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Monday January 13, 2025. 03:45 PM
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his final interview before stepping down, warned that China poses the greatest long-term threat to U.S. national security, calling it 'the defining threat of our generation.' China's cyber program has stolen more American personal and...
Sonos Chief Executive Patrick Spence stepped down on Monday, following a tumultuous period marked by a botched app rollout that angered customers and hurt sales of its new headphones. Board member Tom Conrad, a former Pandora chief technology officer, will serve as interim...
'Neuralink Corp.'s brain-computer device has been implanted in a third patient,' reports Bloomberg, 'and the company has plans for about 20 to 30 more implants in 2025, founder Elon Musk said.' In an interview streamed on X.com, Musk says 'We've got now three humans with...
'Oracle has informed us they won't voluntarily withdraw their trademark on 'JavaScript'.' That's the word coming from the company behind Deno, the alternative JavaScript/TypeScript/WebAssembly runtime, which is pursuing a formal cancellation with the U.S. Patent and...
'We're standing down on today's launch attempt,' Blue Origin posted late last night, 'to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We're reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt.' But soon Blue Origin will again attempt its ...
Blue Origin is attempting its very first orbital flight tonight. And they'll also attempt to land their reusable Stage 1 on a drone in the Atlantic ocean. The rocket is fueled on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, awaiting ignition. Its three-hour launch window has...
'In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider,' reports Rest of World. 'Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading...
'I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop... yadda, yadda',' writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. 'You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want...' He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced...
'The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure,' reports CNBC, 'as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government sets its sights on becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence.' The government is...
Due to a 'rapid expansion of solar capacity,' Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar power in 2024, reports PV magazine, 'accounting for 14% of its total electricity output, according to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. 'Wind power remained Germany's...
Sunday January 12, 2025. 11:03 PM
The University of Colorado Boulder's magazine recently wrote: What happened during the 'Snowball Earth' period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of...
SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that 'takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. 'The...
'This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials,' reports Quanta magazine. 'Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds it completely....' After four years...
As an ecological disaster devastated two coastal California cities, more than 7,500 firefighters pushed back against the wildfires. 900 of them are inmates, reports NPR. That's about 12%: California is one of more than a dozen states that operates conservation camps,...
Slashdot reader rzack writes: Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another. Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok...
'Every Ford EV model set a new sales record in 2024 with double-digit growth,' reports Electrek, with Ford's total U.S. electric vehicle sales jumping to 97,865, an increase of 34.8% from 2023. And in the last three months of 2024 Ford sold 30,176 EVs — which is also a new re...
Google is reintroducing 'digital fingerprinting' in five weeks, reports Mashable, describing it as 'a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices.' Or, to put it...
Unanimous AI's founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a 'wave' of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly 'as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives'... '[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with...
'JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank's return-to-office policy,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people...
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