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Monday December 2, 2024. 03:17 PM
China has overtaken the United States as the dominant force in critical technology research, according to a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The study found China now leads in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three technologies in 2003-2007, ...
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, 'one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,' reports Mashable (citing an article by 404...
America's FBI 'has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant,' reports Reuters, 'over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company's biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.' The...
'If NASA establishes a permanent presence on the moon, its astronauts' homes could be made of a new 3D-printable, waterless concrete,' writes MIT Technology Review. 'Someday, so might yours. 'By accelerating the curing process for more rapid construction, this sulfur-based...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit writes: Most orange cats are boys, a quirk of feline genetics that also explains why almost all calicos and tortoiseshells are girls. Scientists curious about those sex differences—or perhaps just cat lovers—have spent more than 60 years...
'Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok?' asks the BBC. 'If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which has become the Oxford word of the year.' It is a term that captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of...
Sunday December 1, 2024. 11:29 PM
United Nations members gathered this week in Busan, South Korea to negotiate the first treaty reducing plastic pollution. But Politico reports that 'talks collapsed late Sunday after negotiators failed to resolve their differences and agree on a global plastic treaty. At the ...
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, 'Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is...
Greg Kroah-Hartman noted some coming changes in Linux 6.13 will make it possible to create 'way more' Rust-based kernel drivers. 'The veteran kernel developer believes we're at a tipping point of seeing more upstream Rust drivers ahead,' reports Phoronix: These Rust...
Long-time Slashdot reader jaromil writes: As a fun project, we hacked together a C interpreter (based on Tiny C Compiler) that compiles C code in-memory and runs it live. CJIT today is a 2MB executable that can do a lot, including call functions from any installed library on ...
Primarily used by law enforcement, Graykey unlocks mobile devices to extract data from both Android and iOS systems, according to the blog AppleInsider, 'though its effectiveness varies depending on the specific hardware and software involved.' But while its capabilities are ...
Nonprofit Code.org has posted this year's cartoon for 'Hour of Code,' their annual learn-to-code event for schoolchildren. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes its animated pigeon gives a shout-out to the AI that could ultimately replace programmers: In an Instagram post...
'Spacecraft, satellites, and space-based systems all face cybersecurity threats that are becoming increasingly sophisticated and dangerous,' reports CNBC. 'With interconnected technologies controlling everything from navigation to anti-ballistic missiles, a security breach...
To help replace power plants, Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, 'is turning to a new generation of batteries designed to stockpile massive amounts of energy,' reports the Washington Post. 'The Hokkaido Electric Power Network (HEPCO Network) is deploying flow batteries,...
It's one of the most successful — and oldest — computer games of all-time. This week CBS News Minnesota interviewed Bill Heinemann, who in 1971 co-created 'The Oregon Trail' as an educational video game simulating pioneers travelling west. 'It's surprising and gratifying and...
The world's use of clean energy 'is rapidly growing', reports the Washington Post, 'but not fast enough to keep temperatures in check...' Many experts say it will be the economics of clean energy that defines the future of the planet — and how developing countries choose to...
Friday the Software Freedom Conservancy announced the production release of the new OpenWrt One network router — designed specifically for running the Linux-based router OS OpenWrt (a member project of the SFC). 'This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built...
'Polar oceans constitute emission hotspots during the summer,' according to a new paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science Advances. 'And including those sea-to-air fluxes in an atmospheric chemistry-climate model 'results in a net radiative effect...
Saturday November 30, 2024. 10:50 PM
November 5: Bitcoin's price reaches an all-time high of $74,200. November 11: Bitcoin sets a new record of $84,000. November 12: Bitcoin pushes past $90,000. And Friday, CNBC reported: Bitcoin is on pace to post a 38% gain for November, according to Coin Metrics, which would ...
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