Collaborate Disseminate
Luigi Mangione faces first-degree murder charges. On Valentine’s Day he posted his first public comments online, reports People magazine, with Mangione saying he’s grateful for the support he’s receiving:
Earlier this week, Mangione accepted $297,000 … Continue reading Alleged ‘CEO Shooter’ Luigi Mangione Raises $297K Online
[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was …read more Continue reading Piano Gets an Arduino Implant
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Microsoft fixes two actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2025-21418, CVE-2025-21391) February 2025 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has delivered fixes f… Continue reading Week in review: Microsoft fixes two actively exploited 0-days, PAN-OS auth bypass hole plugged
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of a blown head gasket knows that the old saying “oil and water don’t mix” is only partially true. When what’s coming out …read more Continue reading Scrapyard Vacuum Dehydrator Sucks the Water from Hydraulic Oil
In January the TIOBE Index (estimating programming language popularity) declared Python their language of the year. (Though it was already #1 in their rankings, it had showed a 9.3% increase in their ranking system, notes InfoWorld.) TIOBE CEO Paul Jan… Continue reading Are Fast Programming Languages Gaining in Popularity?
We’re now eyeball-deep into the HIBP rebrand and UX work, totally overhauling the image of the service as we know it. That said, a guiding principle has been to ensure the new looks is immediately recognisable and over months of work, I think we’ve achieved that.
Sometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense …read more Continue reading Curious Claim of Conversion of Aluminium into Transparent Aluminium Oxide
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s long-promised overhaul for Siri “is facing engineering problems and software bugs, threatening to postpone or limit its release, according to people with knowledge of the matter….”
Last June, Apple touted three major e… Continue reading AI Bugs Could Delay Upgrades for Both Siri and Alexa
Virtual Reality in woodworking sounds like a recipe for disaster—or at least a few missing fingers. But [The Swedish Maker] decided to put this concept to the test, diving into …read more Continue reading Chop, Chop, Chop: Trying Out VR for Woodworking
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen has been testing AI clients. (They report that China’s DeepSeek “turned out to be extremely good at explaining why I should not trust it. Every computer security problem I ever thought of or heard about and some more be… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You to Trust an AI?