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Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months ift.tt/eVC5czU

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months - Slashdot

The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there's more bad news, reports CNBC." "Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July...

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Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032) ift.tt/QFKleIX

Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032) - Slashdot

Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that "Between 2029 and 2032,...

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UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence ift.tt/Ir57kTA

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence - Slashdot

The Sunday Times reports: A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a "number of cases". Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was...

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How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras ift.tt/yj0lmSu

How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras - Slashdot

A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate... Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a...

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Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models ift.tt/PqbTi8e

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models - Slashdot

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Trump administration's decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy...

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Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform' ift.tt/0PgQtkZ

Shutterstock 'Evolves' Into 'Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform' - Slashdot

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a "human-led, AI-powered" creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with...

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GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries ift.tt/8iC7Mrb

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries -...

"Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI's demand on the electricity grid," argues The Washington Post's editoral board, arguing that GM's latest moves "offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints...

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Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork ift.tt/fTms2X4

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork - Slashdot

This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports: The release is based on Vim...

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Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages ift.tt/yklZDpV

Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages - Slashdot

More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" were infected with malware, reports Phoronix: The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting...

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OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America's State Attorneys General ift.tt/hF8DQj9

OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America's State Attorneys General - Slashdot

"A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter." OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena...

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New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds ift.tt/4Ctjm6e

New UK Referendum Would Flip 'Brexit' Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds - Slashdot

It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's "Brexit" vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll "shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain's...

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US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse ift.tt/WnXVSD9

US Congress Lets 'Warrantless Wiretap' Law FISA Lapse - Slashdot

It's the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports: Each year, the provision is used by American...

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Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House ift.tt/UTED1fa

Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House - Slashdot

The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and...

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World's First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation's Future ift.tt/EWUAtbI

World's First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation's Future - Slashdot

The Helios Horizon has completed what its developers call the first crewed, fixed-wing flight powered by solid-state batteries. New Atlas reports: On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off...

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Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access ift.tt/2x5vaGB

Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access - Slashdot

"Anthropic said on Friday it will 'abruptly disable' its most advanced AI models for all users," reports Reuters, "after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign...

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Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 ift.tt/jEoPhde

Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The...

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Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer' ift.tt/uIC5NjD

Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer' - Slashdot

Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems,...

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Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros. ift.tt/fpyDk8d

Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros. - Slashdot

The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still faces scrutiny from...

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ShinyHunters Hacked 100 Organizations By Exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-Day ift.tt/TseOvHF

ShinyHunters Hacked 100 Organizations By Exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-Day - Slashdot

ShinyHunters claims it exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, where it says it stole 40GB of student and...

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Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts ift.tt/OecsrJb

Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a...

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