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Monday January 6, 2025. 01:49 AM
'It's fair to say that by 1995, OS/2 was dead software walking,' remembers a new article from the Register (which begins with a 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft's lead architect on the OS/2 project). But the real question is why this Microsoft-IBM collaboration ...
Sunday January 5, 2025. 10:35 PM
'In many instances, there's a catch: flexible work but at lower pay...' writes Fortune. 'Remote workers are accepting lower salaries in order to achieve remote status. Some are taking as much as 5% to 15% less pay to do so, while other employers are reversing the strategy to ...
In a potential U.S.-China conflict, cyberattackers are military weapons. That's the thrust of a new article from the Wall Street Journal: The message from President Biden's national security adviser was startling. Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of ...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In an Op-ed for The Huntington News, fourth year Northeastern University CS student Derek Kaplan argues that real pedagogical merit is what should count when deciding which language to use to teach CS fundamentals (aka 'Fundies'). He...
Friday America's surgeon general warned that alcohol is 'a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States,' and recommended an update to the warning labels on alcohol. So what ...
'We're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction,' Elon Musk posted Thursday on X.com. Ars Technica's senior space editor points out that 'These are definitive statements that directly contradict NASA's plans to send a series of human missions to the lunar south pole ...
Phoronix reports on Valve's 'Steam Survey' results for December 2024, saying the new numbers 'reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times.' In November the Steam Survey reflected a 2.03% marketshare for Linux... Roughly inline ...
Developer/data journalist Josh Renaud is also long-time Slashdot reader Kirkman14 — and he's got a story to tell: How do you get people interested in an obscure Atari ST graphics format used on BBSes in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Recruit some folks to help you make an...
Brazil ended daylight saving time in 2019, reports the Washington Post, adding that some Brazilians loved the change, 'particularly those who commute long distances and are no longer forced to leave their houses in pitch blackness.' But 'In the heavily populated southeast,...
TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, 'and shielding them from unauthorized access,' Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to...
'Private space stations have been raising billions of dollars in an effort to build future hubs — and even one day cities — in orbit,' according to a recent report from the U.K. newspaper, the Telegraph: Axiom Space, a US business aiming to build its own station, has raised m...
Today 34-year-old chess champion Magnus Carlsen married 26-year-old Ella Victoria Malone, 'in a ceremony packed with guests on a sunny winter day in Oslo,' reports Chess.com. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, a film crew from Netflix was also present. The streaming ...
'My feet are already in the crosswalk,' says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn't. Waymo's position? Their...
Saturday January 4, 2025. 11:43 PM
'Electric vehicles are expected to outsell cars with internal combustion engines in China for the first time next year,' reports the Financial Times, calling it 'a historic inflection point that puts the world's biggest car market years ahead of western rivals.' China is set ...
It's 'what some experts consider the most advanced military AI initiative ever to be deployed,' reports the Washington Post. But the Israeli military's AI-powered intelligence practices are also 'under scrutiny. Genocide charges against Israel brought to The Hague by South...
'Robots and AI models share one crucial characteristic,' writes the Washington Post. 'Whether to move around, conduct conversations or solve problems, they function by constantly taking in and computing increasingly vast quantities of data. It's a brute-force approach to...
It's weighs less than 15 pounds. It's 17 inches wide. And in June Elon Musk said it was 'easily carried in a backpack. This product will change the world.' And now, CNET reports: Calling all digital nomads and van-lifers: SpaceX's Starlink Mini is now available everywhere in ...
Politico asked an 'array of thinkers — futurists, scientists, foreign policy analysts and others — to lay out some of the possible 'Black Swan' events that could await us in the new year: What are the unpredictable, unlikely episodes that aren't yet on the radar but would...
If we dissolve acid-neutralizing rocks in the ocean, will it absorb more carbon dioxide? Climate ventures and philanthropic funders have been spending millions of dollars to find out, reports the Washington Post. 'Researchers have been exploring this technology for the last...
'The Washington Post's crossword puzzle was recently deemed too offensive for advertisers,' reports the Wall Street Journal. 'So was an article about thunderstorms. And a ranking of boxed brownie mixes. 'Marketers have long been wary about running ads in the news media,...
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