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Sunday September 8, 2024. 01:53 PM
GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Nvidia is embroiled in an antitrust'n'patent lawsuit, which alleges the GPU giant colluded with Microsoft and the intellectual property risk management firm RPX to rip off the data processing unit (DPU)...
Wired interviews America's foreign policy chief, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about U.S. digital polices, starting with a new 'cybersecurity bureau' created in 2022 (which Wired previously reported includes 'a crash course in cybersecurity, telecommunications, privacy, ...
There are many frustrations to complain about in relation to messaging apps, but one of the biggest has to be the fact that the vast majority of platforms do not talk to each other. Facebook Messenger can only be used to talk to other Facebook Messenger users, WhatsApp can...
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.
The taskbar and Start menu continue to be features of Windows 11 that divide opinion. And, for better or worse, Microsoft is continually changing things up and making evolutionary developments. A good example of this is when app pinning was updated so it was possible to drag ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and...
TL;DR: Save $180 on lifetime access to Microsoft Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more included. If you’re subscribed to Microsoft 365, you’re overpaying—period. Instead of renting your productivity apps at a whopping $84/year for the rest of your life,...
The Register reports that Google 'recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language.' And they add that Google 'wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firmware.' A post on...
Harvard's school of public policy is publishing a Misinformation Review for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles promising 'reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.' This week it reported that 'Academic journals,...
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a 'guaranteed minimum support time' for devices — and federal regulations ensuring a product's core functionality will work even after its software updates stop. Influential groups including Consumer Reports,...
TL;DR: The TREBLAB HD77 Bluetooth speaker comes with waterproofing, all-day battery, and crisp 360° HD sound for $51.99 (reg. $79)! Whether you're at the beach or camping, one thing that's bound to make either experience more fun is a solid playlist…and you can't share the g...
Saturday September 7, 2024. 11:50 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: 'The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education' recounts an experiment Eric Klopfer conducted in his undergrad CS class at MIT. He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, ...
The MAS project, a group of people working on an open source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, discovered quite a neat and interesting bug in the code responsible for licensing in Windows. In our ongoing work to...
Boeing has not been having a great year. The company has had multiple in-flight emergencies, dead whistleblowers, and a fraud conviction. Then there is Starliner. Starliner launched in June, but thruster issues stretched the eight-day mission into months as NASA and Boeing...
TL;DR: Until September 29, own Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro for $54.97—a practical, one-time purchase. Ever thought about owning your software instead of paying for it over and over, just like all your other bills and subscriptions? For a one-time payment of $54.97,...
Long-time FOSS-watcher Bruce Byfield writes that while people 'still dream of a completely free alternative, increasingly the emphasis in FOSS seems to be on accepting coexistence with proprietary software.' Many, too, have always preferred the permissive BSD licenses, which ...
The New York Times analyzed over 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,220 channels. Their conclusion? Telegram 'offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize at scale and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities' — and that Telegram 'has looked...
Altera AI's home page says their mission is 'to create digital human beings that live, care, and grow with us,' adding that their company builds machines 'with fundamental human qualities, starting with friends that can play video games with you.' And while their agents can...
Canonical has officially revealed the codename for Ubuntu 24.10, and it's drawing inspiration from myth and poetry. The upcoming release will be known as 'Oracular Oriole,' a name that combines the imagery of the vibrant oriole bird with a sense of prophecy and creativity....
The KDE Slimbook Plasma VI is a refreshed Linux laptop that improves both performance and design over its predecessor. This latest iteration of the KDE Slimbook lineup now comes equipped with the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, offering eight cores, 16 threads, and an ...
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