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Monday June 30, 2025. 12:36 AM
What happens if you track how much heat enters Earth's atmosphere and how much heat leaves? You discover that Earth's energy budget 'is now well and truly out of balance,' three climate researchers write at The Conversation: Our recent research found this imbalance has more...
Sunday June 29, 2025. 11:34 PM
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit — and they're having some fun with it. They've just announced a summer fundraiser, 'and that means the GNU Press Shop is open!' From now until July 28, you can buy your FSF gear at the GNU Press shop. First and foremost, there's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech news site The Register: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming...
Just four weeks after an early June flight to the edge of space, Blue Origin has again carried six more passengers there and back again, reports CBS News, noting that the 10-minute ride was Blue Origin's 13th flight 'out of the discernible atmosphere.' The New Shepard...
'The potential threat of bosses attempting to replace human workers with AI agents is just one of many compounding reasons people are critical of generative AI...' writes Wired, arguing that there's an AI backlash that 'keeps growing strong.' 'The pushback from the creative...
The problem? 'Companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results,' reports 9to5Mac. And 'Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google's AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit.' Huffman has confirmed to the...
In its first 10 hours the Rubin space telescope found 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system. And Gizmodo reports the data went directly to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC), which 'plays an essential role in the early detection...
'It has long been unclear when humans started using fire,' writes Phys.org... To address this question, researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), alongside collaborators from China, Germany, and France, analyzed the pyrogenic...
'I wonder who actually uses AI and why,' writes Slashdot reader VertosCay: Out of pure curiosity, I have asked various AI models to create: simple Arduino code, business letters, real estate listing descriptions, and 3D models/vector art for various methods of manufacturing...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Smithsonian magazine: Last year, Australian scientists picked up a mysterious burst of radio waves that briefly appeared brighter than all other signals in the sky. Now, the researchers have discovered the blast didn't come from a...
Bcachefs 'pitches itself as a filesystem that 'doesn't eat your data',' writes the open source/Linux blog It's FOSS. Although it was last October that Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet was restricted from participating in the Linux 6.13 kernel development cycle (after...
Technology writer Matthew Hutson (also Slashdot reader #1,467,653) looks at a new kind of self-improving AI coding system. It rewrites its own code based on empirical evidence of what's helping — as described in a recent preprint on arXiv. From Hutson's new article in IEEE...
'I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital,' a man told his wife, after experiencing what Futurism calls a 'ten-day descent into AI-fueled delusion' and 'a frightening break with reality.' And a San Franci...
Saturday June 28, 2025. 11:39 PM
Designated as a foreign terrorist group by multiple countries, Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel fiercely defends its transnational organized crime syndicate. 'A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records,' reports Reuters, 'and...
'Duolingo stock fell for the fourth straight trading day on Wednesday,' reported Investor's Business Daily, 'as data shows user growth slowing for the language-learning software provider.' Jefferies analyst John Colantuoni said he was 'concerned' by this drop — saying it...
On the International Space Station, air has been slowly leaking out for years from a Russia-controlled module, reports CNN. But recently 'station operators realized the gradual, steady leak had stopped. And that raised an even larger concern.' It's possible that efforts to...
Bloomberg reports: By the time Jessica Lindsey's customers accuse her of being an AI, they are often already shouting. For the past two years, her work as a call center agent for outsourcing company Concentrix has been punctuated by people at the other end of the phone...
'A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app's drivers and passengers,' reports the Guardian: Research by academics at New York's Columbia Business School...
An anonymous reader shared this report from WebProNews: The Linux world is abuzz with news of XLibre, a fork of the venerable X11 window display system, which aims to be an alternative to X11's successor, Wayland. Much of the Linux world is working to adopt Wayland, the...
After past damage to undersea cables, Denmark will boost their surveillance of Baltic Sea/North Sea waters by deploying four uncrewed surface vessels — about 10 meters long — that are equipped with drones and also AI, reports Euronews. The founder/CEO of the company that...
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