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Sunday November 24, 2024. 07:34 PM
On November 24th, 1971 — 53 years ago today — a mysterious man jumped out of an airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom money. (He'd extorted it from the airline by claiming he had a bomb, and it's still 'the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial...
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits 'helped kindle his interest in coding,' according to an online biography. ('By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS.') And ...
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund launched this week with an initial commitment of $1.25 million, reports TechCrunch, using 'capital from contributors including American Express, 1Password, Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub's own parent company Microsoft.' GitHub briefly teased...
America's Justice Department 'has ordered all consensual searches by drug enforcement agents conducted at the nation's airports stopped,' reports Georgia's local TV station Atlanta News First — after their series of investigations 'uncovered how the agents often search innoce...
Six sites targeted for security clean-up, just 49,994 to go A plan for hackers to help secure America's critical infrastructure has kicked off with six US water companies signing up to let coders kick the tires of their computer systems and fix any vulnerabilities.…
This surprisingly deep instrument is probably too complicated for its own good.
The DS Pixel Keyboard is a new keyboard on Kickstarter that doubles as both a touchscreen and a monitor. The Verge writes that the creators of the DS Pixel Keyboard also claim to have found a solution to make typing on a touchscreen more satisfying: The DS Pixel has a...
A real glass lens in Lomography's new instant camera elevates Instax print to new heights.
'Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past,' reports Space.com. 'The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of...
Finding the perfect place to eat can make your trip. Here’s how to locate all the best spots.
This famous probability theory was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.
Augmented reality glasses still have a long way to go, but Snap’s latest Spectacles—which are now available to developers—already have some real-world utility.
Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too Computer scientists have devised a technique for making AI models behave like specific people.…
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this report from the Guardian: Staff have resigned at Starling Bank after its new chief executive demanded thousands of workers attend its offices more frequently, despite lacking enough space to host them. In his first major policy change...
The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.
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NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct 'may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found.' 'Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxic properties because of...
The Rust community has 'recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly),' according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services. So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are 'crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library,' according to an article at DevClass.com, 'by ...
Microsoft-owned GitHub published a blog post asking 'Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here's what the data says.' Its first paragraph includes statistics from past studies — that GitHub Copilot has helped developers code up to 55% faster, leaving 88% of developers...
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