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Friday December 6, 2024. 01:25 AM
Today a group of German scientists presented data suggesting Earth is absorbing more sunlight than in the past, reports Ars Technica, 'largely due to reduced cloud cover.' We can measure both the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun and how much energy it...
Wednesday Cuba's energy grid collapsed, 'leaving millions without power,' CNN reported, calling it 'the latest in a series of failures on an island struggling from creaking infrastructure, natural disasters and economic turmoil.' Today Reuters reports: Cuba said it had...
Thursday December 5, 2024. 11:25 PM
'The Rust Foundation is dedicated to ensuring a healthy Rust ecosystem,' according to a new announcement today, ' which depends on a growing pool of well-trained developers to thrive.' The latest SlashData Developer Nation survey found Rust to be the fastest-growing...
A tsunami warning was issued — and then cancelled about an hour later — for 400 miles of California coastline after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near California's northern border with Oregon. 'About 5 million people were under the warning while it was in ef...
The Solana JavaScript SDK 'was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack,' reports BleepingComputer, 'with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets.' Solana offers an SDK called '@solana/web3.js' used...
11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $800 million... and James Howell wants it back. The Guardian reports that his 'bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was...
11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $8 billion... and James Howell wants it back. The Guardian reports that his 'bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still...
The Carnegie Endowment for Peace, a nonpartisan international affairs think tank, points out that when subsea internet cables were cut in November, Europe was more prepared: Where in the past there were no contingency plans for sabotage, there are now more maritime patrols,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), the Greater Memphis Chamber said on Wednesday, as xAI...
'Are Primordial Black Holes real...?' asks Universe Today. 'If they do exist, a 'new paper suggests they may be hiding in places so unlikely that nobody ever thought to look there...' — in planets, in asteroids, and here on earth. Physicists hypothesize that Primordial Black ...
The Guardian reports: People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity. Those...
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing. Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin. Thoughts, nocoiners? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
In March, 2023 the Internet Archive lost in court, with a judge ruling they couldn't scan entire books and then lend them as ebooks. The Internet Archive appealed to a higher court, which also ruled against them in September of 2024. Today, the Internet Archive made an...
Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls 'Post Open' to 'meet goals...
Wednesday December 4, 2024. 11:34 PM
America's next president 'announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit with SpaceX, to become the next NASA administrator,' reports Ars Technica: In a post on X, Isaacman said he was 'honored' to...
'$15.8 million every 60 seconds. That's how much US consumers spent in two hours on Monday night,' reports CNN, 'capping off a five-day spending spree that smashed previous records.' U.S. consumers spent a total of $13.3 billion on Cyber Monday, up 7.3% from the previous...
Have you been to Enron.com lately? 'It's the comeback story no one asked for,' reports CNN, 'the resurrection of a brand so toxic it remains synonymous with corporate fraud more than two decades after it collapsed in bankruptcy. 'That's right, folks: Enron is back. But only...
59-year-old Alex Mashinsky, the founder/former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, 'pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of fraud,' reports Reuters. He'd been indicted in July on seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and market manipulation charges, according to the ...
A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, according to the company's CEO. From a report: In a Texas bankruptcy court filing on November 29, CEO Chris Caldwell attributed a range of...
Meta is using OpenAI's GPT-4 alongside its own Llama AI model in Metamate, an internal coding assistance tool, Fortune reported Tuesday. The dual-model approach has been in place since early 2024, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg's public promotion of Llama as a leading AI model. ...
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