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Sunday September 15, 2024. 03:35 AM
Police in Italy 'smashed' a videogame trafficking ring, reports the BBC. They seized fake vintage Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles that didn't meet strict safety standards, as well as counterfeit games — including Mario Bros., Street Fighter and Star Wars — that together wer...
More details on that report about NASA from the Washington Post: NASA is 66 years old and feeling its age. Brilliant engineers are retiring. Others have fled to higher-paying jobs in the private space industry. The buildings are old, their maintenance deferred. The Apollo...
The Rust foundation is making 'considerable progress' on a complete security audit of the Rust ecosystem, according to the coding news site I Programmer, citing a newly-released report from the nonprofit Rust foundation: The foundation is investigating the development of a...
Saturday September 14, 2024. 11:02 PM
With online dating apps, 'Americans have increasingly been marrying someone more like themselves,' reports Bloomberg, citing new research that says this accounts for roughly half of the rise in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020: Using data from the Census...
Wired published some thoughts from Hans Peter Brondmo, the former head of 'Google's seven-year mission to give AI a robot body'. An anonymous reader shared this report from Axios: Building AI-powered robots that can flexibly operate in the real world is going to take much...
Samba is 'a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol,' according to Wikipedia. And now the Samba project 'has secured significant funding (€688,800.00) from the German Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the project,' writes Jeremy Allison — Sam (who is...
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Haiku (the MIT-licensed operating system, inspired by BeOS) has released its fifth beta for Haiku R1. Some new features include improved UI color management, improved dark mode coloring, Tracker improvements, TUN/TAP support for VPN...
'A two-day AI Labor Summit between AFL-CIO leaders and Microsoft executives this week reflects the tech giant's revamped approach to unions,' writes GeekWire, 'which includes a pledge by the company to incorporate feedback from labor unions and their members into the...
Redmonk's latest programming language ranking (attempting to gauge 'potential future adoption trends') has found evidence of 'a landscape resistant to change.' Outside of CSS moving down a spot and C++ moving up one, the Top 10 was unchanged. And even in the back half of the ...
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The Washingon Post reports that a regulatory dispute in Ohio may help answer a big question about America's power grid: who will pay for the huge upgrades needed to meet soaring energy demand 'from the data centers powering the modern internet and artificial intelligence...
Plus: Meta’s AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones.
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Protracted flooding has engulfed the country’s Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict and disease and is potentially leaving the region uninhabitable.
Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe the honors conferred by...
Ars Technica's Stephen Clark reports: A panel of independent experts reported this week that NASA lacks funding to maintain most of its decades-old facilities, could lose its engineering prowess to the commercial space industry, and has a shortsighted roadmap for technology...
Cedric Dark is a gun-owning emergency physician, a father, and the cousin of a man who was shot to death. This is what he—and the science—say needs to change.
This is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All...
Plus: New evidence emerges about who may have helped 9/11 hijackers, UK police arrest a teen in connection with an attack on London’s transit system, and Poland’s spyware scandal enters a new phase.
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