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Monday April 8, 2024. 10:52 PM
The Federal Communications Commission chair decided not to impose Universal Service fees on Internet service, rejecting arguments for new assessments to shore up an FCC fund that subsidizes broadband network expansions and provides discounts to low-income consumers. From a...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for 'AI PCs' next month at an event in Seattle. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that Microsoft is confident that a round of new Arm-powered Windows laptops will...
A jailed trader accused of stealing $110 million on the Mango Markets exchange faces a criminal trial this week that will test the reach of a US crackdown on cryptocurrencies. From a report: Prosecutors charged Avraham Eisenberg with manipulating Mango Markets futures...
Microsoft is moving 'full speed ahead' on its next generation console, an internal email from Xbox president Sarah Bond has revealed. From a report: The email, obtained by Windows Central and verified to be genuine by Microsoft, also announced the formation of a game...
The Seattle Times has a Pulitzer Prize-winning aerospace journalist named Dominic Gates. Sunday he published an expose on 'a yearslong decline of safety standards' at Boeing. After a 1997 merger, its new executive leaders 'treated experienced engineers and machinists as...
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans. From a report: TSMC agreed to expand...
When Disneyland opened in 1955, its car-themed attraction Autopia 'represented the future of what would become America's multilane limited-access highways,' according to Wikipedia, ' which were still being developed. President Eisenhower had yet to sign the Interstate...
It's the world's most widely used vulnerability database, reports SC Magazine, offering standards-based data on CVSS severity scores, impacted software and platforms, contributing weaknesses, and links to patches and additional resources. But 'there is a growing backlog of...
'Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding,' reports TechCrunch, 'just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit.' Varda has now raised $145 million to date, the article points out, and the $90 million in new Series B funding...
CNN revisits 2003's disastrous landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia tonight with two 'immersive' specials co-produced by BBC and Mindhouse Productions 'featuring exclusive interviews and revealing never-before-broadcast footage,' according to an announcement — with two more...
This week America's Department of Energy announced 'a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.' The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) led the Blueprint's development in collaboration with the Department of Housing and ...
'It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem,' reports Kotaku: Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters...
Sunday April 7, 2024. 11:26 PM
The foundations behind Rust, Python, Apache, Eclipse, PHP, OpenSSL, and Blender announced plans to create 'common specifications for secure software development,' based on 'existing open source best practices.' From the Eclipse Foundation: This collaborative effort will be...
'Scary moments for passengers on a Southwest flight from Denver to Houston,' tweets an ABC News transportation reporter, 'when the engine cover ripped off during flight, forcing the plane to return to Denver Sunday morning.' 'Think that big circular metal panel surrounding...
A professor at Ithaca College runs part of each student's essay through ChatGPT, 'asking the AI tool to critique and suggest how to improve the work,' reports CNN. (The professor said 'The best way to look at AI for grading is as a teaching assistant or research assistant...
On Mozilla's blog, engineer Martin Thomson explores Google's 'Privacy Sandbox' initiative (which proposes sharing a subset of private user information — but without third-party cookies). The blog post concludes that Google's Protected Audience 'protects advertisers (and...
While the European Parliament passed a wide-ranging 'AI Act' in March, 'Leaders from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI have all called for AI regulations in the U.S.,' writes CIO magazine. Even the Chamber of Commerce, 'often opposed to business regulation, has called on...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this report from Science magazine: Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this report from Science magazine: Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules...
Four months ago long-time Slashdot reader Shayde tried restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. But now he's gone even further back in time. Shayde writes: In 1984, Apple II's were at the top of their game in the 8 bit market. A company in New Jersey decided to get in on...
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