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Robots improved student motivation and helped them perform better

When Pepper the social robot was given the chance to try its hand as a teaching assistant, it showed that it can be...

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

The chain of events leading up to OpenAI’s agents attacking Hugging Face and other organizations in July began months...

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

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Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent

To demonstrate the capabilities of its next-generation Muse Spark model, Meta has released a terminal coding agent...

Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller

For those with one of the original Valve Steam Controllers from a decade ago and looking to make use of it with the...

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2026

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Process-builder API; Fedora COI; FUSE io_uring...

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...

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