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Sunday April 13, 2025. 07:34 PM
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate...
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 'will come with full support for OEM installations,' according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint 'can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It's a very important feature and it's one of the very few remaining...
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall 'packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,' according to the web site for the resulting 'FreeDOS' project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30...
This health-conscious meal delivery offers veggie-focused fare with little to no prep or cook time.
We’ve tested filter from Sawyer, Katadyn, LifeStraw, MSR and more to find the best option for every adventure.
'AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record,' reports Tom's Hardware, 'during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.' The article points out that Frontier was ...
The technology inside this blow-dry brush is unlike any other blowout tool you’ll find.
Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3 In the 2020s you might be forgiven for having forgotten that such a thing as a native chat client exists, but a handful still do and they're still useful. One of these is Pidgin, the artist formerly known as GAIM.…
'Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed,' writes SciTechDaily, 'so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use.' A new study has found that general cognitive abilities,...
Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News. Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, 'because they actually use Git for...
An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.
Here's an update from the Wall Street Journal about a 'widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure.' China was behind it, 'Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting... according to people familiar with the matter...' The Chinese...
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news that in June 'a rare screening of the original 1977 Star Wars movie — complete with Han shooting first — will be shown at a theater in London...' Petapixel reports: Subsequent alterations made to the film are well-documented:...
Saturday April 12, 2025. 11:41 PM
Slashdot reader king*jojo shared this article from The Register: A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people's web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday to the Chrome beta channel. At least that's the hope. The ...
America's Justice Department 'has shut down its unit that investigates cryptocurrency fraud,' reports USA Today. A Monday night memo from U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the shut down was 'effective immediately.' Blanche directed the closure of the National...
Black holes 'often exhibit long periods of dormancy,' writes Popular Science, adding that astronomers had never witnessed a black hole 'wake up' in real time. 'Until now...' In February of 2024 X-ray bursts were spotted coming out of a black hole named Ansky by Lorena...
People 'are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments,' reports CNN, citing results from a recent experiment in Germany (discussed on Slashdot in 2020): Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the...
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