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Monday December 23, 2024. 09:00 AM
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Babbel gives you access to 14 languages with on-demand lessons for just $129.97—through December 31. The pressure of traditional language classes can be overwhelming for those who dislike speaking English in public. Babbel offers the...
TL;DR: Save 65% on this refurbished MacBook Pro and pay only $350 instead of $999—only while supplies last. Loyal PC users, hear us out. We know you’re a die-hard fan, but don’t you ever wonder if Mac users are right about MacBooks being better? If you’ve always...
Saturday France connected a new nuclear reactor to its grid 'for the first time in a quarter century...' reports Bloomberg, 'adding low-carbon electricity supply at a time when a sputtering economy has made demand sluggish.' The Flamanville-3 reactor — the first such...
Silicon Power has introduced its first M.2 PCIe 2230 E-Key SSD, the MEM3K0E, designed for the compact and demanding needs of edge computing, robotics, and other emerging technologies. The company describes the new SSD as a flexible solution for developers looking to optimize ...
'Drones collided, fell from the sky and hit a little boy after 'technical difficulties' during a holiday show...' reports the Orlando Sentinel. They note that a press release from the city said the 8 p.m. show was then cancelled: The company behind the drones, Sky Elements,...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: The best of 2024 News: Fedora to expand Btrfs support and publishes new Apple M-series update, openSUSE announces the upcoming end of 15.5 Leap support and patches...
TL;DR: Transform your data by putting it into clean, easy-to-read diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2021 Pro, now on sale for $17.97 (reg. $249) until the end of today. As much as everyone loves how hilarious The Office's portrayal of #corporatelife is, one thing's clear: no one...
It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to speculate what kind of thing it might write if it were not confined to answering human prompts. Among its answers was this response ...
Sunday December 22, 2024. 11:02 PM
Linus has released 6.13-rc4 for testing. 'So this definitely is looking a bit smaller than most rc4s, and I expect (and hope) that rc5 will be absolutely tiny because you should all already be relaxing over the xmas holidays. But hey, if somebody is out there keeping the...
TL;DR: The GoCable can charge your phone, transfer files, and open your drink, and it's only $24.99 (reg. $44). Life on the go can get a little wild, but staying charged up? That's a breeze. Whether you're jet-setting for a business trip, off on a spontaneous weekend...
A demonstration 'race' between a (human) F1 race car driver Daniil Kvyat and an autonomous vehicle was just staged by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League. Describing the league and the 'man vs. machine' showdown, Ars Technica writes, 'Say goodbye to the human driver and...
Long-time Slashdot AmiMoJo quotes this report from EcoWatch: Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain's power prices below zero. Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set ...
In order to avoid paying actual recording artists the $.003 they earn for each play of their songs, Spotify has started filling out its playlists with songs they buy cheaply from production houses and then assign to 'ghost artists' with fake names and biographies. — Read the...
Santa Claus may be magical, but even the most legendary figure could benefit from some modern technological enhancements. If he adopted the Linux kernel, which powers the world’s most flexible and open-source operating systems, the jolly old man in red could take his North ...
This sequence of photos shows a woman's parents waving goodbye to her. She took the photographs over 27 years when leaving their home. The images are a beautiful timelapse until they reach the inevitable conclusion and break your heart. The ritual of taking goodbye pictures...
Engadget reports: Apple is developing a smart doorbell and lock system that would use Face ID to unlock the door for known residents, Mark Gurman reports in the Power On newsletter. The face-scanning doorbell would connect to a smart deadbolt, which could include existing...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Health magazine: 'Most people think of aging as occurring gradually, constantly, and linearly,' senior study author Michael Snyder, PhD, a professor of genetics and director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at...
A series of drone sightings over U.S. military bases 'has renewed concerns that the U.S. doesn't have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could potentially pose a national security threat,' reports CNN: 'We're one year past Langley...
The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), 'children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers.' But 'Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government will shut down the video service TikTok...
It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered by ChatGPT as an illustration of the potential harms through the misuse of large language models and other forms of AI.…
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