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Monday July 1, 2024. 04:46 PM
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to take another look at a pair of laws from Florida and Texas that imposed restrictions on how social media companies can moderate the content posted to their platforms. From a report: Justice Elena Kagan delivered the court's ...
Apple's decision not to launch its own AI features in the EU is a 'stunning declaration' of its anticompetitive behavior, European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said. From a report: About two weeks ago, Apple announced it will not launch its homegrown AI...
In 1994, college student Jim Hall created FreeDOS (in response to Microsoft's plan to gradually phase out MS-DOS). After celebrating its 30th anniversary last week, Hill wrote a new article Saturday for OpenSource.net: 'What I've learned about Open Source community over 30...
The Los Angeles Times reports that 'multiple projects seeking to remove carbon dioxide from the air have been launched across Los Angeles County: When completed, Project Monarch and its wastewater component, Pure Water Antelope Valley, will purify up to 4.5 million gallons...
game of Asteroids An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: An asteroid the size of a football stadium threaded the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days. Near miss, in this case, is a...
It's been adapted into a graphic novel, a videogame, a radio play, and an opera, according to Wikipedia — which also describes years of trying to adapt Neuromancer into a movie. 'The landmark 1984 cyberpunk novel has been on Hollywood's wishlist for decades,' writes Gizmodo,...
USENIX, the long-running OS/networking research group, also publishes a magazine called;login:. Today the magazine's editor — security consultant Rik Farrow — stopped by Slashdot to share some new research. rikfarrow writes: Caching means using faster memory to store...
Sunday June 30, 2024. 11:28 PM
America's Justice Department 'is pushing for Boeing to plead guilty to a criminal charge,' reports Reuters, 'after finding the planemaker violated a settlement over fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, two people familiar with the matter said on...
A new study 'has found direct evidence linking a key chemical ingredient of plastic bottles to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes,' reports the Independent: The study, published in the journal Diabetes, found that the chemical BPA used to make food and drink packages,...
To stop their smartphone battery from swelling, long-time Slashdot reader shanen bought a Samsung Galaxy with a 'restrictive charging option.' But what setting should they use? The way this battery protection option worked was to stop charging the phone at 85%. That left me...
Commercial space efforts continue around the world, as the Chinese company Space Pioneer fired up a partially-fueled rocket engine Sunday for a short-duration test of its reusable rocket on the ground. But Space News reports that the test 'ended in catastrophic failure and a ...
Bloomberg and The Washington Post 'claim AI power usage is dire,' writes Slashdot reader NoWayNoShapeNoForm. But Ars Technica 'begs to disagree with those speculations.' From Ars Technica's article: The high-profile pieces lean heavily on recent projections from Goldman...
It was analgous to the 'Blue Screen of Death' that Windows gives for critical errors, Phoronix wrote. To enable error messages for things like a kernel panic, Linux 6.10 introduced a new panic handler infrastructure for 'Direct Rendering Manager' (or DRM) drivers. Phoronix...
What if across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, six high-voltage power cables stretched — each over 2,000 miles long. CNN reports that a group of entrepreneurs 'wants to build what would be the world's largest subsea energy interconnector between continents, linking Europe...
It transforms water into the fuel — one of the first fuel plants in the world to do so. The Washington Post visits a facility in Corpus Christi, Texas using renewable energy to produce 'green' hydrogen. The plant feeds water through machines that pull out its hydrogen...
Slashdot reader Required Snark shared this article from Ars Technica: Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose a pair of private companies to design and develop new spacesuits. These were to be new spacesuits that...
Today the Wall Street Journal reported that restoring net neutrality to America is 'on shakier legal footing after a Supreme Court decision on Friday shifted power away from federal agencies.' 'It's hard to overstate the impact that this ruling could have on the regulatory...
Friday June 7, 2024. 03:00 PM
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that the past year saw record-breaking heat, with global temperatures surpassing all historical measurements. According to Copernicus, May marked the 12th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: The universe is awash with strange radio signals, but astronomers have now detected a really bizarre one that repeats every hour, cycling through three different states. While they have some ideas about its origin it can't...
Longtime Slashdot reader destinyland shared a story from Space.com reporting on Boeing's missed opportunity to dock with the International Space Station, after five of the 28 thrusters that help control Starliner's movement in space stopped operating. NASA has since been...
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