Collaborate Disseminate
“Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain’s first gene-edited crop,” reports the Telegraph:
In an effort to fatten up cows and get them to market faster, scientists have altered the DNA of Golden Prom… Continue reading Juicier Steaks Soon? The UK Approves Testing of Gene-Edited Cow Feed
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80 from the mid 1970s can be exchanged with one from …read more Continue reading ESP32: When Is A P4 A P4, But Not The P4 You Thought It Was
China’s orbital outpost Tiangong was completed in 2022 and is hosting up to three astronauts at a time, reports CNN.
But meanwhile U.S. lawmakers are now signaling there’s not time to develop and launch a replacement for the International Space Stati… Continue reading Can Private Space Companies Replace the ISS Before 2030?
ReactOS aims to be compatible with programs and drivers developed for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows.
And Slashdot reader jeditobe reports that the project has now “announced significant progress in achieving compatibility… Continue reading Intel, NVIDIA, AMD GPU Drivers Finally Play Nice With ReactOS
Microsoft has promised to fix Windows. But there’s also a lot left unsaid, and it’s there, in the shadows, where the truth lives.
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Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: According to the research firm Gartner, 50% of U.S. consumers say they would prefer to do business with brands that avoid using GenAI in consumer facing content such as advertising and promotional messaging.
The su… Continue reading 50% of Consumers Prefer Brands That Avoid GenAI Content
For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For example, banjos are often heard in bluegrass or folk, harmonicas …read more Continue reading Analog Siren for Psychedelic Soundscapes
A free built-in VPN is coming to Firefox on Tuesday, Mozilla announced this week:
Free VPNs can sometimes mean sketchy arrangements that end up compromising your privacy, but ours is built from our data principles and commitment to be the world’s mos… Continue reading Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features – and Introduces Its New Mascot
“The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.
They note that the field “ca… Continue reading SystemD Adds Optional ‘birthDate’ Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records
Jeff Bezos “is in early talks to raise $100 billion,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation.”
“The Amazon.com founder is meeting… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Seeking $100 Billion to Buy Manufacturing Companies, ‘Transform’ Them With AI