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Monday January 6, 2025. 01:49 AM
'It's fair to say that by 1995, OS/2 was dead software walking,' remembers a new article from the Register (which begins with a 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft's lead architect on the OS/2 project). But the real question is why this Microsoft-IBM collaboration ...
State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year's Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.…
Sure, Govee has some new smart lights to unveil at CES this year, but what this smart lighting manufacturer really wants to talk about is, of course, the buzzword of the show: AI. From its AI-powered gaming lights to its light-scene-creating AI chatbot, Govee clearly sees...
Sunday January 5, 2025. 10:35 PM
'In many instances, there's a catch: flexible work but at lower pay...' writes Fortune. 'Remote workers are accepting lower salaries in order to achieve remote status. Some are taking as much as 5% to 15% less pay to do so, while other employers are reversing the strategy to ...
In a potential U.S.-China conflict, cyberattackers are military weapons. That's the thrust of a new article from the Wall Street Journal: The message from President Biden's national security adviser was startling. Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of ...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In an Op-ed for The Huntington News, fourth year Northeastern University CS student Derek Kaplan argues that real pedagogical merit is what should count when deciding which language to use to teach CS fundamentals (aka 'Fundies'). He...
Friday America's surgeon general warned that alcohol is 'a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States,' and recommended an update to the warning labels on alcohol. So what ...
'We're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction,' Elon Musk posted Thursday on X.com. Ars Technica's senior space editor points out that 'These are definitive statements that directly contradict NASA's plans to send a series of human missions to the lunar south pole ...
Phoronix reports on Valve's 'Steam Survey' results for December 2024, saying the new numbers 'reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times.' In November the Steam Survey reflected a 2.03% marketshare for Linux... Roughly inline ...
Developer/data journalist Josh Renaud is also long-time Slashdot reader Kirkman14 — and he's got a story to tell: How do you get people interested in an obscure Atari ST graphics format used on BBSes in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Recruit some folks to help you make an...
Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.…
Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.…
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Brazil ended daylight saving time in 2019, reports the Washington Post, adding that some Brazilians loved the change, 'particularly those who commute long distances and are no longer forced to leave their houses in pitch blackness.' But 'In the heavily populated southeast,...
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
This week at CES, companies of all sizes will show off all their new AI-enabled gadgets. Here’s hoping they don’t all just do stuff your phone already excels at.
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population movements in Europe in the ...
Harassment, hate, and other social harms feel like an online inevitability, but developers are finally addressing their impact in a meaningful way.
TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, 'and shielding them from unauthorized access,' Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to...
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