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'Tron' Sequel Trailer Released by Disney(2025-04-06 10:00:15)

This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action with what were th...
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Were Still More UK Postmasters Also Wrongly Prosecuted Over Accounting Bug?(2025-04-06 05:00:04)

U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their "Horizon" accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission "is attempting to contact any former subp...
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Microsoft's New AI-Generated Version of 'Quake 2' Now Playable Online(2025-04-06 00:00:04)

Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web). Friday Xbox's general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to "an AI-generated gaming experience" at Copilot.Microsoft.com "Move, shoot, explore — and every frame is created on the ...
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Makers of Rent-Setting Software Sue California City Over Ban(2025-04-05 20:00:07)

Berkeley, California is "the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents," reports the Associated Press (noting that officials in many cities claim the practice is driving up the price of housing). But then real estate software company RealPage filed a federal la...
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Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders(2025-04-05 15:00:04)

Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot loader for most Linux ...
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