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Sunday February 9, 2025. 09:34 PM
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Long-time Slashdot reader Shayde once restored a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and even ran Turbo Pascal on a 40-year-old Apple II clone. Now he's exploring a 27-year-old Macintosh PowerBook G3 — with 64 megabytes memory and 4 gigabytes of disk space. 'The year is 1997, and...
Keynotes at this year's FOSDEM included free AI models and systemd, reports Heise.de — and also a progress report from Miguel Ojeda, supervisor of the Rust integration in the Linux kernel. Only eight people remain in the core team around Rust for Linux... Miguel Ojeda...
'Can you skydive continuously without landing...?' asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, 'only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.' Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on ...
Google's Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge: The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. Google didn't launch...
'It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived,' writes 74-year-old C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup in an article this week for Communications of the ACM. But he complains that many developers 'use C++ as if it was still the previous millennium,' in an article titled 21st...
Friday the Orlando Sentinel covered NASA's 2024 mission-safety report from the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (formed in 1968). The report 'commended the agency's handling of last year's beleaguered Boeing's Starliner mission [prioritizing astronaut safety], but revealed...
I just saw an ad for TikTok on a YouTube video. But at the same time YouTube is running ads on TikTok, reports Bloomberg, targeting TikTok content creators in 'an effort to lure these valuable users to the Google-owned rival and capitalize on TikTok's uncertain future.' One...
The tech startup 'purported to make smart home and business products,' writes America's Justice Department — products that were 'meant to stop package theft, prevent weather damage to packages, and make it easier for emergency responders and delivery services to find homes...
'Open source can be something of an illusion,' writes TechCrunch. 'A lack of real independence can mean a lack of agency for those who would like to properly get involved in a project.' Their article makes the case that the 'spirit' of open source means more than a...
After finalizing loan terms with the IMF, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved changes to the country's Bitcoin Law last week by a 55-2 vote, 'effectively removing bitcoin's status as legal currency,' reports Reason. Under the new rules, bitcoin is no longer...
Saturday February 8, 2025. 11:08 PM
Twisting two atomically thin sheets of graphene enables 'a host of exceptional properties,' writes MIT News, 'including unconventional superconductivity.' (Which makes this graphene 'a promising building block for future quantum-computing devices.') And now 'We find the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Telegraph: Volkswagen has teased plans for a 'China-killer' electric vehicle that will cost just €20,000 ($20,664 USD or £16,700) as the German carmaker gears up to take on a flood of Beijing-backed low-cost rivals. The company...
The Free Software Foundation 'hinted that it would organize an unprecedented virtual memorabilia auction' in March to celebrate this year's 40th anniversary, according to an announcement this week. Those hints 'left collectors and free software fans wondering which of the...
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a new article from Ars Technica: On Thursday, mobile security company NowSecure reported that [DeepSeek] sends sensitive data over unencrypted channels, making the data readable to anyone who can monitor the traffic. More sophisticated...
Thursday the White House 'moved to halt a $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle charging stations,' reports Politico, 'by instructing states not to spend federal funds previously allocated to them...' NPR described the move as 'putting in limbo billions of dollars...
To celebrate 2025's newest arrivals in the public domain, the Internet Archive held a special in-person event at their San Francisco headquarters, as well as a virtual celebration online. (It opens with an absolutely gorgeous rendition of 'Happy Days are Hear Again' played...
Friday on a Washington Post podcast, their columnists discussed the hybrid/remote work trend, asking why it 'seems to be reversing'. Molly Roberts: Why have some companies decided finally that having offices full of employees is better for them? Heather Long: It's a loaded...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you watched the 2007 documentary King of Kong or followed the controversy surrounding score-chaser Billy Mitchell, you know all about Donkey Kong's famous kill screen. For over four decades, no one was able to pass...
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