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Monday April 14, 2025. 01:44 AM
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 'to encourage students to not stick around college.' (College...
The blockbuster antitrust case begins Monday. Its outcome could impact how Big Tech companies grow—but the government has a long way to go to prove its case.
Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its 'Maverick' AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 'on all benchmarks... This thing is a beast.' And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even Meta's own announcement...
Sunday April 13, 2025. 11:02 PM
'More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics,' reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources including the World Health...
Military units, government nerds appear to join the fray, with physical infra in sights Feature From triggering a water tank overflow in Texas to shutting down Russian state news services on Vladimir Putin's birthday, self-styled hacktivists have been making headlines.…
'It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'given that Commodore International released AmigaOS 3.0 in 1992...' AmigaOS 3.1 came in 1993. And now... Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards of this classic Motorola...
'Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?' That's what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked 'acquaintances' in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy 'nearly every possible number in a coming drawing' — purchasing $1 tickets for 25.8 million...
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate...
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 'will come with full support for OEM installations,' according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint 'can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It's a very important feature and it's one of the very few remaining...
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall 'packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,' according to the web site for the resulting 'FreeDOS' project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30...
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'AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record,' reports Tom's Hardware, 'during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.' The article points out that Frontier was ...
The technology inside this blow-dry brush is unlike any other blowout tool you’ll find.
Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3 In the 2020s you might be forgiven for having forgotten that such a thing as a native chat client exists, but a handful still do and they're still useful. One of these is Pidgin, the artist formerly known as GAIM.…
'Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed,' writes SciTechDaily, 'so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use.' A new study has found that general cognitive abilities,...
Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News. Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, 'because they actually use Git for...
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