Collaborate Disseminate
South Carolina’s pine forests “have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself,” reports CBS News:
In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 … Continue reading New DNA Tech Identifies Soldier Killed in America’s Revolution in 1780
As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America’s Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat.
T… Continue reading 842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave
Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate “is… Continue reading Did Microsoft Shift Its Profits to Low-Tax Countries?
At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to “better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today.” The FSF’s summer newsletter share… Continue reading FSF Shares Update on ‘LibrePhone’ and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool
“The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday,” reports the Associated Press:
The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged… Continue reading AOL’s Owner Bending Spoons Hits Wall Street with $1.7 billion IPO
EchoStar’s satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and “facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless’s 5G network opera… Continue reading EchoStar’s US Satellite Pay-TV Provider Dish DBS Files for Bankruptcy
Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors suc… Continue reading Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents To Supply Chain Attacks
The Verge argues that researchers “have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it’s just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public’s imagination.”
And there are predictions that quantum computers will fin… Continue reading What Is a Quantum Computer Good For? Absolutely Nothing – Yet
Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf:
Facing real competition from Digital Research’s DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as “AARD code” into beta versions of Windows 3… Continue reading Remembering How Microsoft’s Fake Windows Error Ended In a $280 Million Secret Settlement
Ford executives said they’ve hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch:
Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer … Continue reading Ford Rehires ‘Gray Beard’ Engineers After AI Falls Short