Sunken SS United States Set To Become World’s Largest Artificial Reef
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PBS: The historic ocean liner SS United States will be intentionally sunk Wednesday off the coast of the Florida panhandle. Live coverage of the sinking of the SS United States is expected to start at 1 p.m. EST, with the sinking expected at 2 p.m. EST. Watch live in the video player above. In its … ⌘ Read more

United Airlines Bans AI Agents From Booking Flights On Behalf of Travelers
United Airlines is banning unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking flights, checking in passengers or making account changes on travelers’ behalf. CBS News reports: To make an airline booking, an AI agent requires access to a customer’s personal information, including credentials like payment information. United has a probl … ⌘ Read more

Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship With Nvidia Executive Who Reports to Him
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing scrutiny over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Now, The New York Times reports that Mr. Huang also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice president of health care and a direct report, raising questions about conflicts of interest and compli … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia and Jensen Huang Face Shareholder Lawsuit Alleging Investors Were Misled About Spy Affair
Charlotte Web shares a report from the Associated Press: A shareholder has sued Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, accusing them of deceiving investors in their responses to media reports about Huang’s affair with a purported Chinese spy that threatens national security. […] The ne … ⌘ Read more

New York Forces T-Mobile to End Data Caps On Low-Income Plans
New York has forced T-Mobile to remove a 50GB monthly data cap from its $15 low-income broadband plan after regulators found customers who exceeded the limit had their speeds cut by more than 97%, to just 650 Kbps. “Additionally, the [Office of the Attorney General (OAG)] found T-Mobile restricted [New York’s Affordable Broadband Act (ABA)] plans t … ⌘ Read more

Ukraine Strikes Cause Permanent Data Loss at Russia’s Yandex Cloud
Russia’s Yandex says 2.84% of customer data has been permanently lost following Ukrainian strikes on data centers in the country. “According to the company, recovery is impossible because of critical damage to equipment and the lack of backup copies on the platform,” reports UNITED24 Media. From the report: Yandex clarified that customers … ⌘ Read more

Court Says Trump Can’t Use Leaks To Justify Spying On Journalists’ LinkedIn DMs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration’s fight to stop suspected leaks of top-secret military information on LinkedIn can’t sweep in “a vast number of confidential sources” of random journalists “who have no conceivable relationship” to the Department of Justice’s investigation, … ⌘ Read more

Logitech Giving All 7,000 Employees the Day Off to Play GTA 6
Under a new “Logi Game Day” initiative, Logitech is giving all 7,000 of its employees an extra paid day off to play GTA 6 when it launches on November 19. Employees and interns can use the day off anytime over the next year. Tom’s Hardware reports: As for Logitech, the company believes that it’s time for people to move away from the belief that playing … ⌘ Read more

Apple Is Killing Its Support Community Forum Next Week
Apple is shutting down its Apple Support Community forum on November 20, ending a user-to-user support platform whose history stretches back to the 1998 launch as the Apple Tech Exchange. The forum is already read-only, and Apple has not said whether the nearly three decades of community posts will be preserved or disappear when the site closes. Here’s the full ban … ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s Ring Unveils Flying Drone and Robot To Patrol Homes and Businesses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon’s Ring is going deeper into surveillance with an indoor drone for home monitoring and an autonomous robot designed to patrol businesses. The company on Tuesday unveiled the $250 Ring Drone Cam, a security camera that can fly from room to room, including upstairs, as we … ⌘ Read more

GTA VI Is Now Available For Preloading
Ancient Slashdot reader Lank writes: GTA VI is now available for preloading. The download weighs in at a whopping 210+ gigabytes on the PS5! Start downloading now and remember to take Nov. 19th off from work. “On Xbox, preloads for digital versions went live at 12 a.m. GMT on November 10 for Series X and Series S, which translates to 7 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. CST / 5 p.m. MST / 4 p.m. PT on Monday, Nov … ⌘ Read more

US and Rest of World Must Follow China’s Lead On Green Energy, Says John Kerry
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approac … ⌘ Read more

M John Harrison Becomes First Sci-Fi Author To Win Booker Prize
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winne … ⌘ Read more

Google Fi Brings Back Network Switching With ‘Secondary’ Partner
Google Fi is bringing back network switching through an unnamed “secondary” 5G carrier. “Most users will be on the ‘Primary network,’ but Google Fi will automatically switch users to the ‘Secondary network’ if it meaningfully improves performance with so-called ‘smart thresholds’ for doing so,” reports 9to5Google. “At launch, there is no manual s … ⌘ Read more

Fireworks AI Confirms Wider Breach Affecting Notion AI Chats
Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers gaining access to customer account and billing information as well as some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion, the popular productivity and note-taking app, disclosed that it was impacted in the breach but “fewer than 1% of Notion workspaces” were … ⌘ Read more

New York Launches Nation’s First State AI Testing Program
New York is launching a state-backed AI safety research center at Binghamton University that will independently study and test AI systems, develop safety and security techniques, and train researchers in responsible AI. “While the federal government fails to act, New York is leading the way on AI safety and holding big tech accountable,” New York Gov. Kathy Hoch … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Launches New Workplace Features To Take On Microsoft and Google
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced new workplace features on Tuesday, including Claude Meetings, which brings Claude into video calls to begin working on tasks while participants are still talking. The company also unveiled Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets. The launch of Anthropic’s new … ⌘ Read more

Starlink Mini 2 Adds a Swappable Battery, Wi-Fi 6
SpaceX has unveiled the Starlink Mini 2, equipping the company’s smallest satellite internet terminal with a removable 71Wh battery and Wi-Fi 6. Preorders are opening to select U.S. customers for $999, which includes a year of Roam Unlimited service. Shipments are expected to begin in mid-December. InterestingEngineering reports: The removable battery represents the biggest fun … ⌘ Read more

Nintendo Is Officially Investing In Game Preservation
Nintendo is hiring a digital archivist to help ensure the company’s historical records are “preserved for future generations.” The 12-month position is tasked with designing and implementing a “structured framework for organizing technical records, engineering documentation, source materials, and institutional knowledge related to legacy systems and platforms.” Polyg … ⌘ Read more

Blender 5.3 Released With Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default
Blender 5.3 has been released with support for 3D Gaussian Splats, Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Vulkan as the default graphics backend on Linux. Phoronix reports: Blender now allows importing Gaussian Splats from PLY, SPZ, and glTF files. Also new to Blender 5.3 is NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction support as a new … ⌘ Read more

Reddit Is Turning User Conversations Into AI-Powered Product Reviews
Reddit is rolling out an AI-powered shopping feature called “Reddit Reviews” that summarizes user conversations about products and turns them into dedicated reviews. TechCrunch reports: Reddit’s announcement points to its rules and its latest measures to combat automated abuse and spam, as well as its practice involving community moderato … ⌘ Read more

Europe Must Rethink Security As Big Tech Power Grows, EU Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Union must rethink security to take into account challenges and risks posed by the growing power of major technology companies that go beyond traditional competition concerns, European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera said on Monday. “We need to review and to deepen our concep … ⌘ Read more

Uber Is Launching Its Own Parking Reservation Service
Uber is launching Uber Parking, integrating technology from its SpotHero acquisition to let users find and reserve parking garages and lots directly through the Uber app. “You can also filter your results based on criteria like whether you want to self-park or use a valet, or other specific amenities,” adds Engadget. From the report: To book a spot, you’ll need to pro … ⌘ Read more

Boston Dynamics Adds Wheels to Atlas Humanoid
Boston Dynamics has equipped its Atlas humanoid with wheels, allowing the robot to rapidly roll across flat terrain while still using its articulated legs to navigate obstacles and uneven surfaces. “The ‘experiment’ combined classical model-based motor control with whole-body reinforcement learning to maintain dynamic stability across unstructured, real-world terrain,” reports Th … ⌘ Read more

FDA Warns GLP-1s May Increase Risk of Sudden Blindness
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that GLP-1 drugmakers must add a warning label about a rare eye condition that can cause sudden blindness. The condition, called nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, affects the optic nerve, which carries signals from the eye to the brain. When blo … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Took 31 Years to Let You Kill Windows 11’s Sticky Keys Popup
Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 option that lets users permanently disable the Sticky Keys and Filter Keys activation prompts directly from the pop-ups themselves, ending a 31-year-old annoyance without requiring a trip into Settings. Windows Latest reports: Sadly, the dialog is still the same aging Win32 window, but we spotted Micr … ⌘ Read more

Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation
President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a woman alleged by U.S. intelligence to have gathered information for Beijing. “I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said at a White House briefing. The Associated Pre … ⌘ Read more

Epic Games Comments On Planned Linux Distribution Support
Epic Games says it plans to support its new Linux launcher on as many distributions as possible, specifically naming Fedora, SteamOS, CachyOS and Omarchy. GamingOnLinux’s Liam Squires-Hand reports: Speaking to Jake Jones, Communications Director at Epic Games, they said: “Hey Liam! The new Epic Games Launcher is still in Preview and we plan to support as many … ⌘ Read more

France Accuses Iran of Supermarket Fridge Hacking
France has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind last month’s cyberattacks on fridges and freezers across the country. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the attack was “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression,” adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions “at the European level.” The BBC reports: The cy … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Launches New Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 Models
Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 with “improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision,” while cutting Fable’s input price and claiming 30% faster responses. TechCrunch reports: It’s Anthropic’s first model release since the arrival of a third-party report from the assessment group METR, which suggested the lab might be approaching rec … ⌘ Read more

Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Investigators at the Commerce Department were deep into a monthslong investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips into China when their work came to a sudden halt late last year. The investigation centered on Megaspeed, a … ⌘ Read more

Google Unveils Two New Specialized AI Chips to Widen Its Challenge to Nvidia
Google is expanding its AI chip lineup with two specialized TPUs arriving next year: the TPU 8tx, which encrypts sensitive data at the chip level for confidential computing, and the TPU 8i Max, which combines two TPU chips to provide more processing power and memory for long-context workloads. The move broadens Google’s ch … ⌘ Read more

Huawei Says It’s Made a 100% Chinese PC
Huawei has unveiled the Qingyun HM650, a desktop PC it claims is made entirely from Chinese-manufactured components, including its own 10-core Kirin X90 processor and an enterprise version of HarmonyOS. “While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies manufactured 100 percent of the components in the machine, it is unclear if all those components use Chinese designs,” notes The Register. Fr … ⌘ Read more

Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Alexis Ohanian wants to figure out the future of user-generated content. According to the Reddit cofounder, building social media apps is “not cool anymore” and so much of the internet has been compromised. “I’m expecting some better version of the group chat to be that new version of UGC,” Oha … ⌘ Read more

Orbiter Detects Signs of Possible Volcanic Activity on Mars
Futurism reports:

While many scientists have long held that Mars is “geologically dead” inside, new research is adding to the growing body of evidence to the contrary.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, an international team of researchers examined data collected by the European and Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter … ⌘ Read more

Surprise for Cast of ‘Return of the Living Dead’ Sequel. They Were Replaced by AI
A crowdfunded sequel to the movie Return of the Living Dead was uploaded last weekend — but producer Richard Driscoll is drawing criticism for what he did to the 1985 punk/zombie classic.

Kotaku reports:
[The release of the movie] came to the surprise to the original cast, who were attached to star in th … ⌘ Read more

Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After Spotting LLM-Assisted License Laundering
It’s FOSS reports:

Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today. For years, the project put most of its own code under the MIT license so that anyone, including the BSDs, could reuse it as needed… They have announced that Asahi is moving all of its repositories to the GNU … ⌘ Read more

Electric Cars Are Close to Overtaking Petrol In the UK, Data Shows
69 million people people live in the United Kingdom. And now >Electrek reports:

Battery-electric cars took 32% of the UK’s new car market in October, while petrol cars fell to just 37.2%, according to new data from the SMMT. That’s the closest the two have been. At the current pace, electric cars will outsell petrol in the UK within a yea … ⌘ Read more

Can CrowdStrike’s New ‘AI Kill Switch’ Shut Down Rogue AI Agents?
CrowdStrike’s “Falcon Guardian” protects Windows systems by enforcing policy, restricting unauthorized applications and blocking USB devices, notes Gartner.
And now CrowdStrike says they’re giving security teams “the ultimate human control over AI agents” with — an “AI Kill Switch… a defender can terminate it where it runs, block it from launching … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia CEO Admits Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy. Investigation Opened
CNBC reports new details about the relationship of alleged Chinese spy with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

Huang told Nvidia staff in a email on Sunday that he had an affair with the woman and that Nvidia’s board of directors had opened an independent investigation into the spying allegations. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions … ⌘ Read more

Parents Sue Google Over AI Safety Risks On School Chromebooks
The New York Times reports:

After chatting for months with Google’s artificial intelligence on a school-issued Chromebook laptop, a 13-year-old student made plans to end her life, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday, the latest in a wave of litigation over Big Tech’s effects on young people. The lawsuit, which refers to … ⌘ Read more

Salon, One of the Web’s Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years
“It has been an extraordinary privilege,” says the subheading on Thursday’s announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under the byline “Salon”. It remembers that Salon “was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was stil … ⌘ Read more

Claude Code’s ‘Don’t Ask Again’ File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub
Be careful with the file .claude/settings.local.json, warns The Hacker News:

Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user selects “Yes, and don’t ask again,” Anthro … ⌘ Read more

Do Data Centers Have a Smaller Effect on Electricity Prices Than We Think?
“According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, data centers are probably having only a small effect on residential electricity prices,” reports the Washington Post.

“The researchers calculated that these operations were responsible for just 4% of the utility rate increase … ⌘ Read more

Norwegians Release FOSS GNOME Software for Music Recording, Internet Radio, and Cameras
ole (Slashdot reader #19,909) writes in about his free, Norwegian open-source music recording studio for GNOME called GarageJam, which he says allows musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet.
The latest release, GarageJam 8.0.1, is available in C and Pyth … ⌘ Read more

Python’s CVEs Triple. Anthropic Funds a New Security Developer
In the last year CVEs have increased 3x for Python and its package manager Pip, according to Python’s security developer in residence Seth Larson. “And the amount of malware published and removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) is up 60%.” Securing Python’s ecosystem is getting more complex, he writes, especially given “the evolving role of … ⌘ Read more

Aaron Swartz Would’ve Been 40 Today. His ‘Legacy Lives On’ Says FSF
“Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year,” writes FSF deputy director Sean O’Brien. “November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose contributions helped shape the modern internet.”

The Internet Archive will host a hackathon Sunday in San Francisco celebrating Aaron’s Swartz’s li … ⌘ Read more

NASA Announces It’s Looking for New Astronauts
Saturday NASA officials announced it’s accepting applications for a new astronaut class, reports the Associated Press:

With only 32 active astronauts, the space agency needs more recruits as it looks to expand humanity’s presence beyond low-Earth orbit as quickly as possible… “We have far more work than we have astronauts,” Artemis III commander Randy Bresnik told The Associat … ⌘ Read more

Scifi Magazine ‘Starlog’ Relaunches, and Back Issues Return to Internet Archive
Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news about the classic science ficdtion magazine Starlog. It’s 33-year run from 1976 to 2009 is now available on the Internet Archive.

And 17 years after publishing its final issue, Starlog is relaunching, publishing one issue a year starting November 13, according to The Holly … ⌘ Read more

AlpineBSD Announced - an AI-free FOSS OS
Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030) shares his article about a new OS in the BSD family “combining NetBSD’s kernel and libc with a port of the Alpine Linux userland” — and promising it won’t use AI-generated code:

AlpineBSD is so new that it barely exists yet. There are no installation media available, though it’s possible to manually bootstrap an installation. What AlpineBSD does already have i … ⌘ Read more