Collaborate Disseminate
The mailing list for the North American Network Operators’ Group discusses Internet infrastructure issues like routing, IP address allocation, and containing malicious activity. This morning there was another message:
We are heartbroken to report that… Continue reading Dave Farber Dies at Age 91
“They were crouched down like turkeys peeking over the balcony,” the county sheriff told Ars Technica. A half hour past midnight, they were skulking through a courthouse in Iowa’s Dallas County on September 11 “carrying backpacks that remind me and sev… Continue reading After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The world’s biggest football game comes to Silicon Valley today — so one bored programmer built a site where AI agents can gather for a Super Bowl party. They’re trash talking, suggesting drinks, and … Continue reading Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from the Associated Press:
Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising conc… Continue reading Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?
“A spectacular trove of fossils in a discovered in a cave on New Zealand’s North Island has given scientists their first glimpse of ancient forest species that lived there more than a million years ago,” reports Popular Mechanics:
The fossils represe… Continue reading Scientists Explored Island Cave, Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants a Lost World
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg:
An Asian cyber-espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical infrastructure organizations in more than 37 countries, according to th… Continue reading Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say
An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg:
An Asian cyber-espionage group has spent the past year breaking into computer systems belonging to governments and critical infrastructure organizations in more than 37 countries, according to th… Continue reading Cyber-Espionage Group Breached Systems in 37 Nations, Security Researchers Say
2001: “Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon.”
2002: “There may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.”
2010: The hottest … Continue reading Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
“After a half-century asking us to exercise more, doctors and physiologists say we have been thinking about it wrong,” writes Washington Post columnist Michael J. Coren.
“U.S. and World Health Organization guidelines no longer specify a minimum durat… Continue reading Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?
Fortune reports on “a watershed moment” in American’s nuclear power industry:
In January, Meta partnered with Gates’ TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million … Continue reading Are Big Tech’s Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?