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Monday February 24, 2025. 03:34 AM
'A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire,' writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as 'a fire risk hiding in plain sight.' [Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this observation from space/science news blogger Robert Zimmerman: Having now reached lunar orbit in preparation for its landing on March 2, 2025, an engineering test instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has now proven that ...
Netflix calls it 'a live-action reimagining of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. And this weekend Netflix shared a blooper reel from their live-action show's first season, reports Engadget, 'giving fans a look at some cute behind the...
Sunday February 23, 2025. 10:55 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues. Baseball ...
New power plants burning natural gas are being built all across America, reports the Washington Post, calling it a gas boom 'driven in large part by AI.' They blame tech companies like Microsoft and Meta — which 'looked to gas amid a shortage of adequate new clean energy' —...
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called 'The Poetry of Reality.' Monday's topic? 'Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT' Richard Dawkins: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Tu...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Telegraph: Workers with an axe to grind against their employer are using AI to bombard businesses with costly and inaccurate lawsuits, experts have warned. Frustration is growing among employment lawyers who say they are seeing ...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from Phoronix: Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post [Wednesdsay] outlining the benefits of Rust and encouraging new...
On Wednesday Mozilla president Mark Surman 'announced plans to tackle what he says are 'major headwinds' facing the company's ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: 'Mozilla's impact and survival depend on us simultaneously...
On Wednesday Mozilla president Mark Surman 'announced plans to tackle what he says are 'major headwinds' facing the company's ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: 'Mozilla's impact and survival depend on us simultaneously...
An anonymous reader shared this report from ABC News: Elon Musk called this week for the deorbiting of the International Space Station (ISS) 'as soon as possible.' 'It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the [ISS],' Musk wrote in a post on X on Thursday. 'It has...
'An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical,' reports Phys.org. They add that the discovery 'challenges fundamental...
'An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical,' reports Phys.org. They add that the discovery 'challenges fundamental...
'Amazon has long allowed you to download its ebooks to your computer,' notes PCMag.com, 'where they can serve as a backup or be transferred to other devices. 'However, that feature will end on February 26, 2025, along with the ability to transfer books from your computer to...
Remember that battery plant fire last month in Moss Landing, California? Tuesday night local firefighters 'determined that a group of lithium batteries in an area that had previously burned during the January 16 fire had smoldered and reignited,' reports SFGate. Fire Chief...
America's Labor Department includes the fact-finding Bureau of Labor Statistics — and they recently explained how AI impacts their projections for the next 10 years. Their conclusion, writes Investopedia, was that 'tech workers might not have as much to worry about as one...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post's 'Tech Brief': Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers. They worried personalized data could be used to...
Saturday February 22, 2025. 11:34 PM
The Washington Post looks at a new kind of battery that 'could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say.' If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments, less fire risk and more years of use out of your car — but...
This year's 'State of Rust' survey was completed by 7,310 Rust developers. DevClass note some key findings: When asked about their biggest worries for Rust's future, 45.5 percent cited 'not enough usage in the tech industry,' up from 42.5 percent last year, just ahead of the ...
Five days ago on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released patch KB5051987 for Windows 11 version 24H2, writes the XDA Developers site. But 'As reported by Windows Latest and various communities like Reddit and Microsoft's help forum, many users have encountered a major issue...'...
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