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Saturday March 29, 2025. 10:00 PM
TL;DR: Make your presentations pop with Microsoft's go-to diagramming tool, Microsoft Visio. A lifetime license for Windows is available now for just $14.97 (reg. $249).  Want to make your data look good? You don't need to head back to school for a degree in graphic design,...
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'I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,' a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design,...
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Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, 'after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.' Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew...
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In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced 'a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).' It was the first release of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence...
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Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and...
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There's an old saying that goes something like this: if you don't know why the fence is there, don't take down the fence, no matter how decrepit the fence. Don't replace it, don't fix it, don't paint it, just wait and see what it fences. — Read the rest The post DOGE plans...
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A great way to beat the NYC traffic is to ride down the street in one of these motorized lawn chairs. Not only are these a practical solution to riding around cars, but they also bring a little piece of vacation with you, wherever you go. — Read the rest The post Ditch the...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News: After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of...
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The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter 'fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week... the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record, according to the...
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Martha Stewart–endorsed Dinnerly is a budget meal kit that often feels homespun and extravagant. Now if they’d only lay off the broiler.
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TL;DR: Take advantage of the power of AI with this all-in-one tool, 1minAI, only $79.97 for a lifetime subscription through March 30.   What kind of technology did you expect to see in 2025? We bet it was flying cars or hoverboards… not ChatGPT. — Read the rest The post...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of four stable kernels on March 28: 6.13.9, 6.12.21, 6.6.85, and 6.1.132. Users are advised to upgrade.
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An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux's unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The issues allow...
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More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators Comment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…
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Relive the joys of the ’70s and ’80s with this 300-game, full-size home arcade machine.
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Center Parcs, the chain of liminal forest resorts in Britain and Ireland, deleted its Twitter account in January. But it didn't realize that meant the name would become available for registration, and it was soon squatted. Fortunately for the company, the IT consultant who...
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If you find yourself in Reykjavik and don't go to the Icelandic Phallological Museum, I'm not sure you can say that you are living your best life. Photo: Séamus Bellamy Located in the city's Hafnartorg district, the museum can be found in a relatively modern-looking office...
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One of the greatest gifts any person can give another is one of their internal organs. Whether it happens after death or, as a living gesture of love for another human being, it's a gesture of enormous life-giving generosity. Unless the donated organ happens to be infested...
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Ok, you probably won't die, but you WILL be struck by how ridiculously cute this long-snouted tamandua—also known as a 'lesser anteater' (because it's smaller than its 'giant anteater' relative)—is. In the video you can see a tamandua named Isla demonstrating a perfect...
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If you're never heard a goat snore, you need to remedy that, stat! Luckily, I have the perfect video for you! It features a goat named Tina who is wearing a red bandana and napping in the sun, eyes closed, head resting against a rock, and smiling like she's eating snacks in...
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