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Monday January 8, 2024. 04:20 PM
Jonathan Henry, a vice president at the University of Maine at Augusta, is hoping that an email will arrive this month. He is also sort of dreading it. The message, if it comes, will tell him that U.S. News & World Report has again ranked his university's online programs...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Among the harrowing details of the blown-off fuselage panel that triggered a sudden decompression event on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics: one of the mobile phones that had been sucked out...
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The Internal Revenue Service is rolling out a free option for filing federal tax returns this year to some residents of a dozen states. From a report: Last month, the agency published details of its plan to test an in-house filing system, in which taxpayers submit their...
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As General Motors prepares to roll out electric versions of its Buicks, 'hundreds of Buick dealerships nationwide' are 'turning their backs on the storied brand,' reports the Boston Globe. 'The move to electric Buicks is one reason so many dealers are giving up their Buick...
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The chief content officer for New York's public radio station WNYC predicts an 'AI-fueled shift to niche community and authored excellence.' And ironically, it will be fueled by 'Greedy publishers and malicious propagandists... flooding the web with fake or just mediocre...
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'This December, I made a radical change,' writes a New York Times tech reporter — ditching their $1,300 iPhone 15 for a $108 flip phone. 'It makes phone calls and texts and that was about it. It didn't even have Snake on it...' The decision to 'upgrade' to the Journey was...
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In Jakarta, Indonesia, 'the land is sinking nearly a foot a year because of collapsing aquifers,' reports Wired. 'Accordingly, within the next three decades, 95 percent of North Jakarta could be underwater.' 'Subsidence' is caused by over-extracting groundwater, or the...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hacker News: Three new malicious packages have been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository with capabilities to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on affected Linux devices. The three harmful packages,...
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'The famed and mysterious disappearance of D.B. Cooper has puzzled investigators for over half a century,' writes a Seattle TV station. Now new evidence is coming to light in the supposed 'skyjacking,' after a microscopic piece of metal found on D. B. Cooper's tie could help ...
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Sunday January 7, 2024. 10:39 PM
'As Microsoft stock rises and Apple's falls over analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand, the two firms are once more within $100 billion of each other — the smallest gap in over two years...' writes the blog Apple Insider: In August 2020, Apple became the first...
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If you're starting the new year with a new Linux distro, ZDNet just ran an enthusiastic profile of Rhino Linux, calling it 'beautiful' with 'one of the more useful command-line package managers on the market.' Rhino uses a modern take on the highly efficient and customizable ...
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Long-time Slashdot reader xetdog shared this report from IEEE Spectrum: High in the Andes mountains where the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile intersect, white expanses of salt stretch for thousands of kilometers. Under these flats lie reservoirs of brine that...
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23 years ago, Slashdot interviewed Chris Montgomery about his team's new Ogg Vorbis audio format. But Slashdot reader joshuark admits when he first heard the name, it reminded him of the mushroom underworld in The Secret World of Og. I've downloaded videos from the Internet...
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Elvis Presley 'will be stepping into his blue suede shoes once again...' according to an article in TheStreet, 'thanks to the power of artificial intelligence.' The legendary singer from Tupelo, Mississippi, is set to thrill audiences in 'Elvis Evolution,' an 'immersive...
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The BBC checks in on 'the pioneers of space exploration — the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s.' Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman died within a few days of each other late last year. Now only eight people who have voyage...
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'For the last few years, Mozilla has started to look beyond Firefox,' writes TechCrunch, citing startup investments like Mastodon's client Mammoth and the Fakespot browser extension that helps identify fake reviews. But Mozilla has also launched Mozilla.ai (added a bunch of...
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Klaus Zimmermann (a self-described 'friendly hacker') recently posted a 'State of the Distro' post, choosing his favorite distributions for things like portable installation from a USB drive (Alpine Linux) and for a desktop OS (Debian Linux or Devuan). But when it comes to a ...
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Inc. reports that funding for Web3 startups in 2023 'declined 73% from 2022, according to new data from Crunchbase.' In total, Web3 startups netted $7.8 billion in 2023, compared with the $21.5 billion raised in 2022. It's part of a broader and sobering comedown from the...
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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In the January 2024 Communications of the ACM, Rice University professor and former CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi minces no words in Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands!. He argues that the unintended consequences of the...
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst has an announcement. A team of computer scientists 'recently announced a new method for automatically generating whole proofs that can be used to prevent software bugs and verify that the underlying code is correct.' It leverages the...
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