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 phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting relationships, and permission groups associated with undercover operations, wiretapping and surveillance tools. Wired reports: In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates. The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace. DDoSecrets published the archive, which it calls "Icepick," on Wednesday. In a press release, DDoSecrets says the data is from DHS's Okta login system. In a note with the files, the hackers wrote, "They have our information, so it's only fair that we have theirs." An Okta spokesperson tells WIRED that it is unaware of any breach of its systems. "We are aware of this report. Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised," the spokesperson says. Read more of this story at 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 camera-free version available. The Next Web reports: The camera speaker ships today for $249.99. Hold up a board game box and Alexa can explain the rules, or show it a box of cereal and it can help you reorder it, according to Amazon. Owners can also check in on the room from the Alexa app while they are away. The Echo Studio without a camera stays on sale at $219.99. A dedicated button turns off the microphones and any camera, and a visual indicator shows when a camera streams images or video to the cloud, Amazon said. Certain features require Alexa+, which is included with a Prime membership. Other devices Amazon unveiled today include an Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame and the Echo Show 16. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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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, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: It helped her come up with three bullet points about her 10-year-old daughter for a birthday presentation at school, describing her as "empathetic, creative, and an animal lover." It's a vague description, like a generic horoscope -- it could probably describe a lot of 10-year-olds. Some onlookers, like progressive activist Leah Greenberg, marveled that "the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity." [...] After publication, Mayer defended herself in a long X post. She claims she was not relying on Dazzle to explain her child to her, but rather, she was testing what her prototype could do -- it resurfaced photos of "forgotten kindergarten projects," like a "snake devenomer" or "sandcat playground," illustrating her daughter's creativity and care for animals. Fair enough. But Mayer remarks in the same interview that people could also use her AI to outsource the mental load of "figuring out the theme for your child's birthday party." She says she's used her app to plan a playdate for her daughter, book family activities on vacation, and decide what to be for Halloween. She even proposes that her AI assistant could coordinate plans with her husband's AI assistant. When the reporter asks her if it's depressing to imagine this "frictionless future planned by AI," Mayer replies, "I haven't really thought that through." The bigger question is: What should we outsource to AI? "What feels like grunt work to someone might be a meaningful part of parenthood for someone else," says Fortune's Emma Hinchliffe. Michael Tasner, Founder and CEO of No Joke Marketing, adds: "Customers are drowning in AI slop, and they can spot it. Use AI for the low-stakes work behind the scenes. Keep the moments that matter to your customers human. Human connection is becoming the new premium." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new artificial intelligence model designed to identify software...
Migros-Präsidentin Ursula Nold spricht über den radikalen Umbau und erklärt: Einsparungen seien nicht das Ziel.
APT 3.3.5 improves dependency solver performance by up to 20%, reduces page faults by 65%, and updates repository signing-key handling.
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 engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work. In updated engineering guidelines published on October 27, the company laid out how developers and managers should gauge AI's real impact -- and the takeaway is blunt: consuming more tokens is not the same as delivering more value. [...] According to the memo, metrics such as AI adoption rates, token consumption, code changes, and code reviews become "deeply flawed" when they are disconnected from actual results. Turning them into targets, Amazon says, encourages wasteful behavior that clashes with its emphasis on "frugality and simplicity" and can raise both compute bills and software complexity. The company's preferred yardstick is long-term results. "We believe that it is best to measure, and be measured by, long-term outcomes," Amazon wrote. That does not mean managers should ignore usage data altogether, as input metrics remain useful when examined "with care and judgment" alongside other indicators. Amazon suggests looking at both the teams using AI the least and those using it the most to determine whether adoption is translating into better delivery. [...] The memo also pushes back on the idea that every task needs an AI tool. If current tooling does not benefit someone's work, Amazon says, that is "a finding, not a failing." Engineers who can explain where today's tools fall short are demonstrating judgment rather than reluctance to adopt AI. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Canonical resumes Ubuntu Core Desktop development, outlining plans for an immutable, Snap-based desktop that could eventually become Ubuntu's default.
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year, including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sister’s blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
Scientists in the U.S. have found a new way to alter the magnetic behavior of...
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 features a light-up Apple logo, tandem OLED, and touch input on the display. It runs on the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, like the existing MacBook Pro models without OLED touch displays. John Ternus, who is rocking a new profile picture with the new Mac, shared the first look at the new machine on X. Pricing for the new laptop starts at $2899 for the 14-inch model. The 16-inch version starts at $3399. Pre-orders are available starting today with deliveries starting November 6. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
System76 previews Thelio Prime, an 11-liter Linux desktop featuring AMD Ryzen processors, NVIDIA RTX graphics, and a November 18 launch.
Die US-Notenbank Federal Reserve hält am jüngst erhöhten Leitzins fest. Die Zinsspanne bleibt bei 3.75 bis 4.0 Prozent.
MIT engineers have built a soft robotic enteroscope designed to crawl through the small intestine...
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the past, preserving verifiable history matters more than ever before. A few things I found while poking around: [Amateur film: Chicago World’s Fair] (1933). “This 1933 amateur film features Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair and scenes of New York City.” Story of a City: New York (1946). “This 1946 film explains the historical and economic forces behind New York City’s growth into one of the world’s largest cities and its vital relationship to the rest of the United States.” Alice In Wonderland (1915). “This tinted, 42-minute cut of the 1915 silent fantasy film Alice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll’s work, is available with a synchronized soundtrack sourced from an early vinyl recording or as a silent version.” Apollo 11 — 30th Anniversary (1999). “Marking the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11, the film combines mission footage with later interviews featuring Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.” Story of Television (1956). “Story of Television traces the development of television from early experiments in transmitting images across distance to RCA’s electronic systems, which improved picture quality and expanded broadcasting nationwide.” A is for Atom (1953). “This animated film explains atoms as the fundamental building blocks of matter, identifying elements by the number of protons.” Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine (1981). “This 1981 NASA film documents Columbia’s maiden space shuttle mission, from its April 12 launch at Kennedy Space Center through onboard tests conducted by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen to its successful April 14 landing on Rogers Dry Lake in California.” Tags: video
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"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 today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards. A few years later, MIT engineers programmed the Whirlwind by punching code onto paper tape that was then loaded into the computer's memory -- making it among the first "stored-program" machines. Later, they and others moved on to punch cards, one for each line of code. By the early 1960s, programmers with interactive computers could use a "line editor" to type their code on teletypes -- large, noisy keyboard-and-printer machines. They'd type one line of code at a time, and their work would be saved on a spinning hard disk the size of a modern washing machine. But there was still no such thing as the now-familiar full-screen text editors that allow programmers to see and modify many lines at a time on a display. One of the first such tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is still widely used. EMACS first ran on the early video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, but its core concepts were so powerful that it was rewritten for many operating systems in the decades that followed. Apple even distributed it with Mac OS X. Beyond that, the software-sharing community that started around EMACS helped give rise to the modern-day free software movement and the GNU/Linux operating system. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that bismuth sulfide material can overcome a...
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
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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 satellite connectivity. Engadget reports: You may not know Globalstar but have possibly used its services, as the company provides Apple's emergency satellite connectivity for compatible iPhones and Watches. Interestingly, Apple also held a 20 percent stake in Globalstar prior to its takeover. As part of the deal, Leo will power satellite services for supported iPhone and Apple Watch models. Leo, a rival to SpaceX's Starlink, has been active of late. The company recently announced that it has 400 satellites in orbit and revealed last month that it had launched high-quality satellite internet service in Uzbekistan. It's teaming up with Delta to eventually bring satellite internet to flights, as well. Amazon recently added six new Arianespace launches and aims to have more than 3,000 low-earth orbit satellites up in the near future, still well short of SpaceX's 11,000 satellites. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Swedish defense company Saab has introduced Sea Giraffe Agile Multi Beam D (AMB D), a...
Yay 13.1 improves dependency resolution performance, package search accuracy, repository handling, and Lua scripting capabilities.
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
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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 app stores in Google Play by court order, international users will use Google's voluntary Registered App Stores program. Google has announced that stores wishing to be part of that program are now free to apply, and support will roll out to some Android devices later this year. App stores accepted into the program will enjoy preferential treatment on the Android platform. Users of approved stores will be able to install apps with a single click, similar to the experience in the Play Store. These stores will also be allowed to update apps silently in the background like Google's store does. [...] Registered App Stores are still happening on Android, but they won't be supported in the U.S. -- you can go to Google Play for alternative stores stateside, but so far, Aptoide remains the only one listed. Those operating Android app storefronts who want to be included in the international program can now review the program and begin the enrollment process. Any store hoping to get approval will have to adhere to a number of requirements, including protecting intellectual property, removing illegal content, and publishing a privacy policy for both users and developers. Google also requires several ongoing security measures to ensure the stores do not give malware easier access to Android devices. As part of the application process, store operators must provide documentation for all these points (in English) and upload copies of all their apps. It costs $10,000 per year to participate in the Android Registered App Stores program, and that fee must be paid before Google will review the application. Google says this fee covers the additional support necessary to run the program. There may also be additional review fees if Google detects a store has a problem with malware. Google plans to roll out support in dozens of nations, which includes most of the world outside of the U.S. and Europe. The program goes live on December 1, but it will only work on Android devices running the latest builds of Android 17. Google says support will start with Android 17 QPR2, which is expected to arrive on Pixel phones in the coming weeks. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A team of US researchers has come up with a novel metal alloy for nuclear...
Nuclear-powered offshore vessels have moved a step closer to reality. A Norwegian project has secured...
I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating. For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Zero” story was wrong. This is the story of how genetic detective work traced HIV’s true origins — from chimpanzees in Central Africa to a global pandemic — and how science unraveled one of the biggest myths in modern medicine. Disappointingly, they didn’t list any of their sources for the video. I poked around a little and found a book called The Origins of AIDS that a Science magazine review called: Extensively referenced, the well-written book reads like a detective story, while at the same time providing a didactic introduction to epidemiology and evolutionary genetics. As far as the origins of AIDS are concerned, unless some completely new evidence emerges, it will be difficult to come up with a better explanation than Pepin’s. The YouTube comments are worth a read too, filled with remarks from those who lived through the early years of the pandemic or knew someone who did (or someone who didn’t). Had a gay uncle who lived in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s. He would get so upset when he talked about HIV/AIDS. He lost so many friends to the virus. When I went to visit him in the 2000s, we visited 27 graves over the course of a weekend and laid flowers. Rest in peace to all those young people. I worked in blood banking at Cedars -Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was policy to freeze blood samples from patients that expired due an unknown cause. Once the HIV test was approved the samples were tested and some were reactive to it. The samples were collected over decades, going back to the 1950s. I have family who were foreign hospital workers in the now-DRC in the 1970s, where what we call AIDS was known as the Slims because of how the patients wasted away and died. People on the ground knew there was something going around, but they didn’t have the resources to figure it out. Tags: AIDS · hiv · medicine · science · video · viruses
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Gewerbler sollen künftig klar erkennen können, wie sich die Bargeldlosgebühren zusammensetzen.
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They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.
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Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.
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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 confirm it is massive enough to be round. Located about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the object is estimated to be 600 to 1,500 kilometers wide and had remained hidden because it lies against a particularly crowded field of Milky Way stars. Scientific American reports: The discovery was made by running billions of pieces of data collected by the Rubin Observatory through a search code developed by Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian astronomers Matthew Holman and Kevin Napier. "My first reaction was one of excited disbelief," Holman said in a statement. "Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong." When Holman and his colleague Mario Juric of the University of Washington went to double-check, they found 30 more observations of the object by Rubin that dated to between March and July 2026. Looking at other observation tools, the pair found even more sightings going back to 2016. Together, these data allowed the astronomers to begin mapping out 2026 ED138's orbit. The suspected dwarf planet is about 46 times as far from the sun as Earth, making it even more remote than Pluto, which is just 40 times as far. The object is also tilted off the solar system's plane by around 25 degrees, an arrangement that could be linked to disruptions caused by Neptune's gravitational pull. Initial measurements indicate that 2026 ED138 has a diameter between 600 and 1,500 kilometers (373 and 932 miles), which makes it one of the largest dwarf planet candidates yet detected. But size isn't all that matters: further observations are required to determine if the object has enough mass to be pulled into a round shape, which is a key requirement for a dwarf planet. Despite its size, 2026 ED138 was able to avoid detection for all these years because it's located in a part of the night sky that's crowded with stars whose light drowned it out. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
CentOS and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer unveils Ginux, an independent Rust-based kernel developed with AI in just 11 days.
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Apprise 2.1 adds 12 notification services, expands support to 170 plugins, and improves security, configuration handling, and integrations.
Es ist ein umstrittener Verdrängungskampf, der an jenen der Taxibranche von vor ein paar Jahren erinnert.
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Agent memory has been in fashion ever since agents appeared: it fights hallucinations and lets an LLM base its answers and decisions on your own information. Whether it is better to query that information from tables or from a graph is often decided on faith, after reading posts on the internet, without experiments and measurements of your own. In a study by Sequeda et al., GPT-4 answered questions over an enterprise SQL database correctly 16% of the time, and over a knowledge graph on top of the same database 54% of the time; the graph had an ontology with descriptions, while the SQL schema had only DDL: types and table and column names. In my GraphRAG, the same information comes in two different forms. I extracted the data from the article “My PostgreSQL is faster than yours and has almost caught up with ClickHouse” into 34 PostgreSQL tables and turned them into a graph with an R2RML mapping. I connected both forms of knowledge to an agent over MCP and asked it 15 questions about the article: through SQL, through SPARQL, and with the agent free to choose between the two. In my experiment, the agent ran on three open-weight LLMs in turn. You can deploy them on your own infrastructure or laptop, and your data and questions won’t end up in the logs of a provider or of an aggregator between you and the LLM. I also checked and calculated which is better for vector storage and semantic search: Lance or pgvector. I’ll share my measurements on current models of how best to search and where to store knowledge. In the experiment, I caught DeepSeek coming up with an SQL injection to answer my question. Two representations of the same data With the help of LLMs, NLP, morphology and other scary words, my data turned into a graph representation and frames bound to RDF quads. The words of the text were broken down into entities, theses, measurements, replies, processes and so on. Each such fragment has its source in the original text, following the W3C Web Annotation standard. A derived layer of data was inferred on top of the neural network’s initial extraction. In total, that came to 10,154 quads in 37 graphs for a single article. Then I laid it all out in database tables, which made it easier to take in by eye. A graph node became a table row, a column became its property, and a list became an array in the row. The comment on each column records which RDF predicate it holds. The R2RML mapping over these tables assembles the original graph again. The memory also holds the processes from the article. The LLM recorded them as BPMN events, tasks and conditional branching. It stores 4 processes with 29 steps in process_steps/process_flows. Interesting Engineering: BlueChip: Anduril plans to build laptop with nearly all components made in USOct. 28, 2026, 9:07 a.m.
A computer made entirely in the United States, down to its display and smallest components,...
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. "The agency considers this problem to be one of our most urgent public health threats," reports NBC News. From the report: The report is the CDC's first comprehensive assessment of these drug-resistant pathogens in seven years. [...] The new report offers a detailed picture of these threats in the U.S., including a ranking of which are the most urgent concerns, based on the number and severity of infections they cause and how easily preventable or transmissible they are. The ranking also factors in how many treatment options exist and their costs. [...] The report estimates that 19 drug-resistant germs cause 9.7 million infections annually in the U.S. Of these, four pathogens are ranked as most worrisome, including the fungus Candida auris and the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, which has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics used to treat it. The other two urgent threats, according to the CDC, are the bacteria Acinetobacter and Enterobacterales, both of which are resistant to a class of antibiotics widely considered a "last resort" for patients. In addition, the report adds a new bacteria to the list of "concerning" threats, which are considered less worrisome but still warrant monitoring: neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal disease. The rare but life-threatening illness can be prevented through childhood vaccinations, but the bacteria that causes it is slowly developing a resistance to penicillin and another antibiotic called ciprofloxacin. The report also offers some good news: The CDC determined that the bacteria Clostridioides difficile, or "C. diff," which causes diarrhea and inflammation of the colon and can be deadly, is causing fewer cases year over year. The agency downgraded it to a serious threat, whereas it was categorized as urgent in the prior version of the report, which came out in 2019. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
China’s experimental reusable spaceplane, long glimpsed only in grainy pictures, now has a sharp orbital...
Thunderbird 159 introduces unread mail indicators for Linux system trays, automatic Microsoft Graph calendar discovery, and numerous bug fixes.
Die grösste Schweizer Bank befindet sich in den letzten Zügen der CS-Integration und könnte dabei gar Kosten einsparen.
Die grösste Schweizer Bank befindet sich in den letzten Zügen der CS-Integration und könnte dabei Kosten einsparen.
Trotz gigantischer Verluste werden Anthropic-Gründer superreich. Das Wichtigste zum geplanten Börsengang.