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Military Planners Dread the Arctic, 'Where Drones Drop Dead and GPS Goes Haywire'(2025-12-28 00:00:34)

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the North Pole, the less usefu...
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Researchers Show Some Robots Can Be Hijacked Just Through Spoken Commands(2025-12-27 20:00:23)

An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this story from Interesting Engineering: Cybersecurity specialists from the research group DARKNAVY have demonstrated how modern humanoid robots can be compromised and weaponised through weaknesses in their AI-driven control systems. In a controlled test, the ...
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Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism(2025-12-27 15:00:03)

Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already "designed to handle dark traffic signals," and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco's long power outage, properly treating those intersections as four-way stops. But while during the long outage t...
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Video Call Glitches Evoke Uncanniness, Damage Consequential Life Outcomes(2025-12-27 10:00:19)

Those brief freezes and audio hiccups that plague video calls are not the benign nuisances that most people assume them to be, according to a new study published in Nature that found glitches during virtual interactions can meaningfully damage hiring prospects, reduce trust in healthcare providers a...
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The Economic Divide Between Big and Small Companies Is Growing(2025-12-27 05:00:13)

While America's largest corporations are riding a wave of surging profits and AI-fueled stock market enthusiasm to record highs, small businesses across the country are cutting staff and scaling back operations as years of high inflation, cautious consumers and tariff confusion take their toll. Pr...
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