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After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company (titled: Careless People), the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that...
St. Patrick’s Day is all about luck (plus corned beef and cabbage, of course), but when it comes to your Linux system, relying on luck isn’t exactly the best security strategy. Thankfully, Debian 12.10 has arrived just in time for the big Catholic holiday, bringing a...
If you find yourself in a springtime clover field hunting for that rare 4-leaf clover, the journey is the reward. Not so if you and your team are hunched over your desks hunting 4-leaf clovers in terabytes of enterprise data. While combing through millions of files is never...
'The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'from around 10 in 2000.' (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...) No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into ...
Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon: In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially...
TL;DR: Get a 1-Year Costco Gold Star Membership and $45 to spend for just $65. Where do you go for groceries? How about to pick up meds? Get gas? What about clothes shopping? What if you have an emergency and the only solution is a brand-new toaster? — Read the rest The...
A ransomware-as-a-service variant called 'Medusa' has claimed over 300 victims in 'critical infrastructure sectors' (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center. And that alert reminds us that...
We’ve rounded up our favorite speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the best Echo speakers to third-party options like the Sonos Era.
Building a new computer or looking to upgrade your memory? Here are our favorite options right now.
Attention Apple users: Rain Design makes the best minimal, fuss-free stands for Macbooks, iMacs, iPads, and iPhones.
The Galaxy S25 flagships come with several clever new software tricks. Two of them—the Now Bar and the Now Brief—can be highly personalized.
The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea...
How to keep your oven clean in the first place. And how to degrease a really dirty one.
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
The words 'known issues' in relation to updates for Windows are enough to strike fear into even the most hardened computer users. Microsoft is certainly no stranger to releasing updates that have problems -- or, if you want to be kind, unintended consequences. The latest...
'A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,' reports the BBC, 'in the Brazilian city of Belém.' The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people ...
'Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally,' asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that 'doesn't spy... and no one else owns it.' We download it, from souce-code if you...
'For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface,' reports Daily Galaxy. While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost...
TL;DR: Edit photos with AI using Luminar Neo, on sale for $89.99. The best thing AI can do right now is take over for all the really annoying work you don't want to do. Replacing photo backgrounds? You could either manually cut out the background and replace it yourself...
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and ...
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