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Monday April 8, 2024. 02:21 AM
This week America's Department of Energy announced 'a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.' The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) led the Blueprint's development in collaboration with the Department of Housing and ...
'It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem,' reports Kotaku: Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters...
Sunday April 7, 2024. 11:26 PM
The foundations behind Rust, Python, Apache, Eclipse, PHP, OpenSSL, and Blender announced plans to create 'common specifications for secure software development,' based on 'existing open source best practices.' From the Eclipse Foundation: This collaborative effort will be...
'Scary moments for passengers on a Southwest flight from Denver to Houston,' tweets an ABC News transportation reporter, 'when the engine cover ripped off during flight, forcing the plane to return to Denver Sunday morning.' 'Think that big circular metal panel surrounding...
A professor at Ithaca College runs part of each student's essay through ChatGPT, 'asking the AI tool to critique and suggest how to improve the work,' reports CNN. (The professor said 'The best way to look at AI for grading is as a teaching assistant or research assistant...
On Mozilla's blog, engineer Martin Thomson explores Google's 'Privacy Sandbox' initiative (which proposes sharing a subset of private user information — but without third-party cookies). The blog post concludes that Google's Protected Audience 'protects advertisers (and...
While the European Parliament passed a wide-ranging 'AI Act' in March, 'Leaders from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI have all called for AI regulations in the U.S.,' writes CIO magazine. Even the Chamber of Commerce, 'often opposed to business regulation, has called on...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this report from Science magazine: Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this report from Science magazine: Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules...
Four months ago long-time Slashdot reader Shayde tried restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. But now he's gone even further back in time. Shayde writes: In 1984, Apple II's were at the top of their game in the 8 bit market. A company in New Jersey decided to get in on...
'America's honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high,' reports the Washington Post: We've added almost 1 million bee colonies in the past five years. We now have 3.8 million, the census shows. Since 2007, the first census after alarming bee die-offs began in 2006, ...
Windows Report speculates on what Microsoft may be working on next based on a recently-published patent for 'performant sound recognition AI technologies' (dated April 2, 2024): Microsoft's new technology can recognize different types of sounds, from doorbells to babies...
'The San Francisco Giants are one of four teams in Major League Baseball this season offering fans a free shortcut through the gates into the ballpark,' writes SFGate. 'The cost? Signing up for the league's 'facial authentication' software through its ticketing app.' The...
Saturday April 6, 2024. 11:34 PM
The European Space Agency has a Planetary Defence Office, which includes its Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre. 'It has come to our attention,' they wrote in the April edition of their monthly newsletter, 'that a recent trend among journalists has been to come up with...
Thursday America's Environmental Protection Agency 'awarded $20 billion to help finance clean-energy projects across the country,' reports the Washington Post. The money comes from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund established by President Biden's signature climate law, the...
Disneyland is a proposing part of its park be dedicated to James Cameron's Avatar, reports SFGate. 'The rendering isn't a carbon copy of the Pandora land in Disney World's Animal Kingdom; instead, it's themed more closely to the recent sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water.' The...
In Communication of the ACM, Google's VP of Education notes how calculators impacted math education — and wonders whether generative AI will have the same impact on CS education: Teachers had to find the right amount of long-hand arithmetic and mathematical problem solving...
Leaders from two key committees in the U.S. Congress 'are nearing an agreement on a national framework aimed at protecting Americans' personal data online,' reports the Washington Post. They call the move 'a significant milestone that could put lawmakers closer than ever to...
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Tesla 'is poised to roll out its version of a robotaxi later this year, according to CEO Elon Musk.' ('Musk made the announcement on social media saying 'Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8.' His cryptic post contained no other details about ...
Slashdot reader Mononymous writes: The latest release of OpenBSD, the FOSS Unix-like operating system focused on correctness and security over features and performance, has been released. This version includes newer driver support, performance improvements, stability fixes,...
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