Quieting Noisy Resistors
[Hans Rosenberg] has a new video talking about a nasty side effect of using resistors: noise. If you watch the video below, you’ll learn that there are two sources of …read more Continue reading Quieting Noisy Resistors
DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982
“More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer,” reports CNN:
Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s houseï in Cloverdale, California, on… Continue reading DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982
How the Intel 8087 FPU Knows Which Instructions to Execute
An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which …read more Continue reading How the Intel 8087 FPU Knows Which Instructions to Execute
Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU
The consumer movement Stop Killing Games “has come a long way in the two years since
YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft’s
destruction of The Crew in 2024,” writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. “The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people s… Continue reading Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU
Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the US
The consumer movement Stop Killing Games “has come a long way in the two years since
YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft’s
destruction of The Crew in 2024,” writes the gaming news site PC Gamer. “The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people s… Continue reading Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement ‘Stop Killing Games’ Will Launch NGOs in America and the US
Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?
Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who’d rejected the code it wrote. But that AI agent’s human operator has now come forward, revealing their agent was an OpenClaw instance with its own accounts, switching between multiple… Continue reading Hit Piece-Writing AI Deleted. But Is This a Warning About AI-Generated Harassment?
America’s Peace Corps Announces ‘Tech Corps’ Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago.
But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. “It’s the Peace Corps, but make it AI,” ex… Continue reading America’s Peace Corps Announces ‘Tech Corps’ Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
Miranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus
If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice …read more Continue reading Miranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus
Code.org President Steps Down Citing ‘Upending’ of CS By AI
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
Last July, as Microsoft pledged $4 billion to advance AI education in K-12 schools, Microsoft President Brad Smith told nonprofit Code.org CEO/Founder Hadi Partovi it was time to “switch hats” from coding to … Continue reading Code.org President Steps Down Citing ‘Upending’ of CS By AI
T2 Linux Restores XAA In Xorg, Making 2D Graphics Fast Again
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe (long-time Slashdot reader ReneR) is announcing that their Xorg display server has now restored its XAA acceleration architecture, “bringing fixed-function hardware 2D acceleration back to many older gra… Continue reading T2 Linux Restores XAA In Xorg, Making 2D Graphics Fast Again