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Monday August 4, 2025. 12:19 AM
Started in 1984, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest. And yesterday 2025's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded — with 23 new winners announced in a special four-and-a-half-hour livestreamed ceremony! Programmers submitted their...
Sunday August 3, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR; The Super-Soft 1800 Series Bamboo Blend 6-Piece Sheet Set (Cream/King) is on sale for just $37.99 — that's 77% off the regular price of $169.99. There are two types of people in this world: those who pretend thread count matters, and those who understand that...
Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize...
IBM's legendary Model M keyboard was sturdy and solid. But 'What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the Model M and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts?' asks long-time Slashdot reader uninet. Writing for the long-running tech blog Open for Business,...
America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays,...
Proving, yet again, that even people towing costly travel trailers will just go for it, ignoring the 11'8+8' bridge ended someone's trip unpleasantly. The description says that on July 30th, this fifth wheel ended up smacking the bridge. This likely totaled the trailer,...
The Chinese government 'has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices...' reports the Washington Post. '[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing ...
Microsoft's AI coding assistant 'GitHub Copilot' has now had 20 million 'all-time users,' a GitHub spokesperson told TechCrunch. That means 5 million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months — the company reported in April the tool had...
It’s not every day you stumble upon an X11 desktop environment you’ve never hard of, but today’s one of those days. The Orbitiny Desktop Environment is a one-person project, consisting of an entirely custom desktop environment written in Qt. Version 1.0 Pilot 4 was just...
Solène Rapenne, who writes a lot about and contributes to operating systems like OpenBSD and Qubes OS, has published a primer about what, exactly, Qubes OS is. I like to call Qubes OS a meta operating system, because it is not a Linux / BSD / Windows based OS: its core is...
TL;DR: Get a refurbished 13.3″ MacBook Pro (2020) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD, plus a lifetime Microsoft Office 2021 license for just $419.99. If your laptop is lagging and your monthly Office subscription is driving you nuts every time the fee is charged to your credit car...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in less than four weeks and is on pace to hit its target of 15 million units by April 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily...
In October 1997 you could have bought a PowerBook 3400c running up to a 240MHz PowerPC 603e for $6500 [about $13,000 in 2025 dollars], which was briefly billed as the world’s fastest laptop, or you could have bought this monster new to the market, the RDI PrecisionBook runnin...
AWS: Not even once. This prominent Ruby developer lost his entire test environment – which, ironically, was pivotal to AWS’ own infrastructure – because of a rogue team within AWS itself that apparently answers to no one and worked hard to cover up a dumb mistake. On July...
In 2025, 256 gigabytes just isn’t enough, and tacking on more storage isn’t as easy as it sounds.
'Did Craigslist drive the downfall of print classifieds?' That's the question asked in a new article from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies: 'I've always wondered about that,' Newmark said in a Zoom interview July 1. 'I think it had an effect.' But portraying ...
Hit by subscription fatigue? Here’s what happens to your files and photos if you cancel your paid storage plan.
Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and...
By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.
From barf to blood, your stained mattress isn’t necessarily beyond repair. Here’s how to salvage your investment from every worst-case scenario.
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