Collaborate Disseminate
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
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
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
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
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: The Salvation Army has launched what it calls the world’s first digital thrift store inside Roblox, an experience named Thrift Score that lets players browse virtual racks and buy digital fashion for their avatars. … Continue reading The Salvation Army Opens a Digital Thrift Store On Roblox
Researchers at CyberProof have identified a new fake captcha campaign linked to the ClickFix operation. This stealthy infostealer targets over 25 browsers, cryptocurrency wallets like MetaMask, and gaming accounts by tricking users into executing malic… Continue reading New ClickFix Attack Targets Crypto Wallets and 25+ Browsers with Infostealer
Although digital computers are – much like their human computer counterparts – about performing calculations, another crucial element is that of memory. After all, you need to fetch values from …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
CNN reports on a 13,000-year-old glacier in a Romanian cave, where scientists say a bacterial strain they thawed and analyzed “is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics used to treat diseases such as urinary tract infections and tuberculosis.”
But there’… Continue reading Researchers Discover Ancient Bacteria Strain That Resists 10 Modern Antibiotics
Can being “very online” really affect our brains, asks the Washington Post:
Research suggests that scrolling through short videos on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube Shorts is affecting our attention, memory and mental health. A recent meta-analysis of t… Continue reading Is ‘Brain Rot’ Real? How Too Much Time Online Can Affect Your Mind.
This week the Python Software Foundation explained how they keep Python secure. A new blog post recognizes the volunteers and paid Python Software Foundation staff on the Python Security Response Team (PSRT), who “triage and coordinate vulnerability re… Continue reading How Python’s Security Response Team Keeps Python Users Safe