Tech

California Law Limits 'Recyling' Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17 California

Anthropic's Mythos Helped Build a Working macOS Exploit in Five Days (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17

SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (x.com)
2026-5-17 AI Career

ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-17 India

The Search for the Next 'James Bond' Actor Has Begun (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17

Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17 AI

Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders? (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17 Trump

Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-17

Russian hackers turn Kazuar backdoor into modular P2P botnet (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-17 Russia P2P

In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-17

This premium PDF tool is built for Mac users—and is $70 off right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16

Linux Kernel Outlines What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 Linux AI

Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-16 Shenzhen

Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves In Fight Against Bears (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 Japan Robot

US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 AI

LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-16 Asia Africa

Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-16 Korea

Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16

Browser & Identity Attacks Matrix: Map your exposure to 51 identity attack techniques [Free Resource] (pushsecurity.com)
2026-5-16 Browser

Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (www.thelec.net)
2026-5-16 Robot Nvidia

Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16 Samsung

Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-16 AI YouTube

Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 YouTube

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (www.ft.com)
2026-5-16 AI

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 AMD

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