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lundi 10 février 2025, 13:09
They publish 77 newspapers in 26 U.S. states, according to Wikipedia. But this week a 'cybersecurity event' at the newspapers' parent company 'disrupted systems and networks,' according to an article at one of their news sites which quotes an email sent to employees by the...
President Donald Trump has ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt penny production to cut government spending, according to a Truth Social post on Sunday. The U.S. Mint spent 3.69 cents to produce and distribute each penny last year, resulting in a $85.3 million...
'The Internet's Own Boy' was inscribed below the bust, according to the San Francisco Standard, adding that the 312-pound marble statue 'was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving.' It was unveiled Friday at the Internet Archive...
Today T-Mobile announced what they're calling 'the next big thing in wireless' — T-Mobile Starlink. But the real surprise is 'The beta is now open for absolutely everyone — yes, even Verizon and AT&T customers — to register for free access until July.' And, as they explained ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune: More than 14 million job seekers' applications went completely ignored in a single quarter last year, according to one hiring platform. Now, sites like Greenhouse and LinkedIn are experimenting with new ways to hold...
dimanche 9 février 2025, 23:34
Fortune remembers that in 2011 Steve Jobs had told author Walter Isaacson that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates would 'be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.' But The Indendepent notes that in his new memoir Gates does write ...
Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch...
Slashdot has been covering Harvard's legendary introductory programming course 'CS50' since it began setting attendance records in 2014. But now long-time Slashdot reader theodp brings some news about the course's fate over at Yale. From Yale's student newspaper: After a...
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector 'rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January,' reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it 'the latest sign of...
Long-time Slashdot reader Shayde once restored a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer, and even ran Turbo Pascal on a 40-year-old Apple II clone. Now he's exploring a 27-year-old Macintosh PowerBook G3 — with 64 megabytes memory and 4 gigabytes of disk space. 'The year is 1997, and...
Keynotes at this year's FOSDEM included free AI models and systemd, reports Heise.de — and also a progress report from Miguel Ojeda, supervisor of the Rust integration in the Linux kernel. Only eight people remain in the core team around Rust for Linux... Miguel Ojeda...
'Can you skydive continuously without landing...?' asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, 'only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.' Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on ...
Google's Super Bowl ad about a Gouda cheese seller appears to be using fake AI output, writes the Verge: The text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business's website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived webpage. Google didn't launch...
'It is now 45+ years since C++ was first conceived,' writes 74-year-old C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup in an article this week for Communications of the ACM. But he complains that many developers 'use C++ as if it was still the previous millennium,' in an article titled 21st...
Friday the Orlando Sentinel covered NASA's 2024 mission-safety report from the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (formed in 1968). The report 'commended the agency's handling of last year's beleaguered Boeing's Starliner mission [prioritizing astronaut safety], but revealed...
I just saw an ad for TikTok on a YouTube video. But at the same time YouTube is running ads on TikTok, reports Bloomberg, targeting TikTok content creators in 'an effort to lure these valuable users to the Google-owned rival and capitalize on TikTok's uncertain future.' One...
The tech startup 'purported to make smart home and business products,' writes America's Justice Department — products that were 'meant to stop package theft, prevent weather damage to packages, and make it easier for emergency responders and delivery services to find homes...
'Open source can be something of an illusion,' writes TechCrunch. 'A lack of real independence can mean a lack of agency for those who would like to properly get involved in a project.' Their article makes the case that the 'spirit' of open source means more than a...
After finalizing loan terms with the IMF, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved changes to the country's Bitcoin Law last week by a 55-2 vote, 'effectively removing bitcoin's status as legal currency,' reports Reason. Under the new rules, bitcoin is no longer...
samedi 8 février 2025, 23:08
Twisting two atomically thin sheets of graphene enables 'a host of exceptional properties,' writes MIT News, 'including unconventional superconductivity.' (Which makes this graphene 'a promising building block for future quantum-computing devices.') And now 'We find the...
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