Collaborate Disseminate
As Super Bowl Sunday comes to a close, America’s National Football League “is challenging innovators to improve the facemask on football helmets to reduce concussions in the game,” reports the Associated Press:
The league announced on Friday at an in… Continue reading National Football League Launches Challenge to Improve Facemasks and Reduce Concussions
“How Chinese is your car?” asks the Wall Street Journal. “Automakers are racing to work it out.”
Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology. Now, the car industry is scrambling to root out that … Continue reading Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules
“You can hear the hum of the drone,” says a local newscaster, “but then the propellors come into contact with the building, chunks of the drone later seen falling down. The next video shows the drone on the ground, surrounded by smoke…
“Amazon tells… Continue reading Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building
It’s the first “AI” Super Bowl, argues the tech/business writer at Slate, with AI company advertisements taking center stage, even while consumers insist to surveyors that they’re “mostly negative” about AI-generated ads.
Last year AI companies spent… Continue reading Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst?
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