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Sunday March 24, 2024. 10:34 PM
'If you've ever jokingly wondered if your search or viewing history is going to 'put you on some kind of list,' your concern may be more than warranted,' writes Mashable: In now unsealed court documents reviewed by Forbes, Google was ordered to hand over the names,...
Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shared an announcement from the University of California San Diego. The school's researchers teamed with materials-science company Algenesis to show 'that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level — in under sev...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google's 'Be Internet Awesome' curriculum, and 1.25...
Gizmodo reports that increased activity on the Moon 'may affect the unique radio silence on the lunar far side, an ideal location for radio telescopes to pick up faint signals from the cosmic past.' This week, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) held the first...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Register: Chinese spies exploited a couple of critical-severity bugs in F5 and ConnectWise equipment earlier this year to sell access to compromised U.S. defense organizations, UK government agencies, and hundreds of other...
In an interview Saturday, CNN first asked Steve Wozniak about Apple's 'walled garden' approach — and whether there's any disconnect between Apple's stated interest in user security and privacy, and its own self-interest? Wozniak responded, 'I think there are things you can sa...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Among the amazing features of the in-process analytical database DuckDB, writes software engineer Paul Gross in DuckDB as the New jq, is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can...
'Hollywood is bracing for another actors strike, this time against the videogame industry,' according to MarketWatch: 'We're currently in bargaining with all the major game studios, and the major sticking point is AI,' SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan...
'It was three years of my, life you?' a 93-year-old William Shatner tells the Guardian when asked about playing Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series from 1967 to 1969: It gladdens him to see how much joy the series has brought its many fans, but the richest rewards...
It was March 24, 1999 that The Matrix premiered, premembers the Wall Street Journal. 'To rewatch The Matrix is to be reminded of how primitive our technology was just 25 years ago. We see computers with bulky screens, cellphones with keypads and a once-ubiquitous feature of...
Indian Express calls it 'the ultimate smartphone killer'. (Coming soon, its laser-on-your-palm feature will display stock prices, sports scores, and flight statuses.) Humane's Ai Pin can even translate what you say, repeating it out loud in another language (with 50...
CNN looks back to when 'dial-up internet (and its iconic dial tone) was 'still a thing...' 'File-sharing services like Napster and LimeWire were just beginning to take off... And in sweaty dorm rooms and sparse basements across the world, people brought their desktop...
Saturday March 23, 2024. 11:34 PM
There's actually 'a global trend toward increased air safety,' notes a Wall Street Journal columnist. And even in the case of the two fatal Boeing crashes five years ago, he stresses that they were 'were two different crashes,' with the second happening only 'after Boeing...
Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and others spoke at the Game Developers Conference about Tetris Reversed, reports VentureBeat — and told the story of 'a lost prototype of a Tetris game that was never published.' But little did Pajitnov know that an engineer in charge of the ga...
Slashdot reader christoban writes: In what may be an issue for Sun-obscuring strategies to combat global warming, it turns out that during solar eclipses, low level cumulus clouds rapidly disappear, reducing by a factor of 4, researchers have found. The news comes from the...
BleepingComputer reports on 'a new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols.' According to their article, the attack 'can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.' Devised by...
America's Justice Department 'is considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information,' reports the Wall Street Journal, citing 'people familiar with the matter.' Though Assange faces trial for publishing...
'My favorite kind of science fiction involves stories rooted in real science...' writes NPR's reviewer. '[T]here is something special about seeing characters wrestle with concepts closer to our current understanding of how the universe works.' The Verge calls it an...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Nurturing a growing fetus requires a series of profound physical, hormonal, and chemical changes that may rewire every major organ in the body and can cause serious health complications such as...
'On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker,' writes cURL lead developer Daniel Stenberg: The title stated of the problem in this case was quite clear: flag -cacert behavior isn't consistent between macOS and Linux, and it was filed by Yuedong...
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