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HTML Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines
Microsoft's cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . "The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite appar ...
HTML Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
With nearly 70% of the market, "Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit," writes the Los Angeles Times. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they're being filmed ...
HTML AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really badpops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate. But there's something interesting about ...
HTML Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littletonâ(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company with ...
HTML California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down compute ...
HTML AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch
XDA Developers reports:On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that "treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch" on his X accoun ...
HTML Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge... Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be "more productive"...Champions of the sw ...
HTML Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel. "I used to be a data center architect, at one point I was the IT ...
HTML OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra
OpenAI announced Friday it's pausing work on its Astra AI model because of security concerns. The Guardian reports:The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found "significant advancements in ag ...
HTML Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express:Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electr ...
HTML GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now a ...
HTML Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock ...
HTML Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, Bethesda released "a brutal new episode" — a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine "delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and n ...
HTML RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
IGN reports:[A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you gu ...
HTML Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
"Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google's search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court fili ...