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Sunday May 11, 2025. 01:00 PM
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.
Monosodium glutamate has a poor reputation in the US, which is both unfortunate and based on misinformation. A spate of new cookbooks highlighting its powers is here to awaken our senses.
'Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware,' reports Ars Technica, 'a strong indication that devices...
'The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized,' reports Kotaku: That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall...
'The romantic partner of Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a start-up that sounds eerily similar to the venture that landed his girlfriend behind bars,' writes The Daily Beast. He's incorporated 'Haemanthus' in Delaware a year and a half ago (though the...
Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley's pioneering 'JenniCam' livestream (saying 'It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...') But a new article in the...
Remember when Kanye West was just your garden-variety megalomaniac who occasionally interrupted awards shows? Those were the days. As reported in NBC News, Ye (the artist formerly known as both Kanye West and 'somewhat stable') has dropped his latest masterpiece: a Hitler...
Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes: As we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this 'portable operating system' back ...
Saturday May 10, 2025. 11:14 PM
Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then 'proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment,' reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer: As a computer-science major, he...
TL;DR: Create better visualizations with premade templates, stencils, customizable shapes, and starter diagrams when you get a lifetime licenses for your PC to Visio 2021 Professional. Originally $249.99, you can now get this version of Visio for life for just $14.97. —...
Though global sea levels 'varied little' for the 2,000 years before the 20th century, CNN reports that sea levels then 'started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating.' And sea level rise 'was unexpectedly high last year, according to a recent NASA a...
I think one of the more controversial parts of Windows 11 – aside from its system requirements, privacy issues, crapware, and “AI” nonsense – is its Start menu. I’ve heard so many complaints about how it’s organised, its performance, the lack of customisation, and so on....
Inspired by researchers who'd bribed people to use Microsoft's Bing for two weeks (and found some wanted to keep using it), a Washington Post tech columnist also tried it — and reported it 'felt like quitting coffee.' 'The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double...
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Over the past year there have been stories about North Korean spies unknowingly or knowingly being hired to work in western companies. During an interview by Kraken, a crypto exchange, the interviewers became suspicious about...
The dying may be the worst people to tell you how to live. On his blog, Rikard Hjort writes about what he calls the 'Deathbed Fallacy' — our misguided tendency to treat end-of-life regrets as universal life guidance. While palliative nurse Bronnie Ware's famous list of...
The Trump administration has decided to go full authoritarian-thirst-trap by considering the suspension of habeas corpus — you know, that pesky little legal right that's only been around since the Magna Carta. As reported by CNN, Stephen Miller — Trump's personal Lord...
An anonymous reader shared this repost from the Washington Post: It's becoming standard practice at a growing number of U.S. airports: When you reach the front of the security line, an agent asks you to step up to a machine that scans your face to check whether it matches...
Remember when Trump swaggered around claiming trade wars were easy to win? Well, grab your binoculars and stare at the Pacific Ocean, where precisely zero ships are currently sailing from China to California's biggest ports. As reported in CNN, the San Pedro Bay Complex is...
Former colonial rulers are now 'refugees' in Trump's America. As reported in CBS News, the administration is rolling out the red carpet for white South Africans faster than Elon Musk can tank a stock price. Remember when refugee processing took longer than Jupiter's orbital...
Adafruit's managing director Phillip Torrone is also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone. He stopped by Thursday to share what happened after a large portion of a recent import was subjected to a 125% +20% +25% import markup... We're no stranger to tariff bills, although they ...
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