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Sunday January 12, 2025. 05:34 PM
Slashdot reader rzack writes: Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another. Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok...
El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Kettle The annual Consumer Electronics Show was held this week in Las Vegas – and for us the extravaganza felt a bit subdued for a change.…
Panasonic makes a fiery return with one of the best TVs right now.
'Every Ford EV model set a new sales record in 2024 with double-digit growth,' reports Electrek, with Ford's total U.S. electric vehicle sales jumping to 97,865, an increase of 34.8% from 2023. And in the last three months of 2024 Ford sold 30,176 EVs — which is also a new re...
Tired of plain drinks and pour-overs? Turn your kitchen into a café with these barista-worthy machines.
Google is reintroducing 'digital fingerprinting' in five weeks, reports Mashable, describing it as 'a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices.' Or, to put it...
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Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
Unanimous AI's founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a 'wave' of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly 'as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives'... '[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with...
'JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank's return-to-office policy,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people...
'Nuclear you can trust,' reads the web page promoting 'The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.' Yes, Enron.com is now announcing 'a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.' (A quick reminder from CNN in December. 'A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark...
Saturday January 11, 2025. 11:47 PM
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and five others. Friday the ...
WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg 'has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,' reports TechCrunch, 'some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project.' Joost de Valk —...
Friday America's consumer watchdog agency 'proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts...' reports the Washington Post, 'so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized transactions, similar...
As the ecological disaster continues, CNN reports the Palisades Fire near Malibu, California has burned at least 22,660 acres, left 100,000 peope under evacuation orders, left at least 11 people dead and 'destroyed thousands of homes and other structures.' From the last...
While CES wraps up this week, 'Not all innovation is good innovation,' warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit's Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual 'anti-awards ceremony' to call out CES's...
So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: New intelligence has led two US intelligence agencies to conclude that it's possible a small number of mysterious health ailments colloquially termed as Havana Syndrome impacting spies, soldiers and diplomats around the world...
'Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit is taking legal action to ensure the safety and integrity of our AI services,' according to a Friday blog post by the unit's assistant general counsel. Microsoft blames 'a foreign-based threat-actor group' for 'tools specifically designed to...
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