Collaborate Disseminate
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of dat… Continue reading Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage
“More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world’s most high-profile alleged kille… Continue reading Luigi Mangione’s Ghost Gun Was Only Partially 3D-Printed
[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it …read more Continue reading An LCD, Touch Sensor, USB-C, And A Microcontroller for a Buck
Alex Evans reports: Unauthorized access of HIPAA-protected information by county employee, largely flies under the radar. Six-months after the Douglas County Department of Health and Human Services determined an employee had accessed protected personal… Continue reading Douglas County Health & Human Services notifies patients that former employee accessed their records inappropriately
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:
U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, r… Continue reading US Life Expectancy Rose to 78.4 years in 2023 – Highest Level Since Pandemic
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays:
The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed “Sky’s the Limit!”, delivering a … Continue reading T2 Linux SDE 24.12 ‘Sky’s the Limit!’ Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs
“Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth,” writes Gizmodo.
And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager’s signals on a 1… Continue reading Voyager 1 Signals from Interstellar Space Detected by Amateur Astronomers on 1950s Telescope
There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, …read more Continue reading The Bendix G-15 Runs 75,000 Lines of Code
On Thursday New Jersey lawmakers passed a resolution “calling on the federal government to conduct a ‘rigorous and ongoing’ investigation into the drone sightings in the state,” reports the Associated Press:
Meanwhile, federal and local authorities ar… Continue reading US Drone Sightings Provoke Reactions From New Jersey Legislature, Federal Government
Nature magazine reports that “A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.”
Researchers had critiqued the con… Continue reading Hydroxychloroquine-Promoting COVID Study Retracted After 4 Years