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Sunday June 8, 2025. 03:34 AM
AppleInsider reports: The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. 'Bill' Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer... Atkinson, who built a post-Apple career as a noted ...
Is copyrighted material a requirement for training AI? asks the Washington Post. That's what top AI companies are arguing, and 'Few AI developers have tried the more ethical route — until now. 'A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a...
TweakTown writes that the Switch 2 'has reportedly beaten the record for the most-sold console within 24 hours and is on track to shatter the two-month record,' selling over 3 million units and tripling the PlayStation 4's previous launch day sales. So Nintendo's first...
Saturday June 7, 2025. 10:59 PM
Mike Judge always seemed to have secret geek sympathies. He co-created the HBO series Silicon Valley, as well as the movie Office Space (reviewed in 1999 by Slashdot contributor Jon Katz). Now comes the word that besides rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer — and an animated...
LSD 'is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,' notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student 'has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug...' Morning glory plants live in ...
Once upon a time, long-time Slashdot reader tgibson learned how to type on a manual typewriter, back in an 8th grade classroom. And to this day, they write, 'my bias is to nod approvingly at touch typists and roll my eyes at those who need to stare at the keyboard while...
MIT comp-sci professor Ryan Williams suspected that a small amount of memory 'would be as helpful as a lot of time in all conceivable computations...' writes Quanta magazine. 'In February, he finally posted his proof online, to widespread acclaim...' Every algorithm takes...
Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps 'were siphoning people's data through a digital back door for months,' writes a Washington Post tech columnist, citing researchers who found no privacy setting could've stopped what Meta and Yandex were doing, since those two companies...
'Everyone has a blog these days, even Claude,' Anthropic wrote this week on a page titled 'Claude Explains.' 'Welcome to the small corner of the Anthropic universe where Claude is writing on every topic under the sun'. Not any more. After blog posts titled 'Improve code...
Cybercriminals have been increasingly turning to 'residential proxy' services over the past two to three years to disguise malicious web traffic as everyday online activity, according to research presented at the Sleuthcon cybercrime conference. The shift represents a...
Britain is moving toward major nuclear power commitments after years of delays, as government officials acknowledge they can no longer postpone critical energy infrastructure decisions. The U.K. Treasury has exhausted options for delaying nuclear power choices, Politico...
Startup Nord Quantique has demonstrated that a single piece of hardware can host an error-detecting logical qubit by using two quantum frequencies within one resonator. The breakthrough has the potential to slash the hardware demands for quantum error correction and deliver...
Apple has urged Australia not to follow the European Union in mandating iPhone app sideloading, warning that such policies pose serious privacy and security risks. 'This communication comes as the Australian federal government considers new rules that could force Apple to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital 'murder map' of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the...
Physicists at Loughborough University have created what they believe is the world's smallest violin, measuring just 35 microns long and 13 microns wide -- smaller than the width of a human hair, which typically ranges from 17 to 180 microns in diameter. The microscopic...
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: [Volvo] is debuting a new version of the three-point seatbelt that it believes is a major improvement over the original. The new design will be a smart belt that adapts to each occupant's body and adjusts...
The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: The Linux Foundation on Friday introduced a new method to distribute WordPress updates and plugins that's not controlled by any one party, in a bid to 'stabilize the WordPress ecosystem' after months of infighting. The FAIR Package...
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 25 (WWDC) kicks off next week, June 9th, showcasing the company's latest software and new technologies. That includes the next version of iOS, which is rumored to have the most significant design overhaul since the introduction of iOS...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from OregonLive: Together, the four founders of Beaverton startup AheadComputing spent nearly a century at Intel. They were among Intel's top chip architects, working years in advance to develop new generations of microprocessors to power...
Friday June 6, 2025. 11:50 PM
alternative_right shares a report: New York state lawmakers voted to stop the NYPD's attempt to block its radio communications from the public Thursday, with the bill expected to head to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk. The 'Keep Police Radio Public Act' passed both the state...
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