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lundi 27 janvier 2025, 00:04
Since launching in 2020, the nonprofit site RestofWorld.org has been covering tech news from 100 countries. And they've just announced the winners in their 2024 international photography contest. 'From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries...
dimanche 26 janvier 2025, 22:52
For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was 'hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,' a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ('Two other victims were taken to...
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into 'the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints.' If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal ...
Earlier this month a major fire erupted at a California battery plant. But several factors contributed to its rapid spread, the fire district's chief told the Los Angeles Times: A fire suppression system that is part of every battery rack at the plant failed and led to a...
The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to offer at least one computer science course to its students. 'This bill aligns Michigan with a majority of the country,' according to the state's announcement, which says the bill 'advances...
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which 'will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.' Wikipedia defines ACPI as 'an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a 'milestone' for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU's...
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: 'Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon,' CNN reported today. But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than Covid-19 originating in wild animal...
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that 'this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software...
Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming...
A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. 'involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors,' reports NPR, 'to effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks...' '[P]otential...
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux 'could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,' according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. It's the code that processes packets of network traffic,...
samedi 25 janvier 2025, 23:34
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority 'for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,' reports USA Today. Unfortunately, 'What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps' further development. The trio is part of...
CleanTechnicareports that last year Americans 'bought 37% more air source heat pumps than the next most popular heating appliance — gas furnaces.' And Americans bought 21% more heat pumps than they did in 2023. Canary Media is quick to point out that in many homes, more than...
ZDNET's senior editor sees an 'overwhelmingly negative' response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, 'they made it a 30% price increase' — going...
2021: 'Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup' 2025: Canoo 'Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas' 'Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million...' ...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
Slashdot reader jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model. Bambu Labs responded that...
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