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Sunday March 2, 2025. 09:17 PM
'Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world's simplest materials,' reports the Washington Post — ice. When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up,...
A 'decision science partner' at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists: Researchers have struggled for decades to develop...
How confident are we about the safety of commercial space tourism? Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: It's one thing for Microsoft to boast that they dare to use Outlook instead of Gmail. But it took a whole other level of commitment for Jeff Bezos to join his brother...
Can a new 3D-printing technique shorten 3D printing times to just seconds? A team of researchers in Europe has modified Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, which can 'create entire objects in one shot by shining light patterns into liquid resin,' according to the...
Petawatt lasers have already allowed scientists to 'manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms,' reports Science magazine. 'Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that...
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users' systems 'into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads,' writes The Hacker News. Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled 'coordinated,...
Watch the 'Blue Ghost' lunar lander attempt its moon landing. The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while 'The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after...' Success is not guaranteed......
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post 'detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the...
NBC News reports that Utah could make history as America's first state to ban fluoride in public water systems — even though major medical associations supporting water fluoridation: If signed into law [by the governor], HB0081 would prevent any individual or political subdiv...
'Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,' reports CNBC: 'We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,' Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for...
Saturday March 1, 2025. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today's more taxing ray-traced gaming and...
'We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,' Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. 'Without it, we couldn't use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership...
Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars 'strongly suggest' the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State. From the university's announcement: The new research offers the clearest evidence yet...
Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group 'was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)' to assign and manage CVE...
San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs' lifespan 'has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,' reports the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a...
Magnus Carlsen 'announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December's World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,' reports the Associated Press. ('Condition: Pre-owned,' says the listing on eBay, where by...
'Tesla is taking steps to launch a ride-sharing service that could compete directly with Uber, Lyft and Waymo,' reports Axios, noting that Tesla 'has filed for a transportation charter-party carrier permit from the California Public Utilities Commission, Bloomberg reported...
Memory safety bugs are 'eroding trust in technology and costing billions,' argues a new post on Google's security blog — adding that 'traditional approaches, like code auditing, fuzzing, and exploit mitigations — while helpful — haven't been enough to stem the tide.' So the...
New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in...
Chinese scientists are developing a lightweight Mars drone capable of both rolling on the ground and flying using contra-rotating coaxial rotors. Space.com reports: The air-ground dual-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) weighs only 10.6 ounces (300 grams), equivalent to...
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