Tech

Ransomware Is Getting Uglier As Cybercriminals Fake Leaks and Skip Encryption Entirely (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

Telegram Mini Apps abused for crypto scams, Android malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Android

How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3 Amazon Jeff Bezos

Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Iran

Open-box Sony noise-canceling headphones just dropped to $275 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-3 Sony

Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-3 Nintendo

Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby (slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Microsoft

A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3

An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (www.nist.gov)
2026-5-3 China AI

A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (www.semafor.com)
2026-5-3 Boston Dynamics

Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-3

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-5-3 AI

Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-3 France

Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 China Iran

Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (mashable.com)
2026-5-3 Google

Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 NASA

Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3 Ban

Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 YouTube

Critrical cPanel flaw mass-exploited in "Sorry" ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-3

Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 Trump

The $19B "Nuclear AI" Energy Startup That Couldn't Sign a Single Client (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Energy Startup AI

Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Drone

An investigation finds Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-3 Iran

What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren't All About AI? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 AI Layoffs

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 China AI

An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem - by Asking AI (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 AI Mathematics

Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-3

Costumed Crowd 'Speedruns' Scientology Building For Social Media Trend (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3 Social Media

Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-3

Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-3 IPO Mobile JPMorgan Nigeria

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