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Wednesday June 11, 2025. 12:06 PM
“Stay on the right side of risk.” That’s what a new advertisement from Microsoft says, urging businesses and consumers to upgrade their Windows 10 PCs in the coming months. After all, Windows 10 will stop getting security updates in October. That’s now only four...
The FDA plans to use AI to 'radically increase efficiency' in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, drawing on lessons from Operation Warp Speed to reduce review times to weeks. The plan was laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA. The New York Times...
Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.
Well, I’ll be: Android 16 is officially here! (Or it’s available for device-makers to roll out as they see fit, at least. Choose your own adventure.) And the timing of the software’s arrival isn’t the only unusual thing about Google’s latest addition to its...
Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, likely rotates at maximum speed.
How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, ...
Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft Windows. That means you can install and remove the Python interpreter like any other application, and run multiple versions of the interpreter side-by-side using the py tool. But there’s been one long-standing weakness: While...
Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a host of developer-friendly utilities make Node a hugely popular way to...
In 2010, I got fired. I deserved it. I wasn’t wrong, but I deserved it. And I think there is an interesting lesson in that dichotomy. I was managing a team of developers at a once-great Silicon Valley firm that had fallen from its peak. The development team was very...
Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.…
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…
A mathematician on Reddit calculated that if all 8.2 billion humans were blended into a uniform goo, the resulting meatball would form a sphere just under 1 kilometer wide -- small enough to fit inside Central Park. ScienceAlert reports: 'If you blended all 7.88 billion...
The botnet’s still alive and evolving Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centers, a United Nations report (PDF) said on...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centers, a United Nations report (PDF) said on...
AI could bring a new round of browser wars Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant.…
Meta has recently lost some traction in the AI space, notably halting a major model rollout last month, but the social media company is looking to turn that around with a new $15 billion investment in Scale AI. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has reportedly inked a deal to...
Michael Larabel of Phoronix highlights the key updates in today's stable release of FreeBSD 14.3: FreeBSD 14.3 has back-ported a number of improvements from FreeBSD 15 back to the FreeBSD 14 series. Plus a number of routine package updates and other fixes. Some of the...
'Twelve years ago, a baby was born after someone used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF,' writes longtime Slashdot reader bobdevine. 'I, for one, welcome...' Blockworks tells the story of how it all came to be: In February 2012 -- almost two years after Laszlo's pizzas --...
'It is true, Google AI is stomping on the entire internet,' writes Slashdot reader TheWho79, sharing a report from the Wall Street Journal. 'From HuffPost to the Atlantic, publishers prepare to pivot or shut the doors.... Even highly regarded old school bullet-proof...
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