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Monday October 14, 2024. 07:32 AM
Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space Aerospace outfit Boeing has again delayed its 777X jet – a product on which it has hung all its hopes to help it turn around years of trouble – and warned of job cuts and further losses in its defence and...
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too The fight between WordPress co-creator Matthew Mullenweg and CMS hosting outfit WP Engine escalated over the weekend, with the latter seemingly made persona non grata in the WordPress community – or at least the...
'Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android,' reports the blog Android Authority. 'The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. 'This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for...
'Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data' from 23andMe, reports SFGate. But can you actually do that? 23andMe makes it easy to feel like you've protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions...
America's electric vehicle subsidies brought a 2-to-1 return on investment, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 'That includes environmental benefits, but mostly reflects a shift of profits to the United States,' reports the New York Times....
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: FunOS 24.04.1 News: Work starts on next openSUSE Leap version, openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS get updated bootloader, improvements in Haiku, KDE neon upgrades its base ...
TL;DR: If you're ready to regain control of your TV-watching experience, this Button Remote for Apple TV/Apple TV 4K is just $34.97. For many of us, using the standard Apple TV remote can be like trying to drive a stick shift for the first time. — Read the rest The post The...
Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target SpaceX's engineers performed two significant feats on Saturday: catching Starship's Super Heavy Booster with mechanical arms on the rocket's launch tower, and achieving a...
To avoid overloading local electric grids, Britain's most productive windfarm 'is paid to turn off,' reports the Guardian — and across the industry these so-called 'constraint payments' amount to billions every year. 'Government officials are hoping to correct the clear...
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals Indonesia's government last week ordered Apple and Google to remove Chinese e-commerce app Temu from their app stores.…
The 6.12-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So the diffstat looks a bit odd, because one of the fixes here caused the UTF tables to be regenerated, and an effective one-liner change turned into 6703 lines of diff. But if you ignore that effect, everything looks...
Sunday October 13, 2024. 11:48 PM
Slashdot reader Rick Schumann shared this report from the blog AppleInsider: A new paper from Apple's artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as those from Meta and OpenAI, still lack basic reasoning skills. The group...
TL;DR: The 4K Dual-Camera Drone is beginner-friendly and just $64.97 (reg. $119) through October 27. It's no big secret that most first-time drone flights end with the user fishing the poor thing out of a bush. But that's not going to happen with this 4K Dual-Camera Drone. —...
'Technical outerwear brand Arc'teryx and wearable technology startup Skip have teamed up to create exoskeleton hiking pants, powered by AI...' reports CNN. After four years of collaboration and testing, the two companies plan to start selling the battery-powered pants in...
Next up in my backlog of news to cover: the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedies for Google’s monopolistic abuse. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has found Google is a monopolist, lawyers for the Department of Justice have begun proposing solutions to correct the...
The Wall Street Journal reports on a 'suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft... as many as a dozen or more' that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago 'over an area that includes the home base for the Navy's SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval...
Like the Robotaxi, Tesla's Optimis robot is also not ready for prime time. Driverless taxis roam the streets of my hometown now, and none of them are Teslas. There are also robotic novelty bars in many tourist-heavy locations, and none of them use Tesla Optimis robots. —...
We've covered reports of Donald Trump's malodorous offenses in the past, but I've never seen a more comprehensive compilation than what's captured in this piece entitled, 'Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor?' — Read the...
Skip Danger vs. the Space-Time Continuum is an upcoming short film / web series from writer-director Tim Sanderson that looks like a wonderfully self-aware homage to Back to the Future and Hot Tub Time Machine — minus, perhaps, the actual time machine. — Read the rest The...
People Standing In Front of Danzig's House is a new zine-style softcover photography book that showcases, well, precisely what it promises on the cover: pictures of people standing in front of a creepy-looking house that once was occupied by the patron saint of horror movie...
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