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Sunday August 3, 2025. 10:55 PM
Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize...
IBM's legendary Model M keyboard was sturdy and solid. But 'What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the Model M and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts?' asks long-time Slashdot reader uninet. Writing for the long-running tech blog Open for Business,...
America's nonprofit College Board lets high school students take college-level classes — including a computer programming course that culminates with a 90-minute test. But students did better on questions about If-Then statements than they did on questions about arrays,...
The Chinese government 'has embarked on an all-out drive to transform the technology from a remote concept to a newfangled reality, with applications on factory floors and in hospitals and government offices...' reports the Washington Post. '[E]xperts say Beijing is pursuing ...
Microsoft's AI coding assistant 'GitHub Copilot' has now had 20 million 'all-time users,' a GitHub spokesperson told TechCrunch. That means 5 million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months — the company reported in April the tool had...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Nintendo sold 5.82 million Switch 2s in less than four weeks and is on pace to hit its target of 15 million units by April 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily...
In 2025, 256 gigabytes just isn’t enough, and tacking on more storage isn’t as easy as it sounds.
'Did Craigslist drive the downfall of print classifieds?' That's the question asked in a new article from the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies: 'I've always wondered about that,' Newmark said in a Zoom interview July 1. 'I think it had an effect.' But portraying ...
Hit by subscription fatigue? Here’s what happens to your files and photos if you cancel your paid storage plan.
Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and...
By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.
From barf to blood, your stained mattress isn’t necessarily beyond repair. Here’s how to salvage your investment from every worst-case scenario.
New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads.…
'Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games,' reports Engadget, 'and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content...' In a statement included in the Itch.io update, Stripe said it hasn't closed the...
Established in 1943 to coordinate America's building of the first atomic bomb, the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is still 'one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions' notes Wikipedia. And it now has a 'National Security AI Office,' where...
It's a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding. The video features what its description calls a 'clueless entrepreneur' building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado to the tune of the cheesy...
Remember, it's all synthesized 'anthropomorphizing'. But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in 'The Sims' but much, much simpler), having 'guilt' can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases...
The women-only app Tea now 'faces two class action lawsuits filed in California' in response to a recent breach,' reports NPR — even as the company is now boasting it has more than 6.2 million users. A spokesperson for Tea told the CBC it's 'working to identify any users...
Saturday August 2, 2025. 10:34 PM
The Washington Post reports: In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today partly serves as a storage area for radioactive...
After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, 'weather authorities leapt into action,' reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami 'and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities...' But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West...
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