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dimanche 31 mars 2024, 17:40
'What a time we live in,' writes Phoronix, 'where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support...' Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho has...
Personal data from 73 million AT&T customers has leaked onto the dark web, reports CNN — both current and former customers. AT&T has launched an investigation into the source of the data leak... In a news release Saturday morning, the telecommunications giant said the data...
A CNN opinion piece looks at 'the moaning about manual transmission's demise,' noting that 'it's not just Europeans (literally) clinging on. In the U.S., there's apparently a young (also predominantly male) demographic that is embracing manual driving — championing it as...
In 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the outlawing of sports betting in America. But the Wall Street Journal reports that since then all the major professional sports bodies 'now realize just how much they have to lose as the new era unfolds.' 'All it takes is for a...
404 Media claims to have identified 'the fundamental flaw with the age verification bills and laws' that have already passed in eight state legislatures (with two more taking effect in July): 'the delusional, unfounded belief that putting hurdles between people and...
'After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise,' reports Phoronix: NetBSD 10 provides WireGuard support, support for many newer Arm platforms including for Apple Silicon and newer Raspberry Pi boards, a new Intel...
samedi 30 mars 2024, 23:34
'Today's most effective corporate lobbying no longer involves wooing members of Congress...' writes the Wall Street Journal. Instead the lobbying sector 'now works in secret to influence lawmakers with the help of an unlikely ally: you.' [Lobbyists] teamed up with PR gurus,...
A Linux Foundation subsidiary has developed a free and open-source 3D game engine distributed under the Apache license. And last week the Open 3D Foundation announced 'a big step forward, showcasing the power of open-source technologies in giving gamers around the globe...
This week every U.S. agency was ordered to appoint a 'chief AI officer'. But that wasn't the only AI policy announced. According to CNN, 'By the end of the year, travelers should be able to refuse facial recognition scans at airport security screenings without fear it could...
'Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI,' the Register reported Thursday 'Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency...
America's Department of Homeland Security 'is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones,' reports the U.S. news site NOTUS. They call the purchasers 'a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of...
'Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol,' reports SciTechDaily, 'by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new green fuels.' Tara LeMercier, a PhD student who...
'If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like, it'd be hard to find a place better than Texas,' Bill Gates wrote recently on his blog,' saying 'amazing companies' are breaking ground across the state. 'Each one represents a huge...
Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The New York Times has an occasional series called 'Overlooked,' whereby notable people whose deaths were overlooked at the time receive the obituary they deserve. Their latest installment eulogizes Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who passed...
In November of 2021 America passed a 'Bipartisan Infrastructure Law' which included $7.5 billion for up to 20,000 EV charging spots, or around 5,000 stations, notes the Washington Post (citing an analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy). And new...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsen. The so-called 'Lenna...
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's government to explore the development of a series of homegrown consoles to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Game Rant reports: Russia has taken issue with Western games and developers in recent years, leading the country to threaten the...
The Record reports: Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge who is widely recognized for his contributions to computing, passed away at home on Thursday according to friends and colleagues who have been in touch with his family and...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The Biden administration on Friday announced a regulation designed to turbocharge sales of electric or other zero-emission heavy vehicles, from school buses to cement mixers, as part of its multifront attack on...
The U.S. House has set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI-based chatbot, Axios reported Friday. From the report: The House last June restricted staffers' use of ChatGPT, allowing limited use of the paid subscription version...
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