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lundi 9 septembre 2024, 04:19
'The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years,' Elon Musk posted on X.com this weekend. Musk said the launches will happen when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens, which the science blog NextBigFuture identifies as 'about November through December 2026.' Musk...
Security engineer Bryan Hance co-founded the nonprofit Bike Index, back in 2013, reports the Los Angeles Times, 'where cyclists can register their bikes and contact information, making it easier to reunite lost or stolen bikes with their owners.' It now holds descriptions...
Alorica — which runs customer-service centers around the world — has introduced an AI translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers in 200 different languages. But according to the Associated Press, 'Alorica isn't cutting jobs. It's still hiring...
dimanche 8 septembre 2024, 23:23
This week after striking for over a month, videogame performers reached agreements with 80 games this week, reports the Associated Press. 'SAG-AFTRA announced the agreements with the 80 individual video games on Thursday. Performers impacted by the work stoppage can now work ...
'Solar farms could blanket millions of acres in the United States over the coming decades,' writes the New York Times. But 'the sites that capture that energy take up land that wildlife needs to survive and thrive.' 'We have to address both challenges at the same exact...
A schoolteacher using an interactive whiteboard is surprised by an alert. Their school is in 'hard lockdown.' They knew — instantly — something was about to happen, and 'got everybody into a corner,' they later told CNN. Classroom doors at the school are always locked, so...
The Wall Street Journal writes that Telegram 'has become the premier internet platform to buy everything from hacked data and weapons to illicit drugs and child sexual abuse material, according to current and former law-enforcement officials and cybercrime researchers...'...
'If you're plugged into KDE social media, you probably see a lot of requests for donations...' writes KDE developer Nate Graham on his personal blog. But 'We know that the fraction of people who subscribe to these channels is small, so there's a huge number of people who may ...
'China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 mission to Mars in 2028, two years earlier than previously planned,' writes the South China Morning Post, a change that one space policy research believes 'suggests a rising confidence by China in its ability to get the technology...
Wired interviews America's foreign policy chief, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about U.S. digital polices, starting with a new 'cybersecurity bureau' created in 2022 (which Wired previously reported includes 'a crash course in cybersecurity, telecommunications, privacy, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Britain's competition watchdog on Friday issued a statement of objections over Google's ad tech practices, which the regulator provisionally found are impacting competition in the U.K. In a statement, the Competition and...
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 ...
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...
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