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

Microsoft Removes PC-to-PC Migration from Windows 11, Points Users to OneDrive-Based Backup
Windows 11 offered a PC-to-PC Migration feature that “moved files and settings directly between two PCs over Wi-Fi or Ethernet,” reports Ghacks. But according to an updated Microsoft support page, the tool is no longer available.

“Microsoft’s support documentation now redirects users to Window … ⌘ Read more

Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
Rather than racing toward their net-zero targets, Amazon and other AI/cloud computing companies “are driving emissions sharply higher,” reports the Washington Post:

To support their data centers, tech firms are driving construction of a new generation of supersized, gas-f … ⌘ Read more

Is Mandating AI Use in the Workplace Backfiring?
Some workplaces are holding mandatory AI training sessions, while others “are requiring employees to use a specific number of tokens,” reports the Washington Post, “or log a certain amount of time on AI platforms.”
The article’s headline? “Why mandating AI use in the workplace can backfire.”

[A] lot of employers are going about it the wrong way, said Arvind Karunakaran, an assi … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Find Rare Meteorite From Mars With Signs of Ancient Water
“I didn’t think a rock like this existed on Earth,” a geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas told the Washington Post. It looks like a polished rock, dark brown with a clay-colored stripe — but it’s actually one of the oldest Mars meteorites ever found, blasted by an impact from the surface of Mars billions of years ag … ⌘ Read more

A Third Major US Offshore Wind Farm Is Now Fully Operational
Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to halt development on a $6.2 billion wind farm, it’s now “completely up and running,” reports the nonprofit energy news site Canary Media, delivering enough electricity to power the equivalent over 350,000 homes:

On Thursday, the Danish energy giant Ørsted said its 704-megawatt wind farm near Connecticut and R … ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux Shows Advantages of ABI Compatibility After RHEL Restricted Source Code Access
“AlmaLinux OS charted a new path in 2023 when Red Hat restricted source code access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” remembers Linux Magazine.

“Rather than pursue 1:1 compatibility with RHEL like other Enterprise Linux alternatives, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation chose application binary interface (ABI) … ⌘ Read more

China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with the chief executive of one of the most important artificial intelligence companies in the United States was a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security, Beijing’s top intelligence agency, according to people briefed on U.S. surveillan … ⌘ Read more

Cryosphere Faces Permanent Damage When World Overshoots 1.5C, Scientists Warn
A UN-backed report warns that even temporarily overshooting the Paris agreement’s 1.5C warming target could cause permanent and widespread losses of glaciers, snow and polar ice sheets. With Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets already melting about six times faster than in the 1990s, the report argues that global temperatur … ⌘ Read more

Vibrating Mattress Helps Clear Alzheimer’s Protein From the Brain
A vibrating mattress combined with two pills that release nitric oxide enhanced the brain’s ability to clear an Alzheimer’s-related protein. According to New Scientist, the experiment “caused the brain’s blood vessels to swell and constrict more strongly, which enhanced the glymphatic system’s clearance of [the protein].” From the report: \ … ⌘ Read more

Mexico’s Senate Approves ISP Rules To Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: On Tuesday, Mexico’s Senate approved (PDF) a reform of the Federal Copyright Law that ties ISP liability to having a policy to terminate repeat infringers. [This policy has to be published permanently on their website and in their terms of service, and it must include a basi … ⌘ Read more

EU Says TikTok’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ Effect Must Stop
The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok violates the Digital Services Act because its For You recommendation algorithm can create a “rabbit hole effect,” repeatedly exposing users to potentially harmful content involving topics such as sadness, isolation and body image. TikTok must change the feed’s design or potentially face fines of up to 6% of its global annua … ⌘ Read more

Chainalysis Says Breach Exposed Credentials For All Customers
Chainalysis says attackers exposed usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all of its customers. “While the company locked Chainalysis accounts as a precaution after discovering that some customers’ passwords had been exposed and asked users to reset their passwords before signing in again, it has now taken the login portal offline, together with … ⌘ Read more

Activists Breach Microsoft Data Center Construction Site As Protests Spread In Europe
More than 100 activists breached a Microsoft AI data center construction site in Amsterdam as part of coordinated protests against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. “These data centres are destroying our world. It’s becoming uninhabitable because of all the resources they consume. That’s why we’re … ⌘ Read more

Developer Pulls Roku’s Popular Fish Tank Screensaver Following Fox Sale
Roku is removing its popular Aquatic Life fish tank screensaver on December 1 and automatically switching affected users to Roku City. According to Cord Cutters News, the creator pulled the license after Roku’s sale to FOX was announced. Ars Technica reports: The screensaver has been an option for Roku OS users for 10 years. Roku has … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s New Cyber Model Found Ways to Attack Nearly 1,000 Linux Flaws
OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques. Axios reports: During testing, the system identified 1,724 security flaws and found ways to use 9 … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Top Republican lawmakers have asked Jensen Huang to appear before Congress to answer questions after it was reported that US intelligence officials believe Nvidia’s chief executive has been targeted by a Chinese spying operation. The chairs of the House committees on Ch … ⌘ Read more

Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production
Elon Musk says Tesla will be “winding down” Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 to free up capacity for increased production of its Cybercab robotaxi. CNBC reports: The Cybertruck is exclusively produced at the company’s plant in Texas alongside the Tesla Model Y and two-seat Cybercab, which Musk has touted as a crucial product for the automaker moving forward. Musk … ⌘ Read more

Britain to Make Salary Disclosure In Job Ads Mandatory
Britain plans to require employers to disclose salaries in job advertisements. “Whether you’re a young person starting out or a parent trying to support your family, you should know what a job pays before spending your time and effort applying for it,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in a statement. Reuters reports: The government said requiring companies to disclo … ⌘ Read more

Sony Revives the Original Walkman Headphones, Adds USB-C
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sony has brought back the MDR-3-series headphones that debuted in 1979 alongside the Walkman TPS-L2 cassette player. […] The new MDR-3R (originally called the “MDR-3L2”) headphones look just like the originals and come with orange and blue ear cushions. New headphones are often wireless these day … ⌘ Read more

Blue Origin Announces New Glenn Third Stage, New Booster Engine
Blue Origin has unveiled a third stage called GS3 for its New Glenn rocket, designed to deliver satellite constellations directly to geostationary orbit and support heavy-lift missions to the Moon and deep space. The company also announced Northstar, a new methalox booster engine that it says produces 715,000 pounds of thrust while cutting mass b … ⌘ Read more

FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control
The FAA announced today that it is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control systems at more than 400 facilities. Engadget reports: They’ll be replaced by a more modern system called Enterprise – Information Display System (E-IDS), which is comprised of a digital display for relaying status information, updates and other alerts to air traffic teams. … ⌘ Read more

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Changing the Color of the Ocean
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic – so full, in fact, that it seems to be changing the color of the ocean. […] To better understand how microplastics may have influenced the ocean’s … ⌘ Read more

Applebee’s Exposed Customers’ Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App
Joe_Dragon shares a report from TechCrunch: Applebee’s has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee’s mobile app, TechCrunch has learned. The popular restaurant chain confi … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Responds to US Midterm Elections With New Commitment to Communities
“OpenAI has published a new National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, apparently in response to the Blue Wave Midterm Elections,” writes ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure. “Instead of moving into communities like a juggernaut, they say they will be dangling friendly carrots going forward.” Here’s an ex … ⌘ Read more