Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: […] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had d… Continue reading Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that resizes taskbar icons dynamically like on macOS, with options to shrink icons when the taskbar is full or keep them small at all times. The Verge reports: If you’re on the beta, under Taskbar settings … Continue reading Windows 11 Tests Taskbar Icons That Scale Up and Down Like On a Mac
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Continue reading ISC Stormcast For Friday, April 4th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9394, (Fri, Apr 4th)
The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are …read more Continue reading A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive
Google’s NotebookLM has added a new “Discover sources” feature that allows users to describe a topic and have the AI find and curate relevant sources from the web — eliminating the need to upload documents manually. “When you tap the Discover button i… Continue reading Google’s NotebookLM AI Can Now ‘Discover Sources’ For You
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Itali… Continue reading Massive Expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway
The Louvre Museum will discontinue its use of Nintendo 3DS XL consoles as audio guides by September 2025, replacing them with a new system. NintendoSoup reports: For several years the Louvre has been using specially dedicated New Nintendo 3DS XL consol… Continue reading Louvre Museum In Paris to Discontinue Nintendo 3DS Audio Guides
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Ryan Whitwam: Researchers at DeepMind have … released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a hug… Continue reading DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World
We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in front of machines running x86, ARM, or even …read more Continue reading The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots
Air conditioning will contribute more to rising global energy demand than data centers through 2030, according to an International Energy Agency. While attention has focused on computing power consumption, the IEA projects data centers will account for… Continue reading Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand Growth