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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2184576/canada-spy-plane-deal-america-rejected/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/meta-smart-glasses-code-face-recognition-biometric-tracking-privacy/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/06/05/new-york-advances-one-year-datacenter-permit-moratorium/5251911

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/highly-reviewed-speaker-can-be-hacked-over-the-air-to-infect-connected-devices/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/07/uk-exam-watchdog-frets-over-smart-specs-turning-gcses-into-google-searches/5251365

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/we-pissed-off-a-lot-of-people-giant-data-center-plan-cut-50-amid-protests/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/safety-officials-finally-have-a-good-idea-of-what-a-big-rocket-explosion-can-do/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-floppy-disk-patent-was-granted-today-in-1972-when-80kb-took-up-8-inches-and-were-really-floppy

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/industry-coalition-urges-trump-administration-to-take-urgent-action

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/after-11-years-at-mars-nasas-maven-spacecraft-went-out-with-a-whisper/

owl writes:https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/the-1n4148-the-signal-diode-that-ended-up-everywhere/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The Claude developer is one of a trio of tech firms expected to go public this year, alongside SpaceX and OpenAI:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2184041/why-jets-use-generators-instead-of-alternators/

jelizondo writes:CNN published a very interesting article:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:But NASA's Jared Isaacman believes the launchpad, which exploded on May 28, may not be fixed until 2028:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Here's why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/dozens-of-red-hat-packages-backdoored-through-its-offical-npm-channel/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/01/ohio-hits-pause-on-datacenter-tax-breaks-draining-its-coffers/5249137

"c0lo" writes:The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen:

AnonTechie writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/01/5k-election-domains-registered-ahead-of-us-midterms/5249764

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/moderna-gets-50-million-to-develop-mrna-ebola-vaccine-against-bundibugyo/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/github-copilot-users-threaten-exit-as-metered-billing-kicks-in/5249826

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/openais-math-breakthrough-played-to-ais-strengths/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2184557/uss-supercarrier-gerald-r-ford-nuclear-power-plant/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/perplexity-ai-cnn-copyright-suit/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/musk-says-us-military-suicide-drones-used-starlink-in-violation-of-spacex-rules/

JoeMerchant writes:https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/05/a-robot-hand-that-taught-itself-to-play-piano-could-change-the-future-of-machines/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Now that doesn't mean Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman thinks Rust is magic:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Stealth on a budget:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:The flaw affects the boundary between the Linux CIFS client and cifs-utils, allowing local root access on some systems.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/jensen-huang-urges-super-micro-to-tighten-compliance

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/05/26/bezos-rocket-fell-short-after-cryogenic-leak-cut-engine-thrust/5246481

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drone-breaks-world-speed-record-with-453-mph-in-test-run-exotic-sawtooth-carbon-fiber-propeller-blades-one-of-the-key-advances-in-the-blackbird-design

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/05/26/japanese-space-agency-names-arrival-date-for-bepicolombo-mercury-mission/5245906

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html

Snotnose writes:Be afraid. Very afraid..

cereal_burpist writes:A London startup trained an AI on 4.1 million recipes across seven languages

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The company was doing a hotfire test to prepare for New Glenn's next mission:

"fab23" writes:What Is a Dickover?:

hubie writes:PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence: