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Wednesday November 13, 2024. 12:00 PM
With last week’s US elections, everything changed for the tech industry, especially for Microsoft. Given President-elect Donald J. Trump’s penchant for incendiary statements, off-the-cuff decisions, plans to impose massive tariffs, and willingness to use the power of his ...
Let’s be honest: Many Windows PCs don’t have great webcams. The webcam is often an afterthought where manufacturers cut costs when putting together laptops. And, if you have a desktop PC, you might not even have a webcam at all unless you go out and buy one. But you...
In the ongoing and potentially futile effort by CIOs to squeeze meaningful ROI out of their shiny, new generative AI (genAI) tools, there is no more powerful villain than hallucinations. It is what causes everyone to seriously wonder whether the analysis genAI delivers is...
Four bidders chosen to submit tenders for SMR program The UK government's nuclear energy agency has embarked on detailed negotiations with four shortlisted bidders to supply small modular reactors (SMRs) to bolster the country's power generation.…
When it comes to protecting sensitive information like financial data, personal information, and intellectual property, encryption has become a must. By scrambling data through the use of algorithms, only those with access to decryption keys are able to read what's being...
A new analysis of data from NASA's Voyager 2 mission reveals that the planet Uranus and its five largest moons might harbor subsurface oceans and potential conditions for life. The BBC reports: Much of what we know about them was gathered by Nasa's Voyager 2 spacecraft which ...
Ofcom opens floodgates for turbocharged 5G in cities Britain's mobile telcos will get to bid for mmWave spectrum to provide high-speed wireless services next year, according to Ofcom, which just published the final draft of the regulations governing the auction.…
Visual Studio 2022 17.12, the latest version of Microsoft’s signature integrated development environment (IDE), is now generally available, with improvements ranging from productivity enhancements for C++ developers to integrated AI variable inspection in the GitHub...
Last week I went on a short rant about scrum, and how it isn’t agile and is, well, dumb. It occurred to me that one of the obstacles to truly being agile has been the limits of software technology. The way we had to build and deliver software didn’t lend itself to...
Docker containers are meant to be immutable, meaning the code and data they hold never change. Immutability is useful when you want to be sure the code running in production is the same as the code that passed QA testing; it’s not so useful when you need to write data and...
After Java, Kotlin is the most popular JVM language. Kotlin is an expressive, concise language with strong functional programming support. It’s especially appealing to Java developers because it is fully interoperable with Java, and the syntax is an easy...
Microsoft Visio is a tool that makes complex data easy to understand and visually impactful. Whether you’re a project manager organizing workflows, an engineer mapping systems, or a team leader developing an org chart, Visio’s tools bring your ideas to life. And through...
Ever try to change your account's registered country? It's nigh impossible The European Union has demanded more platform changes from Apple – this time accusing it of violating anti-geoblocking rules in several of its media services.…
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Longtime Slashdot reader thephydes writes: The hearing will go ahead on November 13 at 11:30 ET (16:30 GMT). Apparently, it will 'further pull back the curtain on secret UAP research programs conducted by the U.S. government, and undisclosed findings they have yielded,'...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it online, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced....
Korea wants to get rid of overtime cap while Japan splashes cash with vague funding Analysis Multiple Southeast Asian nations – including South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam – have recently opened up on efforts to rework or amend their semiconductor strategies.…
'Researchers at the University of Texas have unveiled a new thermal interface material that could revolutionize cooling, outperforming top liquid metal solutions by up to 72% in heat dissipation,' writes Slashdot reader jjslash. 'This breakthrough not only improves energy...
Don't be a turkey – get these fixed Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has swung around again, and Microsoft has released fixes for 89 CVE-listed security flaws in its products – including two under active attack – and reissued three more.…
“These two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” said Donald Trump in a statement.
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