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Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: When Ubisoft pulled the plug on The Crew's servers without warning, players were left with a worthless game they'd already paid for. Now, consumer watchdog UFC-Que Choisir is fighting back, demanding gamers' right to play regardless of publisher whims. Supported by the "Stop Killing Games" movement, this landmark case challenges unfair terms before the Creteil Judicial Court (Val-de-Marne near Paris), and aims to protect players from disappearing games. The lawsuit that UFC-Que Choisir filed against Ubisoft on Tuesday alleges that the video game publisher "misled consumers about the permanence of their purchase and imposed abusive contractual clauses stripping players of ownership rights," reports Reuters.

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WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed

By his third failed attempt to log into Oracle’s VPN on Tuesday morning, a decades-long employee of the company started to get a bad feeling.…

Newlyweds Tabitha Willett and Harry Hoare have jetted off to Florida for a babymoon after tying the knot at Chelsea Town Hall.

Robert Jenrick is expected today to announce Reform's plans to maintain the triple lock in a key economic announcement ahead of the local elections.

Justice doesn't mean the same thing to all. What we see as fair others might not.

AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents

The bots won't be coming for 007's job anytime soon. According to a former CIA officer, AI may help create false documents, but this fakery will give old-fashioned human intelligence fresh relevance.…

Unlicensed sites that boast of having no safety checks have flooded social media in networks in recent years with persuasive adverts and promises of huge jackpots.

Laura Ann Aime's murder had long been linked to Bundy, who made a deathbed confession to killing 30 victims before being sent to the electric chair in January 1989.

Reports suggest that the company, now merged with Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) start-up xAI, could be valued at more than $1.75trn.

ZipNada writes: Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the modern internet. In their presentation, Dylan Ayrey, founder of Truffle Security, and Mike Nolan, a software architect with the UN Development Program, introduced a tool they call malus.sh. For a small fee, the service can "recreate any open-source project," generating what its website describes as "legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems." It's a test case in how intellectual property law -- still rooted in 19th-century precedent -- collides with 21st-century automation. Since the US Supreme Court's Baker v. Selden ruling, copyright has been understood to guard expression, not ideas. That boundary gave rise to clean-room design, a method by which engineers reverse-engineer systems without accessing the original source code. Phoenix Technologies famously used the technique to build its version of the PC BIOS during the 1980s. Ayrey and Nolan's experiment shows how AI can perform a clean-room process in minutes rather than months. But faster doesn't necessarily mean fair. Traditional clean-room efforts required human teams to document and replicate functionality -- a process that demanded both legal oversight and significant labor. By contrast, an AI-mediated "clean room" can be invoked through a few prompts, raising questions about whether such replication still counts as fair use or independent creation.

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The unknown child was hit while being pushed in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Street in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

While his boss has backtracked on a number of issues during his premiership - from winter fuel payments to benefits - there were no U-turns from Larry who simply stuck to his manifesto pledges.

As viewers will know, the co-owner of Home Farm Estate (Claire King) was rushed to hospital during Monday's instalment of the ITV soap.

Political pundits on both sides of the aisle are praising the Daily Mail's expose revealing Bryon Noem as a secret crossdresser.

Detectives from Thames Valley Police, which arrested Andrew over alleged misconduct in public office in February, met with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) last month.

The 'insane' trend was revealed by a delegate at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU), saying she had heard 'many accounts' of art books being cut.

Bryon Noem, 56, was spotted emerging from his ranch home in Castlewood, South Dakota on Wednesday morning, exclusive Daily Mail photos show.

An Afghan asylum seeker who sexually assaulted two female commuters has been sent to prison for 30 weeks for secretly spying on a naked swimmer at a leisure pool.

A one-year-old Virginia boy named Ma'Khai was tragically killed when his 14-year-old mother drove under the influence and crashed a car in a late night collision, police say.

The study found that people with higher Vitamin D levels in midlife had lower levels of a brain protein called tau years later. Tau buildup is considered a sign of Alzheimer's disease.