An Electric Racecar Drives Upside Down (Apr 14, 2025 07:34)
Formula One cars, the world's fastest racecars, need to grip the track for speed and sa...
The EFF's 'Certbot' Now Supports Six-Day Certs (Apr 14, 2025 04:34)
10 years ago "certificate authorities normally issued certificate lifetimes lasting a y...
Trump Denies Tariff 'Exception' for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon (Apr 14, 2025 01:34)
Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump's new tariffs included exemptions for ...
Palantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt (Apr 13, 2025 23:44)
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palanti...
After Meta Cheating Allegations, 'Unmodified' Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested - Ranks #32 (Apr 13, 2025 22:28)
Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its "Maverick" AI model (in the newly-released L...
Three Million Child Deaths Linked To Drug Resistance, Study Shows (Apr 13, 2025 21:02)
"More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as ...
33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore Computers Gets an Unexpected Update (Apr 13, 2025 19:34)
"It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025," notes Tom's Har...
How a Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Beat the Texas Lottery (Apr 13, 2025 18:34)
"Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?" That's what a London banker-turned-bookm...
America's Dirtiest Coal Power Plants Given Exemptions from Pollution Rules to Help Power AI (Apr 13, 2025 17:34)
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn't instal...
'Linux Mint Debian Edition 7' Gets OEM Support (Apr 13, 2025 16:34)
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 "will come with full support for OEM installations," accord...
FreeDOS Celebrates More Than 30 Years of Command Prompts With New Release (Apr 13, 2025 15:34)
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Ji...
FSF Urges US Government to Adopt Free-as-in-Freedom Tax Filing Software (Apr 13, 2025 13:28)
"A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects u...
New Supercomputing Record Set - Using AMD's Instinct GPUs (Apr 13, 2025 11:34)
"AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record," reports Tom's Hardw...
Do Cognitive Abilities Predict Performance in Everyday Computer Tasks? (Apr 13, 2025 07:44)
"Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer pro...
Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversay. Is It More Famous Than Linux? (Apr 13, 2025 03:44)
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes...
WSJ Says China 'Acknowledged Its Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks' (Apr 13, 2025 01:34)
Here's an update from the Wall Street Journal about a "widespread series of alarming cy...
Original 1977 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades (Apr 12, 2025 22:41)
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news that in June "a rare screening of the ...
Chrome To Patch Decades-Old 'Browser History Sniffing' Flaw That Let Sites Peek At Your History (Apr 12, 2025 21:41)
Slashdot reader king*jojo shared this article from The Register: A 23-year-old side-cha...
America's Justice Department Shuts Down Its Cryptocurrency Fraud Unit (Apr 12, 2025 20:41)
America's Justice Department "has shut down its unit that investigates cryptocurrency f...
For the First Time Astronomers Watch a Black Hole 'Wake Up' in Real-Time (Apr 12, 2025 19:41)
Black holes "often exhibit long periods of dormancy," writes Popular Science, adding th...