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lundi 16 septembre 2024, 01:46
The New York Times looks at 'a third-generation family firm' in Paraguay 'with 280 workers that packages hot sauce, soy beans...and seven kinds of salt for sale in Paraguayan supermarkets.' Its mascot — on t-shirts, coffee cups, and 'in heavy demand at Paraguayan weddings' —...
'Even black holes have edge cases,' writes Astronomy magazine contributing editor Steve Nadis, in an article in Quanta magazine (republished today by Wired): Black holes rotate in space. As matter falls into them, they start to spin faster; if that matter has charge, they...
dimanche 15 septembre 2024, 22:56
Last October Slashdot reported on René Rebe's discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week's YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom's...
In 2015 Amazon purchased chip designer Annapurna Labs, remembers IEEE Spectrum, 'and proceeded to design CPUs, AI accelerators, servers, and data centers as a vertically-integrated operation.' The article argues that while AMD, Nvidia, and other big-name processor companies...
'It is with great relief that I welcome you home!' SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell posted on X. 'This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated.' 'SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew is home,' reports CNN, 'capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world's...
An anonymous reader shared this report from DecClass: A report from developer-focused analyst Redmonk finds 'there does not seem to be a clear link between moving from an open source to proprietary license and increasing the company's value.' Senior analyst Rachel Stevens...
In 1980 a 23-year-old woman was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant in a small county in central Kansas. 44 years later, the county sheriff made a Facebook post... Over the years, dozens of law enforcement officers looked at the case to no avail. In mid-2022 I was...
It was one year ago that 'an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe,' reports the Washington Post. 'A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling...' Some initially...
'For 75 years Cosm built planetariums,' reports a Texas news station, 'and then a few years ago realized this technology could take you from the night sky to anywhere under the sun.' So now Los Angeles and Dallas have massive 9,600-square-foot, 8K-resolution screens that one ...
'New malicious software packages tied to the North Korean Lazarus Group were observed posing as a Python coding skills test for developers seeking a new job at Capital One, but were tracked to GitHub projects with embedded malware,' reports SC magazine: Researchers at...
Google's describes their new Gemini-powered foldable phone as 'an epic display of Google AI' (also calling it 'unfoldgettable'). The Android Authority blog says the phone is 'impressive,' 'incredibly thin' — and, at $1,800, expensive. But long-time Slashdot reader mprindle...
Police in Italy 'smashed' a videogame trafficking ring, reports the BBC. They seized fake vintage Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles that didn't meet strict safety standards, as well as counterfeit games — including Mario Bros., Street Fighter and Star Wars — that together wer...
More details on that report about NASA from the Washington Post: NASA is 66 years old and feeling its age. Brilliant engineers are retiring. Others have fled to higher-paying jobs in the private space industry. The buildings are old, their maintenance deferred. The Apollo...
The Rust foundation is making 'considerable progress' on a complete security audit of the Rust ecosystem, according to the coding news site I Programmer, citing a newly-released report from the nonprofit Rust foundation: The foundation is investigating the development of a...
samedi 14 septembre 2024, 23:02
With online dating apps, 'Americans have increasingly been marrying someone more like themselves,' reports Bloomberg, citing new research that says this accounts for roughly half of the rise in household income inequality between 1980 and 2020: Using data from the Census...
Wired published some thoughts from Hans Peter Brondmo, the former head of 'Google's seven-year mission to give AI a robot body'. An anonymous reader shared this report from Axios: Building AI-powered robots that can flexibly operate in the real world is going to take much...
Samba is 'a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol,' according to Wikipedia. And now the Samba project 'has secured significant funding (€688,800.00) from the German Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the project,' writes Jeremy Allison — Sam (who is...
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Haiku (the MIT-licensed operating system, inspired by BeOS) has released its fifth beta for Haiku R1. Some new features include improved UI color management, improved dark mode coloring, Tracker improvements, TUN/TAP support for VPN...
'A two-day AI Labor Summit between AFL-CIO leaders and Microsoft executives this week reflects the tech giant's revamped approach to unions,' writes GeekWire, 'which includes a pledge by the company to incorporate feedback from labor unions and their members into the...
Redmonk's latest programming language ranking (attempting to gauge 'potential future adoption trends') has found evidence of 'a landscape resistant to change.' Outside of CSS moving down a spot and C++ moving up one, the Top 10 was unchanged. And even in the back half of the ...
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