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lundi 17 mars 2025, 17:00
Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating performance in reading,...
Abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: This paper investigates self-reported wedges between how much people work and how much they want to work, at their current wage. More than two-thirds of full-time workers in German survey data are...
Prolonged exposure to extreme heat accelerates biological aging in older adults, increasing the risk of age-related illnesses, according to research published in Science Advances. In a nationally representative study of 3,686 U.S. adults over age 56, scientists found that...
HR software provider Rippling has sued competitor Deel for allegedly planting a spy in its Dublin office to steal trade secrets, court documents [PDF] showed on Monday. Rippling claims the employee, identified as D.S., systematically searched internal Slack channels for...
This week the Free Software Foundation published memorabilia items for an online silent auction — part of their big 40th anniversary celebration. 'Starting March 17, the FSF will unlock items each day for bidding on the LibrePlanet wiki at 12:00 EDT.. Bidding on all items...
An anonymous reader shared this article from TechCrunch: Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and...
Google collaborated with Imperial College London and its 'Fleming Initiative' partnership with Imperial NHS, giving their scientists 'access to a powerful new AI designed' built with Gemini 2.0 'to make research faster and more efficient,' according to an announcement from...
Long-time Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: A group of U.S. consumer advocacy groups on Wednesday proposed legislation to address the growing epidemic of 'zombie' Internet of Things (IoT) devices that have had software support cut off by their manufacturer, Fight To Repair ...
Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman 'recently told Entrepreneur magazine that almost five years of remote work has 'been fantastic for us,'' writes the Seattle Times. Zillow shifted to allowing people to work fully remote during the pandemic. It's been a recruiting and retention tool ...
dimanche 16 mars 2025, 23:29
Intel's stock jumped nearly 19% this week. 'However, in the past year through Wednesday's close, Intel stock had fallen 53%,' notes Investor's Business Daily: The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO is a 'good start' but Intel has significant challenges, Morgan Stanley analyst...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Wall Street Journal K-12 education reporter Matt Barnum has a heads-up for parents: There's a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat. Barnum writes: 'A high-school senior from New Jersey doesn't want the world to know that she cheated...
America's Vice President 'expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline,' reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said 'There will almost certainly be a...
After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company (titled: Careless People), the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that...
'The number of discrete GPU developers from the U.S. and Western Europe shrank to three companies in 2025,' notes Tom's Hardware, 'from around 10 in 2000.' (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel...) No company in the recent years — at least outside of China — was bold enough to engage into ...
Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon: In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially...
A ransomware-as-a-service variant called 'Medusa' has claimed over 300 victims in 'critical infrastructure sectors' (including medical), according to an joint alert from CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing Analysis Center. And that alert reminds us that...
The Washington Post reports: Oceans last year reached their highest levels in three decades — with the rate of global sea level rise increasing around 35% higher than expected, according to a NASA-led analysis published Thursday... Last year's rate of average global sea...
'A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,' reports the BBC, 'in the Brazilian city of Belém.' The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people ...
'Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally,' asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn't steal the work of others. Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that 'doesn't spy... and no one else owns it.' We download it, from souce-code if you...
'For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon's surface,' reports Daily Galaxy. While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost...
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