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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/hackers-tricked-a-major-retailers-ai-shopping-bot-to-do-something-it-was-never-supposed-to/

canopic jug writes:Hackaday has an overview of why poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is so brittle, yet used all the time in 3D printing.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/17/an-ai-broke-snowflakes-code-then-another-ai-agent-exploited-it/5288666

canopic jug writes:The film Aliens was released to theaters in 1986, that is to say 40 years ago. Many new technologies were featured in the film and some have come to be in real life. The Conversation looks at the film and at the then fictional technologies and reviews which did and did not come to pass.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/inside-defcon-the-conference-that-made-cybersecurity-noob-friendly/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/sabotage-experts-lawmakers-blast-rfk-jr-for-destroying-healthcare-research/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-6-ai-free-linux-distros/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/19/nasa-estimates-the-size-of-the-hole-spacex-made-in-the-moon/5289425

An Anonymous Coward writes:Rob, the Administrator over at Linux.org has announced:

"mrcoolbp" writes:It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:After only two years in business, too:

Anonymous Coward writes:It's like Windows Recall, but without all the creepy screenshots. (But it's still kind of creepy.):

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The CMP 170HX has quickly gone from crypto trash to AI treasure:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:They're so full of errors that Congressional lawyers are spending a lot of time trying to fix them:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The custom build from Microsoft's Chinese joint venture was scheduled to retire in February 2027:

Atlassian, a software company, is planning on building a new tower in Sydney called Atlassian Central at a cost of $1.4 billion and standing tall at 180 metres. With Australia in the grip of a WFH age of enlightenment this construction is truly an outlier.

One of the great hopes for BEV development has been solid-state / Lithium-metal batteries. No goo in the electrolyte, ~double the energy density of Li-ion batteries and faster charging to finally end the BEV range discussion. Looks like this is still in the future. MotorTrend has a summary of current development activity at a variety of battery and car companies. Here's a sampling, many more at the link: https://www.motortrend.com/features/solid-state-batteries-future-cars

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link:

canopic jug writes:Developer Bradley Taunt has written up an overview Raphael Sadowski's recent changes to OpenBSD's HTTP daemon aka httpd(8):

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101

owl writes:https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

hubie writes:A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cxmt-overtakes-tencent-to-become-chinas-most-valuable-company-17-days-after-its-ipo

hubie writes:Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or verify, according to a new study:

fleg writes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/13/claude-just-broke-a-math-record-that-stood-for-37-years/"Number theorists spent 37 years moving one number by less than a single percentage point. The number is the proven share of the Riemann zeta function's zeros that sit on the critical line, the place where one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics says all of them belong. Decades of human refinement had carried it to 41.6%. On August 10, Anthropic published a result from an unreleased research version of Claude that moved it to 67.2% in roughly a day and a half.The Riemann hypothesis has been open since 1859. It predicts the hidden structure behind how prime numbers are distributed, and it carries a million-dollar Clay Institute bounty. The hypothesis itself remains open. What Claude established is that at least two-thirds of the zeros behave the way it predicts, the largest single advance in the record's history."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:"Always finish your antibiotics" is no longer considered medical best practice for all conditions:

hubie writes:The mashup of a black hole and an enormous star has never been seen before and could explain the mysterious little red dots often found in deep-space images:

"fab23" writes:If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-desktop-use-surged-on-one-workday-cloudflare-data-shows/

hubie writes:When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect:

owl writes:https://ludens.cl/photo/spectra/spectra.html

hubie writes:Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it's open source:

looorg writes:Owners of Petlibro pet feeders have "service issue" that prevents feeding of the pets. If you can't even bother to feed your own pet? Why do you have them? Also if we can't even depend on the machines to feed pets how are we depending on them to do other more important things. But why do you need cloud access to set a schedule to feed a pet? Or that is to say to open a tray so the pet in question can access the food. As it was when it was not opening it was mocking or taunting the pet with food it could not access.Pets should now be on their normal feeding schedule again ... Perhaps the service issue was just there to put some of the furries on a diet.

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-telescopes-create-colorful-craft-from-nearby-nebula/:

Arizona State University is introducing a degree in Content Creation. This is not an April fool's joke or a hoax.The degree will teach the craft of influencing and online content creation which will include lessons on creating powerful content across video, podcasts, analytics, and social media strategy.Online comments in response to this announceent have included "F**k. This. Timeline." and "Just imagine explaining to someone that your homework is 'go viral'".Classes start this October.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2236104/cbp-officers-are-misusing-surveillance-tech/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/claudes-new-scarlet-letter-watermark-is-invisible-for-now/

owl writes:https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/12/ninth-circuit-rewrites-section-230-to-remove-the-part-that-actually-mattered/

looorg writes:The future is for everyone and it will all just be great and awesome. No problems. That is our AI fueled future according to Zuckerberg.

AnonTechie writes:

Snotnose writes:The problem: Ukraine needs 155mm Artillery shells. The solution: an automated factory.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second:

owl writes:https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/