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Background Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha‑Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project aimed at securing the open source supply chai...
Overview Long‑time Slashdot reader fahrbot‑bothttps://hardware.slashdot.org/~fahrbot-bot reports that researchers have developed a robotic hand capable of skit...
Overview Imagine a 280‑unit apartment complex with no on‑site leasing office and no human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced...
Background On Friday, Amazon published a blog post to address inaccuracies in a Financial Times report that claimed the company's AI tool Kiro caused two outag...
Overview A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Sciencehttps://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum...
Lockheed Martin's F‑35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth “strike fighter.” This week the military news site TWZ reported that the fighter’s “computer brai...
Overview The UK Post Office’s interim CTO is leading the effort to remove and replace Fujitsu’s Horizon system, described by Computer Weekly as “the error‑ridd...
How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long‑time Slashdot reader BrendaEMhttps://ask.slashdot.org/~BrendaEM? Say you want separate Windows and L...
Case Overview Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend's house in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning a firefighte...
Background The consumer movement Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott protested Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew in 2024 PC Gamer...
Overview The consumer movement Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott’s 2024 outcry over Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew — a campa...
Background Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who had rejected the code it produced. The human operator of that AI later revealed...
Overview Since its inception over half a century ago, the Peace Corps has engaged more than 240,000 Americans in projects across 142 countries. New Initiative:...
Background Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K‑12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Found...
Overview Berlin‑based T2 Linux developer René Rebe long‑time Slashdot reader ReneR announced that the Xorg display server now restores its XAA acceleration arc...
Overview Slashdot reader BrianFagiolihttps://games.slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli reports that The Salvation Army has launched what it calls the world's first digi...
Background CNN reports on a 13,000‑year‑old glacier in a Romanian cave, where scientists say a bacterial strain they thawed and analyzed is resistant to 10 mod...
Introduction Can being “very online” really affect our brains, asks the Washington Posthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/ar-AA1WJ9Ya? Research Findings...
Overview The Python Software Foundation PSF recently highlighted how the Python Security Response Team PSRS keeps Python users safe. The PSRS volunteers and pa...
Overview You wear headphones at work, during play, while relaxing, and even at the gym where they can become sweaty. An investigation into headphones found tha...
Overview OpenAI is reportedly developing its first consumer hardware product: a smart speaker priced between $200‑$300 that includes a built‑in camera. The cam...
Accelerator‑Driven Systems ADS for Nuclear Waste Transmutation Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are advancing Accelerator‑Driv...
NASA Plans March 6 Launch for Artemis II NASA could launch four astronauts on a mission to fly around the Moon as soon as March 6. That is the launch date PDF...
