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Sunday March 16, 2025. 04:34 PM
Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon: In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially...
A ransomware-as-a-service variant called 'Medusa' has claimed over 300 victims in 'critical infrastructure sectors' (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center. And that alert reminds us that...
We’ve rounded up our favorite speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the best Echo products to third-party options like the Sonos Era.
Building a new computer or looking to upgrade your memory? Here are our favorite options right now.
Attention Apple users: Rain Design makes the best minimal, fuss-free stands for Macbooks, iMacs, iPads, and iPhones.
The Galaxy S25 flagships come with several clever new software tricks. Two of them—the Now Bar and the Now Brief—can be highly personalized.
The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea...
How to keep your oven clean in the first place. And how to degrease a really dirty one.
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
'A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,' reports the BBC, 'in the Brazilian city of Belém.' The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people ...
'Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally,' asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that 'doesn't spy... and no one else owns it.' We download it, from souce-code if you...
'For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface,' reports Daily Galaxy. While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost...
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and ...
Saturday March 15, 2025. 10:48 PM
Cities in Europe 'are dramatically scaling back their relationship with the car,' reports the Washington Post: They are removing parking spaces and creating dedicated bike lanes. They are installing cameras at the perimeter of urban centers and either charging the...
'SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year,' writes the BBC, 'as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.' Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though '2031...
'Is everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole?' asks Space.com. Because here's the thing. The $10 billion James Webb Space telescope (in operation since 2022) 'has found that the vast majority of deep space and, thus the early galaxies it has so far observed, ...
'Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road...' notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also 'routinely violate parking rules.' Waymo vehicles driving themselves receiv...
Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous 'hockey stick' graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more...
'Cuba's power grid collapsed Friday night,' reports CNN, 'triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.' Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used...
AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, 'Do you folks care about privacy?' With him he carried schematics...
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