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Sunday September 8, 2024. 05:34 PM
'If you're plugged into KDE social media, you probably see a lot of requests for donations...' writes KDE developer Nate Graham on his personal blog. But 'We know that the fraction of people who subscribe to these channels is small, so there's a huge number of people who may ...
'China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 mission to Mars in 2028, two years earlier than previously planned,' writes the South China Morning Post, a change that one space policy research believes 'suggests a rising confidence by China in its ability to get the technology...
Wired interviews America's foreign policy chief, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about U.S. digital polices, starting with a new 'cybersecurity bureau' created in 2022 (which Wired previously reported includes 'a crash course in cybersecurity, telecommunications, privacy, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and...
The Register reports that Google 'recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language.' And they add that Google 'wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firmware.' A post on...
Harvard's school of public policy is publishing a Misinformation Review for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles promising 'reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.' This week it reported that 'Academic journals,...
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a 'guaranteed minimum support time' for devices — and federal regulations ensuring a product's core functionality will work even after its software updates stop. Influential groups including Consumer Reports,...
Saturday September 7, 2024. 11:50 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: 'The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education' recounts an experiment Eric Klopfer conducted in his undergrad CS class at MIT. He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, ...
Long-time FOSS-watcher Bruce Byfield writes that while people 'still dream of a completely free alternative, increasingly the emphasis in FOSS seems to be on accepting coexistence with proprietary software.' Many, too, have always preferred the permissive BSD licenses, which ...
The New York Times analyzed over 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,220 channels. Their conclusion? Telegram 'offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize at scale and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities' — and that Telegram 'has looked...
Altera AI's home page says their mission is 'to create digital human beings that live, care, and grow with us,' adding that their company builds machines 'with fundamental human qualities, starting with friends that can play video games with you.' And while their agents can...
Slashdot reader echo123 shared a new article from Wired titled 'Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It's Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong.' ('On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure ...
GitHub Actions let developers 'automate software builds and tests,' writes CSO Online, 'by setting up workflows that trigger when specific events are detected, such as when new code is committed to the repository.' They also 'can be reused and shared with others on the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from USA Today: He's the founder of Telegram. He was arrested in France. He also claims to have fathered at least 100 children... The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire often keeps his personal life out of the spotlight. Something he...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully 3D printed the first metal part aboard the International Space Station. This achievement marks a significant advancement in in-orbit manufacturing that could enable the production of essential spare parts and tools for future...
'SpaceX deployed its 7,000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation,' writes Slashdot reader DogFoodBuss. 'The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than its...
Boeing's 'beleaguered' Starliner spacecraft 'successfully landed in New Mexico just after midnight Eastern time,' reports NPR: After Starliner made a picture-perfect landing, Stich told reporters that the spacecraft did well during its return flight. 'It was a bullseye...
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, which regulates online and broadcast media in the Asian nation, has instructed internet service providers in the country to redirect DNS traffic that uses third-party servers back to their own DNS servers, according to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Electrocuted, flaming bird carcasses are falling off of power lines and causing wildfires across the U.S. This surprisingly common phenomenon has been responsible for at least three Colorado wildfires so far this summer....
SpyAgent is a new Android malware that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots stored on mobile devices, allowing attackers to hijack wallets and steal funds. The malware primarily targets South Korea but...
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