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Monday November 11, 2024. 08:30 AM
Those old operating systems had awesome power – you had to be careful wielding it who, me? Good morning and welcome, once again, to Who, Me? in which Register readers share tales of tech support moments they might prefer to forget. But forgetting is not a way to learn from ...
Renew Home says they're building a 'virtual power plant' in Texas by 'enabling homes to easily reduce and shift the timing of energy use.' Thursday they announced a 10-year project distributing hundreds of thousands of smart thermostats to customers of Texas-based power...
Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more Infosec in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn't over, eh. …
Wednesday Cuba was hit by a major hurricane which took down its entire power grid again, this time for about 24 hours, according to CNN: Videos of the aftermath showed power infrastructure turned into a mangled mess and power poles down on streets. Hundreds of technicians...
Plus: A premium minimum wage for Malaysian datacenter workers; N Koreans maybe discover spicy content; S Korea fines Meta for data misuse, and more Asia In Brief Taiwanese silicon wafer provider GlobalWafers said last week it expects its award from the CHIPS and Science Act...
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
Sunday November 10, 2024. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem...
Long-time Slashdot reader DesScorp writes: The Washingtonian magazine reports that yet another company is ending most remote work for its employees. The Post's previous policy from 2022 until now had been 3 days in office, 2 days remote. The employee union for the paper, the ...
'Java application security would be enhanced through two proposals aimed at resisting quantum computing attacks,' reports InfoWorld, 'one plan involving digital signatures and the other key encapsulation.' The two proposals reside in the OpenJDK JEP (JDK Enhancement...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the technique by using a hose...
Salesforce 'plans to hire more than 1,000 workers to sell its new generative AI agent product,' reports Bloomberg: The hiring surge is aimed at capitalizing on 'amazing momentum' for the new artificial intelligence product, Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in a message....
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 'and we will end our thirties on a high note!' they announced this week: We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we're not there yet. Until our mission becomes...
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year 'laser beam welding collaboration' with Ohio State University. The project 'seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,' according to NASA.gov, 'such as investigating the...
Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by the corpus of data...
Whether you’re setting out before dawn for that epic summit or need some light during a power outage, these are the best flashlight and headlamps you can buy.
Nathan Sobo 'joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,' according to an online biography, 'and he led the Atom team until 2018.' Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and 'While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, Max spent nights and...
Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.
There are many kinds of mothers, but these are our favorite picks for the WIRED mom in your life.
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