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Saturday March 22, 2025. 10:34 PM
Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America's nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they're also crafting courses 'not just with higher education at the table, but industry partners such as the...
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The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore 'are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions,' reports TechCrunch, 'according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab.' On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a...
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This week the 'Old Vintage Computing Research' blog published a 21,000-word exploration of the DEC PDP-11, the 16-bit minicomputer sold by Digital Equipment Corporation. Slashdot reader AndrewZX calls the blog post 'an excellent deep dive' into the machine's history and...
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Was the cutting of undersea cables part of a larger pattern? Russia and its proxies are accused by western officials of 'staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago,' reports the Associated Press. That includes...
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Slashdot reader Required Snark shared this article from Phys.org: In the realm of science fiction, [sun-energy capturing] Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against gravitational forces and...
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'I intend to sue the National Archives,' said Joseph diGenova, an 80-year-old former Trump campaign lawyer (and a U.S. Attorney from 1983 to 1988). While releasing 63,000 unredacted pages about the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, the U.S. government erroneously...
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Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of AI is an international scientific society. Recently 25 of its AI researchers surveyed 475 respondents in the AAAI community about 'the trajectory of AI research' — and their results were surprising. Futurism calls the re...
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Two 'groundbreaking research reports' on open source security were announced this week by the Linux Foundation in partnership with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Linux Foundation Europe. The reports specifically address the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (or...
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Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of...
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Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy. A sleep researcher explains how to get it right.
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Apple's latest iOS 18.3.2 update is automatically re-enabling its Apple Intelligence feature even for users who previously disabled it, adding to mounting concerns about the company's AI strategy. The update presents a splash screen with no option except to tap 'Continue,'...
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Now’s your chance to save on headphones, tablets, and home gadgets.
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Fast charging is viable, but experts say building the actual charging stations will be the tricky—and potentially very expensive—part.
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Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.
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The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.
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Plus: Analogue delays its Nintendo 64 console, Fujifilm unveils a medium format camera, and Microsoft's Adaptive Joystick game controller goes on sale.
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Remembering the fallen giant's first UK office Reading Museum is hosting an exhibition marking more than 60 years since Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opened its first UK office.…
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The French National Assembly has rejected a controversial provision that would have forced messaging platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to allow government access to encrypted private conversations, lawmakers voted Thursday night. The measure, embedded within anti-drug...
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London's Heathrow Airport resumed operations late Friday after an electrical fire at a nearby substation forced a full-day closure, causing global travel chaos with hundreds of canceled flights and thousands of stranded passengers. The explosion at a Hayes substation 1.5...
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Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare unveiled 'AI Labyrinth' this week, a feature designed to thwart unauthorized AI data scraping by feeding bots realistic but irrelevant content instead of blocking them outright. The system lures crawlers into a 'maze' of AI-generated...
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