For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models)

Nerds.xyz reports: DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for

"Flexible, app-based scheduling lets large pools of part-time workers choose four-hour shifts and even select the type of work they prefer," writes long-time Slashdot reader Tony Isaac

In March, Anthropic's Claude "quietly deployed software to spy on China-based customers," reports the Washington Post apparently to unmask Chinese rivals "suspected of hijacking its technology to make their own AI tools smarter." Last week Anthropic removed the spyware "after a software developer revealed its existence and privacy advocates criticized Anthropic, saying it had surveilled its own users." Anthropic's tracking code was designed in part to catch Chinese firms "distilling" its AI models, a technique that involves pressing a large, expensive AI system to serve as a tutor to a smaller, cheaper one

"We need you in the fight," says the American legal expert in privacy, surveillance, AI, and Internet freedom of speech who became the EFF's new executive director in March

Proton's Lumo 2.0 finally looks like a real ChatGPT rival with reasoning, image generation, web search, and memory baked in.

The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.

In what will be a blockbuster suit, Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging that two ex-employees, one of whom was Apple's previous Vice President of Product Design for iPhone and Apple Watch , maintained an ongoing and successful effort in stealing intellectual property to enrich OpenAI's development efforts

OpenAI has merged the ChatGPT app with Codex, but many users feel disappointed with the change.

Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy.

Atlas will be shutting down as OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work.

OpenAI is retiring its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch. Going forward, its browsing features will be shifted into a redesigned ChatGPT desktop app that also combines Codex, a built-in browser, and "ChatGPT Work" for acting across apps and files

The apps that stole your time could soon work very differently.

OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role and becoming a part-time adviser after taking extended medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition

Meta is finally charging for AI, but it undercuts rivals by a massive 75 percent.

Microsoft plans to disable and remove OWA Light, the lightweight Outlook Web Access client for Exchange Server, in an upcoming update expected in August 2026

Desktop, mobile and web users now have access to ChatGPT's autonomous, agentic cousin, ChatGPT Work.

1min.AI is an AI platform that gives you lifetime access to top AI models for only $60

Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley for China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating the discovery of advanced materials

OpenAI's long-awaited super app is here.

The ChatGPT Atlas browser won't make it to its one-year anniversary.

OpenAI has received approval from the Trump administration to publicly roll out GPT-5.6 after an earlier limited preview restricted access to government-approved organizations. The company also launched ChatGPT Work, a new GPT-5.6-powered agent that combines ChatGPT and Codex-style capabilities

ChatGPT Work turns ChatGPT into an AI agent that can complete multi-step projects across connected apps and desktop tools with GPT-5.6 powering the new experience

OpenAI has a new chatbot to handle all of your work needs.

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up

Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs

OpenAI is hiring for n Investment Banking Subject Matter Expert to help identify high-value AI opportunities in the finance sector.

OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, "claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better," reports TechCrunch

Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

All ChatGPT users are getting access to the new AI voice model, and there's plenty you can do with it.

Upgrade your home office with Brothers new INKvestment printers, featuring compact designs, fast printing speeds, and prices starting at $279.99.

OpenAI has officially launched its latest voice model, GPT-Live , that allows ChatGPT to listen and speak simultaneously despite any pauses or interruptions for more fluid conversations

EMF straws and similar products are being sold as a way to block electromagnetic frequencies that come from common electronic devices, even without scientific evidence that they work.

Global PC shipments are down as memory price hikes affect manufacturers globally Apple even uncharacteristically rose prices mid-term.

A 15-year-old Japanese student was arrested for using ChatGPT-assisted malware to fraudulently cancel over 46,000 Bandai Channel anime subscriptions, forcing a temporary service shutdown.

As part of the Xbox reset, which involves letting 1,600 workers go, and another 1,600 over the coming 12 months, a lot has been trimmed from the Microsoft gaming division, to say the least

GPT-Live is also bringing visual responses, remastered voices, and more to ChatGPT's voice mode.

With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once

What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something?

OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT will acknowledge you as you speak, and slow down if you ask it to.

A peculiar report claims that work on a key component of a lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro is winding down, and that it's because Apple is more interested in AI

A software house known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work.

These drivers will make it easier for your Steam Deck or Steam Machine to play nicely with Windows 11

New Zealand startup Zenno Astronautics has completed the first orbital test of its "Supertorquer," a shoebox-sized superconducting magnet system that uses solar power and Earth's magnetic field to help control a satellite without fuel

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8 ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its latest series of powerful artificial intelligen...

Sonys more recent headphones come with spatial audio tech, though your mileage may vary as to whether it actually improves your listening experience

Anthropic is breaking Claude Cowork out of the desktop app, bringing it directly to web browsers and smartphones.

OpenAI's latest move seems to contradict its earlier stance of not getting distracted by 'side quests'.

Most modern, high-end headphones and earbuds have accelerometers and gyroscopes used for the spatial audio feature that requires precise tracking of head movements in order to make the sound immersive

Doing a little work ahead of time will help keep your gadgets from being fried in an electrical storm.

Starting midnight of July 8, Fable 5 would no longer work with Claude subscriptions.

Agibot's range of humanoid robots has arrived in the UK, and I got the chance to meet them in person.

An Apple user manually upgraded their MacBooks storage and saved $2,200 by doing so

Google Play Services v26.26 bridges the gap between your professional life and your wrist.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The number of students admitted to Ph.D

locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year

Image generation features found in Apple Creator Studio rely on Google Cloud servers, but users will be warned before prompts are sent to the third-party AI tool

Microsoft is laying off about 4,800 employees, including 1,600 from Xbox, as it restructures around AI investments and tries to reset its struggling gaming business

Americans now spend an average of 35 minutes a day socializing, down from 45 minutes two decades ago, according to American Time Use Survey data

Australia plans to double fines for social media platforms that fail to keep under-16s off restricted services, after regulators found 70% of children with accounts remained active three months after the ban took effect

"Companies spending heavily on AI are growing headcount faster, even in the entry-level roles that many fear are doomed," writes TechCrunch

Have you ever needed a Linux application which only exists in the Windows world? Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Windows does have a lot of useful app (but smaller than "power apps")

Japan has plans 10 million robots by 2040, using Noetra AI models to address labour shortages across key industries.

"A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize," reports the Guardian

As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News

Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales

At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software already in it

Microsoft plans a broad post-quantum migration by 2029 as concerns over future decryption risks increase globally.

At Agibot's UK launch event, an executive for the Chinese company spoke on its bold vision for the future of work.

The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination." And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing..

ChatPlayground is an AI tool that gives you lifetime access to multiple AI models, and it's only $55.30

A travel planner, a versatile board, and a do-it-all tool feature in this edition!

A leaker with a fair but short track record, claims that Apple has suspended work on the expected AirPods with cameras

Shadow AI is still a problem but it could be the employer's fault for not providing the right tools in the first place.

The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%

The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions

Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features

A newly discovered macOS infostealer verifies Mac login passwords before stealing sensitive data, giving attackers immediate confirmation that compromised credentials will actually work

We seem to have quite the reversal of the eighth console generation happening