After being in development since 2019 the huge NetBSD 100 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise reports PhoronixNetBSD 10 provides WireGuard support support for many newer Arm platforms including for Apple Silicon and newer Raspberry Pi boards a new Intel Ethernet...

Todays 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 youLobbyists teamed up with PR gurus soc...

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 unforgett...

This week every US agency was ordered to appoint a chief AI officer But that wasnt 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 del...

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 into a...

Americas Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones reports the US news site NOTUS They call the purchasers a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people f...

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 fuelsTara LeMercier a PhD student who carried o...

If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like itd 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 boon for...

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 away...

In November of 2021 America passed a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which included 75 billion for up to 20000 EV charging spots or around 5000 stations notes the Washington Post (citing an analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy) And new stations a...

Great Smoky Mountains National Parks spruce and fir forests are rebounding from overlogging and acid rain but may be no match for higher temperatures...

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 image (...

The incredibly study sheds a light on the resilience of modern minds...

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russias 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 banni...

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 the...

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 global w...

The US House has set a strict ban on congressional staffers use of Microsoft Copilot the companys 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 while ba...

Google is preparing to introduce a significant change to its ChromeOS platform by decoupling the Chrome browser from the operating system AndroidCentral writes The project known as Lacros (Linux And Chrome OS) aims to solve several issues including the inability to receive...

Decades of buried trash is releasing methane a powerful greenhouse gas at higher rates than previously estimated the researchers said From a report These landfills also belch methane a powerful planet-warming gas on average at almost three times the rate reported to feder...

BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews In a recent security announcement Red Hats Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the xz compression tools and libraries The affected versions 5...

LinkedIn is testing support for short-form videos to help it compete with TikTok YouTube Shorts Instagram Reels and other social media platforms We are testing new ways to help members more easily discover timely relevant videos to watch on LinkedIn Suzi Owens a compan...

Victoria Song reports via The Verge When Gmail launched with a goofy press release 20 years ago next week many assumed it was a hoax The service promised a gargantuan 1 gigabyte of storage an excessive quantity in an era of 15-megabyte inboxes It claimed to be completely fre...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica NYCs MyCity ChatBot was rolled out as a pilot program last October The announcement touted the ChatBot as a way for business owners to save time and money by instantly providing them with actionable and trusted inf...

These achieve the rare feat of making lawn mowing fun...

According to The Information (paywalled) Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a 100 billion datacenter project that will include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called Stargate Reuters reports The Information reported that Microsoft would likely be responsible for fin...