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Sunday March 16, 2025. 12:48 AM
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and ...
Saturday March 15, 2025. 10:48 PM
Cities in Europe 'are dramatically scaling back their relationship with the car,' reports the Washington Post: They are removing parking spaces and creating dedicated bike lanes. They are installing cameras at the perimeter of urban centers and either charging the...
'SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year,' writes the BBC, 'as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.' Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though '2031...
'Is everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole?' asks Space.com. Because here's the thing. The $10 billion James Webb Space telescope (in operation since 2022) 'has found that the vast majority of deep space and, thus the early galaxies it has so far observed, ...
'Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road...' notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also 'routinely violate parking rules.' Waymo vehicles driving themselves receiv...
Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous 'hockey stick' graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more...
'Cuba's power grid collapsed Friday night,' reports CNN, 'triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.' Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used...
Tuesday Microsoft 'surprised everyone,' writes Neowin, 'by announcing a new change that will radically improve TypeScript performance' — porting TypeScript to Go. InfoWorld writes that 'The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and me...
'Wind and solar energy generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for the first time last year,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'according to analysis from clean-energy think tank Ember. 'The two renewable energy sources accounted for 17% of the country's power mix...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Broadband TV News: The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to establish a clear, industry-wide transition plan for the full deployment of...
Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 274 -- more than all the other planets combined. CBC News reports: Jupiter and Saturn have been locked in a battle for the most moons for years -- with...
From a Space.com article: Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component you've probably never heard of is running ever so slightly faster as we get further and further away from the time the...
With Microsoft ending free security updates for Windows 10 in October, millions of PCs that don't meet Windows 11's hardware requirements face an uncertain fate... Charities that refurbish and distribute computers to low-income individuals must choose between providing...
A leaked Apple meeting reveals significant internal struggles with Siri's development, as AI-powered features announced last June have been delayed and may not make it into iOS 19. The Verge reports: Bloomberg (paywalled) has the full scoop on what happened at a Siri team...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a four-member crew to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth after being there for nine months due to issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule....
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Younger Americans don't have enough saved to cover a single month of spending, showcasing their vulnerability should the economy head into a downturn. Members of the Gen Z generation -- people born after 1995 -- were spending ...
The IRS is pausing its technology modernization efforts to reassess its strategy in light of AI advancements. Reuters reports: The agency will review a number of technology modernization initiatives that have been taken in recent years, including a new direct free filing...
Google announced today that Gemini will replace Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025. '[T]he classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores,' says Google in a blog post....
Friday March 14, 2025. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon's cloud. Amazon...
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