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Canadian Analysis: Permanent Daylight Saving Harms Sleep and Mental Health https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/2120211/canadian-analysis-permanent-daylight-saving-harms-sleep-and-mental-health…
President Trump is pushing hard for the US Senate to make daylight saving time permanent so, among other things, golfers can stay on the course longer, but it may not be such a bright idea. New resear…
The rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI, the two leading US AI model makers, is no contest when it comes to assessing which one gives you more value for your subscription money, according to industry…
HubSpot Cuts 660 Jobs In AI Restructuring https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/2055209/hubspot-cuts-660-jobs-in-ai-restructuring?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system compon…
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It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/it-looks-like-the-atla…
Alexa Can't Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/2045230/alexa-cant-control-the-aux-input-on-amazon-echo-speakers-anymore?utm_source=…
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and easy to circumvent. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/openai-will-watermar…
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If you signed up for Trump Mobile, you may be part of an exclusive club of … ransomware victims. Criminals called BYOD claim to have broken into the Trump-branded mobile biz and leaked data belonging …
Another week brings yet another open weights model and this one is huge — or at least it is for Europe's AI flag bearer Mistral, which has taken to calling the 1 trillion-parameter large language mode…
Asos Confirms Hackers Sent 'Unauthorized' Notification to App Users https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/195201/asos-confirms-hackers-sent-unauthorized-notification-to-app-users?utm_source=rss1.0mai…
IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/1854244/ibm-and-red-hat-find-more-than-400-new-vulnerabilities-in-popular-java-code?u…
Meta Engineer's Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. T…
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Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/param…
Wikipedia’s parent organization says that OpenAI agents edited some non-public wiki pages and generated traffic that may have contributed to a partial Wikidata outage in May. This makes the non-profit…
Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/1614205/mistral-unveils-new-le-chonk-ai-model-it-says-rivals-best-open-syst…
Amazon bricks Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/amazon-bricks-alexas-ability-to-con…
Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/neutrino-phy…
Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/go…
