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Saturday March 1, 2025. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today's more taxing ray-traced gaming and...
'We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,' Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. 'Without it, we couldn't use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership...
Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars 'strongly suggest' the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State. From the university's announcement: The new research offers the clearest evidence yet...
Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group 'was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)' to assign and manage CVE...
San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs' lifespan 'has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,' reports the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a...
Magnus Carlsen 'announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December's World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,' reports the Associated Press. ('Condition: Pre-owned,' says the listing on eBay, where by...
'Tesla is taking steps to launch a ride-sharing service that could compete directly with Uber, Lyft and Waymo,' reports Axios, noting that Tesla 'has filed for a transportation charter-party carrier permit from the California Public Utilities Commission, Bloomberg reported...
Memory safety bugs are 'eroding trust in technology and costing billions,' argues a new post on Google's security blog — adding that 'traditional approaches, like code auditing, fuzzing, and exploit mitigations — while helpful — haven't been enough to stem the tide.' So the...
New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in...
Chinese scientists are developing a lightweight Mars drone capable of both rolling on the ground and flying using contra-rotating coaxial rotors. Space.com reports: The air-ground dual-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) weighs only 10.6 ounces (300 grams), equivalent to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country's...
Alphabet's X division has developed a silicon photonic chip for its Taara project, which transmits internet via laser beams instead of fiber optic cables. The system delivers 20Gbps through 'light bridges' that establish line-of-sight connections between transceiver units....
Autodesk said it would cut 1,350 employees, or about 9% of its workforce, as part of a pivot to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Fast Company reports: Companies across sectors such as architecture, engineering, construction, and product design are making extensive use...
Apple is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it misled consumers by falsely claiming certain Apple Watches were carbon neutral, as the carbon offset projects it relied on did not effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Verge reports: Apple said in 2023 that...
Microsoft Edge is following Chrome's lead by disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in its browser. Neowin reports: The latest Edge Canary version started disabling Manifest V2-based extensions with the following message: 'This extension is no longer...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his firm, San Francisco's largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company. From a report: 'My message to CEOs right now is that we are the last generation ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only...
Friday February 28, 2025. 11:50 PM
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is set to review a California district court's ruling in Neo4j v. PureThink, which upheld Neo4j's right to modify the GNU AGPLv3 with additional binding terms. If the appellate court affirms this decision, it could set a precedent allowing...
According to The Columbia Dispatch, Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again until 2030, with operations beginning sometime shortly thereafter in either 2030 or 2031. From the report: By the time it opens, Intel's first...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Thousands' of complaints about the volume of TV commercials have flooded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in recent years. Despite the FCC requiring TV stations, cable operators, and satellite providers to...
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