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Wednesday November 20, 2024. 11:45 AM
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Google’s got two primary user-facing platforms, Android and ChromeOS — and, if the latest rumors are to be believed, the company may be on the brink of bringing ’em together and combining ’em into a single, streamlined entity. If...
Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96.…
You may have heard of RISC-V -- usually pronounced 'risk-five' -- it's an instruction set architecture originally designed to support computer architecture research and education but which has evolved to become a standard open architecture for industry. We spoke to Calista...
AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to 'quit their jobs' and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer,...
I’ve linked to quite a few posts by OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne on OSNews, mostly about her work for and knowledge of OpenBSD. However, she recently posted about her decision to leave the OpenBSD team, and it mostly comes down to the fact she hasn’t been using OpenBSD...
Don't say you weren't warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions.…
The way we use artificial intelligence is changing. Chatbots aren’t going away. We’ll continue to use them to deliver basic, natural language, self-service applications. But the future belongs to multimodal applications, built on large language models (LLMs) and other AI ...
A programming language can be fast, safe, or easy to write. As developers, we get to choose our priorities but we can only pick two. Programming languages that emphasize convenience and safety tend to be slow (like Python). Languages that emphasize performance tend to be...
Java is one of the classic object-oriented languages, so classes and objects are of special interest to Java developers. Object-oriented programming gives you considerable power, particularly when it comes to structuring and organizing programs as they grow larger. That’s ...
The way we use artificial intelligence is changing. Chatbots aren’t going away. We’ll continue to use them to deliver basic, natural language, self-service applications. But the future belongs to multimodal applications, built on large language models (LLMs) and other AI ...
Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made...
Having already tested the waters with Windows Server for the last couple of years, Microsoft is bringing hotpatch updates to Windows 11 24H2. The key advantage to hotpatching is that it allows for security updates to be installed without the need for a restart. This is...
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CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value Column I recently got to play a 'fly on the wall' at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls ...
Slashdot readers damn_registrars and GFS666 share the news of the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s. He was 96. Hackaday reports: The origins of BASIC lie in the Dartmouth Timesharing System, like similar timesharing...
Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.…
Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with 'minors mode' that enforces both censorship and...
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later Google on Monday delivered the first developer preview of Android 16 – a release notable for both its status as the first step towards a new version and its release...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Microsoft and Atom Computing say they've reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers. Microsoft says it will start delivering the...
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