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lundi 25 novembre 2024, 17:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to a sweeping new study. The findings have wide-reaching implications for the nation's health and medical costs as it faces a growing burden of weight-related...
Leading technology companies are dramatically expanding their AI capabilities by building multibillion-dollar 'super clusters' packed with unprecedented numbers of Nvidia's AI processors. Elon Musk's xAI recently constructed Colossus, a supercomputer containing 100,000...
Sony is developing a new portable gaming device capable of playing PlayStation 5 games, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The project follows the 2023 release of PlayStation Portal, a streaming-only handheld, and aims to compete with Nintendo's dominant Switch console and...
U.S. software developer job listings have plummeted 56% since 2019, according to CompTIA data, as coding bootcamp graduates face mounting challenges from AI tools and widespread tech industry layoffs. For entry-level positions, postings have dropped even further at 67%. The...
Palo Alto Networks boasts 70,000 customers in 150 countries, including 85% of the Fortune 500. But this week 'thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bug,' reports the Register: The intruders were able...
'Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.' That's how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list. This was followed by 'insufficient action to restore the community's faith in having otherwise productive...
Craig Newmark 'is alarmed about potential cybersecurity risks in the U.S.,' according to Yahoo Finance. The 71-year-old Craigslist founder says 'our country is under attack now' in a new interview with Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi on his Opening Bid podcast....
Some days more than half of California's available solar power goes to waste, according to research from the California Institute for Energy and Environment. 'In the last 12 months, California's solar farms have curtailed production of more than 3 million megawatt hours of...
'At points there was fear the talks would implode, as groups representing vulnerable small island states and the least-developed countries walked out of negotiations Saturday,' according to a new report from CNN. But after weeks of international climate talks at COP29, 'the...
Microsoft's controversial 'Recall' feature (in a public preview of Windows 11) already has some known issues, Microsoft admitted Friday. For example: - Recall can be enabled or disabled from 'Turn Windows features on or off'. We are caching the Recall binaries on disk while...
dimanche 24 novembre 2024, 23:04
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Between the time [construction worker Florencio] Rendon applied for the coding boot camp and the time he graduated, what Mr. Rendon imagined as a 'golden ticket' to a better life had expired. About 135,000...
Reddit's moderators drew some criticism after 'locking' a discussion about C++ paper/proposal author Andrew Tomazos. The URL (in the post with the locked discussion) had led to a submission for Slashdot's queue of potential (but unpublished) stories, which nevertheless...
On November 24th, 1971 — 53 years ago today — a mysterious man jumped out of an airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom money. (He'd extorted it from the airline by claiming he had a bomb, and it's still 'the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial...
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits 'helped kindle his interest in coding,' according to an online biography. ('By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS.') And ...
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund launched this week with an initial commitment of $1.25 million, reports TechCrunch, using 'capital from contributors including American Express, 1Password, Shopify, Stripe, and GitHub's own parent company Microsoft.' GitHub briefly teased...
America's Justice Department 'has ordered all consensual searches by drug enforcement agents conducted at the nation's airports stopped,' reports Georgia's local TV station Atlanta News First — after their series of investigations 'uncovered how the agents often search innoce...
'Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past,' reports Space.com. 'The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of...
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shared this report from the Guardian: Staff have resigned at Starling Bank after its new chief executive demanded thousands of workers attend its offices more frequently, despite lacking enough space to host them. In his first major policy change...
NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct 'may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found.' 'Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are worried that it could have toxic properties because of...
The Rust community has 'recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly),' according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services. So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are 'crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library,' according to an article at DevClass.com, 'by ...
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