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Sunday November 17, 2024. 06:34 PM
A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from Google's Gemini AI: 'This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on...
A reusable uncrewed spaceplane was unveiled this week for delivering and returning cargo from the Chinese Tiangong space station. It was built by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute (part of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China). (See YouTube ...
Last year 30,000 people moved into central Florida's Polk County — more than to any other county in America. Its largest city has just 112,641 people, living a full 35 miles east of the 3.1 million residents in the metropolitan area around Tampa. But the Associated Press...
Chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe 'and in any hypothetical ones beyond it' can be estimated by a new theoretical model, reports the Royal Astronomical Society. Since stars are a precondition for the emergence of life, the new research predicts that a...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. This year the world ...
Google's transistion to Safe Coding and memory-safe languages 'will take multiple years,' according to a post on Google's security blog. So 'we're also retrofitting secure-by-design principles to our existing C++ codebase wherever possible,' a process which includes 'working ...
'The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena,' reports the Associated Press, 'but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. 'The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified...
Remember those 43 monkeys that escaped from a U.S. research lab? They've caught 35 of them — but haven't yet caught the other eight. But even worse... The Independent reports that now another animal escape has led to 'reports of two large emus running riot...' The birds'...
Saturday November 16, 2024. 11:34 PM
Google appears to be working on an email-forwarding alias system, according to the blog Android Authority, giving users a new way to 'shield' their main email address. The site performed a teardown on the newest Google Play Services' APK looking for work-in-progress code,...
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' ...
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