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Monday April 15, 2024. 12:04 AM
Movie exhibitors still face 'serious risks,' the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday: Attendance was on the decline even before the pandemic shuttered theaters, thanks to changing consumer habits and competition for people's time and money from other entertainment options....
Sunday April 14, 2024. 10:59 PM
The Associated Press reports: As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like swarms of bees to overwhelm an enemy. The ...
In the view of Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios, artificial intelligence will eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media,' reports the New York Times: VandeHei says the only way for media companies to survive is to focus on delivering journalistic expertise,...
Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Arm are among Canonical's 'silicon partners,' a program that 'ensures maximum Ubuntu compatibility and long-term support with certified hardware,' according to Web Pro News. And now Qualcomm is set to be Canonical's next silicon partner, 'giving...
America's FCC votes on net neutrality April 25th. And the director of Stanford Law School's 'Center for Internet and Society' (also a law professor) says mostly there's 'much to celebrate' in the draft rules released earlier this month. Mobile carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T...
The PHP programming language has sunk to its lowest position ever on the long-running TIOBE index of programming language popularity. It now ranks #17 — lower than Assembly Language, Ruby, Swift, Scratch, and MATLAB. InfoWorld reports: When the Tiobe index started in 2001,...
Ubuntu 24.10 [expected this October] and Debian GNU/Linux 13 'Trixie' [expected June-July 2025] 'will feature a refined APT command-line interface,' reports 9to5Linux: APT developer and Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode took to LinkedIn to present the revamped APT...
Engadget warns Windows 11 users that Microsoft is 'exploring the idea' of putting ads in their Start menu. Sort of... To be specific, it's looking to place advertisements for apps you can find in the Microsoft Store in the menu's recommended section.... At the moment,...
'Federal regulators are investigating a whistleblower's claims about flaws in the assembly of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner,' NPR reported this week: Longtime Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour went public Tuesday with claims that he observed problems with how parts of the plane's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from ScienceAlert: The Fermi Paradox is the discrepancy between the apparent high likelihood of advanced civilizations existing and the total lack of evidence that they do exist. Many solutions have been proposed for why the discrepancy ...
Popular Science reports that early last week, researchers at the U.S. Energy Department's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their new 'MUSE' stellarator — 'a unique fusion reactor that uses off-the-shelf and 3D-printed materials to contain its superheated plasma.'...
'An improved charging protocol might help lithium-ion batteries to last much longer,' writes Science Daily: The best commercial lithium-ion batteries...have a service life of up to eight years. Batteries are usually charged with a constant current flow. But is this really...
DOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week: Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals...
Saturday April 13, 2024. 11:43 PM
Foreign Policy magazine visits a U.S. military training exercise that pitted Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops against machines with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin: Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their...
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Researchers have demonstrated the 'first native Spectre v2 exploit' for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. Spectre V2 is a new variant ...
From the Washington Post: The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies. The Cybersecurity and...
'After a year of cracking down with rigid return-to-office mandates, defeated CEOs are now finally accepting that hybrid working is here to stay,' reports Fortune: KPMG surveyed U.S. CEOs of companies turning over at least $500 million and found that just one-third expect a...
O'Reilly's 'Tech Trends' newsletter included an interesting item this month: Want your own Klein Bottle? Made by Cliff Stoll, author of the cybersecurity classic The Cuckoo's Egg, who will autograph your bottle for you (and may include other surprises). First described in...
This week the new 'Find My Device' feature rolled out to Android devices around the world, starting in the U.S. and Canada. 'With a new, crowdsourced network of over a billion Android devices, Find My Device can help you find your misplaced Android devices and everyday items ...
Aboard the deck of a World War II-era aircraft carrier, University of Washington scientists flicked the switch on a glorified snow-making machine,' reports the Seattle Times. They describe the scientists 'blasting a plume of saline spray off the coast of Alameda,...
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