Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabili… Continue reading Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader DesScorp writes:
The Washingtonian magazine reports that yet another company is ending most remote work for its employees. The Post’s previous policy from 2022 until now had been 3 days in office, 2 days remote. The employee … Continue reading Washington Post Employees Ordered Back To the Office
Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way …read more Continue reading Building a Motor Feed For the UE1 Vacuum Tube Computer’s Paper Tape Reader
“Java application security would be enhanced through two proposals aimed at resisting quantum computing attacks,” reports InfoWorld, “one plan involving digital signatures and the other key encapsulation.”
The two proposals reside in the OpenJDK JEP … Continue reading Java Proposals Would Boost Resistance to Quantum Computing Attacks
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the tech… Continue reading This Elephant Learned To Use a Hose As a Shower. Then Her Rival Sought Revenge
Salesforce “plans to hire more than 1,000 workers to sell its new generative AI agent product,” reports Bloomberg:
The hiring surge is aimed at capitalizing on “amazing momentum” for the new artificial intelligence product, Chief Executive Marc Beniof… Continue reading Salesforce to Hire 1,000 People for Big AI Product Sales Push
In the modern age, when you hear “component tester” you probably think of one of those cheap microcontroller-based devices that can identify components and provide basic measurements on an LCD …read more Continue reading Component Tester Teardown
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 “and we will end our thirties on a high note!” they announced this week:
We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we’re not there yet. Unti… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Plans Year of Celebrations For Its 40th Anniversary
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year “laser beam welding collaboration” with Ohio State University. The project “seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,” according to NASA.gov, “such as… Continue reading NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing
Nathan Sobo “joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,” according to an online biography, “and he led the Atom team until 2018.” Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and “While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, … Continue reading The Team Behind GitHub’s ‘Atom’ IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional ‘Zed Editor’