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lundi 24 mars 2025, 17:50
schwit1 writes: A compact, deep-sea, cable-cutting device, capable of severing the world's most fortified underwater communication or power lines, has been unveiled by China -- and it could shake up global maritime power dynamics. The revelation marks the first time any...
China's Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent. From a report: The two orgs last Friday published new rules on facial recognition and an explainer that spell out how orgs that want to use facial...
Countries must develop their own artificial intelligence infrastructure or risk significant economic losses as the technology transforms global economies, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said last week. 'It will have an impact on GDP of every country in the double digits in the...
prisoninmate shares a report: Highlights of Linux 6.14 include Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA...
DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection [non-paywalled source] in Missouri and announced CEO Anne Wojcicki's immediate resignation, weeks after rejecting her proposal to buy back the business she co-founded. The bankruptcy filing represents ...
It's 'live-recording the World Wide Web,' according to NPR, with a digital library that includes 'hundreds of billions of copies of government websites, news articles and data.' They described the 29-year-old nonprofit Internet Archive as 'more relevant than ever.' Every...
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: A recent paper on ArXiv reports a novel idea about the central regions of 'our' galaxy. Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an 'image' of our central black hole — or rather, an image ...
Long-time Slashdot reader invisik reminds us that the 'fish doorbell' is still going strong, according to the Associated Press. 'Now in its fifth year, the site has attracted millions of viewers from around the world with its quirky mix of slow TV and ecological activism.'...
NPR reports on research 'into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.' So far, the findings offer some reassurance. Antibodies and other players in the immune system may buffer the worst consequences of bird flu, at ...
dimanche 23 mars 2025, 23:34
Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from the cybersecurity site SC World:: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule...
For weeks Signal has been one of the three most-downloaded apps in the Netherlands, according to a local news site. And now 'Higher education institutions in the Netherlands have been looking for an alternative,' according to DUB (an independent news site for the Utrecht...
'There's no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs,' writes Slashdot reader VennStone. 'So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-powered single-board...
Today long-time open source advocate/journalist Doc Searls revealed that years of work by consumer privacy groups has culminated in a proposed standard 'that can vastly expand our agency in the digital world' — especially in a future world where agents surf the web on our...
The latest Facebook whistleblower, a former international lawyer, 'cannot grant any of the nearly 100 interview requests she has received from journalists from print and broadcast news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom,' reports the Washington Post (citing...
In 30 minutes the Free Software Foundation holds a live auction of memorabilia to celebrate their upcoming 40th anniversary. 'By moving out of the FSF office, we got to sort through all the fun and historically important memorabilia and selected the best ones,' they...
Reuters reported this week that several U.S. national security agencies 'have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks...' The plan was led by the president's National Security Council (NSC) and involved at least seven...
'For developers and organisations that require a custom software image, a flexible and transparent build system is essential,' according to an announcement Friday at Raspberry Pi.com. '[T]o support these customers, we have created rpi-image-gen, a powerful new tool designed...
Science magazine reports: A strange-looking telescope that scanned the skies from a perch in northern Chile for 15 years has released its final data set: detailed maps of the infant universe showing the roiling clouds of hydrogen and helium gas that would one day coalesce...
Wired's web site 'is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act,' their global editorial director announced this week: They're called public records for a reason, after all. And access to...
NASA is considering 'closing its headquarters and scattering responsibilities among the states,' reports Politico, citing two people familiar with the plan. 'The proposal could affect up to 2,500 jobs and redistribute critical functions, including who manages space...
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