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Monday April 21, 2025. 10:52 AM
Organizations are getting serious about extracting value from the data they produce and collect, even when that data is spread out across multiple clouds, data centers, and silos. Three terms you might hear when learning techniques for this are data mesh, data fabric, and...
Chad Anderson is the founder/managing partner of the early-stage VC Space Capital (and an investor in SpaceX, along with dozens of other space companies). Space Capital produces quarterly reports on the space economy, and he says today, unlike 2021, 'the froth is gone. But...
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees Smart Answers offering advice on help for hallucinations; automating website certifications; and software development using LLMs. Help for Hallucinations Hey...
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican said Monday. The pontiff, who was Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, became pope in 2013 after his predecessor Benedict XVI resigned. On February 14, the Pope was admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment....
Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of 'Who, Me?' – The Register's weekly column...
With more companies requiring workers to return to an office five days a week, 'Anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent,' writes the Washington Post. They raise the possibility that 'strict office mandates have the potential to...
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that's 'a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than...
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. He's now sharing his latest project — installing Llama 2 on DOS: Conventional wisdom states that...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fedora 42 News: Fedora plans to make most packages reproducible, Nitrux introduces new portable package tools, PINE64 updates multiple devices running flavours of...
Google is hitting back at the Department of Justice over a proposed plan that could force massive changes to how the company operates. The DOJ, which sued Google back in 2020 over search distribution practices, is now pushing for remedies that Google says go way too far --...
TL;DR: Reframe how you think about screen time when your kids dive into PokPok, a Montessori mobile game now discounted to $49.99. Stop feeling guilty about unavoidable screentime when you get your kids engaged in Montessori-inspired play with a Pok Pok subscription. — Read...
The 6.15-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'There's absolutely nothing of huge note here as far as I can tell. Just a fair number of small fixes all over the place'.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology ...
TrueNAS 25.04, codenamed “Fangtooth,” was recently released (download here), and with it comes a full embrace of Linux as the underlying base. While previous versions of TrueNAS were confusingly split between CORE (built on FreeBSD) and SCALE (built on Linux), this...
Sunday April 20, 2025. 11:55 PM
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole,' reports Science News — 'one with no star orbiting it.' It's 'the only one so far,' says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and...
On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts Comment Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its heavy-handed hatchet tactics within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…
TL;DR: Go a little easier on your wallet with a one-year Gold Star Membership from Costco. It's currently just $65 and includes a $20 Digital Costco Shop Card for your next shopping trip. Looking to save some money on groceries? — Read the rest The post New Costco Gold...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup 'whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X...' Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu....
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