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FBI Is Buying Location Data To Track US Citizens, Director Confirms(2026-03-19 00:00:05)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency's director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it w...
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Cloudflare Appeals Piracy Shield Fine, Hopes To Kill Italy's Site-Blocking Law(2026-03-18 20:00:31)

Cloudflare is appealing a 14.2 million-euro fine from Italy for refusing to comply with its "Piracy Shield" law, which requires blocking access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service within 30 minutes. The company argues the system lacks oversight, risks widespread overblocking, and could undermine ...
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SaaS Apocalypse Could Be OpenSource's Greatest Opportunity(2026-03-18 15:00:04)

Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated s...
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Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help)(2026-03-18 10:00:07)

sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil -- with a bit of help from human poop. The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show pota...
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Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers(2026-03-18 05:00:05)

Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin Space-1 system for powering AI workloads in orbital data centers. "Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived," said CEO Jensen Huang. "As we deploy satellite constellations and explore deeper into space, intelligence must live wherever data is generated." CNBC r...
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