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Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes

21 June 2026 @ 7:34 am

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banned riders or missing persons. Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs. "The idea of running face recognition on a camera that is pointed on live spaces in public is a line that until recently has never really been crossed in the last 25 years," said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology at the American Civil Liberties Union. The state of Missouri declined to help fund the project as expected due to concerns with the facial recognition

Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets

21 June 2026 @ 4:34 am

In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. "But none of those bets were real." Instead its creator was "one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades and sometimes scoring fake wins," the Journal reports, citing interviews with the creators an an analysis of more than 1,100 of their videos: Polymarket built near-perfect copies of its website, then instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket. To get the videos to go viral, Polymarket has recruited a social-media army to copy and re-post creators' footage. Though the New York-based company has been banned from offering its primary crypto platform in the U.S. since 2022, the social-media creators are paid to specifically target U.S. users, who can still access the

Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games

21 June 2026 @ 1:34 am

The gaming news site Aftermath reports: Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games. Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not obtain ownership of those products," lawyers wrote. "Instead, PlayStation grants only a limited, revocable license to access the software, subject to multiple restrictions contained in a separate Software Product License Agreement".... [T]he PlayStation store does have a disclosure. Above the "Confirm Purchase" button, there's a note: "By selecting [Confirm Purchase], you agree to complete the purchase in accordance with the PlayStation Terms of Service before using this content. You further acknow

How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks

20 June 2026 @ 11:23 pm

The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...) In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software used in cyberattacks. Security experts believe manufacturers are being paid to add this malware, but many people also get tricked into downloading the software onto their phones or computers... Within minutes of turning the devices on, there was a surge of internet traffic... Visits to gambling, porn, cryptocurrency and loads of other sketchy web sites started pouring in from users around the world." (And remote visitors also tried to access Outlook and Gmail accounts...) Residential proxy comp

OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test

20 June 2026 @ 9:34 pm

This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure "whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions." But while OpenAI's top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader BrianFagioli notes that "it achieved a pass rate of just 36.1 percent, failing nearly two-thirds of benchmark tasks." Nerds.xyz points out that means "the best-performing model failed nearly two-thirds of the benchmark's tasks." The benchmark also revealed a familiar weakness. AI systems generally perform better when everything is presented as text. Once they are forced to work with supporting documents, figures, or complex datasets, performance drops noticeably. GPT-Rosalind's pass rate fell from 45.1 percent on text-only tasks to 28.1 percent on tasks involving artifacts or URLs. To be fair, the benchmark is not intended to suggest AI is useless in research. Quite the opposite. OpenAI found that models are becoming increasingly c

Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device

20 June 2026 @ 8:34 pm

Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording. "Weighing just 39 kg, including its power pack," Jack Copeland wrote in an article for IEEE Spectrum, "Delilah would be at home in a truck, a trench, or a large backpack." More from Popular Mechanics: Turingâ(TM)s work at Bletchley Park actually informed the Delilah experimentation he was doing at Hanslope Park, and not just because he used Red Forms, the Army-issue sheets Hanslope staffers were meant to use to alert Bletchley staffers to enemy signals, as his personal scrap paper for Delilah exper

Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations

20 June 2026 @ 7:34 pm

Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus — and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were doing together is unfinished, but it's not stopped. The patents are filed, the architecture is documented, and the small team continuing the work includes me. Cringely's first piece made the cast that "the trillion-dollar bet the AI industry is making right now may be wrong, and that there's an architectural alternative we've patented and built." In Machines of Loving Grace, Amodei made the case that scaling compute would eventually solve essentially every hard problem in artificial intelligence. Buried in that optimism — or maybe not buried, maybe right

Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into 'Freeway Construction Zones'

20 June 2026 @ 6:34 pm

CNBC reports: Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company's second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the San Francisco area, the filings published Thursday said... A letter posted to the regulator's website... noted that, "Driving through a closed construction zone increases the risk of a crash..." [Waymo said in a statement emailed to CNBC] "We voluntarily restricted freeway operations last month while making improvements, proactively notified state and federal regulators, and decided to file a voluntary software recall with NHTSA. We continue to safely serve riders on surface streets in all the cities where we operate..

Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak

20 June 2026 @ 5:34 pm

CNN reports: An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said. Devices lit up with the word "misantropi4," an alphanumeric spelling of the Portuguese word "misantropia," which in English translates to "misanthropy". The final letter "a" was substituted with a number '4' — a practice often used by hackers and termed "leetspeak.". The alert — categorized as "extreme" — was initially received in the southern state of Paraná, but a second warning was triggered a few minutes later for cell phones in the major cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian authorities said that the National Civil Defense's warning platform was taken offline after being targeted by a likely hacker attack, and the government is working to restore the tool once all security conditions are reestablished.

SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall

20 June 2026 @ 4:34 pm

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's "one of the more meaningful structural shifts we have seen from a standards body in years" that could "reshape how smaller developers and educators engage with professional media technology." The move covers all published Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines and Registered Disclosure Documents, plus every future release, ending a long-standing model in which individual documents often sold for well over $100 each. For more than a century, SMPTE Standards have quietly governed how images and

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Get AMD's flagship Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5 memory and an MSI B850 Wi-Fi 7 motherboard at a discount — Micro Center bundles are now available on Amazon

20 June 2026 @ 5:57 pm

Micro Center is now selling some of its bundles on Amazon, including this 9800X3D combo that gives you an excellent motherboard and fast RAM without breaking the bank.

WD's 2TB Black SSD price drops by nearly 20% ahead of Prime Day sale — grab the 2TB SN7100 for $242.96

20 June 2026 @ 4:45 pm

The WD Black SN7100 stands out for its high-end performance, low operating temperatures, and impressive efficiency. It is one of the few PCIe 4.0 SSDs that can compete with flagship drives while consuming noticeably less power.

Save $300 on this 1440p-ready gaming PC with 32GB DDR5 RAM — grab the Asus ROG GM700 with AMD's Ryzen 7 8700F and RX 9060 XT for just $1,199

20 June 2026 @ 3:25 pm

Asus' ROG GM700 is a great prebuilt, packing powerful components for a solid price without compromising on the details. It just happens to look nice, too, if you're into the gamer aesthetic.

Award-winning resin 3D printer for beginners is 36% off — grab the Anycubic Photon P1 with dual-color material kit for $619.99

20 June 2026 @ 3:02 pm

Featuring a precision steel build plate, wireless printing support, and excellent print quality, the Anycubic Photon P1 is now available with a dual-color material kit at its lowest advertised price yet.

China unifies tech sector to build grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX — Beijing's forced chip and satellite alliance announced a week before Musk’s AI1 reveal

20 June 2026 @ 2:53 pm

Beijing says the Space Computing Industry Innovation Center will bring together rocket and satellite manufacturers, chip manufacturers, and AI labs to develop a space-based data center system.

The best UK Amazon Prime Day tech deals 2026 — epic savings on premium gaming PCs and laptops, peripherals, 3D printers at Currys, Argos, Scan and CCL, too

20 June 2026 @ 2:06 pm

The best UK deals on gaming PCs, laptops, tools, and accessories for Amazon Prime Day

Rare ASML Special Edition Monopoly board unearthed in social media trade — enthusiast swaps 2007 employee gift for High-NA EUV Lego kit

20 June 2026 @ 1:49 pm

We just witnessed a significant semiconductor industry related non-cash trade deal take place on Twitter/X.

New web app can make Valve's Steam Controller drift across your desk like an RC car — web app drives the gamepad using its rumble motors

20 June 2026 @ 1:37 pm

A developer has created a Chromium browser-based tool that turns Valve's second-gen Steam Controller into a self-propelled RC car.

The best 3D scanners 2026 — the top performing models we've benchmarked

20 June 2026 @ 1:17 pm

We help you find the best 3D scanners for high accuracy, portability, and more.

Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient

20 June 2026 @ 12:00 pm

ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient

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Silicon Valley's longevity biohackers are engaged in a dangerous experiment

20 June 2026 @ 12:00 pm

Influencers and ultra-rich people looking to extend their lifespan are trading tips and tricks on how to eke out extra years

Attachment style may influence how many kids people have

20 June 2026 @ 11:00 am

People with “fearful” or “preoccupied” insecure attachment styles had more children, whereas securely attached people had fewer, according to a recent study

A water treatment expert on what could actually fix the Reflecting Pool

19 June 2026 @ 10:00 pm

The Trump administration wanted the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be “American flag blue.” A water-treatment expert explains why the pool is still algal green and why the bloom could keep coming back

Which World Cup cooling methods really protect players from extreme heat?

19 June 2026 @ 7:30 pm

From booed hydration breaks to cooling-gel vests, teams are trying everything to keep their players from overheating. Physiologists—and one World Cup team doctor—say feeling cooler is different than cooling the body

Scientists pop the cork on the hidden chemistry inside wine bottles

19 June 2026 @ 6:00 pm

A new study captures how cork, wine and air interact over time

Scientists discover remnants of Jellyfish Nebula’s ‘sibling’ supernova

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

Astronomers may have found the remains of two long-dead stellar siblings

In world first, a man living with HIV received a lung transplant from an HIV-positive donor

19 June 2026 @ 12:00 pm

This operation opens the door to treating more people living with HIV who have end-stage organ disease

Ancient human ancestors may have first used fire 1.79 million years ago

19 June 2026 @ 11:00 am

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than previous evidence had suggested

JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies

19 June 2026 @ 10:45 am

The James Webb Space Telescope has found nearby brown dwarfs masquerading as far-distant galaxies. The discovery reinforces how, in astronomy, what you see isn’t always what you get

Why some irrational numbers are more irrational than others

19 June 2026 @ 10:30 am

The quest to approximate irrational numbers with fractions reveals hidden patterns, surprising hierarchies and enduring mathematical mysteries

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What To Know About Screwworm

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

A flesh-eating fly known as New World screwworm has been found in livestock in Texas. Here’s everything you need to know about the parasitic pest. Q: What is our government doing about screwworm? A: They are currently negotiating with the highest-ranking screwworm representatives. Q: Is this why my burger costs $25? A: No, that’s because […] The post What To Know About Screwworm appeared first on The Onion.

Trump Invokes Defense Production Act To Boost Weapons Manufacturing

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to jumpstart the manufacture of munitions, an attempt to replenish weapon stockpiles that have been severely depleted in America’s war with Iran. What do you think? The post Trump Invokes Defense Production Act To Boost Weapons Manufacturing appeared first on The Onion.

PGA Announces All Caddies Must Be Leashed

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

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The Obama Presidential Center By The Numbers

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

After more than a decade of planning, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will open on June 19, 2026, in Chicago’s Jackson Park, offering access to communal gathering spaces, an urban park, and historic archives. Here, The Onion explores the key facts and figures behind the iconic new attraction.  300 ‘Hidden Michelles’ for eagle-eyed visitors to […] The post The Obama Presidential Center By The Numbers appeared first on The Onion.

McDonald’s Warns Corporate Employees To Beware Emails From Sender Purporting To Be Grimace

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

CHICAGO—Telling staff never to click on any suspicious communications with blurred purple images, McDonald’s officials reportedly warned corporate employees Friday to beware any emails from senders purporting to be Grimace. “Grimace will never ask you for your credit card number, social security card, or blood type, so please do not follow any dubious links no […] The post McDonald’s Warns Corporate Employees To Beware Emails From Sender Purporting To Be Grimace appeared first on The Onion.

Man Souring On ISIS After Reading ‘Controversies’ Section Of Militant Group’s Wikipedia

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

SAN JOSE, CA—Grimacing as he delved deeper into the article, local man Carter Lee reportedly found himself souring on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on Monday after reading the “Controversies” section of the militant group’s Wikipedia page. “Holy shit—ISIS does what to unbelievers?” said Lee, recoiling in horror as he viewed a blurred-out […] The post Man Souring On ISIS After Reading ‘Controversies’ Section Of Militant Group’s Wikipedia appeared first on The Onion.

Lea Michele Shows Off Ability To Make Co-Star Cry On Command

19 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm

NEW YORK—Telling everyone to count down as she turned to her colleague, actress Lea Michele reportedly showed off her ability to make her co-star cry on command Friday. “Watch, I’ll make his distress authentic by pulling from his personal traumatic experiences,” said the 39-year-old singer and former Glee star, who brought the rehearsal of her […] The post Lea Michele Shows Off Ability To Make Co-Star Cry On Command appeared first on The Onion.

JD Vance To Personally Care For Chickens At Naval Observatory

18 June 2026 @ 7:43 pm

JD Vance has commissioned a custom chicken coop to be installed at the official Vice Presidential residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory, where he will personally attend to the birds. What do you think? The post JD Vance To Personally Care For Chickens At Naval Observatory appeared first on The Onion.

Trump Warns U.S. Will No Longer Protect G7 From Threat Of Jigsaw

18 June 2026 @ 4:08 pm

ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE—Claiming their failure to help America would now leave the nations incredibly vulnerable to the danger of shotgun carousels, President Donald Trump warned the G7 summit this week that the U.S. will no longer protect them from the threat of the serial killer Jigsaw. “We asked you all for support, and you didn’t listen, […] The post Trump Warns U.S. Will No Longer Protect G7 From Threat Of Jigsaw appeared first on The Onion.

New York City Mayor Presents Knicks With Key To His Car

18 June 2026 @ 3:50 pm

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