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Monday April 21, 2025. 06:05 PM
Major scholarly databases have removed dozens of academic journals after researchers discovered they had been purchased by questionable companies and transformed into predatory publications. A January 2025 study identified 36 legitimate journals acquired by recently formed...
Bluesky’s new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
The FBI says it is unable to find records related to its purchase of a series of hacking tools, despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them and those purchases initially being included in a public U.S. government procurement database before being quietly...
Over 100 mid-market software companies are caught in a dangerous 'squeeze' between AI-native startups and tech giants, according to a new AlixPartners study released Monday. The consulting firm warns many face 'threats to their survival over the next 24 months' as generative ...
Global alcohol consumption has entered what appears to be a permanent decline, with total volume peaking at 25.4 billion liters in 2016 and falling approximately 13% since then, according to data from market research firm IWSR. Per-capita consumption has dropped dramatically ...
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Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external data, tools, or APIs. The trouble is, there's no standard way to do that - ...
Technics’ latest flagship buds pack even better sound in a slimmer, more stylish package.
In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. A University of Virginia academic journal says the book 'appraises the past and present' of information technology while issuing 'a warning about its future.' And...
This tricked out walking pad has the highest incline capability I’ve seen on the market.
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Cosm's cushy venues provide a fully immersive experience that helps sports fans feel like they're really at the game—with all the thrills, the shouting, and even the hot dogs.
Chad Anderson is the founder/managing partner of the early-stage VC Space Capital (and an investor in SpaceX, along with dozens of other space companies). Space Capital produces quarterly reports on the space economy, and he says today, unlike 2021, 'the froth is gone. But...
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican said Monday. The pontiff, who was Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, became pope in 2013 after his predecessor Benedict XVI resigned. On February 14, the Pope was admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment....
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...
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