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Thursday July 17, 2025. 05:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For some years now, detractors of battery electric vehicles have held up hydrogen as a clean fuel panacea. That sometimes refers to hydrogen combustion engines, but more often, it's hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles,...
Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic Updated Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon.…
A newly arrived sixth preview of Microsoft’s planned.NET 10 application development platform touts improved JIT code generation for struct arguments, one-shot tool execution, and other enhancements in the.NET libraries, runtime, and SDK, as well as the ASP.NET Core,...
Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: Heise, a German IT news publisher, reports (English version via Google Translate) that the German state of Brandenburg is getting the world's tallest wind turbine, with an overall height of 300 meters (approximately 365 meters...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Rescuezilla project has pubilshed updated media for its 2.6.x series. The new release fixes a bug with swap partitions remaining mounted during operations and updates the distribution's hardware support....
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; Anubis; Secure Boot certificate expiration; SFrame; Exported symbols; Python packaging in Fedora. Briefs: Parrot 6.4; SPI report; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, ...
Intel is laying off more than 5,000 employees across four states, according to updated Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings. From a report: Most of the cuts are happening in California and Oregon. Intel more than doubled its layoff estimates for Santa Clara...
Scale AI is laying off 14% of its workforce and 500 contractors as part of a major restructuring just weeks after Meta bought a 49% stake and absorbed its CEO into a new superintelligence lab. The Verge reports: Jason Droege, CEO of Scale AI, sent an email to all Scale...
Longtime Slashdot reader bobdevine shares a report from OSTechNix: For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It's a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community. While many might...
The largest known piece of Mars on planet Earth sold today for $5.3m in an auction at Sotheby's in New York City. The meteorite, designated NWA 16788, weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms) and is the biggest thought to be from the Red Planet. — Read the rest The post Meteorite...
Spreadsheets are great tools for organizing and managing data, whether you’re analyzing your company’s financial statements or tracking monthly expenses. But creating complex formulas, sorting large datasets, or even just getting started can be frustrating and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages -- including from chat apps such as Signal -- images, location...
We've all been told that if you set your mind to something you can do it, as long as you don't give up. The woman in this video seems to live by these words of wisdom. Watch as she walks the wrong way up the down escalator, causing a person-jam of busy, irritated travelers....
The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture ...
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose claim to fame is being Trump's eager doormat, has outdone himself in the art of being a quivering puddle of sick. As reported in Vanity Fair, the invertebrate Speaker demanded 'everything out there' regarding Jeffrey Epstein. —...
Wednesday July 16, 2025. 11:50 PM
Steam has begun banning games that violate the payment rules of banks and card networks, targeting adult content in particular -- especially titles with extreme or controversial themes. Engadget reports: The new clause states that 'content that may violate the rules and...
After getting blackout drunk at a London party, the author wakes up in a random building to discover he's lost his backpack containing his laptop, two passports, and various personal items. Instead of panicking, he treats the situation like 'a new level in a game called...
Qdrant has launched Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service that allows developers to generate, store, and index text and image embeddings in the Qdrant Cloud. The service, which uses integrated models within a managed vector search engine, is designed to simplify building ...
When a plasma donation center opens, local crime drops 12%, say researchers from the University of St. Gallen. Why? Plasma centers offer steady income—up to $400 a month for just four hours weekly. For those struggling, plasma donation becomes a legal way to earn money. —...
OpenAI has added Google Cloud as a provider for ChatGPT and its API, expanding beyond Microsoft to address growing demand for computing power. CNBC reports: OpenAI has added Google to a list of suppliers, specifying that ChatGPT and its application programming interface will ...
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