Sysadmin

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison

Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in...

I turned off one Roku setting and my soundbar finally sounds like it should

I've had a Roku Streambar since 2020, and for years I just assumed the flat, boxed-in sound was as good as a soundbar...

Waymo CEO Explains Why Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls Short

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest...

Rust Coreutils 0.10 Released With More Security Hardening, Increased GNU Compatibility

Rust Coreutils 0.10 is out today from the uutils project for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.10...

Master ChatGPT: 15 ways to automate research, coding, and daily work

An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse

OPINION In a post-apocalyptic setting – a zombie outbreak, for example – a small, off-grid language model running...

X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year

Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements

Mesa 26.2 stable is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan...

Android's secret menu has some new tricks with Android 17

Developer options tend to stay the same across Android iterations, essentially

Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a...

Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks

A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and...