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Wednesday February 5, 2025. 11:40 PM
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first study of its kind suggests. Students' sleep, classroom behavior, exercise or how long they...
One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Robocallers posing as employees of the Federal Communications Commission made the mistake of trying to scam real employees of the FCC, the FCC announced yesterday. 'On the night of February 6, 2024, and continuing into...
TL;DR: GoCable is the pocket-sized 8-in-1 charger that powers everything while also featuring a built-in cutter and bottle opener for $20.99 (reg. $44.99). If you've ever found yourself rummaging through a bag of tangled cables, trying to figure out which one works with your ...
The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and I suppose I’m excited. As a New York Jets fan, I can never truly enjoy football -- it’s a miserable existence. However, I enjoy all things sports, so even though I hate both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles (and refuse ...
Workday said Wednesday it will lay off 1,750 employees, roughly 8.5% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan to invest more heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerate international growth. The California-based company disclosed the layoffs in a filing...
On Feb. 5, Google expanded the availability of its updated Gemini 2.0 Flash generative AI model to the Gemini API, completing the rollout of the model intended for low latency and enhanced performance through so-called AI “reasoning.” Gemini app users on both desktop and ...
Workday is cutting about 8.5% of its workforce, making it the latest technology company to begin 2025 with headcount reductions. From a report: The cuts will amount to about 1,750 workers, Chief Executive Officer Carl Eschenbach wrote in a note to employees Wednesday. 'The...
Marvel movies have scored billions at the box office, but that didn't stop the company putting out posters for Fantastic Four which show clear signs of being cranked out with AI. The company denies it, but a variety of anatomical and structural oddities and tell-tale...
Kaspersky researchers have discovered malware hiding in both Google Play and Apple's App Store that uses optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from users' photo galleries. Dubbed 'SparkCat' by security firm ESET, the malware was...
PC gaming via the Microsoft Store can be a pain: game updates can lag, and mod support may be limited. But Microsoft is testing at least one small improvement: modular downloads of games via the Microsoft Store. The new update, being tested for now in the Canary Channel,...
PC gaming via the Microsoft Store can be a pain: game updates can lag, and mod support may be limited. But Microsoft is testing at least one small improvement: modular downloads of games via the Microsoft Store. The new update, being tested for now in the Canary Channel,...
Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter When Axiom Space's fourth mission to the International Space Station arrives in orbit this spring it'll include Poland's second-ever astronaut, who will bring an essential comfort...
Karoline Leavitt explains how Elon Musk will self-police on conflicts of interest. Next up, foxes will be used to safeguard the henhouse. As Elon 'Leon' Musk plays bull in a China shop with the Treasury Department, Trump's Press Secretary wants us all to know the billionaire ...
The US Navy successfully tested its new laser weapon mounted on a warship. The dramatic photo above depicts the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system zapping an anti-ship cruise missile. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? —...
Let me just answer that question for you: no. Regardless, as all legacy franchises are wont to do, Jurassic Park continues to shamble along, as revealed by this brand-new trailer. Jurassic World was itself a 'rebirth', serving as a soft reboot for the franchise, but...
For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI protocol since 1983. Microsoft is building an in-box public preview of Windows...
Digma has unveiled Preemptive Observability Analysis, an observability engine designed to reduce bugs introduced by AI code generation and other coding issues. The commercial version, introduced February 5, follows a limited-capability free version. Digma said its engine...
The Servo Rust-based rendering engine project has published an article summarizing its progress in 2024, and plans for the future: Servo main dependencies (SpiderMonkey, Stylo and WebRender) have been upgraded, the new layout engine has kept evolving adding support for float...
If you are a Linux fan that is forced to use Microsoft Windows for some reason, you know how valuable Windows Subsystem for Linux is. If you aren’t familiar, WSL allows you to run a Linux environment from within Windows -- no virtual machine needed. It’s pretty...
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