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Sunday May 4, 2025. 08:20 PM
'Our future won't be handed to us,' says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. 'We will build it.' 'But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?' says another young voice... The ad goes on to tout the power 'to create with...
Thursday the Free Software Foundation announced plans for a celebratory hackathon in November to improve free/libre software 'in honor of its fortieth anniversary. The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the...
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology, told the Guardian that 'We're living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that. Measles — because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious...
Slashdot reader Mirnotoriety shared this report from the Register: A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring 'blind spot' in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface. That...
The cheapest hard-sided hot tub on Wayfair is totally worth buying.
El Reg checks out shop in SF On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the [U.S.] Justice Department's proposals to restrict Google's search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. 'It's very...
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science.
These are the best Star Wars gifts for everyone from Padawan fans to Jedi masters.
Get Mom something special and save some money on it, too. Plenty of our recommendations are on sale.
Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way!
'It is the fastest, most efficient transistor ever,' proclaims an announcment from Peking University. 'And most important of all, there's no trace of silicon involved,' adds ZME Science. From the South China Morning Post: A team of researchers at Peking University claims to...
In 2016, an online 'swarm intelligence' platform stunned horse-racing fans by making a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But the next year its predictions weren't even close, with TechRepublic suggesting 2016's race just had...
There's 9,000 satellites circling the earth, the Guardian points out, with projections over over 60,000 by 2040. But 'A new study shows that the emissions from expired satellites, as they fall to Earth and burn up, will be significant in future years, with implications for...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares an article from Renewables Now: Chinese tech company Leapting has successfully completed its first commercial deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules with an AI-driven solar module mounting robot in Australia. The Chinese company was...
Saturday May 3, 2025. 11:43 PM
'Researchers have created the first laboratory analog of the 'black hole bomb',' reports ScienceAlert, 'a theoretical concept developed by physicists in the 1970s...' There's no black hole involved; their experiment just simulates the 'electromagnetic analogue' of the...
Long-time Slashdot reader piojo writes: Tim Friede, Wisconsin man, has been injecting himself with snake venom for 18 years to gain protection from his pet snakes. The antibodies he developed have formed two components of a three-part antivenom, which gives partial or total...
America's federal government 'is a veritable cosmos of information, made up of constellations of databases,' warns the Atlantic. The FBI 'has a facial-recognition apparatus capable of matching people against more than 640 million photos — a database made up of driver's licens...
Threads has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, reports TechCrunch, citing Mark Zuckerberg's comments on a company earnings call. That means Threads grew by 9.4% in roughly 90 days: That's an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta...
The Open Source Initiative is joining 'a global community of contributors' for GitHub's annual event 'honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects.' And the theme of the 4th Annual 'Maintainer Month' will be: securing Open Source: Throughout the...
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