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Monday December 30, 2024. 10:10 AM
President-elect Donald Trump has defended the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. 'I've always liked the visas. I have many H-1B visas on my properties... It's a great program,' Trump told The New York Post. His comments follow recent support for the program from...
Anti-algorithm tactics and human moderators need to keep the web honest.
In a previous article, we explored various approaches to managing data for multitenant applications. We examined the benefits, compromises and limitations of different deployment models, including share-nothing, share-everything, and hybrid. We discussed the needs and...
Tides ebb and flow. Pendulums swing. Ideas come and go, especially in programming, where the technologies and techniques for creating software continuously evolve. Some programming languages, libraries, platforms, and tools become hot and irresistible. When they’re...
Open Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists … confronting Meta, the social-media giant controlled by a...
TL;DR: This retro console has 70,000+ games, streaming features, and two controllers for just $99.99 (reg. $159), with free shipping. A nostalgia trip that won’t break the bank, the Kinhank Super Console brings the golden age of gaming straight to your TV with over 70,000...
TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription to AdGuard’s Family Plan that works on nine devices for $15.97 (88% off). Ads are the internet equivalent of mosquitos at a summer picnic. They’re annoying, follow you everywhere, and they literally suck. Pop-ups that try to get under...
Slashdot reader SysEngineer shared this report from the Guardian: AI tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions — ranging from what to buy to who to vote for — according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. The paper highlights an...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. Born in 1924, he had just celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1st. If you want to catch a glimpse of his political charisma, YouTube has a clip of Carter's appearance on 'What's My Line' when he was still only governor of...
'Every single one of the top ten box office hits of 2024 was a sequel, a remake... or a prequel,' writes The Hollywood Reporter. Here's the list of 2024's top-grossing films published by the movie blog SlashFilm: 10. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 9. Venom: The Last Dance 8. Kung...
Sunday December 29, 2024. 11:58 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: The rich get richer — and older. People with high salaries and net worth tend to live longer lives, research shows. Once Americans make it to their late 50s, the wealthiest 10% live to a median age of around...
When it comes to the possibility of a bird flu outbreak, America's Centers for Disease Control recently issued a statement that the risk to the public 'remains low.' But even in the event of a worst-case scenario, New York magazine believes 'We may be more equipped for...
The 6.13-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: 'It's been another week, but I'm happy to report that clearly most people actually seem to have been enjoying the holidays, because rc5 is tiny'
Reuters reports: Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where a tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of breaking a power line and four telecoms cables with its anchor... A break in the...
NPR remembers when the world 'prepared for the impending global meltdown' that might've been, on December 31, 1999 — and the possible bug known as Y2K: The Clinton administration said that preparing the U.S. for Y2K was probably 'the single largest technology management...
The Washington Post shares some good news from 2024: Researchers were able to detect a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons — harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer — for the first time, almost 30 years after countries first agreed to phase...
'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering' Interview Now that criminals have realized there's no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes - it's much cheaper and easier to steal credentials and then jailbreak existing ones - the...
After a four-year hiatus, 2025 will see the return of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Started in 1984 (and inspired partly by a bug in the classic Bourne shell), it's 'the Internet's oldest contest,' acording to their official social media account on Mastodon....
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Archer is aiming to launch its first commercially operated [and electrically-powered] flights with a pilot and passengers within a year in Abu Dhabi. A competitor, Joby Aviation, says it is aiming to launch...
While microplastics seem to be everywhere, CNN reports that scientists in China 'have come up with a possible solution: a biodegradable sponge made of squid bones and cotton' (which contain two organic compounds 'known for eliminating pollution from wastewater...') They then ...
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