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dimanche 10 novembre 2024, 18:34
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 'and we will end our thirties on a high note!' they announced this week: We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we're not there yet. Until our mission becomes...
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year 'laser beam welding collaboration' with Ohio State University. The project 'seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,' according to NASA.gov, 'such as investigating the...
Nathan Sobo 'joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,' according to an online biography, 'and he led the Atom team until 2018.' Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and 'While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, Max spent nights and...
'The Rust trademark policy has been updated and a new draft is available to view,' announced the Rust Foundation this week. The last proposed trademark policy (in April of 2023) was criticized by open source advocate Bruce Perens in The Register as 'far awry of fair use...
Sodium-ion batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries — and they're also more environmentally friendly. And 'In the past few years, sodium-ion battery production has increased in the United States,' reports the Washington Post, with a new factory planned to manufacture...
On Tuesday Massachusetts voted to become the first state to allow gig-working drivers to join labor unions, reports WBUR: Since these gig workers are classified as independent contractors, federal law allowing employees the right to unionize does not apply to them. With the...
Friday 'would have been his 38th birthday,' writes the EFF, remembering Aaron Swartz as 'a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open...' And they add that today the official web site for Aaron Swartz Day honored his memory with a special...
This week Discover magazine looks at evidence — both old and new — for a ninth planet in our solar system: 'Orbits of the most distant small bodies — comets or asteroids — seem to be clustered on one half or one side of the solar system,' says Amir Siraj [an astrophysicist...
samedi 9 novembre 2024, 23:57
'The majority of strokes could be prevented,' reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are 'aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.' Stroke was the fourth leading cause of...
Tuesday at California's Vandenberg Space Force base, the U.S. launched a Minuteman III missile, 'in an important test of the weapon's ability to strike its targets with multiple warheads,' according to Air and Space Forces magazine: The Minuteman III missiles that form a...
Back in 1976, Mattel Electronics Auto Race became the very first handheld game to use only solid-state electronics, according to Wikipedia. (Its only mechanical elements were its on/off switch and hand-operated controls...) Nearly half a century goes by — until the ancient...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends: A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â' and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion...
After missing a chance to capitalize on the AI boom, 'Samsung's profit has plunged,' reports CNBC, and 'around $126 billion has been wiped off its market value, according to data from S&P Capital IQ.' It's gotten so bad that 'an executive issued a rare public apology about...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week... Intel thankfully has the resources to maintain this automated service for per-kernel...
Though it breaks down faster than CO2, methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide, reports the Washington Post. It suddenly started increasing in the atmosphere in 2007 — and then in 2020, its growth rate doubled. While scientists have suspected it...
A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that 'Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project. Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that the name interferes...
An anonymous reader shares a post from Financial Times: The economic and geopolitical conditions of the past year or two have created arguably the most hostile environment in history for incumbent parties and politicians across the developed world. From America's Democrats...
Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock, 404 Media is reporting,...
Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt. From a report: Some of Vids' key features include letting Gemini auto-insert stock footage for you, generating a script, and making AI voiceovers so you...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Police are on the hunt for 43 monkeys who escaped from a research facility in South Carolina, after a keeper left their pen open. The rhesus macaque fugitives broke out of Alpha Genesis, a company that breeds primates for...
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