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Monday March 25, 2024. 11:30 AM
The European Union has launched investigations into Apple, Meta and Google under its sweeping new digital-competition law, adding to the regulatory scrutiny large U.S. tech companies are facing worldwide. From a report: The suite of probes [Editor's note: the link may be...
In 2019 Los Angeles film/TV producer Brian Morrison painted Blockbuster's logo onto an old newspaper box — and then filled it up with used DVDs. 'The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction,' reports the New York Times — aided at times by social media — 'and...
The Los Angeles Times checks in on America's largest dam-removal project, which they say is now 'revealing a stark landscape that had been underwater for generations.' 'A thick layer of muddy sediment covers the sloping ground, where workers have been scattering seeds and...
The Baffler says a new publishing house launched earlier this month 'brings Silicon Valley-style startup disruption to the business of books.' Authors Equity has 'a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network of freelancers,' and like a handful of other publishers 'is ...
Sunday March 24, 2024. 11:34 PM
'It's a bad day for bugs,' joked TechCrunch on Wednesday. 'Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code...' And then the same day, BleepingComputer reported that GitHub 'introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up...
'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...
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