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Monday February 10, 2025. 12:59 AM
PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Asia In Brief Huawei chair Liang Hua last week told a conference in China that the company expects to meet its revenue targets for...
Sunday February 9, 2025. 11:34 PM
Fortune remembers that in 2011 Steve Jobs had told author Walter Isaacson that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates would 'be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.' But The Indendepent notes that in his new memoir Gates does write ...
Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch...
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Long-time Slashdot reader Shayde once restored a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and even ran Turbo Pascal on a 40-year-old Apple II clone. Now he's exploring a 27-year-old Macintosh PowerBook G3 — with 64 megabytes memory and 4 gigabytes of disk space. 'The year is 1997, and...
Keynotes at this year's FOSDEM included free AI models and systemd, reports Heise.de — and also a progress report from Miguel Ojeda, supervisor of the Rust integration in the Linux kernel. Only eight people remain in the core team around Rust for Linux... Miguel Ojeda...
'Can you skydive continuously without landing...?' asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, 'only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.' Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on ...
Google's Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge: The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. Google didn't launch...
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This confident and appealing urban EV has bags of charm, history, and usefulness built in—and it could well be the best choice for anyone’s first electric car.
For a long time, 16GB of RAM was considered the standard for gaming PCs. However, most machines would benefit from 32 GB of RAM or higher, especially if you play more visually demanding games or like to game and stream at the same time–these tasks tend to eat right through ...
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'It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived,' writes 74-year-old C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup in an article this week for Communications of the ACM. But he complains that many developers 'use C++ as if it was still the previous millennium,' in an article titled 21st...
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
Friday the Orlando Sentinel covered NASA's 2024 mission-safety report from the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (formed in 1968). The report 'commended the agency's handling of last year's beleaguered Boeing's Starliner mission [prioritizing astronaut safety], but revealed...
TL;DR: The Kinhank X2 is a retro console with over 70,000 games built-in, and it can even play movies. Pick one up for only $99.99. Modern gaming consoles cost hundreds, and new games aren’t exactly cheap. If you want a more affordable way to play games you already know...
TL;DR: Build WordPress websites with no coding using MaxiBlocks Pro (3 licenses)—on sale now for just $59 (reg. $447). Interesting fact: WordPress powers 46% of all websites, according to the SearchLogistics site. But building a site from scratch can be...
I just saw an ad for TikTok on a YouTube video. But at the same time YouTube is running ads on TikTok, reports Bloomberg, targeting TikTok content creators in 'an effort to lure these valuable users to the Google-owned rival and capitalize on TikTok's uncertain future.' One...
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