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Saturday November 16, 2024. 10:16 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Kyiv Independent: The United States will partner with Ukraine to transition Ukraine's coal-fired plants to small modular nuclear reactors, and to use them to help decarbonize its steel industry, the countries announced on...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger. In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten 'more than 15 million signups in...
'NASA has emphasized the ISS crew is in no immediate danger,' reports Space.com. 'The leaking area in the Russian segment of the orbital complex has been ongoing for five years,' and 'there was a temporary increase in the leak rate that was patched earlier this year...'...
Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project developing 'an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard' for fast development of new features. Automakers have joined with tech companies and suppliers to speed up...
Slashdot reader jjslash brings word that Casio 'has reintroduced its iconic calculator watch featuring a retro design with green text on a negative LCD and a classic keypad layout.' TechSpot reports that the watch was based on the Casio Mini personal calculator first...
French private AI lab PleIAs 'is committed to training LLMs in the open,' they write in a blog post at Mozilla.org. 'This means not only releasing our models but also being open about every aspect, from the training data to the training code. We define 'open' strictly: all...
More than 120,000 bitcoin were stolen in a 2016 breach of Bitfinex. Seven years later the perpetrator pleaded guilty. And Thursday he was sentenced to a five-year prison term, reports the Associated Press: Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a...
China's Chang'e-6 mission made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the moon's far side, revealing evidence of volcanic activity spanning 1.4 billion years. Reuters reports: Researchers said on Friday the soil brought back from the Chang'e-6 landing site...
'NASA has squandered $27 billion on the SLS moon rocket -- $6 billion over budget and 5 years late,' writes longtime Slashdot reader schwit1. 'The SLS isn't reusable so even if they finished it -- it is already obsolete. It is clear to everyone that the boondoggle has failed ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: Qubits, the strange devices at the heart of a quantum computer that can be set to 0, 1, or both at once, could hardly be more different from the mechanical clockwork used in the earliest computers. Today, most...
jojowombl shares a report from The Guardian: Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker -- and not its government customers -- is the party that 'installs and extracts' ...
Chinese hackers, reportedly linked to a Chinese intelligence agency, breached T-Mobile as part of a broader cyber-espionage campaign targeting telecom companies to spy on high-value intelligence targets. 'T-Mobile is closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this...
Chegg, the online education company, is laying off 319 workers as it struggles to compete against modern AI chatbots. SFGATE reports: Chegg announced the new layoff round, which will hit 21% of its workforce, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on...
Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has 'no intention' of training AI tools on users content. 'The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Europe's biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million, sending its shares soaring 20% in early trading. The Amsterdam-listed...
The White House said it's completed a $6.6 billion grant agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) through the Chips and Science Act. 'Today's announcement is among the most critical milestones yet in the implementation of the bipartisan CHIPS &...
Friday November 15, 2024. 11:20 PM
Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in the 90s and I've always liked the back-and-forth with the runtime to achieve the right result. I recently got back from other roles to code again, and when starting a new project last year, I...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: This year's Web Summit, in Lisbon, was all about artificial intelligence -- and a robot sorting laundry. Digit, a humanoid built by the US firm Agility Robotics, demonstrated how far AI has come in a few years by...
The Federal Trade Commission reported Friday that the number of consumer complaints about unwanted telemarketing phone calls has dropped over 50% since 2021, continuing a trend that started three years ago. From a report: This year, the FTC has received 1.1 million reports...
Economist: Britain has long been a pioneer in telecoms. In 1837 it built the world's first commercial telegraph; the first transatlantic call was placed from London in 1927; in 1992 a British programmer sent the first text message to a mobile phone. Today it lags rather than ...
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