Collaborate Disseminate
Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu “suffered a catastrophic 70% drop in its second weekend,” reports Variety, suggesting the movie isn’t finding audiences “beyond an aging group of core fans.”
“Despite playing on far more screens, The Ma… Continue reading New Star Wars Movie Falls to #3 Behind Two Movies Directed By YouTube Stars
Almost a fifth of the earth’s population lives in Africa. And Africa’s next generation of power projects “is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage,” reports the Associated Press, “as governments and investors shift aw… Continue reading Renewable Energy is Surging in Africa
“In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources,” writes The Register.
InfoWorld writes that “numerous proprietary agent regi… Continue reading AI Agents Get Their Own Directory Built Atop DNS
You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new “virtual museum,” according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was “shocked” by how easy it was to run it, “and by the sheer number of operating systems t… Continue reading ‘Virtual OS Museum’ Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems
The state of Ohio — one of America’s hot regions for data center construction — “is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states,” reports the Associated Press.
The move “comes as tax breaks for energ… Continue reading Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows
The Zig programming language wants to be a modern alternative to C (including better memory safety features). It’s maintained by as an open-source project by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a network of contributors.
But Business Insider notes that Zig ban… Continue reading Zig Bans AI Code Contributions Because They’re ‘Invariably Garbage’
Rockstar Games has a 2,000-employee studio in Scotland called Rockstar North. And Thursday its workers announced they’d formed a union, reports the gaming news site Aftermath:
The union [part of the wider Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) … Continue reading UK-Based Rockstar Games North Workers Formally Announce Union
It all started when the German developer behind an open-source app for Java testing “added hidden instructions to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents,” reports Ars Technica:
The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5…. Continue reading Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App
U.S. forces deployed to war zones “have been targeted using commercially available location data,” reports Reuters, citing “reports fielded by military officials.”
Reuters calls it “an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping th… Continue reading Pentagon Says US Military Personnel Targeted Using Commercial Location Data
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was se… Continue reading Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software