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Monday April 21, 2025. 09:31 AM
Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of 'Who, Me?' – The Register's weekly column...
With more companies requiring workers to return to an office five days a week, 'Anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent,' writes the Washington Post. They raise the possibility that 'strict office mandates have the potential to...
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that's 'a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than...
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. He's now sharing his latest project — installing Llama 2 on DOS: Conventional wisdom states that...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology ...
Sunday April 20, 2025. 11:55 PM
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole,' reports Science News — 'one with no star orbiting it.' It's 'the only one so far,' says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and...
On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts Comment Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its heavy-handed hatchet tactics within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup 'whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X...' Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu....
'Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America...' reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America 'began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed,...
'Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels...' the University of Oregon wrote last year. 'Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduce greenhouse gas...
'The time has come for me to step away,' ArcoLinux lead Erik Dubois posted last week. ('After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community...') 'Learn, have fun, and enjoy' was our motto for the past eight years — and I really had fun...
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Discover magazine reports that a team of researchers have produced evidence that the ancient building blocks for water have been here on earth 'since early in the planet's history, according to a study published in the journal Icarus.' Pinpointing when and where Earth's...
Framework’s bet on a repairable and upgradeable laptop is finally paying off.
Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 (as the then-COO of Canonical). He currently runs developer relations at MongoDB (after holding similar positions at AWS and Adobe). This week he contributed an opinion piece to InfoWorld arguing that DeepSeek 'may...
By understanding the churning region near singularities, physicists hope they might be able to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.
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