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America “is facing what’s projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history,” according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post:
Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shif… Continue reading America May Soon Be Facing It’s Largest Labor Shortage in Its History
America “is facing what’s projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history,” according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post:
Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a skills shortage and population shif… Continue reading America May Soon Be Facing Largest Labor Shortage in Its History
Long-time Slashdot reader necro81 writes: There are several companies, such as Tesla, trying to make semi trucks fully electric. The capital cost for such a truck, and the MW-scale infrastructure to recharge it, may be a hard sell for some operators. [… Continue reading Semi-Trailer Trucks Test Converting Into Plug-In Hybrids
California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding:
Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of Califo… Continue reading ‘Billionaire Exodus? California Drew 10x More Venture Capital Than Any Other State This Year’
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? “Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees,” goes one common answer.
“But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers,” reports the New York … Continue reading ‘Forget Coders. The Real AI Threat Is In the Back Office’
Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was “not scientific,”
reports ZDNet. “That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously.”
Today,… Continue reading Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla
“Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X,” reports CNBC, “highlighting the billionaires’ long-standing tussle over OpenAI’s evolution.”
This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own … Continue reading Elon Musk And Sam Altman Spar On X After Apple Files OpenAI Lawsuit
The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its “worst-ever” supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech:
SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given … Continue reading SK Hynix CEO Warns 2027 Will Be Memory’s ‘Worst Year’ Ever. Shortages May Outlast the Decade
The Wall Street Journal says “an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI” was just part of a larger movement.
“The Bay Area’s AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fi… Continue reading WSJ Reports on ‘Hard-line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI’
“While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don’t fully support,” argues XDA Developers:
Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but C… Continue reading Is the COSMIC Desktop Getting Better Than KDE and GNOME?