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Monday July 8, 2024. 06:21 AM
Boeing agreed on Sunday to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government in a case linked to crashes of its 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people -- a stunning turn for the aerospace giant after the Justice Department determined that Boeing...
'Many bike riders are hopeful about a world of robot drivers that never experience road rage or get distracted by their phones,' reports the Washington Post. 'But some resent being guinea pigs for driverless vehicles that veer into bike lanes, suddenly stop short and confuse ...
From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow it by 30 percent this year alone.…
Also: F1 authority breached; Prudential victim count skyrockets; a new ransomware actor appears; and more security in brief It's been a week of bad cyber security revelations for OpenAI, after news emerged that the startup failed to report a 2023 breach of its systems to...
Its FOSS writes: When it comes to Linux, we get to see some really cool, and sometimes quirky projects (read Hannah Montana Linux) that try to show off what's possible, and that's not a bad thing. One such quirky undertaking has recently surfaced, which sees a sophomore...
Plus: Samsung strike; India likely upping chip subsidies; Asian nations link payment schemes Asia In Brief Mt Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that dominated trading for a brief time in the early 2010s before collapsing amid the disappearance of nearly half a billion...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: On 21 June, Barcelona mayor Jaume Collboni announced plans to ban short term rentals in the city starting in November 2028. The decision is designed to solve what Collboni described as 'Barcelona's biggest problem' — the ho...
'China may be the world's second-largest economy,' writes Fortune's news editor, 'but when it comes to startup funding, the U.K. is punching above its weight.' Startups in the U.K. raised $6.7 billion in funding during the first half of 2024, helping dethrone China and...
Sunday July 7, 2024. 11:18 PM
Linux's vDSO (or virtual dynamic shared object) is 'a small shared library that the kernel automatically maps into the address space of all user-space applications,' according to its man page. 'There are some system calls the kernel provides that user-space code ends up...
As Amazon's stock hits a record high (rising 32% just this year), long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move away from Washington state — and its 7% tax on capital gains of more than $262,000...
Workers at delivery company Shipt 'found that their paychecks had become...unpredictable,' according to an article in IEEE Spectrum. 'They were doing the same work they'd always done, yet their paychecks were often less than they expected. And they didn't know why....' The...
At one point on Friday the entire cryptocurrency market shed more than $170 billion in capitalization within 24 hours, CNBC reported (citing data from CoinGecko). 'Cryptocurrencies plunged... as investors focused on the payout of nearly $9 billion to users of collapsed...
An anonymous reader shared this report from NPR: A teenage computer whiz who used the early-aughts internet to spread awareness of the Catholic faith will become the church's first millennial saint. Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at age 15 in 2006, is already referred to ...
Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run.…
'After sixteen years since the introduction of Python 3, the Fedora project announces that Python 2.7, the last of the Python 2 series, will be retired,' according to long-time Slashdot reader slack_justyb. From the announcement on the Fedora changes page: The python2.7...
TL;DR: This week only, you can get one of the best prices you’ll find on Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows — just $44.97. Although there are free office software suites on the market, there’s a reason why Microsoft Office remains the gold standard for work. The...
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You have options for repairing Pixel phones and tablets, but fixing any of Google’s other hardware is almost futile. It’s time Google offered proper repair options for its growing lineup of gadgets.
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