News Information Technology News Feeds SlashdotAs 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth June 14, 2026Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview. "It's much more reflective of […]Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off? June 14, 2026"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market." Wang's big accomplishment was […]Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot June 14, 2026Phoronix reports: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot. Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers left working […]How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI June 14, 2026America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM: It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer of AI models and agents into one system researchers can […]Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension June 14, 2026"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and other claims. Blizzard Entertainment claims that Project Ascension is a […] Ars TechnicaDid a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated June 14, 2026University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066Review: Disclosure Day is big on action, light on ideas June 13, 2026There's nothing new or surprising, but it's still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System June 13, 2026Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive June 13, 2026Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? June 12, 2026As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.
