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Monday June 9, 2025. 04:23 AM
A new study 'adds a whole extra level of detail to our understanding of caffeine's impact on the brain during sleep,' reports ScienceAlert: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by...
The U.K. electricity grid 'was built to deliver power generated by coal and gas plants near the country's major cities and towns,' reports the BBC, 'and doesn't always have sufficient capacity in the wires that carry electricity around the country to get the new renewable...
Nintendo's new Switch 2 console sold a record 3 million units after its launch Thursday. But then today Microsoft announced their own upcoming handheld gaming device that's Xbox-branded (and Windows-powered). Working with ASUS' ROG division, they build a device that weighs...
Sunday June 8, 2025. 11:57 PM
'NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's most intriguing moons,' reports Gizmodo. But though NASA 'got cold feet over the project,' the engineers behind the project are now...
In late April Meta introduced its Meta AI app, which included something called a Discover feed. ('You can see the best prompts people are sharing, or remix them to make them your own.') But while Meta insisted 'you're in control: nothing is shared to your feed unless you...
Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn 'shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first',' remembers the Financial Times. 'I did not expect the amount of blowback,' he admits.... He attributes this anger to a general 'anxiety'...
The New York Times reports: California State University announced this year that it was making ChatGPT available to more than 460,000 students across its 23 campuses to help prepare them for 'California's future A.I.-driven economy.' Cal State said the effort would help make ...
It's no longer a hypothetical question, writes the Washington Post. 'In recent years, scientists have devised powerful genetic tools that may be able to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests once and for all.' But along with the ability to fight malaria, dengue, West Nile...
The Associated Press reports that on Friday, U.K. High Court justice Victoria Sharp and fellow judge Jeremy Johnson ruled on the possibility of false information being submitted to the court. Concerns had been raised by lower-court judges about 'suspected use by lawyers of...
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports 'left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times: Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a Russian...
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a 'warrantless drone surveillance program' that's 'trampling residents' right to privacy': Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a 'runaway spying...
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...
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