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Saturday November 16, 2024. 01:17 AM
The Go programming language having just turned 15 years old on November 10, proponents now are planning to adapt the Go language to large multicore systems, the latest vector and matrix hardware instructions, and the needs of AI workloads. In a blog post on November 11,...
LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you'd never know it from the behavior of today's robots or those making them.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Europe's biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million, sending its shares soaring 20% in early trading. The Amsterdam-listed...
When you’ve got a kitchen table and a bunch of spare shipping boxes, a standing desk and comfortable office chair can feel like excessive splurges. But investing in good ergonomic equipment doesn’t have to be expensive—not during Black Friday, at least. In the lead-up...
The White House said it's completed a $6.6 billion grant agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) through the Chips and Science Act. 'Today's announcement is among the most critical milestones yet in the implementation of the bipartisan CHIPS &...
Friday November 15, 2024. 11:30 PM
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is a powerful miniature synth, similar to its classic OP-1 but with a different emphasis. It's winter, right? Layers! be careful what you wish for—we know you've had wet...
Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in the 90s and I've always liked the back-and-forth with the runtime to achieve the right result. I recently got back from other roles to code again, and when starting a new project last year, I...
TL;DR: Babbel's lifetime subscription gives you access to 14 languages for $149.97, so you can learn on your terms and have new phrases ready for every adventure — or holiday gathering. If you're looking for a gift that'll keep giving all year round (and beyond), Babbel's l...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A group of researchers at the Korean Institute of Machinery & Materials have finally done the impossible: they've reinvented the wheel. Well, sort of. The variable-stiffness-morphing wheel, as it's...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: This year's Web Summit, in Lisbon, was all about artificial intelligence -- and a robot sorting laundry. Digit, a humanoid built by the US firm Agility Robotics, demonstrated how far AI has come in a few years by...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Kentucky's near-total abortion ban has forced a pregnant Kentucky woman to sue for the right to make decisions for herself and access to medical care. I applaud the Kentuckian for taking a stand and the...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The best thing about Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain collaboration on a cover of Lil Jon's 'Get Low' may be a quote in The Verge's review. Take this warning from The Verge's Emma Roth before deciding to...
Yank access to management interface, stat A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' firewall management interface that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code is now officially under active exploitation.…
A 35-year-old cook from Rhode Island lost 90% of his clothes when they 'spontaneously combusted' while he was sleeping. Andrew Donaldson had gone to bed after washing and folding all of his clothes in the laundry room at his apartment complex, when he woke up at 4:00 a.m. —...
The Federal Trade Commission reported Friday that the number of consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing phone calls has dropped over 50% since 2021, continuing a trend that started three years ago. From a report: This year, the FTC has received 1.1 million reports...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! RFK Jr, Trump's proposed Secretary of Health and Human Services, explains that he is buddies with a lot of people you wouldn't necessarily want your Secretary of Health and Human Services to be buddies...
Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday release addresses 89 vulnerabilities in Windows, SQL Server,.NET and Microsoft Office — and three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49019 and CVE-2024-49039) that mean a patch now recommendation for Windows...
Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.
Economist: Britain has long been a pioneer in telecoms. In 1837 it built the world's first commercial telegraph; the first transatlantic call was placed from London in 1927; in 1992 a British programmer sent the first text message to a mobile phone. Today it lags rather than ...
Names and social security numbers of folks looking for the biggest loan of their lives exposed A major US mortgage lender has told customers looking to make the biggest financial transaction of their lives that an intruder broke into its systems and saw data belonging to...
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