Collaborate Disseminate
The Washington Post visits one of over 100 tide-tracking stations around the U.S. — Georgia’s Fort Pulaski tide gauge:
Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest rates in the country,… Continue reading Sea Levels are Already Rising in America’s Southeast. A Preview of the Future?
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: MUT-1244 targeting security researchers, red teamers, and threat actors A threat actor tracked as MUT-1244 by DataDog researchers has been targeting acade… Continue reading Week in review: MUT-1244 targets both security workers and threat actors, Kali Linux 2024.4 released
Vintage hi-fi gear can be very attractive, particularly compared to modern stuff. However, when this stuff starts getting into its third or fourth decade after production, things start to wear …read more Continue reading Vintage Audio Amp Gets LED Lighting Upgrade
“From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5…” reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But “OpenAI’s new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn’t clear wh… Continue reading OpenAI’s Next Big AI Effort GPT-5 is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive
While you tend to think of diamonds as ornamental gemstones, diamonds also have many important industrial uses, and many of those diamonds are now synthetic polycrystalline diamonds. How are they …read more Continue reading Inside a Diamond Plant
The world’s first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK’s University of Bristol.
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bo… Continue reading Scientists Build a Nuclear-Diamond Battery That Could Power Devices for Thousands of Years
I’m in a country where WhatsApp is "default" messaging app.
I am thinking about deleting my WhatsApp account completely and sticking to the cell calls and SMS.
I, of course, understand that WhatsApp claims to have end-to-end encr… Continue reading Whatsapp vs SMS+cell calls
Altermagnetism is effectively a hybrid form of magnetism and ferromagnetism that might become very useful in magnetic storage as well as spintronics in general. In order to practically use it, …read more Continue reading Nanoscale Imaging and Control of Altermagnetism in MnTe
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