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samedi 30 août 2025, 21:57
They offer 'a self-sustaining power solution for marine regions,' according to a newly published 41-page review after 'pioneering use in wave energy harvesting in 2014'. Ten years later, researchers have developed several structures for these 'triboelectric nanogenerators'...
When it comes to nuclear fusion energy, 'How do we advance fusion as fast as possible?' asks the CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems. They've just raised $863 million from Nvidia, Google, the BIll Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and nearly two dozen more investors, ...
By exploiting two-color beams, researchers 'can generate ordered chains and lattices,' reports ScienceDaily, 'with tunable topology — potentially revolutionizing data storage, communications, and photonic processing.' An internationally joint research group between Singapore...
They were extinct in the Netherlands in the early 19th century. But in 1988 beavers were reintroduced to the region, and now there's over 7,000, reports the Guardian. But unfortunately... Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and — even...
Remember those Harvard dropouts who built smart glasses for covert facial recognition — and then raised $1 million to develop AI-powered glasses to continuously listen to conversations and display its insights? 'People Are REALLY Mad,' writes Futurism, noting that some social...
'From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world's biggest companies — this is the story of Python,' says the description of a new 84-minute documentary. Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London's public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign ...
Alibaba, China's largest cloud-computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured, versatile inference chip to fill the gap left by U.S. restrictions on Nvidia's sales in China. The Wall Street Journal reports: Previous cloud-computing chips developed by Alibaba...
China has turned on the world's most sensitive neutrino detector after more than a decade of construction. The Register reports: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO) is buried 700 meters under a mountain and features a 20,000-tonne 'liquid scintillator...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact. The...
Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi's new age verification law because its decentralized software does not support age checks and the nonprofit lacks resources to enforce them. 'The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn't track its users, which makes it...
Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teens after reports revealed they were allowed to engage in 'romantic' conversations with minors. A Meta spokesperson said the AI chatbots are now being trained so that they do not generate responses to teens...
Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has doubled down on his company's refusal to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedding AI in browsing dehumanizes the web, funnels traffic away from publishers, and primarily serves to harvest user data. 'Every startup is...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren't able ...
Reuters has found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. 'While many were created by users with a Meta tool for building chatbots, Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had...
Linus Torvalds updated the kernel's MAINTAINERS file to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained,' signaling he won't accept new Bcachefs pull requests for now. 'MAINTAINERS: mark bcachefs externally maintained,' wrote Torvalds with the patch. 'As per many long discussion...
vendredi 29 août 2025, 23:21
The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a call from the National Association of Broadcasters and some industry trade groups that would have imposed cable-style regulatory fees on streaming services, tech companies and pure broadband providers. From a report: In a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of 'specific targeted users.' The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its...
DOD: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft program that has allowed Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to work on sensitive DOD cloud systems. In a digital video address to the public posted yesterday, the...
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Google of using 'partisan' spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder while delivering Democratic emails to inboxes. From a report: Ferguson sent a letter yesterday to Alphabet ...
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