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Monday September 2, 2024. 07:09 AM
Slashdot covered shrinkwrap licenses on software back in 2000 and 2002. But now ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: The user Wraithe on the Mastodon network is reporting that a bottle of Vital Proteins(TM) collagen peptides purchased at Costco came with a shrinkwrap...
1.9 million solar panels began operating this year in California — at a Mortenson facility with 120,000 installed batteries that give it a storage capacity of 3,280 megawatts. An article in El Pais notes that this helped California pass 10,000 megawatts of photovoltaic storag...
Pundits aggregate results from multiple pollsters to minimize biases. So ZDNet tried the same approach, but aggregating rankings for the popularity of 19 top programming languages. Senior contributing editor David Gewirtz combined results from nine popularity rankings,...
Politico reports U.S. states have no uniform way of policing the use of overseas subcontractors in election technology, 'let alone to understand which individual software components make up a piece of code.' For example, to replace New Hampshire's old voter registration...
Sunday September 1, 2024. 11:43 PM
renzema (Slashdot reader #84,617) wants suggestions for a point-to-point video conferencing system 'to connect the kids to their grandparents... We live in Europe and they in the U.S., but we both have gigabit internet and can sustain upwards of 100mb between our houses.'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. 'I've got a question about Starliner,' Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson ...
To make America the 'crypto capital of the planet,' former U.S. President Donald Trump promised crypto-friendly policies, writes Politico, which 'could have a new beneficiary: his own family.' Trump has vowed to enact an array of pro-crypto policies in a bid to win votes —...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: The Contingency Contingent, is Leigh Claire La Berge's amazing tale of what she calls her 'fake job in Y2K preparedness.' La Berge offers an insider's view of the madness that ensued when Y2K panic gave rise to seemingly-limitless...
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from NBC News: A new approach to a routine blood test could predict a person's 30-year risk of heart disease, research published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine found. Doctors have long assessed their patients'...
Casey Newton, former senior editor at the Verge, weighs in on Platformer about the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. 'Fending off onerous speech regulations and overzealous prosecutors requires that platform builders act responsibly. Telegram never even pretended to.'...
'Dirk Hohndel, a Linux kernel developer and long-time open source leader, wanted his audience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024 Summit China to know he's not a Valkey developer,' writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. 'He's a Valkey user and fan.'...
'The Big Bang may not have been the beginning of the universe,' writes LiveScience, citing 'a theory of cosmology that suggests the universe can 'bounce' between phases of contraction and expansion.' The recent study suggests that dark matter could be composed of black holes ...
'Sometimes an artificial intelligence tool comes out of nowhere and dominates the conversation on social media,' writes Tom's Guide. 'This week that app is Cursor, an AI coding tool that uses models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o to make it easier than ever to build your...
More than 25,000 Python developers from nearly 200 countries took the 7th annual Python Developers Survey between November 2023 and February 2024, with 85% saying Python was their main language. Some interesting findings: Though Python 2 reached 'end-of-life' status in April ...
A climate newsletter from the Los Angeles Times asked the question: Is it ethical to have children in the face of climate change? And they start by noting many people ask that question: A Pew Research Survey published in July found that among U.S. adults aged 18 to 49 who...
Saturday August 31, 2024. 11:34 PM
The online news site San Francisco Standard profiles an open-source platform 'that takes advantage of large language models to help users generate health insurance appeals with AI... 'A Fight Health Insurance user can scan their insurance denial, and the system will craft...
Though the ocean covers about 70% of earth, we humans have only mapped a quarter of its floor to a high resolution, reports CNN. Many of the world's highest mountains aren't visible on land — they rise up thousands of meters from the seafloor. An expedition to the Nazca...
The Washington Post writes that Telegram's 'anything-goes approach' to its 950 million users 'has also made it one of the internet's largest havens for child predators, experts say....' 'Durov's critics say his public idealism masks an opportunistic business model that...
Remember when a door-sized panel blew off a Boeing aircraft back in January? The Seattle Times reports that the 'door plug' incident 'was caused by two distinct manufacturing errors by different crews' in a Boeing assembly plant in Renton, Washington last fall. (And that...
The Wall Street Journal reports that long Covid 'has pushed around one million Americans out of the labor force, economists estimate.' More than 5% of adults in the U.S. have long Covid, and it is most prevalent among Americans in their prime working years. About 3.6 million ...
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