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This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.
This pencil sharpener from the 1890s looks like it works better than any of the sharpeners I own. Finding the right pencil sharpener has been a lifelong struggle for me. As someone who enjoys sketching, I need to be able to re-sharpen my pencil often, but it's difficult for...
Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was alive back then and saw this 'witness sketch', I'd likely never have stepped...
After years of managerial turmoil and a failed merger with Honda, Nissan is attempting to right the ship. President Donald Trump's tariffs couldn't have come at a worse time.
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their 'Horizon' accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission 'is attempting to...
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, 'But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the ...
Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web). Friday Xbox's general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to 'an AI-generated gaming experience' at Copilot.Microsoft.com 'Move, shoot, explore — and every frame...
Berkeley, California is 'the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents,' reports the Associated Press (noting that officials in many cities claim the practice is driving up the price of housing). But then real estate software company...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 11:34 PM
Over on Reddit's 'selfhosted' subreddit for alternatives to popular services, long-time Slashdot reader Zoup described a pain point: - Landlock is a Linux Security Module (LSM) that lets unprivileged processes restrict themselves. - It's been in the kernel since 5.13, but...
'The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955,' writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew up the box office in...
This week NASA 'issued a solicitation for the next two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station,' reports Space News. Scheduled after May of 2026 and then mid-2027, 'These will be the fifth and sixth such missions to the ISS, part of a broader low Earth...
TL;DR: Save 30% on the Tittle golf swing trainer, which offers instant, real-time feedback on your golf technique so you can improve. Golf training: With the Tittle swing trainer, you can refine your swing mechanics, driving and putting aim, and so much more to improve...
Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot...
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model has definitively beaten the Turing test, after it was found to be human 73% of the instances where it was prompted to adopt a human-like persona. The Turing test, named after British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, measures a machine’s...
AI experts are more likely to be optimistic about the technology than the general public, according to a study released April 3 by the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 5,410 U.S. adults and 1,013 AI experts throughout 2024. Despite their differences, both groups agreed on...
The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications 'opened the door to a new wave of security threats,' argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.) So as part of the Linux Foundation's...
Back in 2023 Python's infrastructure director called it 'the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability of PyPI' while giving users 'one of our most requested features: organization accounts.' (That is, 'self-managed teams with their own...
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