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Monday September 2, 2024. 04:09 AM
1.9 million solar panels began operating this year in California — at a Mortenson facility with 120,000 installed batteries that give it a storage capacity of 3,280 megawatts. An article in El Pais notes that this helped California pass 10,000 megawatts of photovoltaic storag...
Plus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese academics have suggested nuclear weapons are the only effective way to destroy an asteroid that threatens to collide with Earth – if it's...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Vanilla OS 2 News: OpenBSD reaches new milestone, FreeBSD Foundation accepts investment from Sovereign Tech Fund, openSUSE's Tumbleweed bug drops Internet connection,...
Pundits aggregate results from multiple pollsters to minimize biases. So ZDNet tried the same approach, but aggregating rankings for the popularity of 19 top programming languages. Senior contributing editor David Gewirtz combined results from nine popularity rankings,...
TL;DR: The X-MAKER JOY Smart 3D Printer for Kids is just $199 (reg. $269) when you use code SAVE20. We aren't here to tell you to make your kids stay off screens because it's a terrific way to distract them and give yourself a minute to use the bathroom, make dinner, or...
Politico reports U.S. states have no uniform way of policing the use of overseas subcontractors in election technology, 'let alone to understand which individual software components make up a piece of code.' For example, to replace New Hampshire's old voter registration...
Sunday September 1, 2024. 11:43 PM
renzema (Slashdot reader #84,617) wants suggestions for a point-to-point video conferencing system 'to connect the kids to their grandparents... We live in Europe and they in the U.S., but we both have gigabit internet and can sustain upwards of 100mb between our houses.'...
Armbian, the Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards, has just released version 24.8.1. This version of the operating system brings a ton of updates (see full changelog here) that are sure to catch the attention of enthusiasts and developers alike. Notably,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. 'I've got a question about Starliner,' Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson ...
To make America the 'crypto capital of the planet,' former U.S. President Donald Trump promised crypto-friendly policies, writes Politico, which 'could have a new beneficiary: his own family.' Trump has vowed to enact an array of pro-crypto policies in a bid to win votes —...
Cameras can offer peace of mind, but choose carefully when you’re inviting one into your home.
Rhino Linux has released its latest version, 2024.2, bringing a bunch of updates and enhancements that make it a compelling choice for those considering a switch from Windows 11. The release includes improvements to both the distribution and the Rhino Linux wiki, offering a...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: The Contingency Contingent, is Leigh Claire La Berge's amazing tale of what she calls her 'fake job in Y2K preparedness.' La Berge offers an insider's view of the madness that ensued when Y2K panic gave rise to seemingly-limitless...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bruce Dubbs has announced the release of version 12.2 of Linux From Scratch (LFS), a project providing a book containing step-by-step instructions to build a custom Linux system from scratch. A separate book...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from NBC News: A new approach to a routine blood test could predict a person's 30-year risk of heart disease, research published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine found. Doctors have long assessed their patients'...
Casey Newton, former senior editor at the Verge, weighs in on Platformer about the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. 'Fending off onerous speech regulations and overzealous prosecutors requires that platform builders act responsibly. Telegram never even pretended to.'...
TL;DR: If you're tired of Netflix, Curiosity Stream is a lifetime documentary streaming service available for $159.97 (reg. $399) until September 3! Have you ever opened Netflix or Hulu and scrolled only to find that the list of movies or shows is, well, disappointing?Sure,...
Telegram doesn’t hold up to the promise of being private, nor secure. The end-to-end encryption is opt-in, only applies to one-on-one conversations and uses a controversial ‘homebrewn’ encryption algorithm. The rest of this article outlines some of the fundamentally broken...
'Dirk Hohndel, a Linux kernel developer and long-time open source leader, wanted his audience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024 Summit China to know he's not a Valkey developer,' writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. 'He's a Valkey user and fan.'...
Linus has released 6.11-rc6 for testing. 'Things look pretty normal, although we have perhaps unusually many filesystem fixes here, spread out over smb, xfs, bcachefs and netfs.'
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