13 Sep 2026

California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union

A union representing Uber and Lyft drivers was just certified by California's Public Employment Relations Board, officially recognizing them as the drivers' bargaining organization. The Sacramento...

Read original →

13 Sep 2026

Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public

"This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads," says Emmy award-winning reporter Brendan Keefe in a new video for InvestigateTV. In an accompanying...

Read original →

13 Sep 2026

Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May

A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a "major malicious attack" against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That coordinated attack hit Ruby's package manager "with hundreds of junk gems...

Read original →

13 Sep 2026

Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court

America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that "the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly...

Read original →

13 Sep 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls For AI Slowdown

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The chief executive of Anthropic called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control'

Less than 48 hours after Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on leave, Mullenweg told employees he was back "in control" of the company and that the board was again in agreement. 404 Media cited...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations

LG is pushing back against reports that its smart TVs are "spying" on users, saying wake-word detection happens locally and that features such as Automatic Content Recognition, voice recognition, and...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice At 2,357 Degrees Celsius

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ScienceAlert: Scientists have now demonstrated one of the weirdest forms of ice yet -- under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

Little Mercury May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected

A new study suggests Mercury may have shrunk about 30% more than scientists previously thought, losing as much as 14 miles in diameter as its interior cooled and contracted over billions of years...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries?

The Athletic reports that researchers at the University of Utah are studying itPBM, a medical-grade red-light therapy that has shown promising signs of reducing brain inflammation and improving...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom

Last week, Google announced that it managed to produce a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system. A few days later a software engineer at Coinbase...

Read original →

12 Sep 2026

PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines

Sony reportedly pulled PlayStation funding from Hideo Kojima's upcoming espionage game Physint over concerns about its ballooning budget, missed deadlines, profitability, and the fact that it would...

Read original →

11 Sep 2026

US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain's most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple's legal fight against a...

Read original →

11 Sep 2026

Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development

Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable...

Read original →

11 Sep 2026

UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI

The UK government has rejected proposals for an emergency AI "kill switch," arguing that blocking access to dangerous models inside Britain would do little if the same systems remained available or...

Read original →