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Thursday December 19, 2024. 10:00 AM
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a “microblogging” social media network similar to X (formerly Twitter), where people can publish posts with a maximum of 300 characters, as well as follow others, create lists, like posts, and so on. “Similar to Twitter” makes sense,...
The Bluesky social network is seeping into the mainstream, thanks in part to people unhappy with changes at X (formerly Twitter). “It’s not some untouched paradise, but it’s got a spark of something refreshing,” Jan Beger, global head of AI Advocacy at GE HealthCare, ...
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at.NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kubernetes and associated...
Webcam users rejoice: the end of the “Another App Is Using the Camera Already” error message could be nigh. People have been asking for the ability to use a single webcam in two or more apps at the same time for what feels likes forever. Built ostensibly as an...
TL;DR: Replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac or PC while it’s still $159.97 (reg. $249). Sale ends December 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Software subscriptions are all over the place. They seem cheap at first, but they add up fast, and...
Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong? Feature The first telephone call in 1876 was marked by Alexander Graham Bell's request to his assistant, Thomas, 'Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.'…
NASA has delayed the launch of SpaceX Crew-10 to late March 2025 to allow time for processing a new Dragon spacecraft, extending the stay of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS to about nine months. CNN reports: Williams and Wilmore launched to space in...
Recent campaign targeted 20,000 folk across UK and Europe with this tactic, Unit 42 warns Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive, chemical and industrial compound manufacturing sectors in Europe, and tried to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Montana's top court on Wednesday held that the state's constitution guaranteed a right to a stable climate system and invalidated a law barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse gas emissions when...
The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust The automotive industry has been shaken this week by news that giant Japanese carmakers Nissan and Honda are contemplating a merger, with Mitsubishi Motors apparently keen to become part of the...
Longtime Slashdot reader timeOday shares a report from CNN: If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world's first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the early 2030s, according...
Spanish police have uncovered a major clue in the year-long investigation of a missing Cuban man, JLPO, after Google Street View images showed a man loading a body-shaped package into a car and pushing a wheelbarrow with a large white package. These images led to the...
The Redox team has received a grant from NLnet to develop Redox OS Unix-style Signals, moving the bulk of signal management to userspace, and making signals more consistent with the POSIX concepts of signaling for processes and threads. It also includes Process Lifecycle and...
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Wired with the caption: 'This story will be an on-going payday for traffic ticket lawyers. I am ordering one now.' From the report: Digital license plates, already legal to buy in a growing number of states and to drive...
TL;DR: This TSA-approved luggage lock works with Apple Find My, so you can track your bag anytime — check out now to get it for $29.99 with free shipping. Tracking down lost luggage used to turn people into Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible: endless phone calls, missing...
Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out The US Supreme Court has decided to consider made-in-China social network TikTok's appeal against the law that requires it to shift to local ownership, or close, by January 19.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Smart home devices compatible with the Matter standard have garnered most of our attention lately, but the compelling features in the latest generation of Z-Wave chips convinced the IoT developer Shelly Group to build no...
The CDC has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. NPR reports: Louisiana health officials initially reported the infection last week, saying a person was hospitalized after being exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks. On Wednesday, the ...
What if you have an Android phone, but consider the Apple Watch superior to other smartwatches? Well, you could switch to iOS, or, you know, you could hack your way into making an Apple Watch work with Android, like Abishek Muthian did. So I decided to make Apple Watch work ...
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