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Sunday December 29, 2024. 12:34 AM
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: The Dubai-based startup LEAP71, focused on using AI software to quickly develop rocket engine designs it can then 3D print, has successfully test fired a prototype aerospike engine on December 18, 2024 during a static fire test...
Saturday December 28, 2024. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Back in January, Rice University professor and former CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi wrote of the unintended consequences of social media and mobile computing in 'Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands!' To close out the year,...
Business Insider reports: The lead researcher for Sam Altman's basic-income study says guaranteed no-strings payments are not a silver bullet for issues facing lower-income Americans. Elizabeth Rhodes, the research director for the Basic Income Project at Open Research, told ...
A Linux Foundation project focused on understanding the health of the open source community just studied the outcomes for three projects that switched to 'more restrictive' licenses and then faced community forks. The data science director for the project — known as...
Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday, reports CNN, 'after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing...' 'Carlsen, the world champion from 2013 until 2023, allegedly replied, 'I'm out, f*** you,' after being informed that he would not be ...
Thursday New York's governor signed new legislation 'to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment' by establishing a Climate Superfund that's paid for by big fossil-fuel companies. The money will be used for 'climate change adaptation,' according to...
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: This year the London Stock Exchange got a new listing for 'Raspberry Pi Holdings plc.' It's the computer-making commercial subsidiary of their larger educational charity, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 'Access to the public market will enable ...
ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: Retraction Watch is reporting that the entire editorial staff (save one) for the Journal of Human Evolution has resigned in protest over creeping harmful changes imposed by its publisher, Elsevier. In an open letter posted to social...
Valerie Warner is 71 years old — and owes $268,000 in student loans. Roughly 40 years ago she went to law school, but was only able to find work as a legal aid and later work in the public school system, which the Washington Post calls 'a rewarding job but one that didn't...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Lyft is suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the city unfairly charged the ride-hailing company over $100 million in taxes, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit alleges that, over the course of five years, San Francisco...
A new report reveals that the VW Group left sensitive data for 800,000 electric vehicles from Audi, VW, Seat, and Skoda poorly secured on an Amazon cloud, exposing precise GPS locations, battery statuses, and user habits for months. Carscoops reports: It gets worse. A more...
Accidental missile attacks on commercial airliners have become the leading cause of aviation fatalities in recent years (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), driven by rising global conflicts and the proliferation of advanced antiaircraft weaponry. Despite...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: The two professions associated with the lowest levels of death due to Alzheimer's disease may be surprising. Taxi and ambulance drivers were found to have the lowest proportion of deaths of more than 440 occupations...
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: It might sound unbelievable, but the human brain processes information at just 10 bits per second! Yes, folks, that's slower than the internet speeds many of us endured during the early days of dial-up. While our senses take in...
jjslash shares a report from TechSpot: A Valve employee recently provided PC Gamer with a rough calculation of the company's per-employee income, revealing that Valve generates more money per person than several of the world's largest companies. While the data is a few years ...
The implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act -- a law aimed at getting shell companies to disclose their true ownership -- was paused again just days before a reporting deadline was set to take effect, as a federal appeals court handed the case to a panel for further ...
On Christmas Day, the social media app Bluesky added a list of Trending topics to its mobile app, allowing users to see which subjects are popular among its community. The Verge reports: The new feature can be found by selecting the search icon (the magnifying glass), which...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Despite having an endless amount of music to pair with their short, scrollable videos, TikTok users have been raiding the back catalogues of artists from yesteryear including Bronski Beat and Sade to soundtrack their...
Friday December 27, 2024. 11:42 PM
There's been an explosion of interest among senior executives -- including C-suite leaders -- in going gig, or 'fractional.' From a report: 'People don't want to go back to pre-COVID -- [they] want control, more work-life-balance, and a say over who they work with and how...
Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have examined the campaign. From a report: Among the victims was the California-based...
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