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Monday March 24, 2025. 11:00 AM
Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.
Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead at the same time. Ironically enough, so is quantum computing.
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when 'but it's both' is the default. Apply it to...
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not orbit a star.
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: A recent paper on ArXiv reports a novel idea about the central regions of 'our' galaxy. Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an 'image' of our central black hole — or rather, an image ...
And got away with it when someone else broke it even more comprehensively Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, and therefore to another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s reader-contributed Monday column that shares stories of your worst moments at work, and ...
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights...
Long-time Slashdot reader invisik reminds us that the 'fish doorbell' is still going strong, according to the Associated Press. 'Now in its fifth year, the site has attracted millions of viewers from around the world with its quirky mix of slow TV and ecological activism.'...
Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Google has admitted it lost some customer data, possibly forever.…
NPR reports on research 'into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.' So far, the findings offer some reassurance. Antibodies and other players in the immune system may buffer the worst consequences of bird flu, at ...
PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security has outlawed the use of facial recognition without...
Sunday March 23, 2025. 11:34 PM
Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule...
For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now 'Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative,' according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht...
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…
'There's no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs,' writes Slashdot reader VennStone. 'So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-powered single-board...
Today long-time open source advocate/journalist Doc Searls revealed that years of work by consumer privacy groups has culminated in a proposed standard 'that can vastly expand our agency in the digital world' — especially in a future world where agents surf the web on our...
The latest Facebook whistleblower, a former international lawyer, 'cannot grant any of the nearly 100 interview requests she has received from journalists from print and broadcast news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom,' reports the Washington Post (citing...
GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell GTC Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra and upcoming Vera and Rubin CPUs and GPUs dominated the conversation at the corp's GPU Technology Conference this week. But arguably one of the most important...
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