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Sunday April 13, 2025. 09:34 PM
'It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'given that Commodore International released AmigaOS 3.0 in 1992...' AmigaOS 3.1 came in 1993. And now... Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards of this classic Motorola...
'Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?' That's what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked 'acquaintances' in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy 'nearly every possible number in a coming drawing' — purchasing $1 tickets for 25.8 million...
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate...
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 'will come with full support for OEM installations,' according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint 'can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It's a very important feature and it's one of the very few remaining...
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall 'packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,' according to the web site for the resulting 'FreeDOS' project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30...
'AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record,' reports Tom's Hardware, 'during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.' The article points out that Frontier was ...
'Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed,' writes SciTechDaily, 'so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use.' A new study has found that general cognitive abilities,...
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News. Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, 'because they actually use Git for...
Here's an update from the Wall Street Journal about a 'widespread series of alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure.' China was behind it, 'Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting... according to people familiar with the matter...' The Chinese...
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news that in June 'a rare screening of the original 1977 Star Wars movie — complete with Han shooting first — will be shown at a theater in London...' Petapixel reports: Subsequent alterations made to the film are well-documented:...
Saturday April 12, 2025. 11:41 PM
Slashdot reader king*jojo shared this article from The Register: A 23-year-old side-channel attack for spying on people's web browsing histories will get shut down in the forthcoming Chrome 136, released last Thursday to the Chrome beta channel. At least that's the hope. The ...
America's Justice Department 'has shut down its unit that investigates cryptocurrency fraud,' reports USA Today. A Monday night memo from U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the shut down was 'effective immediately.' Blanche directed the closure of the National...
Black holes 'often exhibit long periods of dormancy,' writes Popular Science, adding that astronomers had never witnessed a black hole 'wake up' in real time. 'Until now...' In February of 2024 X-ray bursts were spotted coming out of a black hole named Ansky by Lorena...
People 'are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments,' reports CNN, citing results from a recent experiment in Germany (discussed on Slashdot in 2020): Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the...
The Washington Post reports: The United States urgently needs more energy to fuel an artificial intelligence race with China that the country can't afford to lose, industry leaders told lawmakers at a House hearing on Wednesday. 'We need energy in all forms,' said Eric...
Skype is shutting down after two decades on May 5th, notes the Washington Post. But the bigger problem for retired attorney Karen Griffin is that Microsoft won't refund the money they paid into a Skype account for cheap international phone calls: 'They're no longer offering...
'A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects user freedom,' says a Free Software Foundation blog post, 'and the United States is not excluded from this responsibility.' 'Governments, and/or the companies that they partner with, are...
Smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and various other electronics will be exempt from U.S. President Trump's tariffs, reports CNN, 'according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday.' And several other products also received an exemption...
A former Facebook employee/whistleblower alleges Meta's AI model Lllama was used to help DeepSeek. The whistleblower — former Facebook director of global policy Sarah Wynn-Williams — testified before U.S. Senators on Wednesday. CBS News found this earlier response from Meta:...
Abstract of a paper on NBER: There is much disagreement about the extent to which financial incentives motivate study participants. We elicit preferences for being paid for completing a survey, including a one-in-twenty chance of winning a $100 electronic gift card, a...
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