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Monday April 29, 2024. 09:34 AM
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a 'new' star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September: By 'star', I do not mean 'comet', 'meteorite' or 'firefly', but genuine [star] photons arriving here after about ...
Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win The homebrew Yitian 710 CPU developed in 2021 and deployed by Alibaba Cloud is the fastest Arm server processor for rent in hyperscale clouds when...
European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.
China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it.
'Remarkably similar' to the Kirin 9000 processor that shocked many last year A teardown of Huawei's Pura 70 smartphone by an IC research firm revealed the Chinese tech giant is relying on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp's (SMIC) HiSilicon Kirin 9010 processor, ...
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC. 'A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system.' The problem occurs...
Core and boosters are on the pad ahead of (maybe) June launch The European Space Agency is ready to put together the first Ariane 6 rocket, and has declared the campaign to get it into orbit is under way.…
ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns Updated - Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Garuda Linux is a rolling, desktop distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. The project's latest release, Garuda Linux 240428, ships with a number of upgrades, the most immediately apparent being...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into ...
PLUS: Huawei returns to top Chinese smartphone market; China's new IPv6 goals; Malaysia's golden VC Visa Asia In Brief Japan's effort to start a business disposing of space junk is off to a promising start, after the ADRAS-J satellite spotted its first target and sent back...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fedora 40 'KDE'News: Debian elects new Project Leader, Ubuntu's security enhancements, Red Hat extends support for RHEL 7, Emmabuntus adds accessibility...
An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers... The technology is being used by...
Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now 'accused' Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times: The newspaper notes that the app 'can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to...
The 6.9-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Things continue to look pretty normal, and nothing here really stands out. The biggest single change that stands out in the diffstat is literally a documentation update, everything else looks pretty small and spread out.
Canonical has revealed the name for its next release: Ubuntu Linux 24.10 will be known as 'Oracular Oriole.' Beyond the catchy alliteration, what does this name tell us about the upcoming version? The truth is, not much yet. 'Oracular Oriole' is a title shrouded in mystery,...
Sunday April 28, 2024. 11:19 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares 'an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics,' published this week in Nature. Its title? ''Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality.' [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels...
'In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%,' according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, 'one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies.' And it's expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters: An expected...
This year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital Trends, which 'makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair.' 'This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both celebrated for their upgradability.' Of course, Dell isn't the...
In September NASA's James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and 'revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.' Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b...
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