Apple HomeView Ultra, Drone and Laundry-Folding Robot Reportedly In Development
According to The Information, Apple is developing a $1,000 HomeView Ultra smart home hub with a 9-inch touchscreen mounted on a motorized arm that can follow users around a room and autonomously respond to its surroundings. It’s also said to be experimenting with more ambitious home robots, including a wheeled rob … ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Is Reportedly Looking At Buying Boost Mobile
SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post’s sources, the deal could look like SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile outright or gaining access to its cell network, which is le … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Might Rebrand Its Data Centers As ‘AI Compute Campuses’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a “PR blitz” for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too. The company’s chief global affairs … ⌘ Read more

The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls
The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orla … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s Canada Timezone Troubles Leave Admins Fixing Calendars, Pretending They’re In Bogota
Microsoft is scrambling to fix time-zone problems across Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric, SharePoint and other products after parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1. “The company has confirmed problems across a chunk of its software estate, leaving some c … ⌘ Read more

Marvell to Buy Lumentum In $115 Billion Bet On AI Connectivity
Marvell has agreed to acquire optical components maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. “AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental architectural shift toward optical connectivity, creating an opportunity that comes along once in a generation,” said Marvell Chairman and CEO Matt Murphy. “The companies that … ⌘ Read more

Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit By Second Suspected Cyberattack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France. Sweden’s Coop chain told t … ⌘ Read more

Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage
The number of game pages being created per-day on Itch has doubled, the indie games site announced Saturday on Bluesky. When asked why, they responded: “take a guess.”

As the gaming news site Aftermath puts it, “the surge has been almost entirely down to AI-created garbage racing onto the platform as the popularity of vibe-coded theft, copycats and machine-built slop explodes.”

Ba … ⌘ Read more

Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It
“Police continue to blindly trust Flock cameras above and beyond the evidence in front of their own eyes,” reports Jalopnik.com.

“After incorrectly connecting Rosalyn Crump’s car to a shooting that had occurred the previous day, police had her car towed and impounded as evidence, reports Moneywise…”

According to WWBT 12 On … ⌘ Read more

Rocky Linux Creator Built a New ‘Not Linux’ Kernel in 11 Days Using AI
From the blog It’s FOSS

Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world. He created CentOS, and when Red Hat messed it up, he started Rocky Linux as the community replacement. He also co-founded CIQ, the company offering enterprise support around Rocky. His latest project has nothing to do with rebuilding another Linux distro, though … ⌘ Read more

Experts Expect ‘Security Reckoning’ As AI Tools Find And Exploit Software Bugs
The Washington Post reports:

Tens of thousands of South Koreans had their financial data exposed online in recent weeks after at least nine major banks there suffered cyberattacks that suggested a dark future for online security. One man, a 26-year-old living in southern China, was allegedly behind the attacks, according t … ⌘ Read more

Binance Reopens to $3.64 in Net Outflows. ‘98% Choose to Stay’, Says Its Founder
Binance now says it’s replenished 90% of assets stolen last week in a $6.3 billion security breach, its customers still “rushed to move funds off the platform” when it reopened Sunday, CNBC reports, and Binance “said it recorded $3.64 billion in net outflows after reopening withdrawals on Sunday.”

The exchange processed … ⌘ Read more

Stack Overflow: ‘Reports of Our Death are Greatly Exaggerated’
Stack Overflow’s senior VP of community says predictions of their demise “make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge — and the company — behind it.

AI has changed developer behavior. In our recently released 2026 Developer Survey, 64% of respondents said they vis … ⌘ Read more

Toyota’s EV Sales More Than Doubled In a Year, While Its Gas Car Sales Drop 20% In China
Toyota’s EV sales have jumped 127% through September, reports Electrek:

Including Lexus, Toyota sold 309,766 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) globally through the first nine months of 2026, up 127.4% from the same period last year. Except for January (+87.5%), Toyota’s EV sales have more than doubled … ⌘ Read more

SystemD’s Creator Opens Signups for Private Preview of Amutable’s Cryptographically Verified Linux Systems
SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time.

It’s FOSS calls it “a read-only, image-based system … ⌘ Read more

Religious Exemption from Using AI in Workplace Granted to Humanist
“David Durman, a nontheistic humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace,” reports TechCrunch.

Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch that humanism centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively … and implores a person to try to improve both their wel … ⌘ Read more

AI Makes Linux 7.4 Merge Window the Largest in Kernel History
“On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record,” writes Phoronix,” with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3:

As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines. That’s from 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code. Or nearly … ⌘ Read more

Which Tech Companies Started Using Trump’s Phrase ‘Super Intelligence’?
CNBC reports:

A month after President Donald Trump ordered that “super intelligence” replace the term artificial intelligence within executive branch departments and agencies, his leading tech allies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, followed suit on earnings calls. Their fellow tech CEOs were less eager to do the same… SpaceX and Tesl … ⌘ Read more

College Students are Pushing Colleges to ‘De-Flock’
Inside Higher Ed reports:

In September, Emory University removed a dozen license plate-reading cameras from its campus in Atlanta and declined to renew its contract with Flock Safety, the company that sells and operates the automatic license plate readers and other mass-surveillance technology. For the coalition of Emory students and employees who had spent months pushing t … ⌘ Read more

Amid AI Bans, Microsoft and OpenAI Plan a ‘Joyful’ Hour of AI for Kids
Generative AI was recently banned in America’s two largest school districts, just weeks after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens.

But forging ahead, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org — now renamed CodeAI — has named OpenAI the “Lead Partner” for its 2026 Hour of AI (which last year replaced its signature event, “the Hour of Code”). Long-tim … ⌘ Read more

Meta Discussed ‘Whisper Strategy’ to Discredit Social Media Critic Jonathan Haidt, Files Show
The Guardian reports:
Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents. Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, … ⌘ Read more

America’s Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump’s Daylight Saving Push
Clocks “fall back” one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.

But the U.S. Congress “remains deadlocked about how to make that happen.”

The clocks are falling back despite a bipartisan House vote in July to make daylight savi … ⌘ Read more

Xbox Manager: AI Already Being Used In Xbox Game Development - And Throughout the Game Industry
Should generative AI be used for videogame development? Brandon Stirrup, a strategy manager at Xbox, claims Xbox is already using AI, reports Engadget. And he also says that those who say they aren’t are merely “pretending.”

Stirrup deactivated his social media account shortly after … ⌘ Read more

Binance Replenishes 90% of Stolen $6.3B, Pledges They’ll Cover It All, Reopen Sunday
“We’ve now replenished 90% of the stolen assets, and we’re committed to covering the remaining 10%,” Binance co-CEO Richard Teng posted on X, adding that “Our users will not bear the financial impact of this incident.”

“Binance said it was able to replace the funds taken in the record hack by using company money … ⌘ Read more

Computer Simulations Suggest Building Blocks of Life Didn’t Arrive on Prehistoric Comets
CNN reports:

The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy object … ⌘ Read more

Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens
BBS-era “door” games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site’s actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and “how different people later transformed the original images,” starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri.

Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writ … ⌘ Read more

French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:

France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 — which n … ⌘ Read more

NASA Seeks Proposals for Reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope “will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s,” reports Ars Technica.

So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) “asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble.”

Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies’ current … ⌘ Read more

Dozens of Unexplained Drones Have Buzzed America’s Nuclear Plants Since 2024
Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering “the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street.”

Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory … ⌘ Read more

Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract
Earlier The Drive reported a police chief “had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department’s notice the city was canceling its service.
“But in other instances Flock’s gone and reinstalled cameras without permission,” The … ⌘ Read more

Google’s AI Overviews Lowered Reddit’s Traffic. Its Stock Dropped 29%
Reddit’s stock plunged 29.22% on Friday, reports CNBC, its worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024.

Thursday Reddit reported a sales growth that was weaker than previous quarters, and also forecast weak sales for the quarter to come (below analysts expectations):

The report comes as the company has seen a shift in its search re … ⌘ Read more

Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’
Meta’s smart glasses face new questions from two U.S. Senators, reports Gizmodo.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey “are requesting that Meta provide more information before Thanksgiving on whether it conducted detailed human rights due diligence and safety testing on the product before releasing it,” reports Gizmod … ⌘ Read more

Supersonic Airliner In Doubt As Company Shifts to Powering AI Data Centers
Boom Supersonic’s plans to launch its Overture passenger jet by 2029 are facing growing doubts as the company pivots toward manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers. Ars Technica reports: One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to … ⌘ Read more

Google’s First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry
Google’s first experimental space-based data center is operational after launching earlier this month, successfully running its Gemma 4 AI model aboard a satellite and generating a haiku about being in orbit. TechCrunch reports: The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is … ⌘ Read more

Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Gen Z can’t catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for free. Cisco’s president and chief product officer J … ⌘ Read more

Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era
In an opinion piece for 404 Media, Matthew Gault argues that Apple has entered its “slop era,” abandoning its reputation for innovative hardware in favor of recycled ideas and questionable design choices. Here’s an excerpt: My ears perked up when I heard Apple’s new foldable phones were cracking. I licked my lips when the company announced it’s releasing a touch-screen laptop. This was a company that once charged … ⌘ Read more

Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial
Meta has reached an undisclosed settlement in another social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding a trial scheduled for next month and leaving Snap as the sole remaining defendant. Engadget reports: The lawsuit was brought by an 18-year-old woman from Mississippi known as K.D.B who, according to Reuters, has “described staying awake for hours scro … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM
“Looks like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world as a way of propping up his business plan, now that debt-ridden AI companies are teetering on the edge,” writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. Tom’s Hardware reports: In an interview over beers with the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, Altman said that local infer … ⌘ Read more

Thousands of ‘Ghost Students’ Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says
The Justice Department has charged five people in a crackdown on “ghost student” fraud, in which scammers allegedly use stolen identities and AI to enroll fake students in colleges, complete coursework, and collect federal student loan funds. Ars Technica reports: In a press release Thursday, the Department of Justice … ⌘ Read more

US Tech Stocks See Sharp Falls As AI Spending Nears $1 Trillion
U.S. technology stocks plunged for a second consecutive day on Friday as investors grew increasingly concerned about the enormous cost of artificial intelligence development and whether those investments will pay off. The Nasdaq fell more than 3.5%, while Intel shares dropped as much as 30%, Reddit fell 26%, and Alphabet extended its losses after sh … ⌘ Read more

GM Reaches $220 Million Settlement Over Selling Drivers’ Private Data
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: General Motors will pay $220 million to 36 states to settle allegations that it illegally sold private driving behavior and location information to data brokers. As part of the settlement, GM must get drivers’ express consent before it collects or shares their driving and location data – … ⌘ Read more

UK Social Media Ban May Lock Out More Than 100,000 Teens Without ID
Under the UK’s planned social media ban, more than 100,000 British teenagers aged 16 and 17 could initially be locked out of social media because they lack a passport or driving license that may be needed as a fallback for age verification. The Guardian reports: Ofcom, the UK’s online watchdog, said about 150,000 16- to 17-year-olds do not ow … ⌘ Read more

Reddit Will Force Everyone to Log In
Reddit plans to require users to log in to browse the platform, ending its longstanding practice of allowing anonymous visitors to access posts and discussions. According to CEO Steve Huffman, a key reason behind the decision is to curb unauthorized scraping and automated traffic.

“This is a big change for Reddit, where we’ve allowed logged-out access to basically all of Reddit for the last two decad … ⌘ Read more

Binance Suffers Biggest Crypto Hack In History With $6.3 Billion Affected [UPDATE]
UPDATE 10/30/26: Binance has temporarily suspended customer withdrawals after suffering what investigators say is the biggest crypto hack in history. According to Binance CEO Yi He, the company estimates roughly $6.3 billion in funds were impacted, with roughly $3 billion in assets frozen on-chain so far. Rest assured … ⌘ Read more

The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page
An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from a Wired article that explores the often-contentious process of nominating pages for deletion when their subjects fail to meet the encyclopedia’s notability standards: What do you need to know – need to know – about Xavier Trudeau? The eldest son of former Canadian prime minister Justin, the teenage Trudeau has recently begun performing R&B under t … ⌘ Read more

First Wired XR Glasses Powered By Android XR
XREAL has launched the AURA, its first wired augmented reality glasses powered by Google’s Android XR platform. They feature transparent Micro-OLED displays, a 70-degree field of view, Gemini AI integration, and a Snapdragon Reality Elite processor. TechPowerUp reports: The device is built around a simple idea: your apps, screens, entertainment, and AI assistant should be able to come … ⌘ Read more

Proton CEO Is In ‘Full AI Psychosis’
According to 404 Media, Proton CEO Andy Yen is aggressively pushing AI adoption while fostering what workers describe as a culture of fear that discourages raising security concerns or challenging leadership. The investigation is based on interviews with eight current and one former Proton employees, as well as internal Slack chats, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto written by the company’s CTO. Longti … ⌘ Read more

Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of t … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s CTFC Steps In to Defend Kalshi As Utah Brings Criminal Charges Against Execs
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Utah to defend its claimed exclusive authority over federally registered prediction markets, as the state files (PDF) 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders for allegedly violating anti-gambling laws. The Verge reports: On Wednesday, Utah … ⌘ Read more

Multi-Billion Binance Hack Hitting Crypto Markets
Binance is investigating a potential hack after more than $2 billion in crypto was drained from one of its wallets into a new external account, with Blockaid estimating nearly $3.3 billion was moved.

“Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating,” said Binance on X.

“User funds are safe,” said Binance founder CZ. “It does look like … ⌘ Read more