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Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead ift.tt/cMvgDBL
Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead - Slashdot

Anthropic Engineer Declares the Coding Interview Dead - Slashdot

An Anthropic engineering manager says he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because AI can now outperform candidates on the kinds of programming challenges they typically contain....

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Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers ift.tt/VpTjdLx
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers - Slashdot

Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers - Slashdot

A massive leak has exposed records tied to more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including roughly 10,000 ICE personnel. The data, reportedly taken from DHS's Okta login system, reveals...

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Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See ift.tt/XgOt7jP
Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See - Slashdot

Amazon Puts a Camera In Its Echo Studio So Alexa Can See - Slashdot

Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker, allowing Alexa to visually identify objects, help with tasks and remotely monitor a room. For those concerned about privacy, Amazon is keeping a...

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Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? ift.tt/lNYE3UL
Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? - Slashdot

Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public? - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle,...

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Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains ift.tt/k9JQbWp
Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains - Slashdot

Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gains - Slashdot

Ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Tom's Hardware, adding: "Huh. Looks like consuming one's own slop does not turn the wheels of industry." From the report: Amazon wants its...

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Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro ift.tt/2Ezte19
Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro - Slashdot

Apple Announces Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro - Slashdot

Apple has unveiled its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, reversing a position the company held for more than 15 years that touchscreens were poorly suited for laptops. 9to5Mac reports: The new machine...

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EMACS Turns 50 ift.tt/AGUpVkY
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EMACS Turns 50 - Slashdot

"EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!" writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know...

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FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar ift.tt/zNPX4uV
FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar - Slashdot

FCC Approves Amazon Leo's $11.5 Billion Acquisition of Globalstar - Slashdot

The FCC has approved (PDF) Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion acquisition of satellite operator Globalstar, giving the Starlink rival additional infrastructure and spectrum to expand into direct-to-device...

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Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android ift.tt/CWHaVys
Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android - Slashdot

Google Begins Certifying Registered App Stores For Android - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Running an app ecosystem has gotten a lot more complex for Google after its loss in the Epic Games antitrust case. While U.S. users can access...

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Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet ift.tt/K1HqItJ
Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet - Slashdot

Astronomers May Have Just Discovered Our Solar System's Sixth Dwarf Planet - Slashdot

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered 2026 ED138, a large object beyond Neptune that could become the solar system's sixth recognized dwarf planet if further observations...

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CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs ift.tt/k3JY0n5
CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs - Slashdot

CDC Warns of Rising Threat of Drug-Resistant Germs - Slashdot

The CDC estimates that 19 drug-resistant pathogens cause 9.7 million infections and more than 50,000 deaths annually in the U.S., with resistance continuing to outpace development of new treatments....

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Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says ift.tt/YRIVTHo
Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says - Slashdot

Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries, the United...

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Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging ift.tt/dCcnSxI
Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging - Slashdot

Ford's Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging - Slashdot

Ford's upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV....

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Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans ift.tt/n3dWzNH
Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans - Slashdot

Growing List of Firms Object to OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plans - Slashdot

Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ have joined a growing list of companies objecting to having tokenized versions of their shares traded through OKX and Intercontinental Exchange's blockchain venture,...

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Code-Execution Flaw In UEFI Firmware Threatens Most Servers On Planet Earth ift.tt/euAVjB6
Code-Execution Flaw In UEFI Firmware Threatens Most Servers On Planet Earth - Slashdot

Code-Execution Flaw In UEFI Firmware Threatens Most Servers On Planet Earth - Slashdot

Ars Technica's Dan Goodin reports: Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the...

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The headline overstates the risk; the flaw only affects EDK2-based systems actively PXE network-booting and requires local network access during that narrow window. github.com/tianocore/edk2… arstechnica.com/security/2026/… news.ssbcrack.com/cve-2026-97631…
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Google's Genie 4 World Model Adds Audio, More Realistic Worlds ift.tt/exc4HO1
Google's Genie 4 World Model Adds Audio, More Realistic Worlds - Slashdot

Google's Genie 4 World Model Adds Audio, More Realistic Worlds - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and...

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Anduril Partners With Qualcomm to Build Laptops On US Soil ift.tt/IrwOLby
Anduril Partners With Qualcomm to Build Laptops On US Soil - Slashdot

Anduril Partners With Qualcomm to Build Laptops On US Soil - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader fadethepolice writes: Anduril, arguing that its manufacturing capabilities are directly applicable to laptop manufacturing, is starting a project for a fully 100% U.S.-sour...

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Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking ift.tt/eQOtaiP
Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking - Slashdot

Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking - Slashdot

Apple has acknowledged an inner-display defect affecting a small number of its new $1,999 iPhone Duo foldables after customers reported hearing a crunch while unfolding the device before cracks,...

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Cybersecurity CEO Indicted For Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims ift.tt/CjAMIYd
Cybersecurity CEO Indicted For Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims - Slashdot

Cybersecurity CEO Indicted For Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: A Florida man who was the subject of a 2019 investigation by ProPublica was indicted last month on federal charges that he defrauded clients of...

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Apple Updates MacBook Pro With M6 Chips ift.tt/Zpkq4cD
Apple Updates MacBook Pro With M6 Chips - Slashdot

Apple Updates MacBook Pro With M6 Chips - Slashdot

Ahead of the touchscreen MacBook Pro expected to debut tomorrow, Apple has refreshed its standard 14-inch MacBook Pro with the new M6 processor, promising up to 20% faster multithreaded performance,...

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