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Sunday March 16, 2025. 12:00 PM
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
The words 'known issues' in relation to updates for Windows are enough to strike fear into even the most hardened computer users. Microsoft is certainly no stranger to releasing updates that have problems -- or, if you want to be kind, unintended consequences. The latest...
'A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,' reports the BBC, 'in the Brazilian city of Belém.' The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people ...
'Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally,' asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that 'doesn't spy... and no one else owns it.' We download it, from souce-code if you...
'For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface,' reports Daily Galaxy. While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost...
TL;DR: Edit photos with AI using Luminar Neo, on sale for $89.99. The best thing AI can do right now is take over for all the really annoying work you don't want to do. Replacing photo backgrounds? You could either manually cut out the background and replace it yourself...
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and ...
Saturday March 15, 2025. 10:48 PM
Cities in Europe 'are dramatically scaling back their relationship with the car,' reports the Washington Post: They are removing parking spaces and creating dedicated bike lanes. They are installing cameras at the perimeter of urban centers and either charging the...
Have trouble falling asleep? You're not alone. And if you're tired of counting sheep or reading boring books every night, we have a more fun solution that could help. The SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking True Wireless Earbuds for Sleeping were made to let you nod off while...
'SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year,' writes the BBC, 'as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.' Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though '2031...
'Is everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole?' asks Space.com. Because here's the thing. The $10 billion James Webb Space telescope (in operation since 2022) 'has found that the vast majority of deep space and, thus the early galaxies it has so far observed, ...
'Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road...' notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also 'routinely violate parking rules.' Waymo vehicles driving themselves receiv...
Crunchlabs proves Tesla's camera-only system is inferior to LIDAR, killing several mannequins in the process. Mark Rober also smuggled the LIDAR into Disneyland for some of the most amazing LIDAR mapping I've seen. Elon Musk's 'Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed' quote is ...
Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous 'hockey stick' graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more...
'Cuba's power grid collapsed Friday night,' reports CNN, 'triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.' Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used...
AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, 'Do you folks care about privacy?' With him he carried schematics...
Tuesday Microsoft 'surprised everyone,' writes Neowin, 'by announcing a new change that will radically improve TypeScript performance' — porting TypeScript to Go. InfoWorld writes that 'The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and me...
Looking to spend less at the grocery store? Since we're all sick of paying top dollar for eggs, we might as well try to find more affordable ways to feed the family. BJ's Wholesale Club is ready to help you save up to 25% off grocery store prices. — Read the rest The post...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. François Dupoux has made available a new major release of SystemRescue, an Arch-based specialist Linux distribution for repairing computer systems and rescuing data. SystemRescue 12.00 updates the Linux kernel ...
'Wind and solar energy generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for the first time last year,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'according to analysis from clean-energy think tank Ember. 'The two renewable energy sources accounted for 17% of the country's power mix...
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