Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes:
AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool… Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the f… Continue reading AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool
“The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post, “although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life…
“A diffe… Continue reading US Layoffs Haven’t Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC:
Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer … Continue reading Air France, Airbus Guilty of Corporate Manslaughter In 2009 Air France 447 Crash
The Free Software Foundation announced this week that “its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far.” (And new dates… Continue reading Free Software Foundation’s Call for ‘LibreLocals’ Answered on Six Continents – With More Coming
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”.
Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — the… Continue reading Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.”
That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to l… Continue reading Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away
Qualys’s Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel “that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distribu… Continue reading Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Access Root-Only Files, Execute Arbitrary Commands as Root
The Washington Post looks at arguments that “AI’s coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans”. But they also look at some of the alternatives:
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, in… Continue reading Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives?
John Lennon’s last interview — just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980 — has become a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, debuting Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
In a new interview with the Associated Press, Soderb… Continue reading Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon
Iran’s government “wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz,” reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran’s state-linked media outlets “have vaguely threatened that traf… Continue reading Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz