14 Nov 2026

Was America's Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?

America's nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened "amid growing scrutiny... of a new AI-powered air traffic management system" deployed by America's Federal Aviation Administration...

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14 Nov 2026

Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux's AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked

The Register writes that "The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds." In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly...

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14 Nov 2026

Australian STEM Videogame Challenge Canceled Due To AI

PC Gamer reports: The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a "free national videogame development competition for students," has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year's event will...

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14 Nov 2026

Ex-Nvidia CEO Misled Company Leaders On Affair With Chinese Businesswoman

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company's leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison...

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14 Nov 2026

Amazon's Plan to Index the World's Online Shopping Data

Amazon is considering a "World Product Graph" that would index information about products sold across the internet in an effort to keep shoppers and AI agents from turning to Google, Reddit or other...

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14 Nov 2026

Windows 0-Day Dropped By Disgruntled Researcher Hands Hackers System Rights

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On...

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14 Nov 2026

FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop for All Aircraft [UPDATE]

Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday...

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14 Nov 2026

SpaceX Falls Short of Historic Double Starship Catch

SpaceX's 15th Starship test flight successfully reached orbit Friday, but its historic attempt to catch both stages at the launch tower was derailed when the Super Heavy booster malfunctioned...

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14 Nov 2026

Lego's BrickLink Marketplace Back Online After Week-Long Outage Caused By 'Cyber Incident'

LEGO's BrickLink marketplace is back online after a week-long outage caused by what the company described as a "cyber incident," during which an unauthorized third party accessed some user data...

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13 Nov 2026

US Seizes $1.2 Billion In Crypto Stolen From Binance

U.S. authorities have seized or restrained more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during Binance's $6 billion October hack, which the FBI attributes to North Korean military-linked hackers...

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13 Nov 2026

Mozilla to Shut Down Solo, Deleting Users' Websites and Data

Mozilla is shutting down Solo, its AI-powered website builder and hosting service, on November 30. A notice on the Soloist.ai homepage reads: "We've made the difficult decision to close Solo. We have...

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13 Nov 2026

Microsoft's Global Outage May Be Worse Than Amazon's Or Crowdstrike's, Expert Says

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting...

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13 Nov 2026

ChatGPT's New Wallet Lets AI Agents Shop For You

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Wallet, a feature that lets its Dots AI agents help users choose products and complete purchases on their behalf. TechCrunch reports: The option will initially be...

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13 Nov 2026

Advocacy Groups Sue AI Giants to Freeze New Models, Warning of 'Catastrophic' Risks

A coalition of online safety and consumer advocacy groups has sued five of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies, asking a California judge to halt the development and deployment of...

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13 Nov 2026

Nvidia Employees Petition For Jensen Huang's Return

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang's return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to...

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