In Hawaii, Robot Dogs Join the Police Force

"If you're homeless and looking for temporary shelter in Hawaii's capital, expect a visit from a robotic police dog that will s...

Chinese Hackers Used Mesh of Home Routers To Disguise Attacks

An anonymous reader quotes The Record: A Chinese cyber-espionage group known as APT31 (or Zirconium) has been seen hijacking home routers to...

Free Software Foundation Will Fund Papers on Issues Around Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot'

GitHub's new "Copilot" tool (created by Microsoft and OpenAI) shares the autocompletion suggestions of an AI trained on code r...

US Justice Department Says Russians Hacked Its Federal Prosecutors

In January America's federal Justice Department said there was no evidence that Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds breach had...

Latest IDC numbers reiterate Apple’s dominance of tablet market

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Earlier this week during Apple’s earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said that the iPad had experienced its mo...

Nobel Winner Steven Weinberg, Who Unified Two of Physics' Fundamental Forces, Has Died

Long-time Slashdot reader Mogster quotes : Steven Weinberg, a Nobel-prize winning physicist whose work helped link two of the four fundament...

Tech Companies Praised for 'Pandemic Leadership', Vaccine Mandates

"America reported 122,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest single-day spike since February," reports Business Insider. Bu...

Google pairs Stadia Controller and Chromecast as $100 ‘play and watch’ bundle

Image: Google Google has recently been selling a combo-package of the Stadia Controller and 2020 Chromecast as a limited-time promotion. ...

Texas Instruments' New Calculator Will Run Programs Written in Python

"Dallas-based Texas Instruments' latest generation of calculators is getting a modern-day update with the addition of programming l...

Government Denies Blue Origin's Challenge To NASA's Lunar Lander Program

The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lu...

Virtual Contact Worse Than No Contact For Over-60s In Lockdown, Says Study

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Virtual contact during the pandemic made many over-60s feel lonelier and more depress...

New Android Malware Uses VNC To Spy and Steal Passwords From Victims

A previously undocumented Android-based remote access trojan (RAT) has been found to use screen recording features to steal sensitive inform...

Amazon Delivery Companies Routinely Tell Drivers To Bypass Safety Inspections

Amazon delivery companies around the U.S. are instructing workers to bypass daily inspections intended to make sure vans are safe to drive. ...

Software Downloaded 30,000 Times From PyPI Ransacked Developers' Machines

Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously...

PSA: You might want to avoid the gobs of Halo Infinite spoilers Microsoft just leaked

If you’re invested in the story of Master Chief, Cortana, and the fate of the Halo universe, you might want to keep your head down and sta...

June Heatwave Was the 'Most Extreme' On Record For North America

The devastating heatwave that struck the Northwest US and southwest Canada in June was "the most extreme summer heatwave" ever rec...

Report: Blizzard Once Slapped With 'Misogyny Tax'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Kotaku: A cybersecurity company whose security researcher had once been harassed by Blizzard employ...

Here are the latest accusations Activision Blizzard employees have leveled at the company

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More disturbing allegations of Activision Blizzard’s reported culture of sexual harassment and ge...

After accusations, Twitter will pay hackers to find biases in its automatic image crops

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is holding a competition in hopes that hackers and researchers will be able to identify ...

Mastodon now has an official iPhone app

Decentralized social network Mastodon now has an official iPhone app. The nonprofit behind Mastodon launched the app on iOS today, supplem...

Duolingo Reaches $6.5 Billion Valuation On Day of IPO

On Wednesday, language learning app Duolingo reached a valuation of $6.5 billion after its shares surged nearly 40% in the company's Nas...