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Monday November 11, 2024. 03:50 PM
The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has announced. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to 'think.' From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and...
A new article at Reason.com argues that U.S. courts 'are coming for digital libraries.' In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive — one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software — in a copyright case with...
On its 20th anniversary, Firefox 'is still going strong, and it is a better browser today than it ever was,' according to TechCrunch. In an interview, Mozilla's interim CEO says one of the first things they did when was to 'unlock a bunch of money towards Firefox product...
Renew Home says they're building a 'virtual power plant' in Texas by 'enabling homes to easily reduce and shift the timing of energy use.' Thursday they announced a 10-year project distributing hundreds of thousands of smart thermostats to customers of Texas-based power...
Wednesday Cuba was hit by a major hurricane which took down its entire power grid again, this time for about 24 hours, according to CNN: Videos of the aftermath showed power infrastructure turned into a mangled mess and power poles down on streets. Hundreds of technicians...
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
Sunday November 10, 2024. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem...
Long-time Slashdot reader DesScorp writes: The Washingtonian magazine reports that yet another company is ending most remote work for its employees. The Post's previous policy from 2022 until now had been 3 days in office, 2 days remote. The employee union for the paper, the ...
'Java application security would be enhanced through two proposals aimed at resisting quantum computing attacks,' reports InfoWorld, 'one plan involving digital signatures and the other key encapsulation.' The two proposals reside in the OpenJDK JEP (JDK Enhancement...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the technique by using a hose...
Salesforce 'plans to hire more than 1,000 workers to sell its new generative AI agent product,' reports Bloomberg: The hiring surge is aimed at capitalizing on 'amazing momentum' for the new artificial intelligence product, Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in a message....
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 'and we will end our thirties on a high note!' they announced this week: We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we're not there yet. Until our mission becomes...
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year 'laser beam welding collaboration' with Ohio State University. The project 'seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,' according to NASA.gov, 'such as investigating the...
Nathan Sobo 'joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,' according to an online biography, 'and he led the Atom team until 2018.' Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and 'While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, Max spent nights and...
'The Rust trademark policy has been updated and a new draft is available to view,' announced the Rust Foundation this week. The last proposed trademark policy (in April of 2023) was criticized by open source advocate Bruce Perens in The Register as 'far awry of fair use...
Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they're also more environmentally friendly. And 'In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States,' reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture...
On Tuesday Massachusetts voted to become the first state to allow gig-working drivers to join labor unions, reports WBUR: Since these gig workers are classified as independent contractors, federal law allowing employees the right to unionize does not apply to them. With the...
Friday 'would have been his 38th birthday,' writes the EFF, remembering Aaron Swartz as 'a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open...' And they add that today the official web site for Aaron Swartz Day honored his memory with a special...
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