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Sunday March 16, 2025. 07:39 PM
After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company (titled: Careless People), the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that...
'The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'from around 10 in 2000.' (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...) No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into ...
Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon: In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially...
A ransomware-as-a-service variant called 'Medusa' has claimed over 300 victims in 'critical infrastructure sectors' (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center. And that alert reminds us that...
The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea...
'A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,' reports the BBC, 'in the Brazilian city of Belém.' The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people ...
'Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally,' asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that 'doesn't spy... and no one else owns it.' We download it, from souce-code if you...
'For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface,' reports Daily Galaxy. While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost...
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and ...
Saturday March 15, 2025. 10:48 PM
Cities in Europe 'are dramatically scaling back their relationship with the car,' reports the Washington Post: They are removing parking spaces and creating dedicated bike lanes. They are installing cameras at the perimeter of urban centers and either charging the...
'SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year,' writes the BBC, 'as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.' Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though '2031...
'Is everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole?' asks Space.com. Because here's the thing. The $10 billion James Webb Space telescope (in operation since 2022) 'has found that the vast majority of deep space and, thus the early galaxies it has so far observed, ...
'Alphabet's Waymo autonomous vehicles are programmed to follow the rules of the road...' notes the Washington Post. But while the cars obey speed limits and properly use their turn signals — they also 'routinely violate parking rules.' Waymo vehicles driving themselves receiv...
Slashdot has run nearly a dozen stories about Michael Mann, one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-creator of the famous 'hockey stick' graph of spiking temperatures. In 2012 Mann sued two bloggers for defamation — and last year Mann finally won more...
'Cuba's power grid collapsed Friday night,' reports CNN, 'triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.' Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used...
Tuesday Microsoft 'surprised everyone,' writes Neowin, 'by announcing a new change that will radically improve TypeScript performance' — porting TypeScript to Go. InfoWorld writes that 'The initiative promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and me...
'Wind and solar energy generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for the first time last year,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'according to analysis from clean-energy think tank Ember. 'The two renewable energy sources accounted for 17% of the country's power mix...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Broadband TV News: The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the agency to establish a clear, industry-wide transition plan for the full deployment of...
Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 274 -- more than all the other planets combined. CBC News reports: Jupiter and Saturn have been locked in a battle for the most moons for years -- with...
From a Space.com article: Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from...
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