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Monday March 25, 2024. 04:34 AM
The Los Angeles Times checks in on America's largest dam-removal project, which they say is now 'revealing a stark landscape that had been underwater for generations.' 'A thick layer of muddy sediment covers the sloping ground, where workers have been scattering seeds and...
The Baffler says a new publishing house launched earlier this month 'brings Silicon Valley-style startup disruption to the business of books.' Authors Equity has 'a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network of freelancers,' and like a handful of other publishers 'is ...
ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns Infosec in brief If your Windows domain controllers have been crashing since a security update was installed earlier this month, there's no longer any need to speculate...
PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI Asia In Brief Samsung has reportedly secured a massive sale of an AI accelerator it plans to launch in 2025.…
Sunday March 24, 2024. 11:34 PM
'It's a bad day for bugs,' joked TechCrunch on Wednesday. 'Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code...' And then the same day, BleepingComputer reported that GitHub 'introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up...
'If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to 'put you on some kind of list,' your concern may be more than warranted,' writes Mashable: In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names,...
Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shared an announcement from the University of California San Diego. The school's researchers teamed with materials-science company Algenesis to show 'that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level — in under sev...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google's 'Be Internet Awesome' curriculum, and 1.25...
Easy to exploit, not yet exploited, not widely patched – pick three As many as 300,000 servers or devices on the public internet are thought to be vulnerable right now to the recently disclosed Loop Denial-of-Service technique that works against some UDP-based...
Gizmodo reports that increased activity on the Moon 'may affect the unique radio silence on the lunar far side, an ideal location for radio telescopes to pick up faint signals from the cosmic past.' This week, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) held the first...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Register: Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised U.S. defense organizations, UK government agencies, and hundreds of other...
In an interview Saturday, CNN first asked Steve Wozniak about Apple's 'walled garden' approach — and whether there's any disconnect between Apple's stated interest in user security and privacy, and its own self-interest? Wozniak responded, 'I think there are things you can sa...
Instant cameras are on the rise once again, but what about the camera you found in your dad's garage?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Among the amazing features of the in-process analytical database DuckDB, writes software engineer Paul Gross in DuckDB as the New jq, is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can...
'Hollywood is bracing for another actors strike, this time against the videogame industry,' according to MarketWatch: 'We're currently in bargaining with all the major game studios, and the major sticking point is AI,' SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan...
The DJI Air 3 is a highly versatile, easy-flying drone with serious videography skills.
Backbone, which makes a popular gaming controller, wants to unite various ecosystems by shedding video game exclusivity while also improving access to cloud gaming and remote play.
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.
'It was three years of my, life you?' a 93-year-old William Shatner tells the Guardian when asked about playing Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series from 1967 to 1969: It gladdens him to see how much joy the series has brought its many fans, but the richest rewards...
Every person has a different idea of what makes noise “loud,” but there are some things we all can do to turn the volume down a little.
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