On January 19th, 2025 with 0 comments
The Los Angeles Times calls it "a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 12 comments
America's outgoing national security adviser has "wide access to the world's secrets," writes Axios, adding that the security adviser delivered a "chilling"...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 35 comments
The Washington Post reports:
Ruptures of undersea cables that have rattled European security officials in recent months were likely the result of maritime...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 15 comments
"As large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S.," reports ABC News, "the booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot..." Sheep.
In Milam County,...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 33 comments
ABC News reported that the official newspaper of China's communist party is claiming TikTok refugees on RedNote found a "new home," and "openness,...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 75 comments
CNN reports:
TikTok appears to be coming back online just hours after President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday that he would sign an executive order Monday...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 24 comments
The JavaScript runtime Node.js can execute TypeScript (Microsoft's JavaScript-derived language with static typing).
But now it can do it even better, explains...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 2 comments
In 2022 Google released a tool to easily scan for vulnerabilities in dependencies named OSV-Scanner. "Together with the open source community, we've continued...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 145 comments
Fortune reports 18% of workers have engaged in "career catfishing" — getting a job offer, but then refusing to show up on the first day of work.
And...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 29 comments
CNN has the latest on "a startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean's seabed, where no...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 66 comments
"The universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models," writes Phys.org, "and faster than can be explained by our current understanding of...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 58 comments
Jersey is an island in the English channel, "a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northwest France," according to Wikipedia —...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 95 comments
Chinese social-networking site RedNote became the #1 most-downloaded app in America, reports the Associated Press, with some new users considering it a way to...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 66 comments
The ratio of vacant U.S. jobs to jobless workers "has fallen from a record of 2 in 2022 to 1.1 in November," reports the Wall Street Journal — which adds...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 46 comments
The BBC brings news from the Baltic Sea. After critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year, "NATO has launched a new mission to increase the...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 182 comments
A new law is being considered by New York's state legislature, reports a local news outlet. "if passed, will require anyone buying a 3D printer to pass a...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 51 comments
A county transit police detective fed a poor-quality image to an AI-powered facial recognition program, remembers the Washington Post, leading to the arrest of...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 77 comments
America's Federal Trade Commission has been "raising antitrust concerns" about them for years, reports NBC News.
The latest? America's three largest drug...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 25 comments
"The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth," writes the...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 36 comments
"Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code," reports LiveScience, "and it still works extremely well." ...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 188 comments
From the New York Post:
Generation Z's recent foray into the corporate world has been an eye-popping escapade plagued by their "annoying" workplace habits and...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 10 comments
Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD earlier this week, with fans noticing that the original team members at Retro are not individually credited in...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 29 comments
Smithsonian Magazine reports: A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 31 comments
OpenAI has developed a language model designed for engineering proteins, capable of converting regular cells into stem cells. It marks the company's first...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 105 comments
Sales of electric vehicles and hybrids reached 20% of new car sales in the U.S. last year, with Tesla maintaining dominance in the EV market despite a slight...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 31 comments
"The FDIC sued 17 former executives and directors of Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday, seeking to recover billions of dollars for alleged gross negligence and...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 12 comments
Google computer scientists have been using LLMs to streamline internal code migrations, achieving significant time savings of up to 89% in some cases. The...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 87 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader tlhIngan writes: In what is perhaps the greatest irony ever, the operators of RedNote (known as Xiaohongshu) have decided to "wall...
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On January 17th, 2025 with 3 comments
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's OFAC has sanctioned Yin Kecheng and Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co. for their roles in a recent Treasury breach...
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