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Monday February 17, 2025. 12:13 AM
Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies 'are changing us individually and collectively,' writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title?...
The 6.14-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing; the announcement, for unknown reasons, went only to the linux-btrfs list. So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal releases at this point....
Sunday February 16, 2025. 11:00 PM
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'A robotic lander from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now in orbit around the Moon,' reports Spaceflight Now, 'and going through its final preparations to land in the coming weeks.' Its arrival comes nearly a month after the spacecraft launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket...
gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei...
El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our ...
'What if time is not as fixed as we thought?' That's the question raised in an announcement from the University of Surrey. 'Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from past to future — time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the...
Christie's auction house notes that an AI-generated 'portrait' of an 18th-century French gentleman recently sold for $432,500. (One member of the Paris-based collective behind the work says 'we found that portraits provided the best way to illustrate our point, which is that ...
The passage of time is hard on computer parts. Sometimes it’s about how much they wear down over time; other times, it’s the fact that older parts get set aside and forgotten, only to be left behind by time. For instance, it may seem like PCIe 4.0 just arrived to...
'Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes...' writes the tech news site Hot Hardware. But the site adds that newly unsealed court documents 'reveal that Meta allegedly used a minimum of 81.7TB of illegally...
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Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an 'under-the-radar robot push' that 'could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.' Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment...
The Pro Keys 2 is a solid iPad keyboard case offering great protection for your tablet. However, there are quite a few caveats along the way.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you can never have enough storage space. Extra SSDs are useful for so many things. And right now, you can snag this large-capacity pocket-sized portable SSD at a phenomenal price. The Samsung T7 SSD normally retails for $270...
According to the Trans Legislation Tracker (TLT), 2024 was the fifth year in a row to break records for the total number of anti-trans bills considered across the United States in a given calendar year. The Trans Legislation Tracker website states that their research has...
Revenge of the Sith might be my favorite Star Wars movie (sue me), but even I can admit that the prequels dragged. Most of that is thanks to the frankly absurd quantity of 'political' scenes, which are actually less intrigue and more characters you don't care about dropping...
A group of scientists recently found something new and terrifying in a cave in the North of Ireland — the fuzzy corpse of a zombified spider, infected with a mind-controlling fungus not unlike the cordyceps strain that hijacks ants and leads them to their deaths. — Read...
Spin class is intimidating, but your gear shouldn't be. Clip in and conquer your next session with these WIRED-approved picks.
Asus’ Ceraluminum machine is one of the lightest 14-inch laptops we’ve ever tested.
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether). But it’s not...
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