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Monday March 3, 2025. 05:05 PM
Nvidia and Broadcom are conducting manufacturing tests using Intel's advanced 18A chip production process, according to Reuters, signaling potential confidence in the struggling chipmaker's contract manufacturing ambitions. The previously unreported tests could lead to...
Speaking of some concept devices that Lenovo has unveiled, the company today teased its ThinkBook 'codename Flip' AI PC Concept at Mobile World Congress, featuring a flexible 18.1-inch OLED display that can transform between three configurations: a traditional 13.1-inch...
Daniel Parris: Some TV shows take a while to 'get good.' Modern classics like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Community, and Bojack Horseman are notorious for 'starting slow' and are often recommended with a disclaimer like 'Give it a few episodes; I promise it gets good!' At the...
China aims to commercialize nuclear fusion technology for use in emissions-free power generation by 2050, according to the country's state-owned atomic company. From a report: China National Nuclear Corp., which runs an experimental device dubbed the 'artificial sun,' could...
Apple users noticed a change in 2023, 'when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot,' noted the film blog Screen Slate: At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot...
'TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,' reports InfoWorld. But also being developed is a compiler named trapc 'intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler...
It's a feature-length film 'rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,' reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow ...
What's Linux's marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story: 11/24: 2.03% 12/24: 2.29% 01/25: 2.06% 02:25: 1.45% 'The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use...' reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error: According to ...
Lenovo demonstrated 'a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power,' reports CNBC, emphasizing that 'These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available.' But 'Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, has a...
Despite a January announcement that America would explore the idea of a national digital asset stockpile, the exact cryptocurrecies weren't specified. Today on social media the president posted that it would include bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana's SOL token and Cardano's ADA,...
Sunday March 2, 2025. 11:12 PM
Earth's core 'burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,' the New Yorker reminds us — enough to 'satisfy the entire world's energy needs' with a power source that's carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal...
'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...
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