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Sunday September 29, 2024. 05:34 AM
Bryan Choi, an associate professor of law and computer science focusing on software safety, proposes shifting AI liability onto the builders of the systems: To date, most popular approaches to AI safety and accountability have focused on the technological characteristics and ...
America's National Transportation Safety Board 'is issuing 'urgent safety recommendations' for some Boeing 737s...' reports CNN, 'warning that critical flight controls could jam.' The independent investigative agency is issuing the warning that an actuator attached to the...
Last weekend Boeing announced that its CEO of Defense, Space, and Security 'had left the company,' according to Barrons. 'Parting ways like this, for upper management, is the equivalent to firing,' they write — though they add that setbacks on Starliner's first crewed test...
Long-time Slashdot reader dmitrygr writes: Debian Linux booted on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 — the first microprocessor in the world — the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004...
'After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they're rapidly firing young workers who aren't up to scratch just months after hiring them,' writes Fortune. 'According to a new...
Saturday September 28, 2024. 11:07 PM
Past studies have suggested a major ocean current could collapse, quickly changing temperatures and climate patterns, reports the Washington Post. 'But scientists disagree on whether the the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already slowing, and questions ...
How were the Pyramids built? NBC News reported on 'a possible answer' after new evidence was published earlier this year in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The theory? '[A]n extinct branch of the Nile River once weaved through the landscape in a much wetter...
Ars Technica reports NASA officials operating the International Space Station 'are seriously concerned about a small Russian part of the station' — because it's leaking. The 'PrK' tunnel connecting a larger module to a docking port 'has been leaking since September 2019......
The world's oldest and largest cancer research association 'found excessive levels of alcohol consumption increase the risk for six different types of cancer,' reports CBS News: 'Some of this is happening through chronic inflammation. We also know that alcohol changes the...
Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm shared this report from NBC News: Octopuses don't always hunt alone — but their partners aren't who you'd expect. A new study shows that some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the seafloor in hunting groups with fish, which sometimes...
Researchers propose a 'deceptively simple' way to sequester carbon, reports the Washington Post: burying wood underground: Forests are Earth's lungs, sucking up six times more carbon dioxide (CO2) than the amount people pump into the atmosphere every year by burning coal and ...
A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk.
Paddles are getting more sophisticated and expensive. We’ve tested dozens over the past year to find our favorites.
When it comes to professional certifications, the long-running nonprofit Linux Professional Institute boasts they've issued 250,000, making them the world's largest Linux/Open Source certification body. And last week they announced a 'strategic alliance' with the Open Source ...
You can finally change the color and size of app icons, rearrange them anywhere on the screen, and more.
This no-frills screen is perfect for dorm rooms, bedrooms, or vacation homes.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal judge in California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen regulations for fluoride in drinking water, saying the compound poses an unreasonable potential risk to children at levels that...
These excellent noise-canceling wireless earbuds are especially great for small ears.
Sony’s 30th anniversary PlayStation bundle pushes all the right buttons for detail-wonks.
Experimental cells that combine silicon with a material called perovskite have broken the efficiency record for converting solar energy—and could eventually supercharge how we get electricity.
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