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Monday July 8, 2024. 06:57 PM
The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F) greater than their average before the fossil fuel era, new data shows. Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, scientists found, creating a year-long stretch in which...
A Wall Street Journal analysis has revealed that private insurers in the government's Medicare Advantage program, including UnitedHealth Group, have made numerous questionable diagnoses leading to increased taxpayer-funded payments between 2018 and 2021. The investigation...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Cybernews researchers discovered what appears to be the largest password compilation with a staggering 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. The file with the data, titled rockyou2024.txt, was posted on July 4th by forum user...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is finally rolling out spellcheck and autocorrect for its Notepad app in Windows 11, more than 40 years after the simple text editor was first introduced in Windows in 1983. The software giant started testing both features in...
Microsoft told employees in China that from September they'll only be able to use iPhones for work, effectively cutting off Android-powered devices from the workplace. Bloomberg: The US company will soon require Chinese-based employees to use only Apple devices to verify...
Remember those researchers who spent years training AI tools to analyze the reviews drivers left on the smartphone apps where they pay for EV charging? There was one more unexpected finding. 'Rideshare drivers who work for companies such as Uber are increasingly turning to...
'Russia has finally admitted that American astronauts did, in fact, land on the moon,' reports Newsweek: Head of Russian Space Corporation Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, accepted the truth of the U.S. putting a man on the moon in an address to the State Duma, Intellinews has...
Boeing agreed on Sunday to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government in a case linked to crashes of its 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people -- a stunning turn for the aerospace giant after the Justice Department determined that Boeing...
'Many bike riders are hopeful about a world of robot drivers that never experience road rage or get distracted by their phones,' reports the Washington Post. 'But some resent being guinea pigs for driverless vehicles that veer into bike lanes, suddenly stop short and confuse ...
Its FOSS writes: When it comes to Linux, we get to see some really cool, and sometimes quirky projects (read Hannah Montana Linux) that try to show off what's possible, and that's not a bad thing. One such quirky undertaking has recently surfaced, which sees a sophomore...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: On 21 June, Barcelona mayor Jaume Collboni announced plans to ban short term rentals in the city starting in November 2028. The decision is designed to solve what Collboni described as 'Barcelona's biggest problem' — the ho...
'China may be the world's second-largest economy,' writes Fortune's news editor, 'but when it comes to startup funding, the U.K. is punching above its weight.' Startups in the U.K. raised $6.7 billion in funding during the first half of 2024, helping dethrone China and...
Sunday July 7, 2024. 11:18 PM
Linux's vDSO (or virtual dynamic shared object) is 'a small shared library that the kernel automatically maps into the address space of all user-space applications,' according to its man page. 'There are some system calls the kernel provides that user-space code ends up...
As Amazon's stock hits a record high (rising 32% just this year), long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move away from Washington state — and its 7% tax on capital gains of more than $262,000...
Workers at delivery company Shipt 'found that their paychecks had become...unpredictable,' according to an article in IEEE Spectrum. 'They were doing the same work they'd always done, yet their paychecks were often less than they expected. And they didn't know why....' The...
At one point on Friday the entire cryptocurrency market shed more than $170 billion in capitalization within 24 hours, CNBC reported (citing data from CoinGecko). 'Cryptocurrencies plunged... as investors focused on the payout of nearly $9 billion to users of collapsed...
An anonymous reader shared this report from NPR: A teenage computer whiz who used the early-aughts internet to spread awareness of the Catholic faith will become the church's first millennial saint. Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at age 15 in 2006, is already referred to ...
'After sixteen years since the introduction of Python 3, the Fedora project announces that Python 2.7, the last of the Python 2 series, will be retired,' according to long-time Slashdot reader slack_justyb. From the announcement on the Fedora changes page: The python2.7...
Harvard Business School has an 'Institute for Business in Global Society' that explores the societal impacts of business. And they've recently published some new AI-powered research about EV charging infrastructure, according to the Institute's blog, conducted by climate...
In Communications of the ACM,/em>, long-time FreeBSD contributor Poul-Henning Kamp mocks the idea that the free and open-source software has 'come apart' and 'will end in tears and regret.' Economists and others focused on money — like my bank — have had a lot of trouble figu...
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