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Saturday March 29, 2025. 08:00 AM
A new study warns that toxic Martian dust contains fine particles and harmful substances like silica and metals that pose serious health risks to astronauts, making missions to Mars more dangerous than previously thought. The Guardian reports: During Apollo missions to the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A concert on Monday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents' wedding anniversary. He didn't end up seeing the show -- and before he could even get past security, he was ...
New research suggests that Prototaxites, once believed to be a giant fungus, may actually represent an entirely extinct and previously unknown branch of complex life, distinct from fungi, plants, animals, and protists. Live Science reports: The researchers studied the...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says banks no longer need prior approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, such as holding digital currency assets or partnering with companies in the industry. Axios reports: After publishing a general caution...
Google has introduced version 2.5 of its Gemini AI model, which the company said offers a new level of performance by combining an enhanced base model with improved post-training. The Gemini 2.5 models are thinking models, capable of reasoning through their thoughts before...
Elon Musk just announced a wild move that might be less about innovation and more about survival. In a surprise announcement, Musk revealed that his AI company xAI has officially merged with X (formerly known as Twitter) in an all-stock transaction. The Tesla CEO says the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can't even see -- ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn, infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing, or specific wavelengths that plants use for...
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to 'rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.' This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for...
ECMAScript 2025, the next version of an ECMA International standard for JavaScript, will standardize new JavaScript capabilities ranging from JSON modules to import attributes, new Set methods, sync iterator helpers, and regular expression modifiers. The ECMAScript 2025...
Friday March 28, 2025. 11:48 PM
Kim Jong Un is accelerating North Korea’s military modernization through the deployment of AI-powered suicide drones designed for precision strikes. The unveiling of these autonomous weapons marks a significant — and troubling — technological leap, signaling a new...
Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk's AI startup xAI.
Billionaire tech mogul Bill Gates has once again sparked debate over the future of artificial intelligence, predicting that within the next 10 years, many human jobs, especially in medicine and education, could become obsolete. Speaking on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with...
A breach of legacy Cerner servers at Oracle Health exposed patient data from multiple U.S. hospitals and healthcare organizations, with threat actors using compromised customer credentials to steal the data before it had been migrated to Oracle Cloud. Despite confirming the...
Elon Musk says its xAI company has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock transaction. 'The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion less $12 billion debt),' said Musk. He writes on X: Since its founding two years ago, xAI has...
Reve Image 1.0 is a new model that is making waves for its sharp prompt adherence, aesthetic quality, and impressive ability to generate text within images. One of Reve Image’s standout features is its ability to deliver high-quality, readable text within images —...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year, was pardoned by Donald Trump late on Thursday, the White House confirmed on Friday. The pardon of Milton, who was...
A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising AppLovin, which provides a way for software developers to make money by embedding ads in their mobile apps, has been sued for a third time this month – after short-seller reports accused the biz of fraud and...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: New data recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicate that more than 158 million people across the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic 'forever chemicals,' scientifically known as perfluoroalkyl and...
TL;DR: Stay armed with a scanner in your pocket at all times, thanks to SwiftScan. A lifetime subscription to this handy app is available for $41.99 (reg. $199) with code TAKE30 now through April 27. It's 2025, and we somehow always still find ourselves in need of a...
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