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Sunday February 23, 2025. 06:34 PM
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from Phoronix: Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post [Wednesdsay] outlining the benefits of Rust and encouraging new...
On Wednesday Mozilla president Mark Surman 'announced plans to tackle what he says are 'major headwinds' facing the company's ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: 'Mozilla's impact and survival depend on us simultaneously...
On Wednesday Mozilla president Mark Surman 'announced plans to tackle what he says are 'major headwinds' facing the company's ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: 'Mozilla's impact and survival depend on us simultaneously...
An anonymous reader shared this report from ABC News: Elon Musk called this week for the deorbiting of the International Space Station (ISS) 'as soon as possible.' 'It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the [ISS],' Musk wrote in a post on X on Thursday. 'It has...
'An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical,' reports Phys.org. They add that the discovery 'challenges fundamental...
'An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical,' reports Phys.org. They add that the discovery 'challenges fundamental...
'Amazon has long allowed you to download its ebooks to your computer,' notes PCMag.com, 'where they can serve as a backup or be transferred to other devices. 'However, that feature will end on February 26, 2025, along with the ability to transfer books from your computer to...
Remember that battery plant fire last month in Moss Landing, California? Tuesday night local firefighters 'determined that a group of lithium batteries in an area that had previously burned during the January 16 fire had smoldered and reignited,' reports SFGate. Fire Chief...
America's Labor Department includes the fact-finding Bureau of Labor Statistics — and they recently explained how AI impacts their projections for the next 10 years. Their conclusion, writes Investopedia, was that 'tech workers might not have as much to worry about as one...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post's 'Tech Brief': Last fall, reports that Kroger was considering bringing facial recognition technology into its stores sparked outcry from lawmakers and customers. They worried personalized data could be used to...
Saturday February 22, 2025. 11:34 PM
The Washington Post looks at a new kind of battery that 'could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say.' If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments, less fire risk and more years of use out of your car — but...
This year's 'State of Rust' survey was completed by 7,310 Rust developers. DevClass note some key findings: When asked about their biggest worries for Rust's future, 45.5 percent cited 'not enough usage in the tech industry,' up from 42.5 percent last year, just ahead of the ...
Five days ago on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released patch KB5051987 for Windows 11 version 24H2, writes the XDA Developers site. But 'As reported by Windows Latest and various communities like Reddit and Microsoft's help forum, many users have encountered a major issue...'...
California sued to fine a data-harvesting company, reports the Washington Post, calling it 'a rare step to put muscle behind one of the strongest online privacy laws in the United States.' Even when states have tried to restrict data brokers, it has been tough to make those...
'IBM stopped supporting OS/2 at the end of 2006,' write the makers of ArcaOS, an OEM distribution of OS/2's discontinued Warp operating system. And now long-time Slashdot reader martiniturbide tells us that ArcaOS 5.1.1 has been released, and that many of it's components...
Google's Threat Intelligence Group notes 'the growing threat to secure messaging applications.' While specifically acknowledging 'wide ranging efforts to compromise Signal accounts,' they add that the threat 'also extends to other popular messaging applications such as...
Deadline reports: It's taking around $1 billion to have 007 stewards Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson cede creative oversight of their family's storied James Bond franchise to Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell us. Amazon originally overpaid on its purchase of MGM in a...
Linus Torvalds responded Thursday to kernel developer Christoph Hellwig, who had claimed Torvalds merged Rust code into the kernel even over his objections as the original C code's maintainer. Highlights from Torvalds' response: The fact is, the pull request you objected to...
Microsoft's newly announced Muse AI model for game development has triggered immediate backlash from industry professionals. 'Fuck this shit,' responded David Goldfarb, founder of The Outsiders, arguing that such AI tools primarily serve to 'reduce capital expenditure' while ...
Scientists have discovered evidence of ancient, shallow lakes on Mars that once had liquid water exposed to the atmosphere, challenging previous theories that all Martian water was covered in ice. Live Science reports: The patterns, which were photographed by NASA's...
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