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Monday September 2, 2024. 01:34 PM
'Let's get one thing out of the way,' writes the Verge's transportation editor. Contrary to what you may have heard about U.S. sales of electric vehicles — sales are up. [Consumer insights company] JD Power is projecting that 1.2 million EVs will be sold in the US by the end...
With generative AI affecting politics worldwide, researchers face a “detection gap,” as the biases built into systems mean tools for identifying fake content often work poorly or not at all in the Global South.
Customers report inability to view transactions Updated UK banking giant Lloyds is struggling to account for malfunctioning online services today as customers report being unable to view transactions through the app or website.…
Wildfires don’t just destroy forest—they can increase sediment in rivers and reservoirs, spark algae blooms, and pollute watercourses with dangerous chemicals, leaving water providers to grapple with long-term consequences.
Earlier this year, I impulse-bought a tiny, inexpensive desktop PC for research purposes. I didn’t expect it to change my entire computing setup. But here I am now, using the $300 Beelink SER5 Mini PC as my daily workhorse, powering an ultrawide 1440p 100Hz monitor and...
Gadget gladiators line up to supply world's largest healthcare org The NHS has launched a competition worth up to £1.5 billion for suppliers to provide a variety of computer hardware to the world's biggest healthcare organization, including PCs, printers, and peripherals.…
Shipments held up following warehouse migration tech glitches, can't cancel orders either Google's Pixel 9 phone appears to be made of pure unobtainium if the experience of some O2* customers is anything to go by.…
Set the Control Panel for the heart of the Sun Opinion We may not know exactly when or how, but we do know that the Windows Control Panel is gasping its last. Hurrah.…
'Houston resident Brandy Deason put an Apple AirTag in her recycling to see where her plastic trash was going,' writes Tom's Hardware. 'While many might expect the city would drop the recyclables off at a recycling center, Deason instead found her trash sitting in an...
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro are discounted to $54.97 through September 3 — that’s less than $28 each. Summer’s winding down, and back-to-school season is in full swing. Whether you’re hitting the books or looking to help your student, check out...
The technology was willing, but the cache was weak Who, Me? Greetings, gentle reader, and may peace be upon you, for yea verily it is once again Monday and unto Monday we render another instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers unburden themselves with confessions of...
Community seems to C Rust more as a burden than a benefit Efforts to add Rust code to the Linux kernel suffered a setback last Thursday when one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux project stepped down – citing frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense.'…
Slashdot covered shrinkwrap licenses on software back in 2000 and 2002. But now ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: The user Wraithe on the Mastodon network is reporting that a bottle of Vital Proteins(TM) collagen peptides purchased at Costco came with a shrinkwrap...
More help for Nutanix, too Data protection software vendor Veeam has delivered its promised support for open source virtualization contender Proxmox.…
Resources hosted at Tencent Cloud involved in Cobalt Strike campaign Chinese web champ Tencent's cloud is being used by unknown attackers as part of a phishing campaign that aims to achieve persistent network access at Chinese entities.…
1.9 million solar panels began operating this year in California — at a Mortenson facility with 120,000 installed batteries that give it a storage capacity of 3,280 megawatts. An article in El Pais notes that this helped California pass 10,000 megawatts of photovoltaic storag...
Plus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese academics have suggested nuclear weapons are the only effective way to destroy an asteroid that threatens to collide with Earth – if it's...
Pundits aggregate results from multiple pollsters to minimize biases. So ZDNet tried the same approach, but aggregating rankings for the popularity of 19 top programming languages. Senior contributing editor David Gewirtz combined results from nine popularity rankings,...
Politico reports U.S. states have no uniform way of policing the use of overseas subcontractors in election technology, 'let alone to understand which individual software components make up a piece of code.' For example, to replace New Hampshire's old voter registration...
Sunday September 1, 2024. 11:43 PM
renzema (Slashdot reader #84,617) wants suggestions for a point-to-point video conferencing system 'to connect the kids to their grandparents... We live in Europe and they in the U.S., but we both have gigabit internet and can sustain upwards of 100mb between our houses.'...
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