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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 01-Aug-2026 03:35:53 JST Slashdot :verified:

Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/1639202/publishers-are-losing-google-traffic-as-ai-answers-replace-links?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links - Slashdot
  
  alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words. Chartbeat data shared with Axios shows Google Search traffic to publishers fell...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 05:44:06 JST Slashdot :verified:

Gen Z and Millennials are Buying CDs - Though Half Don't Have CD Players https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/07/18/1948235/gen-z-and-millennials-are-buying-cds---though-half-dont-have-cd-players?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Gen Z and Millennials are Buying CDs - Though Half Don't Have CD Players - Slashdot
  
  "Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]: The CD has been recontextualized from a funct...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 06:03:36 JST Slashdot :verified:

DuckDuckGo's Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/11/2045206/duckduckgos-browser-now-blocks-most-youtube-ads?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  DuckDuckGo's Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads - Slashdot
  
  Nerds.xyz reports: DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, letting users watch videos without sitting through the pre-roll and mid-roll interruptions that have become part of everyd...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 07:19:36 JST Slashdot :verified:

Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1829252/google-search-hits-all-time-usage-record?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record - Slashdot
  
  Google says the World Cup drove Search to its highest usage in history, with queries per second peaking right after Argentina's winning goal against Egypt. CNBC reports: The milestone comes as the company tries to prove its traditional search engine can keep its relevance in the age of AI, where ch...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 07:04:05 JST Slashdot :verified:

Microsoft Flips Windows Backup On By Default Outside the EU https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/07/1933209/microsoft-flips-windows-backup-on-by-default-outside-the-eu?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Microsoft Flips Windows Backup On By Default Outside the EU - Slashdot
  
  Microsoft will turn on Windows settings backup and restore by default for eligible Windows 11 business devices outside the EU, starting with Windows 11 26H2. The Register reports: Now dubbed "Windows settings backup and restore," the service backs up a device's settings and a list of installed Micr...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 08:09:46 JST Slashdot :verified:

Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/06/221233/small-ai-models-gain-traction-around-the-world?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World - Slashdot
  
  locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year. The...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 05:54:50 JST Slashdot :verified:

842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/04/2031258/842000-american-households-lost-power-today-during-a-heatwave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave - Slashdot
  
  As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jul-2026 11:21:33 JST Slashdot :verified:

Alibaba To Ban Claude Code In Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Risks https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/03/1645222/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-in-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Alibaba To Ban Claude Code In Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Risks - Slashdot
  
  Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code and directed them to its own Qoder platform amid a growing dispute over features that can help identify China-linked users. Reuters reports: The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accus...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jun-2026 00:48:20 JST Slashdot :verified:

Forget Prompt Engineering: 'Loop Engineering' Is All the Rage Now https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/06/25/0546238/forget-prompt-engineering-loop-engineering-is-all-the-rage-now?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Forget Prompt Engineering: 'Loop Engineering' Is All the Rage Now - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to. "It's an agent that prompts Claude," ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 13:07:53 JST Slashdot :verified:

Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/25/2056248/spain-to-require-carriers-to-keep-mobile-networks-live-during-power-outages?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 07:35:46 JST Slashdot :verified:

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors https://slashdot.org/story/26/06/25/1624241/ford-rehires-350-engineers-after-ai-fails-to-preserve-expertise-or-train-juniors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors - Slashdot
  
  After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 07:09:30 JST Slashdot :verified:

China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/23/2015238/china-reclaims-fastest-supercomputer-at-2-exaflops?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  China Reclaims Fastest Supercomputer At 2 Exaflops - Slashdot
  
  Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from TOP500: The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was announced today at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Germany. LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuts at No. 1, displacin...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 01:42:35 JST Slashdot :verified:

The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/06/21/0149231/the-rust-ecosystem-gets-an-ai-security-engineer-in-residence?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  The Rust Ecosystem Gets an AI Security Engineer in Residence - Slashdot
  
  While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need." Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotte...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2026 00:55:15 JST Slashdot :verified:

Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/06/20/0347206/microsoft-discovers-cryptocurrency-stealer-that-spreads-through-usb-drives-and-uses-tor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor - Slashdot
  
  Ars Technica's senior security editor reports: Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 07:12:18 JST Slashdot :verified:

Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/11/2036240/poland-to-jail-online-streamers-of-violent-crime-for-up-to-5-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years - Slashdot
  
  Polish lawmakers have voted to criminalize "trash streaming," with up to five years in prison for online broadcasts of serious crimes such as rape or murder, animal cruelty, humiliating violence, gambling promotion, or even simulated depictions of those acts. Reuters reports: The move is part of a ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 12:04:31 JST Slashdot :verified:

Failing CS Grades Soar At UC Berkeley As Professors See Greater AI Usage https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/06/07/0239236/failing-cs-grades-soar-at-uc-berkeley-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Failing CS Grades Soar At UC Berkeley As Professors See Greater AI Usage - Slashdot
  
  The University of California at Berkeley discovered the percentage of failing grades in multiple CS classes this spring "is significantly higher than past semesters," reports the campus's student newspaper. "Instructors point to students' increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparednes...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 12:50:07 JST Slashdot :verified:

Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/05/31/0016209/fed-up-with-vibe-coders-dev-sneaks-data-nuking-prompt-injection-into-testing-app?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App - Slashdot
  
  It all started when the German developer behind an open-source app for Java testing "added hidden instructions to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents," reports Ars Technica: The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5... The salient change in the update was a line ...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 07:12:57 JST Slashdot :verified:

Linux Developers Consider Retiring The x32 ABI https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/05/30/2040224/linux-developers-consider-retiring-the-x32-abi?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Linux Developers Consider Retiring The x32 ABI - Slashdot
  
  The Linux kernel mailing list has a new patch proposing the retirement of the x32 ABI, reports Phoronix: The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not nee...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 29-May-2026 06:12:33 JST Slashdot :verified:

Supreme Court Lets Vermont's Meta Lawsuit Proceed, Opening Door To 50-State Legal Wave https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/28/215245/supreme-court-lets-vermonts-meta-lawsuit-proceed-opening-door-to-50-state-legal-wave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  Supreme Court Lets Vermont's Meta Lawsuit Proceed, Opening Door To 50-State Legal Wave - Slashdot
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny. Parent company Meta appealed after Vermont's hi...
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Slashdot :verified: (slashdot@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 08:12:19 JST Slashdot :verified:

AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/23/1917255/amd-xilinx-is-excluding-linux-from-the-free-tier-for-its-fpga-dev-tool?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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  AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool - Slashdot
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes: AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool... Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices t...

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