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Monday November 4, 2024. 11:27 AM
Is that a walrus in your server logs, or aren't you pleased to see me? Opinion At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack. TfL is the public body that moves many of London's human bodies to and from work and play in the capital, and as...
Vast networks of true believers, convinced beyond all reason that the last election was stolen, have spent years preparing to undermine this one. At last, their time has arrived.
Chip slinger fessed up, got off light, says Uncle Sam Updated The US Department of Commerce is issuing a half a million dollar penalty against US-based semiconductor wafer manufacturer GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions and sending chips to SJ Semiconductor (SJS), an...
Five years ago remote workers were offered $10,0000 to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma for at least a year. Since then roughly 3,300 have accepted the offer, according to the New York TImes. [Alternate URL here.] But more importantly, now researchers are looking at the results:...
GitHub released its annual 'State of the Octoverse' report this week. And while 'Systems programming languages, like Rust, are also on the rise... Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java remain the most widely used languages on GitHub.' In fact, 'In 2024, Python overtook...
It may be a cliché to say 'Don't rest on your laurels' but you really shouldn't Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, loyal readers, and another dose of Who, Me? – the Reg's weekly safe space in which readers submit stories of times when tech support went not quite so ...
The Atlantic complains that our chaos of different plug types 'was supposed to end, with USB-C as our savior.' But part of the problem is what they call 'the second circle of our cable hell: My USB-C may not be the same as yours. And the USB-C you bought two years ago may...
Our bodies divest themselves of 60 billion cells every day through a natural process called 'apoptosis'. So Stanford medicine researchers are developing a new approach to cancer therapy that could 'trick cancer cells into disposing of themselves,' according to announcement...
Plus: China Unicom auctions off old cables; Japan's My Number Card also soon a driver's license; and Hong Kong chief executive warns US investment ban will backfire ASIA IN BRIEF Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) estimated last week that by tracking all vehicles...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from the blog Interesting Engineering: A team of students made history this month by performing Europe's first rocket hop test. Those who have followed SpaceX's trajectory will know hop tests are a vital stepping stone for ...
Sunday November 3, 2024. 11:39 PM
Slashdot reader samleecole shared this report from 404 Media: Northwell Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider, recently launched a large language model tool that it is encouraging doctors and clinicians to use for translation, sensitive patient data, and has...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this story from SciTechDaily: New research confirms that subtle temperature differences at the ocean surface, known as the 'ocean skin,' increase carbon dioxide absorption. This discovery, based on precise measurements, suggests...
Somewhere off in interstellar space, 15.4 billion miles away from Earth, NASA's 47-year-old Voyager 'recently went quiet,' reports Mashable. The probe 'shut off its main radio transmitter for communicating with mission control...' Voyager's problem began on October 16, when...
Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance, warns a Washington Post columnist, 'on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers.' They cite six current or former senior U.S. officials, all of whom were briefed about the...
Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance, warns a Washington Post columnist, 'on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers.' They cite six current or former senior U.S. officials, all of whom were briefed about the...
Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance, warns a Washington Post columnist, 'on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers.' They cite six current or former senior U.S. officials, all of whom were briefed about the...
Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more Infosec in brief The US Department of Justice has charged six people with two separate schemes to defraud Uncle Sam out of millions of dollars connected to IT...
Long-time Slashdot reader samj — also a long-time Debian developer — tells us there's some opposition to the newly-released Open Source AI definition. He calls it a 'fork' that undermines the original Open Source definition (which was originally derived from Debian's Free...
USB flash drives are pretty self-explanatory, aren’t they? All you have to do is plug it into your PC and it’s ready to go, whether you’re using it to transfer files, play media, or launch an app. But mistakes can happen, and these mistakes can go further than the...
I’m not saying Windows is a terrible operating system, but it’s definitely no longer the one I choose to use on a day-to-day basis. After 30+ years of using Windows in its various forms (starting with Windows 95), I have moved on — but not to macOS! In fact, I’ve...
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