Collaborate Disseminate
In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced “a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).” It was the first release of the eXtensible … Continue reading ‘An Open Letter To Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability With XMPP’
Microsoft Excel has long supported richer data types than just text and numbers, but it lacks a way to visually differentiate those types.
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Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes:
No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy o… Continue reading Scientists May Have Discovered How To Extract Power From the Earth’s Rotation
We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the developers of Tronbyt — a replacement firmware and self-hosted backend that breaks the …read more Continue reading Open Source Framework Aims to Keep Tidbyt Afloat
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News:
After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become … Continue reading Scientists Create New Heavy-Metal Molecule: ‘Berkelocene’
The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter “fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week… the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record… Continue reading As the Arctic’s Winter Sea Ice Hits a New Record Low – What Happens Next?
Massive Twitter (X) data breach exposes details of 2.8 billion users; alleged insider leak surfaces with no official response from the company. Continue reading X (Twitter) Largest Data Breach Ever? 2.8 Billion User Info Leaked
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer:
Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel compon… Continue reading New Ubuntu Linux Security Bypasses Require Manual Mitigations
We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again …read more Continue reading Contagious Ideas
We tested the best free website builders for maximizing your small business’ online presence at the lowest cost possible. Continue reading The best free website builders of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed