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Sunday March 2, 2025. 09:00 AM
TL;DR: Save over 30% on the newest edition of Microsoft Office, which also comes with AI integrations for $160.  If you’re still holding onto your Microsoft 365 subscription, you may be in for a not-so-nice surprise. Microsoft recently announced they’re raising the...
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TL;DR: Save 50% on Cleaner, a PC optimization tool that can enhance your devices’ performance. Does your PC seem more sluggish than normal? It’s expected that most devices will slow down after collecting files, cookies, and other items. Instead of manually scouring...
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Watch the 'Blue Ghost' lunar lander attempt its moon landing. The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while 'The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after...' Success is not guaranteed......
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Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post 'detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the...
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NBC News reports that Utah could make history as America's first state to ban fluoride in public water systems — even though major medical associations supporting water fluoridation: If signed into law [by the governor], HB0081 would prevent any individual or political subdiv...
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Open source browser maker ties itself up in legalese and explanations Mozilla this week asked Firefox users to abide by new Terms of Use, and updated its Privacy Notice as well as an FAQ – only to quickly issue a clarification that it isn’t actually claiming ownership of ...
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TL;DR: Sell your own e-learning courses with a lifetime subscription to OnlineCoursehost, now $99.99 (reg. $540).  It seems like everyone has a side hustle lately, and selling online courses is a pretty common one. If you want to get into it, then check out OnlineCourseHost....
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There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC APRICOT Global and local change is coming to the world's five Regional Internet Registries. The orgs that delegate and manage IP...
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'Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,' reports CNBC: 'We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,' Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for...
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The company’s latest affordable smartphones are thinner and more durable and have a sprinkling of AI.
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Saturday March 1, 2025. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today's more taxing ray-traced gaming and...
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TL;DR: Pick up a mighty pair of Mini Digital Night Vision Binoculars on sale for $79.97 until March 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT.  Aye the sea. When you're a salty sea-dog like me, it behooves ya to keep a weather eye on the waves, even in the murky deep darkness after the sun sinks...
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'We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,' Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. 'Without it, we couldn't use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership...
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At least 146 measles cases have been identified in West Texas so far, including 20 hospitalizations and one death.
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Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars 'strongly suggest' the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State. From the university's announcement: The new research offers the clearest evidence yet...
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Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group 'was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)' to assign and manage CVE...
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San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs' lifespan 'has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,' reports the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a...
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If you are a photographer or videographer, you know just how important lighting is. You can have fancy high-end cameras, but if your lighting sucks, the end result can really suffer. Wouldn’t it be cool to scientifically monitor lighting rather than trust your gut? Well,...
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With a boon in AI data center growth in the U.S. comes the prospect of thousands of jobs, right? Not necessarily. Although it requires thousands of workers to build these facilities, “The reality is data centers just don’t employ that many people,’’ wrote Tom Dotan,...
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Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, the team with Tencent recently unveiled their new AI platform called Hunyuan Turbo S. Designed specifically as a competitor to DeepSeek, which was also created by a Chinese AI company, Tencent hopes its generative AI platform will help it...
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