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dimanche 24 novembre 2024, 00:34
Microsoft-owned GitHub published a blog post asking 'Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here's what the data says.' Its first paragraph includes statistics from past studies — that GitHub Copilot has helped developers code up to 55% faster, leaving 88% of developers...
samedi 23 novembre 2024, 23:34
June, 2023: 'Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings.' November, 2024: 'The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger.' A senior editor at the Atlantic raises the possibility of systemic dishonesty-rewarding incentives where 'a...
Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now Meta's campaign 'is picking up momentum' with legislators in the U.S. Congress. Federal and state lawmakers have recently proposed...
CNN reports that investigators 'are trying to crack the mystery of how two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea were cut within hours of each other.' But there's now two competing viewpoints, 'with European officials saying they believe the disruption was an act of...
Slashdot reader jjslash shared this report from TechSpot: The SilverStone FLP01 made quite the impression when it was shared on X for April Fools' Day 2023. Loosely modeled after popular desktops from yesteryear like the NEC PC-9800 series, the chassis features dual...
Instead of focusing on chatbots, a new study reveals an automated way to breach LLM-driven robots 'with 100 percent success,' according to IEEE Spectrum. 'By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians...
'You can use any Linux distribution inside of the Windows Subsystem for Linux' Microsoft recently reminded Windows users, 'even if it is not available in the Microsoft Store, by importing it with a tar file.' But being an official distro 'makes it easier for Windows...
'The past 15 years were unique in ways that might be a bad predictor of our future,' writes the Washington Post, with a surge in the number of internet users since 2010, and everyone spending more time online. But today, 'lots of smart people believe that artificial...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET: Meta says it's taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost...
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Past corporate-sponsored Hour of Code tutorials for the nation's schoolchildren have blurred the lines between coding lessons and product infomercials. So too is the case again with this year's newly-announced Hour of Code 2024...
Neuralink, the brain chip startup founded by Elon Musk, says it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. Reuters reports: [T]he Canadian study ...
A team of undergraduate students from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Lab set multiple amateur spaceflight records with their rocket, Aftershock II. 'The student-made missile soared 90,000 feet (27,400 meters) beyond the previous record-holder -- a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE: It's early on a Sunday morning in late 1994, and you're shuffling your way through Fitzrovia in Central London, bloodstream still rushing after a long night at Bagley's. The sun comes up as you come down. You navigate side...
Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from Gizmodo: Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in ways that President Joe Biden's administration hasn't yet acknowledged, according to new reports from the...
Longtime Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Economist Phillip Kobernick makes the case that the emphasis on fast-charging stations for electric vehicles in the U.S. is misplaced. According to an article from CleanTechnica, he argues that, from an economic standpoint,...
'Steven Adair, of cybersecurity firm Veloxity, revealed at the Cyberwarcon security conference how Russian hackers were able to daisy-chain as many as three separate Wi-Fi networks in their efforts to attack victims,' writes Longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. Wired...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has sued one of its former engineers in Texas federal court, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to its chip designs and sharing them publicly on the internet. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday (PDF), said that...
The latest Steam client drops support for operating systems older than Windows 10 or macOS 10.15 Catalina. 'That means Mac users can't run 32-bit games anymore, as all macOS versions from Catalina onward only run 64-bit binaries,' reports The Register. From the report: [I]f...
vendredi 22 novembre 2024, 23:45
Baidu's new Apollo Go robotaxi brings significant advances in affordability and scalability that should make U.S. competitors like Waymo a bit nervous, according to The Verge's Andrew J. Hawkins. From the report: The RT6 is the sixth generation of Apollo Go's driverless...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying 'it has notified EchoStar of its election to...
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