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Sunday April 27, 2025. 11:14 PM
Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again Interview Before you get to know Jia Rong Low, the recently appointed director general of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), you might want to check your definition of 'the internet.'…
What can you build with a 3D printer? Starbucks just printed itself a new store — a drive-through location in the southern tip of Texas. Fast Company says it's a store that 'looks more like the future of construction than your average café.' Built with layers of concrete pipe...
Microsoft Copilot 'isn't doing as well as the company would like,' reports XDA-Developers.com (citing a report from startup/VC industry site Newcomer). The Redmond giant has invested billions of dollars and a lot of manpower into making it happen, but as a recent report...
'Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize,' reports TechCrunch: Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people...
Now that's a sum of all fears The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, believes mathematics isn't advancing fast enough.…
'Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and a bring-your-whole-self-to-the-office ethos rare in other industries,' writes the Wall Street Journal. But now tech work 'looks like a regular job,' with workers 'contending with the constant fear of ...
The university blamed it on 'the significant number of students' who violated their coding competition's rules. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp quotes this report from The Logic: Finding that many students violated rules and submitted code not written by themselves, the...
'The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives,' reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed...
Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.
Designer Annie Fan went through 60 prototypes to get the Traveller to where it is today, and it shows.
80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. 'He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually...
It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do so for some critical optimization tasks.
Looking for the CliffsNotes of a lengthy YouTube video? This Gemini feature could be worth a try.
Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some 'straight-to-the-point wisdom' from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation,...
'4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online,' notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words 'Testing testing 123 123...') But 4chan posted a much longer...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider: A Lufthansa flight carrying 461 passengers had to divert after someone's tablet became 'jammed' in a business-class seat. The Airbus A380 took off from Los Angeles on Wednesday, bound for Munich, and had been...
'Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than previously thought,' writes Space.com, citing a new NASA-led experiment: Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun......
Saturday April 26, 2025. 11:34 PM
Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: Personal health information on 4.7 million Blue Shield California subscribers was unintentionally shared between Google Analytics and Google Ads between April 2021 and January 2025 due to a misconfiguration error. Security consultant and...
'Google-owned YouTube's revenue last year was estimated to be $54.2 billion,' reports the Los Angeles Times, 'which would make it the second-largest media company behind Walt Disney Co., according to a recent report from research firm MoffettNathanson, which called YouTube...
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