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Sunday December 29, 2024. 10:59 PM
When it comes to the possibility of a bird flu outbreak, America's Centers for Disease Control recently issued a statement that the risk to the public 'remains low.' But even in the event of a worst-case scenario, New York magazine believes 'We may be more equipped for...
Reuters reports: Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where a tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of breaking a power line and four telecoms cables with its anchor... A break in the...
NPR remembers when the world 'prepared for the impending global meltdown' that might've been, on December 31, 1999 — and the possible bug known as Y2K: The Clinton administration said that preparing the U.S. for Y2K was probably 'the single largest technology management...
The Washington Post shares some good news from 2024: Researchers were able to detect a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons — harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer — for the first time, almost 30 years after countries first agreed to phase...
After a four-year hiatus, 2025 will see the return of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Started in 1984 (and inspired partly by a bug in the classic Bourne shell), it's 'the Internet's oldest contest,' acording to their official social media account on Mastodon....
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Archer is aiming to launch its first commercially operated [and electrically-powered] flights with a pilot and passengers within a year in Abu Dhabi. A competitor, Joby Aviation, says it is aiming to launch...
While microplastics seem to be everywhere, CNN reports that scientists in China 'have come up with a possible solution: a biodegradable sponge made of squid bones and cotton' (which contain two organic compounds 'known for eliminating pollution from wastewater...') They then ...
A 9-year-old girl born without a left hand had 'started asking for a robotic arm to help her feel more confident,' her mother told the Washington Post. So her parents met with a consultant from Open Bionics, which fits people with lightweight, 3D-printed prostheses that...
'Over the course of 2024, Python has proven again and again why it's one of the most popular, useful, and promising programming languages out there,' writes InfoWorld: The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Python's...
It had a 4.8-inch display. Introduced in 1991, Hewlett-Packard's (DOS-based) HP 95LX Palmtop PC — a collaboration with Lotus — was finally discontinued back in 2003. But one found its way to long-time Slashdot reader Shayde (who in November repaired a 48-year-old handheld vid...
'Dating apps are on the cusp of a major transformation,' argues CNN, suggesting AI-powered possibilities like 'personalized chatbots dating other chatbots on your behalf,' as well as 'AI concierges fielding questions about potential matches,' and 'advanced algorithms...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 writes: The Dubai-based startup LEAP71, focused on using AI software to quickly develop rocket engine designs it can then 3D print, has successfully test fired a prototype aerospike engine on December 18, 2024 during a static fire test...
Saturday December 28, 2024. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Back in January, Rice University professor and former CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi wrote of the unintended consequences of social media and mobile computing in 'Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands!' To close out the year,...
Business Insider reports: The lead researcher for Sam Altman's basic-income study says guaranteed no-strings payments are not a silver bullet for issues facing lower-income Americans. Elizabeth Rhodes, the research director for the Basic Income Project at Open Research, told ...
A Linux Foundation project focused on understanding the health of the open source community just studied the outcomes for three projects that switched to 'more restrictive' licenses and then faced community forks. The data science director for the project — known as...
Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday, reports CNN, 'after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing...' 'Carlsen, the world champion from 2013 until 2023, allegedly replied, 'I'm out, f*** you,' after being informed that he would not be ...
Thursday New York's governor signed new legislation 'to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment' by establishing a Climate Superfund that's paid for by big fossil-fuel companies. The money will be used for 'climate change adaptation,' according to...
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: This year the London Stock Exchange got a new listing for 'Raspberry Pi Holdings plc.' It's the computer-making commercial subsidiary of their larger educational charity, the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 'Access to the public market will enable ...
ewhac (Slashdot reader #5,844) writes: Retraction Watch is reporting that the entire editorial staff (save one) for the Journal of Human Evolution has resigned in protest over creeping harmful changes imposed by its publisher, Elsevier. In an open letter posted to social...
Valerie Warner is 71 years old — and owes $268,000 in student loans. Roughly 40 years ago she went to law school, but was only able to find work as a legal aid and later work in the public school system, which the Washington Post calls 'a rewarding job but one that didn't...
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