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lundi 30 juin 2025, 16:02
Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after a disagreement over unauthorized sales, meaning the e-commerce company missed out on the recent debut of Nintendo's Switch 2 -- the biggest game console launch of all time. From a report: The Japanese company stopped...
'Earth's ozone layer blocks the Sun's shortest wave radiation, called UV-C, which is so damaging to cells in high doses that it's a go-to sterilizer in hospitals,' writes Slashdot reader sciencehabit. 'UV-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether...
'Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations,' reports Newsweek, 'after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's digital services tax on U.S. technology companies.' The development follows President Donald Trump's announcement on...
Mitch Kapor dropped out of MIT's business school in 1979 — and had soon cofounded the pioneering spreadsheet company Lotus. He also cofounded the EFF, was the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and is now a billionaire (and an VC investor at Kapor Capital). 45 years...
'Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch,' reports the Guardian, 'to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.' Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG)...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 'consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them, researchers say.' The effect is especially pronounced for offerings perceived to be riskier buys, ...
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...
dimanche 29 juin 2025, 23:34
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...
samedi 28 juin 2025, 23:39
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...
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