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dimanche 24 mars 2024, 12:34
'It was three years of my, life you?' a 93-year-old William Shatner tells the Guardian when asked about playing Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series from 1967 to 1969: It gladdens him to see how much joy the series has brought its many fans, but the richest rewards...
It was March 24, 1999 that The Matrix premiered, premembers the Wall Street Journal. 'To rewatch The Matrix is to be reminded of how primitive our technology was just 25 years ago. We see computers with bulky screens, cellphones with keypads and a once-ubiquitous feature of...
Indian Express calls it 'the ultimate smartphone killer'. (Coming soon, its laser-on-your-palm feature will display stock prices, sports scores, and flight statuses.) Humane's Ai Pin can even translate what you say, repeating it out loud in another language (with 50...
CNN looks back to when 'dial-up internet (and its iconic dial tone) was 'still a thing...' 'File-sharing services like Napster and LimeWire were just beginning to take off... And in sweaty dorm rooms and sparse basements across the world, people brought their desktop...
samedi 23 mars 2024, 23:34
There's actually 'a global trend toward increased air safety,' notes a Wall Street Journal columnist. And even in the case of the two fatal Boeing crashes five years ago, he stresses that they were 'were two different crashes,' with the second happening only 'after Boeing...
Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and others spoke at the Game Developers Conference about Tetris Reversed, reports VentureBeat — and told the story of 'a lost prototype of a Tetris game that was never published.' But little did Pajitnov know that an engineer in charge of the ga...
Slashdot reader christoban writes: In what may be an issue for Sun-obscuring strategies to combat global warming, it turns out that during solar eclipses, low level cumulus clouds rapidly disappear, reducing by a factor of 4, researchers have found. The news comes from the...
BleepingComputer reports on 'a new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols.' According to their article, the attack 'can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.' Devised by...
America's Justice Department 'is considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information,' reports the Wall Street Journal, citing 'people familiar with the matter.' Though Assange faces trial for publishing...
'My favorite kind of science fiction involves stories rooted in real science...' writes NPR's reviewer. '[T]here is something special about seeing characters wrestle with concepts closer to our current understanding of how the universe works.' The Verge calls it an...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Nurturing a growing fetus requires a series of profound physical, hormonal, and chemical changes that may rewire every major organ in the body and can cause serious health complications such as...
'On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker,' writes cURL lead developer Daniel Stenberg: The title stated of the problem in this case was quite clear: flag -cacert behavior isn't consistent between macOS and Linux, and it was filed by Yuedong...
'Microsoft confirmed that a memory leak introduced with the March 2024 Windows Server security updates is behind a widespread issue causing Windows domain controllers to crash,' BleepingComputer reported Thursday. Friday Microsoft wrote that the issue 'was resolved in the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Former president Donald Trump'sTruth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted on Friday to merge with Trump Media...
Jessica Lyons reports via The Register: Vulnerabilities in common Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) required in US commercial trucks could be present in over 14 million medium- and heavy-duty rigs, according to boffins at Colorado State University. In a paper presented at...
An AI tool named Mia, tested by the NHS, successfully detected signs of breast cancer in 11 women which had been missed by human doctors. The BBC reports: The tool, called Mia, was piloted alongside NHS clinicians and analyzed the mammograms of over 10,000 women. Most of...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from InterestingEngineering: A concept that began as a doodle at a conference years ago is now becoming a reality. RocketStar Inc. has showcased (PDF) its advanced nuclear-based propulsion technology called the FireStar Drive. It is said...
'There is a new side channel attack against Apple 'M' series CPUs that does not appear to be fixable without a major performance hit,' writes Slashdot reader EncryptedSoldier. SecurityWeek reports: A team of researchers representing several universities in the United States...
Lindsay Clark reports via The Register: The UK Information Commissioner's Office has received a complaint detailing the mismanagement of personal data at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the regulator that oversees worker registration. Employment as a nurse or...
Instagram has been limiting recommended political content by default without notifying users. Ars Technica reports: Instead, Instagram rolled out the change in February, announcing in a blog that the platform doesn't 'want to proactively recommend political content from...
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