400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water Leaked from a Nuclear Plant in Minnesota

"Minnesota regulators said Thursday they're monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Ener...

Small Near-Earth Asteroid Surfaces Have Few Precious Metals, Study Finds

RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: A recent paper on ArXiv reports new spectroscopic analyses of the surfaces of 42 asteroids. The...

Livestreaming Now: Free Software Foundation's 'LibrePlanet' Conference

Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: It's happening now — and you can watch it live online. Saturday is the beginning of the fifteenth edi...

Two cybercrime group members charged with last year’s DEA portal hack

Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two men have been charged for their alleged roles in last year’s hack of the Drug Enforcement ...

Teenage Pranks at Japan's Restaurants Lead to AI-Powered Sushi Monitors, Arrests

Rest of World reports on viral teenage pranks at conveyor-belt sushi chain restaurants across Japan, which snowballed into a societal phenom...

Microsoft Pauses Delayed Partner Ecosystem Security Update To Count Its Money

Microsoft's delayed effort to ensure its partners don't enjoy unduly privileged access to their clients' systems will run for ju...

Feds seized $2.7 million of Chinese billionaire’s money from Trump-aligned social network

Illustration: The Verge Federal authorities seized nearly $3 million from Gettr last September as part of a sweeping billion-dollar fraud...