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dimanche 8 septembre 2024, 06:58
The Register reports that Google 'recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language.' And they add that Google 'wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firmware.' A post on...
Harvard's school of public policy is publishing a Misinformation Review for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles promising 'reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.' This week it reported that 'Academic journals,...
Digital rights activists want device manufacturers to disclose a 'guaranteed minimum support time' for devices — and federal regulations ensuring a product's core functionality will work even after its software updates stop. Influential groups including Consumer Reports,...
samedi 7 septembre 2024, 23:50
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: 'The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education' recounts an experiment Eric Klopfer conducted in his undergrad CS class at MIT. He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, ...
Long-time FOSS-watcher Bruce Byfield writes that while people 'still dream of a completely free alternative, increasingly the emphasis in FOSS seems to be on accepting coexistence with proprietary software.' Many, too, have always preferred the permissive BSD licenses, which ...
The New York Times analyzed over 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,220 channels. Their conclusion? Telegram 'offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize at scale and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities' — and that Telegram 'has looked...
Altera AI's home page says their mission is 'to create digital human beings that live, care, and grow with us,' adding that their company builds machines 'with fundamental human qualities, starting with friends that can play video games with you.' And while their agents can...
Slashdot reader echo123 shared a new article from Wired titled 'Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It's Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong.' ('On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure ...
Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco Feature The Uber driver who picked me up the other day doesn't think the ride-sharing app has much of a future in San Francisco.…
What now for these pod people? Boeing's Calamity Capsule has returned to Earth, bringing to an end a test mission that did not go entirely according to plan. Not least because the Starliner's crew had to stay behind aboard the International Space Station.…
GitHub Actions let developers 'automate software builds and tests,' writes CSO Online, 'by setting up workflows that trigger when specific events are detected, such as when new code is committed to the repository.' They also 'can be reused and shared with others on the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from USA Today: He's the founder of Telegram. He was arrested in France. He also claims to have fathered at least 100 children... The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire often keeps his personal life out of the spotlight. Something he...
Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully 3D printed the first metal part aboard the International Space Station. This achievement marks a significant advancement in in-orbit manufacturing that could enable the production of essential spare parts and tools for future...
Large changes bring this classic programmer's mechanical keyboard into modernity without sacrificing its soul.
Use these tools in iOS and Android to exchange contact details and never fumble with business cards again.
Ready to move on from the traditional glass slab? Introduce a hinge into your life with these folding smartphones.
White House floats round two of regulations Feature It sounds like the start of a bad joke: Digital trespassers from China, Russia, and Iran break into US water systems.…
'SpaceX deployed its 7,000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation,' writes Slashdot reader DogFoodBuss. 'The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than its...
After a quarter of a century, the disease has returned to Gaza, prompting a campaign to immunize all of the territory's children against the virus.
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