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Sunday April 27, 2025. 06:34 PM
'Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and a bring-your-whole-self-to-the-office ethos rare in other industries,' writes the Wall Street Journal. But now tech work 'looks like a regular job,' with workers 'contending with the constant fear of ...
The university blamed it on 'the significant number of students' who violated their coding competition's rules. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp quotes this report from The Logic: Finding that many students violated rules and submitted code not written by themselves, the...
'The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives,' reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed...
80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. 'He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually...
Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some 'straight-to-the-point wisdom' from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation,...
'4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online,' notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words 'Testing testing 123 123...') But 4chan posted a much longer...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider: A Lufthansa flight carrying 461 passengers had to divert after someone's tablet became 'jammed' in a business-class seat. The Airbus A380 took off from Los Angeles on Wednesday, bound for Munich, and had been...
'Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than previously thought,' writes Space.com, citing a new NASA-led experiment: Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun......
Saturday April 26, 2025. 11:34 PM
Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: Personal health information on 4.7 million Blue Shield California subscribers was unintentionally shared between Google Analytics and Google Ads between April 2021 and January 2025 due to a misconfiguration error. Security consultant and...
'Google-owned YouTube's revenue last year was estimated to be $54.2 billion,' reports the Los Angeles Times, 'which would make it the second-largest media company behind Walt Disney Co., according to a recent report from research firm MoffettNathanson, which called YouTube...
ZDNet's reviewer says 'I tested this affordable E Ink phone for two weeks, and it rewired my brain (for the better).' It's Mudita's new Kompakt smartphone with a two-color E Ink display — which ZDNet calls 'an affordable choice' for those 'considering investing in a...
'Only the United States, China and Germany have larger economies than California,' reports CNN. In fact, they add that California 'outpaced all three countries with growth of 6% last year,' according to the California governor's office (which cites new data from the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of 'allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread...
A New York Times technology columnist has a question. 'Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals?' [W]hen I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the AI company that made ...
It's a pickup truck 'that can change into whatever you need it to be — even an SUV,' according to the manufacturer's web site. Selling in America for just $20,000 (after federal incentives), the new electric truck is 'affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog,' says...
'A group of researchers says it has identified a hidden reason we use Google for nearly all web searches,' reports the Washington Post. 'We've never given other options a real shot.' Their research experiment suggests that Google is overwhelmingly popular partly because we...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort to encourage...
Initial claims that life-associated gases were detected on exoplanet K2-18b are being challenged, with independent reanalysis by Jake Taylor suggesting the data is too noisy to support such conclusions and that stronger, model-independent evidence is needed. NPR reports:...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China will let scientists from six countries, including the U.S., examine the rocks it collected from the Moon -- a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war....
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's...
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