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28 Jul 2026 2:21am GMT

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28 Jul 2026 1:13am GMT

YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. "The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment like Law & Order, Saturday Night Live and Love Island," reports The Hollywood Reporter. "It also has the potential to dramatically scale Peacock, which remains smaller than many of its streaming competitors." From the report: Peacock has 48 million subscribers, while YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have a combined 125 million subscribers, though they don't break out how many each of those offerings have. The agreement, which expands on the deal the company inked with YouTube parent company Google last year, will also extend the entertainment company's programming deal with YouTube TV, while bringing some of YouTube's offerings to Comcast Xfinity and Xumo platforms. There's also a notable sports and production element to the deal, with NBC Sports agreeing to stream some live sporting events on its YouTube channels, and with NBC agreeing to serve as the production partner for select live events on YouTube. YouTube will also bundle some of the company's International streaming offerings like Universal+ and Hayu in select markets.

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27 Jul 2026 11:00pm GMT

Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell "voice, messaging, data, and emergency services," similar to Starlink's partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon's existing Leo broadband constellation. The Verge reports: Advanced Television points out that the FCC application also includes a request to use spectrum assigned to Iridium's satellite network outside the US, even as Rocket Lab is in the process of acquiring Iridium with plans to expand. The new constellation and direct-to-device service will "complement" the broadband services Amazon also plans to offer through its Leo platform. In addition to consumer satellite service, it would also be used for things like disaster response and emergency messaging. Amazon says the new direct-to-device satellites "will process the signals in orbit before relaying them to improve performance." The new constellation will be nearly double the size of Amazon's initial Leo constellation, which is planned to include around 3,200 satellites. As of July 2nd, Amazon says "over 375" of those satellites have launched so far.

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27 Jul 2026 10:00pm GMT

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

27 Jul 2026 9:56pm GMT

Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.

27 Jul 2026 9:40pm GMT

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and agents. Nvidia points to the recent security incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, noting that when closed AI tools could not differentiate between attackers and defenders and blocked forensic work, Hugging Face used the open-weight GLM 5.2 model on its own systems to review over 17,000 actions and contain the breach. "The right response is not to deny defenders access to capable open systems. It is to pair openness with strong safeguards, clear rules against malicious misuse, rigorous evaluation and rapid remediation. In cybersecurity, the safer path is the one that gives more defenders the ability to test, verify and strengthen the systems on which society relies," Nvidia said. Thanks to longtime Slashdot reader SphericalCrusher for also sharing the news.

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27 Jul 2026 9:00pm GMT

Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.

27 Jul 2026 8:42pm GMT

The Linux firmware update utility fwupd 2.1.7 introduces systemd-pcrlock integration, new security attributes, and multiple reliability fixes.

27 Jul 2026 6:01pm GMT

Canonical introduces an optional virtualization HWE stack for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, bringing newer QEMU, libvirt, EDK2, and SeaBIOS versions.

27 Jul 2026 12:43pm GMT

NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, and dozens of industry leaders unite to develop open technologies for securing AI agents and software.

27 Jul 2026 10:21am GMT