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Sunday May 18, 2025. 11:02 PM
The BBC visits 'the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.' Even if you're a diehard Apple user, you're probably interacting with Windows systems on a regular basis. When you're pulling cash out, for example, chances are you're using a computer that's...
While Amazon won FAA approval to fly beyond an operators' visual line of sight, 'the program remains a work in progress,' reports Bloomberg: A pair of Amazon.com Inc. package delivery drones were flying through a light rain in mid-December when, within minutes of one...
IBM laid off 'a couple hundred' HR workers and replaced them with AI agents. 'It's becoming a huge thing,' says Mike Peditto, a Chicago-area consultant with 15 years of experience advising companies on hiring practices. He tells Slate 'I do think we're heading to where this...
The Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to 'move the Internet's security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code.' Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they'd begun work on rav1d, a safer high...
The only nuclear power plant still operating in Taiwan was shut down on Saturday, reports Japan's public media organization NHK: People in Taiwan have grown increasingly concerned about nuclear safety in recent years, especially after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima,...
During this year's annual Pwn2Own contest, two researchers from Palo Alto Networks demonstrated an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, reports Cyber Security News, 'earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points.' And the next day another participant used an...
It's a nonprofit that's provide hosting for the Linux Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, Drupal, Firefox, and 160 other projects — delivering nearly 430 terabytes of information every month. (It's currently hosting Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo Linux.) But hosting only...
A new YouTube tool will let advertisers use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they're most engaged, reports CNBC: Peak Points has the potential to enable more impressions and a higher click-through rate on YouTube, a primary metric that determines how...
Last August a Microsoft security update broke dual-booting Windows 11 and Linux systems, remembers the blog Neowin. Distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux were all affected, and 'a couple of days later, Microsoft provided a slightly lengthy...
Amazon's AWS Labs has created LLRT an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient serverless applications. Slashdot reader BitterEpic wants to know what you think of it: Traditional JavaScript runtimes like...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you 'regain control over your data,' has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own...
'The world has changed,' writes Stack Overflow's blog. 'Fast. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we build, learn, and solve problems. Software development looks dramatically different than it did even a few years ago — and the pace of change is only accelerating.' And...
Saturday May 17, 2025. 11:34 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from CRN: CPU-tracking firm Mercury Research reported on Thursday that Intel's x86 CPU market share grew 0.3 points sequentially to 75.6 percent against AMD's 24.4 percent in the first quarter. However, AMD managed to increase its...
'The altruistic OpenAI is gone, if it ever existed,' argues a new article in the Atlantic, based on interviews with more than 90 current and former employees, including executives. It notes that shortly before Altman's ouster (and rehiring) he was 'seemingly trying to...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: A new study indicates the debilitating 'brain fog' suffered by millions of long COVID patients is linked to changes in the brain, including inflammation and an impaired ability to rewire itself following COVID-19...
'Researchers are seeking a breakthrough in technologies to tackle PFAS contamination,' reports the Washington Post — including experiments with ultraviolet light, plasma and sound waves: 'We're in a good spot,' said Christopher Higgins, a professor of civil and environmental...
A Curl contributor replaced an ASCII letter with a Unicode alternative in a pull request, writes Curl lead developer/founder Daniel Stenberg. And not a single human reviewer on the team (or any of their CI jobs) noticed. The change 'looked identical to the ASCII version, so...
'Shares of Ubisoft sank 18% on Thursday,' reports CNBC, 'after the French video game firm reported full-year earnings that disappointed investors... The company's shares have lost almost 60% of their value in the past 12 months, as the firm faced financial struggles,...
'With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the 'sea moth',' reports CNN, 'that swam in Earth's oceans 506 million years ago.' Tiny as in 15 to 61 mm in total body length. (That's 0.60 to 2.4 inches...)...
Thursday was Rust's 10-year anniversary for its first stable release. 'To say I'm surprised by its trajectory would be a vast understatement,' writes Rust's original creator Graydon Hoare. 'I can only thank, congratulate, and celebrate everyone involved... In my view, Rust...
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