Collaborate Disseminate
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission returned safely after becoming the first crewed spaceflight to orbit directly over Earth’s poles. From a report: Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who is the financier of this mission, the Fram2 crew has been free-flyi… Continue reading Fram2 Crew Returns To Earth After Polar Orbit Mission
If you flew or drove anything remote controlled until the last few years, chances are very good that you’d be using some faceless corporation’s equipment and radio protocols. But recently, …read more Continue reading Lockdown Remote Control Project is Free and Open
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious plan to create 1 million hectares of new rice farms in eastern Merauke Regency faces strong criticism from scientists who have warned it will fail due to unsuitable soils and climate. Military “food bri… Continue reading Scientists Warn Indonesia’s Rice Megaproject Faces Failure
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a world filled with “vibe coding,” Zach Yadegari, teen founder of Cal AI, stands in ironic, old-fashioned contrast. Ironic because Yadegari and his co-founder, Henry Langmack, are both just 18 yea… Continue reading Two Teenagers Built ‘Cal AI’, a Photo Calorie App With Over a Million Users
We remember when the transputer first appeared. Everyone “knew” that it was going to take over everything. Of course, it didn’t. But [Oscar Toledo G.] gives us a taste of …read more Continue reading The Transputer in your Browser
Web crawlers collecting training data for AI models are overwhelming Wikipedia’s infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedi… Continue reading Wikimedia Drowning in AI Bot Traffic as Crawlers Consume 65% of Resources
Software engineer and longtime Slashdot reader, Dmitry Grinberg (dmitrygr), shares a recent project they’ve been working on: “an interactive-speed Linux on a tiny board you can easily build with only 3 8-pin chips”: There was a time when one could orde… Continue reading An Interactive-Speed Linux Computer Made of Only 3 8-Pin Chips
Amazon announced an AI-powered Recaps feature for Kindle that helps bring readers up to date when diving back into an e-book series.
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Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won’t be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email addres… Continue reading AT&T Email-To-Text Gateway Service Ending
Microsoft announced the release of Copilot Search in Bing, which is exactly what it sounds like, albeit with an important twist.
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