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Monday January 27, 2025. 12:04 AM
Since launching in 2020, the nonprofit site RestofWorld.org has been covering tech news from 100 countries. And they've just announced the winners in their 2024 international photography contest. 'From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries...
Sunday January 26, 2025. 10:52 PM
For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was 'hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,' a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ('Two other victims were taken to...
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into 'the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints.' If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal ...
Earlier this month a major fire erupted at a California battery plant. But several factors contributed to its rapid spread, the fire district's chief told the Los Angeles Times: A fire suppression system that is part of every battery rack at the plant failed and led to a...
El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder's dominance in a...
The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to offer at least one computer science course to its students. 'This bill aligns Michigan with a majority of the country,' according to the state's announcement, which says the bill 'advances...
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which 'will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.' Wikipedia defines ACPI as 'an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a 'milestone' for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU's...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Solus project develops an independent, rolling release distribution with a focus on desktop computing. The project has published Solus 4.7 (also labelled 2025-01-26) which features improved video card...
I've never thought about a piece of sandwich bread being cut the long way before, but here's what it looks like. I didn't really think that a piece of bread could look awkward, but this slice proves me wrong. Somehow, it looks like its naked and embarrassed that we're all...
Stir with it, flip with it, cook with it—a Danish kitchenware studio has reinvented man’s OG tool.
NASA is heading to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time for a panel about a new documentary. The NASA-produced film Planetary Defenders is about the Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The organization was featured in Netflix's too-real-to-be-funny Don't Look Up...
Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.
The Arizona Coyotes, previously known as the Phoenix Coyotes and the Winnipeg Jets before that, moved to Salt Lake City for the 2024-2025 NHL Season. The team is technically an expansion team, but that's a whole other thing. The team held an online fan vote to narrow down...
At some point, influencers started deluding themselves into thinking they should have any say on what their audiences put into their bodies. Mr. Beast's ill-fated burger chain was only the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately. It seems every YouTuber with a following and a...
Last week New Orleans (and much of the south) received record-breaking amounts of snow, with some areas of the city reporting up to a foot! This is a far cry from the half an inch the city received when it last snowed in 2004! — Read the rest The post Even record-breaking...
Elon Musk is having a busy week, which naturally means that the rest of us are having a shitty one. After giving the Nazi salute heard round the world and enjoying a warm reception in Berlin, Gruppenführer Musk has decided to double down with a surprise appearance at an...
A series from photographer Stefan Falke captures iconic views of New York City's boroughs both coming and going.
In this sweet and funny video, someone's grandmother uses voice to text for the first time to send a message. Everything starts out smoothly until the woman begins narrating her inner thoughts out loud, which, to her surprise, begin appearing on her phone in front of her. —...
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: 'Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon,' CNN reported today. But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than Covid-19 originating in wild animal...
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