New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones - Slashdot

A draft New Orleans Police Department drone manual briefly published online would have allowed police drones to carry weapons with written approval from the superintendent, according to 404 Media. NOP...

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How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images

The images posted by anyone with a public Instagram account are fair game for Muse to use.

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The AI Cost-Control Toolbox

There are dozens of tools that promise to control your AI spend. Most of them only watch it. Here is how to tell the difference — and which ones to actually reach for.

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Robinhood Now Lets Your AI Agents Trade Stocks - Slashdot

Robinhood is launching beta support for a new feature that will let AI agents make payments and trade stocks on users' behalf. The company is also rolling out a virtual credit card for AI agents, with...

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The Virtual OS Museum

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

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CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovC...

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76% of All Crypto Stolen in 2026 Is Now in North Korea

North Korean threat actors are pulling off historic cryptocurrency heists on a yearly, sometimes weekly basis now. AI might be helping them.

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Your Name in Landsat 🛰️

Type your name and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery. Explore Earth from space, letter by letter, with NASA and USGS Landsat images.

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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

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An Irish man lowered the price of Guinness by using AI to call 3,000 pubs

Matt Cortland had just been overcharged, and he knew it.

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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?

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Life After Cheap AI

Per-token costs are falling 50x per year. Your total AI bill is about to go up anyway. The age of subsidized AI is ending — and the agentic cost multiplier is the thing nobody's talking about.

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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice

These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.

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Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!

HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

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Kansas City, we are online! - Meta Data Centers

We are excited to announce the Kansas City Data Center is now serving traffic. That means this data center is now part of our global infrastructure that brings our technologies and programs to life, m...

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Building an AI Payphone That Runs Entirely Offline

A vintage payphone running a fully local AI voice assistant on two Raspberry Pis. 44 phone numbers, 4 AI models, zero cloud. Follow the build.

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