fetching a webpage from a server the way Chrome or Safari would, Gem hands whatever URL you type over ..

Samsung and Mousterian advanced Texas floating data center plans while regulatory scrutiny over ERCOT grid connections continues to increase statewide.

UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge... Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be "more productive"... Champions of the switch often insist workers will be able to hit the ground running and get the same or even more work done from the get-go in the new unfamiliar environment because it's 'more productive', a conclusion often shaped by conventional wisdom or their 'gut' feeling. Decision makers may also mistake their ..

Asus has new laptops coming out in time for IFA next month, and we get to see one of them in quite a few alleged renders that appear to have likely been upscaled using AI and kind of messed up in the process. Frankly, at first glance, it kind of sounds like we shouldn't care. However, this might just be our first detailed look at what is one of the very first Googlebooks to come out. Yes, in case you haven't been paying attention to the space, Google announced the Googlebook back in May. We ..

Synology launches four DiskStation neo+ NAS models offering lower entry pricing, expandable hardware, unchanged DSM software, and worldwide availability without pricing.

In this week's Sunday Reboot , the nightmare scenario of OpenAI's hardware leak and the astounding cheapness of promoting Ted Lasso . What's the collective term for a group of Ted Lasso lookalikes? - Image Credit: Apple TV Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

DeepSeek, famous for its cheap AI services, is about to become less cheap.

Taiwan tracks a Chinese research vessel above a major Pacific internet cable, renewing attention on regional maritime security concerns.

Anthropic's chatbot can be very vocal, if you want it to be.

"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT director for 13 school districts... I just haven't been happy overall with all the other operating systems out there... " I've been working really diligently for the last few weeks on a new distro called Spaced Linux that is exactly what I want to use. It's heavily focused on the [zoom-friendly ..

While the design isn't changing one bit, one expensive and favorite material might return to Apple Watch after a seven-year absence. Apple Watch Series 5 , in ceramic It's been nine years since the Apple Watch Series 2 debuted the material. After a back-and-forth for a few years of just white, or white and black ceramic options, Apple dropped the material entirely in 2020. That may change soon. Apple is reportedly working on returning ceramic to Apple Watch as soon as 2026. In Sunday's "Power ..

There are several scenarios that might require you to format a USB drive. But don't worry -- We'll show you how.

Xiaomi revealed the Redmi K100 Pro and K100 Pro Max ahead of their August 11 launch. The K100 Pro gets a redesigned camera island, a 6.59-inch 185Hz display, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series chipset, while the Pro Max adds a 6.9-inch OLED display, a 9,000mAh battery, and a triple 50MP rear camera with a periscope telephoto lens. Pricing and availability will be announced at launch. Meanwhile, OnePlus sold out its entire smartphone stock in North America, essentially marking an ..

A fake "install Claude on Mac" guide, hosted on claude.ai itself and boosted by a Google ad, ends with your Ledger app quietly asking for your recovery phrase.

The iPhone Fold has yet to ship, but Apple's already working on a third- generation foldable it could release in 2028. It's something it's compelled to do. A render of what the first-gen iPhone Fold could look like - Image Credit: AppleInsider Apple is expected to launch the much-rumored iPhone Fold this fall, as part of its usual September iPhone launches. But, despite not having sold a single unit for the foldable, Apple is already planning for multiple follow-ups. According to Mark Gurman in ..

OpenAI announced Friday it's pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports: The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity", which had moved to a "critical" threshold... OpenAI stated that the model was not involved in an incident in which one of its AI agents went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a startup, Hugging Face... The reports have increased concerns about ..

Talking to ChatGPT just got a lot less awkward.

Amazon is building a natural gas power plant for a big Texas data center that could be the most pollutant one in the country.

Windscribe's deGDID removes Windows tracking identifiers while preventing new ones, although several Microsoft cloud authentication services stop functioning afterward.

MOONTON Games has introduced a "Title Defender" mechanism for the MLBB Mid Season Cup 2027, granting top-performing teams automatic qualification slots.

Dell has introduced the Dell Pro P 43 4K Huddle Conferencing Monitor as its new all-in-one solution combining camera, audio and display for huddle rooms.

Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies. Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches ..

There are several smart reasons most people should be hiding apps on their iPhone or iPad. Here's how to do it.

The Pokmon Game On! initiative has been announced across Asia, coinciding with the launch of the 2026-27 Pokmon Asia Championship Series.

The Turtle Beach Command Series KB5 is a full-size, wired, low-profile keyboard with a small, programmable touchscreen.

The Apple Watch will see a revamp in the coming years, as Apple is reportedly in the middle of a shake up its wearables formula to meet an ever-changing market. Apple Watch Ultra 3 The Apple Watch has retained the same core design of a square display on a watch band, but it has evolved over time. While it has become thinner, larg

Users are asking why some measurements on Noctua's compatibility page are different from manufacturer spec sheets.

The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents. But Phoronix noted one more announcement. "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid ..

If you're considering ditching iOS for an Android device, make sure you know what you might be losing.

Apple reportedly evaluated giving Apple Upgrade buyers with iPhones that came with all their previous iPhone's data preloaded, but that didn't make the final cut. Apple Upgrade could have had more options for the iPhone Apple Upgrade is a lease in the US rather than a loan and so it's different to the iPhone Upgrade Program it replaces, but it could have been more different still. According to Bloomberg , Apple at least considered preloading a user's data. It's been described as a "white-glove ..

Apple's Mac lineup has seen dwindling supply in recent months due to more expensive and hard-to-get RAM, and now even the MacBook Air is seeing available stock dwindle. It's getting harder to find a MacBook Air The MacBook Air is Apple's most popular laptop by far, even if the MacBook Neo is seeking to usurp that spot. Up until recently, it has remained relatively easy to find in all configurations, but that is no longer true . As reported in the "Power On" newsletter from Bloomberg , the ..

The fearless TrashBench has been testing direct die water cooling of graphics cards and suffered most of the leaky nightmares you might expect.

Google has expanded Ask Maps to Malaysia and over 160 other countries, introducing new agentic features for food ordering, hotel searches and real- time transit information.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra in February 2023 with Android 13-based One UI 5.1, and later in October, the brand introduced the Galaxy S23 FE with the same OS. But that was the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1-powered model, as the Exynos 2200-powered version ran Android 14-based One UI 6 out of the box. Regardless of which model you own, the Android 17-based One UI 9 will be the last major OS upgrade for the smartphone. [#InlinePriceWidget,12520,1#] This revelation comes ..

Elon Musk's Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk's ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.