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Sunday March 30, 2025. 01:34 AM
Though it's stock price is still up 200% from its IPO in March of 2024 — last week Reddit's stock had dropped nearly 50% since February 7th. And then this week, it dropped another 10%, reports Bloomberg, citing both the phenomenon of 'volatile technology stocks under...
Saturday March 29, 2025. 11:34 PM
Automotive historian Dan Albert loves the 'adorable tiny truck' he's driving. It's one of the small Japan-made 'kei' pickups and minivans that 'make up about a third of car sales in Japan.' Americans can legally import older models for less than $10,000, and getting 40 miles ...
'I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,' a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design,...
Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, 'after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.' Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew...
In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced 'a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).' It was the first release of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence...
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News: After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of...
The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter 'fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week... the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record, according to the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux's unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The issues allow...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it...
Despite recent test failures, NASA has added SpaceX's Starship to its Launch Services Program contract, allowing it to compete for future science missions once it achieves a successful orbital flight. Florida Today reports: NASA announced the addition Friday to its current...
A new study warns that toxic Martian dust contains fine particles and harmful substances like silica and metals that pose serious health risks to astronauts, making missions to Mars more dangerous than previously thought. The Guardian reports: During Apollo missions to the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A concert on Monday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents' wedding anniversary. He didn't end up seeing the show -- and before he could even get past security, he was ...
New research suggests that Prototaxites, once believed to be a giant fungus, may actually represent an entirely extinct and previously unknown branch of complex life, distinct from fungi, plants, animals, and protists. Live Science reports: The researchers studied the...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says banks no longer need prior approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, such as holding digital currency assets or partnering with companies in the industry. Axios reports: After publishing a general caution...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can't even see -- ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn, infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing, or specific wavelengths that plants use for...
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to 'rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.' This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for...
Friday March 28, 2025. 11:30 PM
A breach of legacy Cerner servers at Oracle Health exposed patient data from multiple U.S. hospitals and healthcare organizations, with threat actors using compromised customer credentials to steal the data before it had been migrated to Oracle Cloud. Despite confirming the...
Elon Musk says its xAI company has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock transaction. 'The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion less $12 billion debt),' said Musk. He writes on X: Since its founding two years ago, xAI has...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year, was pardoned by Donald Trump late on Thursday, the White House confirmed on Friday. The pardon of Milton, who was...
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