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Sunday February 9, 2025. 10:13 PM
The second 6.14 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm releasing the usual regularly scheduled release candidate while the rest of the US is getting ready for the biggest day in TV commercials interrupted by some kind of lawn bowling tournament.
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Dealing with Apple iWork files on non-Apple systems has always been a bit of a headache, but at least there were solutions. Apps like Microsoft Office and LibreOffice have long been able to deal with iWork formats, converting Pages, Numbers, and Keynote into formats that are ...
Long-time Slashdot reader Shayde once restored a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and even ran Turbo Pascal on a 40-year-old Apple II clone. Now he's exploring a 27-year-old Macintosh PowerBook G3 — with 64 megabytes memory and 4 gigabytes of disk space. 'The year is 1997, and...
Keynotes at this year's FOSDEM included free AI models and systemd, reports Heise.de — and also a progress report from Miguel Ojeda, supervisor of the Rust integration in the Linux kernel. Only eight people remain in the core team around Rust for Linux... Miguel Ojeda...
'Can you skydive continuously without landing...?' asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, 'only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.' Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on ...
Google's Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge: The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. Google didn't launch...
I now pay $82.99 a month for YouTube TV, yet when it comes to watching the biggest football game of the year in 4K, I’m using Tubi -- for free. Let that sink in, folks. A completely free streaming service is giving me the Super Bowl in 4K quality, while YouTube TV is...
KEF’s loaded Concerto speakers pack warm and silky sound with bass to spare.
Not all cosmetics are created equally. As a beauty writer, here are some standouts I’d recommend to a friend.
Cozy games can be a light in the dark, but the concept is foreign to many gamers and non-gamers alike. To illustrate what cozy games are and the benefits of playing them, Reuters created a tiny cozy game. In the game you are a radish, named Radish. — Read the rest The post R...
A recent trip to Hawaii piqued my curiosity ancient about Polynesian sailors. They didn't have written math or language, or western instruments like compasses or clocks. So how did they navigate across vast open oceans without 'modern' technology? Watch how in Sanford...
This confident and appealing urban EV has bags of charm, history, and usefulness built in—and it could well be the best choice for anyone’s first electric car.
For a long time, 16GB of RAM was considered the standard for gaming PCs. However, most machines would benefit from 32 GB of RAM or higher, especially if you play more visually demanding games or like to game and stream at the same time–these tasks tend to eat right through ...
This fabulous drawing from 1910 is called The 'Wigglemuch' Creature on a Tree Stump Looking at a Bug. This drawing was made by Herbert E. Crowley, a British cartoonist, set designer, and fine artist. He's known for his comic strip, The Wigglemuch, which features the same...
The Ghost of a Scarecrow, Electrical Spook, and Mr Death are the names of these three fantastic puppets by artist Paul Klee. Klee made these beauties for his son somewhere between 1921-1925. I love Klee's playful drawings, and these puppets feel like they crawled out of his...
Whether you’re looking for extra-warm jackets or bedding, you’ve probably seen this term. Let us, er, fill you in.
And I thought he was insufferable when he was just handing out private islands. Mr. Beast, the YouTuber whose whole thing is being rich and being exactly as out of touch as that first point would imply, has done it again. — Read the rest The post Mr Beast rents out Giza's...
Who needs ASMR when you have a cat on hand? Especially this cat. Dexter the Cat – named after the fictional serial killer, believe it or not – is the self-described crunchiest cat on the Internet, and it only takes a cursory look to see why. — Read the rest The post Crunchie...
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