Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases In neighboring Ohio, cases have reportedly reached over 500. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/michigans-explosive-ou…
Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1829252/google-search-hits-all-time-usage-record?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
No surprise here. A study from AI detection platform Pangram suggests that social media posts are teeming with AI-generated slop, particularly if the posts are long and especially if they live on Link…
Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it Judge reluctantly approves $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter stock violation. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2…
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/openai-wants-its-ne…
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1835232/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds…
Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/humanoid-ro…
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/07/allstate-accuses-broadcom…
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 After Government Greenlight, Announces 'ChatGPT Work' https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1821245/openai-rolls-out-gpt-56-after-government-greenlight-announces-chatgpt-work?ut…
OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Google Hands Open Health Stack To the Linux Foundation https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1659227/google-hands-open-health-stack-to-the-linux-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Graviton5 CPU Benchmarks: 30% Geo Mean Improvement Over Graviton4 After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the f…
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San Francisco Moves To Build Private Luxury Airport Terminal https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1649254/san-francisco-moves-to-build-private-luxury-airport-terminal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The European Commission has ended an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices after SAP agreed to abolish reinstatement fees and reduce back-maintenance fees. The move could reduce barrie…
OpenMandriva has accused a former contributor of using his trusted admin access to trash repositories and push a package that could have broken desktop installations after a community dispute spilled …
Combing through job postings and company help wanted pages for a position that matches your resume is the very definition of drudge work. Now, there's an AI designed to suck up information from the we…
macOS 28 Will Drop Support For Encrypted Mac OS Extended Volumes https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/09/1641225/macos-28-will-drop-support-for-encrypted-mac-os-extended-volumes?utm_source=rss1.0…
An effort by European parliamentarians to block the reintroduction of an interim rule allowing tech companies to scan chats for evidence of child sexual abuse failed today, despite securing more votes…
Microsoft's apparent ambition to make Outlook the worst email client for Mac shows no sign of fading after a recent update broke font selection in emails. The problem occurs when composing an email. O…
Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer "You promised me that you would never take power in your name." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/conspiracies-and-regrets-abound-in-d…
