#[1]alternate [2]News for nerds, stuff that matters [3]Search Slashdot [4]Slashdot RSS [5]Slashdot * [6]Stories * + Firehose + [7]All + [8]Popular * [9]Polls * [10]Software * [11]Apparel * [12]Newsletter * [13]Jobs [14]Submit Search Slashdot ____________________ (BUTTON) * [15]Login * or * [16]Sign up * Topics: * [17]Devices * [18]Build * [19]Entertainment * [20]Technology * [21]Open Source * [22]Science * [23]YRO * Follow us: * [24]RSS * [25]Facebook * [26]LinkedIn * [27]Twitter * [28]Youtube * [29]Mastodon * [30]Newsletter Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at [31]m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Nickname: ____________________ Password: ____________________ [ ] Public Terminal __________________________________________________________________ Log In [32]Forgot your password? [33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically [34]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [35]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [36]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! or [37]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area [38]× 170700956 story [39]Businesses [40]Many Workers Willing To Take a Pay Cut To Work Remotely, Survey Finds [41](cbsnews.com) [42]29 Posted by [43]BeauHD on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:00AM from the you-don't-say dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Americans have grown so fond of working from home that [44]many are are willing to sacrifice pay for the privilege of skipping the office. So found [45]a recent survey by recruiting firm Robert Half, which polled thousands of U.S. employees and hiring managers about their attitudes toward remote work. Some workers said they're willing to take a pay cut -- with an average reduction of 18% -- to remain fully remote, Paul McDonald, a Robert Half senior executive director, told CBS News. Overall, roughly one in three workers who go into the office at least one day a week said they were willing to earn less for the opportunity to work remotely. apply tags__________ 170699474 story [46]Earth [47]Norwegian Seafloor Holds Clues To Antarctic Melting [48](bbc.com) [49]9 Posted by [50]BeauHD on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:00AM from the geological-past dept. Antarctica's melting ice sheet [51]could retreat much faster than previously thought, new research suggests. The BBC reports: The evidence comes from markings on the seafloor off Norway that record the pull-back of a melting European ice sheet thousands of years ago. Today, the fastest withdrawing glaciers in Antarctica are seen to retreat by up to 30m a day. But if they sped up, the extra melt water would have big implications for sea-level rises around the globe. Ice losses from Antarctica caused by climate change have already pushed up the surface of the world's oceans by nearly 1cm since the 1990s. The researchers found that with the Norwegian sheet, the maximum retreat was more than 600m a day. "This is something we could see if we continue with the upper estimates for temperature rise," explained Dr Christine Batchelor from Newcastle University, UK. "Although, worryingly, when we did the equations to think about what would be needed to instigate such retreat in Antarctica, we actually found there are places where you could get similar pulses of withdrawal even under the basal melt rates we know are happening at the moment," she told BBC News. The findings have been [52]published in the journal Nature. apply tags__________ 170699428 story [53]Australia [54]Australia Is Quitting Coal In Record Time Thanks To Tesla [55](bloomberg.com) [56]80 Posted by [57]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:30PM from the giving-credit-where-credit-is-due dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Like so much in our modern era, Australia's high-stakes gamble on renewable energy starts with an Elon Musk Twitter brag. South Australia's last coal-fired power plant had closed, leaving the province of 1.8 million heavily reliant on wind farms and power imports from a neighboring region. When an unprecedented blackout caused much of the country to question the state's dependence on clean power, Tesla boasted -- on Twitter, of course -- that it had a solution: It could build the world's biggest battery, and fast. "@Elonmusk, how serious are you about this," [58]replied Australian software billionaire and climate activist Mike Cannon-Brookes. "Can you guarantee 100MW in 100 days?" Musk [59]responded: "Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?" To the astonishment of many, Tesla [60]succeeded, and today, almost seven years later, that battery and more like it have [61]become central to a shockingly rapid energy transition. By the middle of the next decade, major coal-fired power stations that generate about half of Australia's electricity will shut down. Gas-fired plants are being retired, too, and nuclear power is banned. That leaves solar, wind and hydro as the major options in the country's post-coal future. "It's really a remarkable story," said Audrey Zibelman, the former head of the Australian Energy Market Operator, or AEMO, the agency that runs the grid, and now an adviser to Alphabet's X. "Because we're not interconnected, we've had to learn to do it in a much more sophisticated way, where a lot of other countries will go once they've shut down their fossils." It may be Australia's biggest power buildout since electrification in the 1920s and 30s. And, if successful, could be replicated across the 80% of the world's population that lives in the so-called sun belt -- which includes Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, India, southern China and Southeast Asia, says Professor Andrew Blakers, an expert in renewable energy and solar technology at Australian National University. That, in turn, would go a long way to halting climate change. Building battery storage is just one critical piece of the national project, and AEMO and others are worried coal plants will shut before there's enough additional electricity supply. Australia needs to increase its grid-scale wind and solar capacity ninefold by 2050. Connecting all that generation and storage into the grid will require more investment. Overall, the cost could be a staggering A$320 billion ($215 billion), and the money is starting to flow: Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., Macquarie Group Ltd., and billionaires Andrew Forrest and Cannon-Brookes have all been involved in headline-grabbing energy deals in recent months. New government support for renewables has also improved investor sentiment, according to the Clean Energy Investor Group, which includes project developers and financiers. apply tags__________ 170699392 story [62]Science [63]False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds [64](gizmodo.com) [65]46 Posted by [66]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:25PM from the unreliable-narrator dept. In a new study, scientists found that it's possible for people to [67]form false memories of an event within seconds of it occurring. This almost-immediate misremembering seems to be shaped by our expectations of what should happen, the team says. Gizmodo reports: "This study is unique in two ways, in our opinion. First, it explores memory for events that basically just happened, between 0.3 and 3 seconds ago. Intuitively, we would think that these memories are pretty reliable," lead author Marte Otten, a neuroscientist at the University of Amsterdam, told Gizmodo in an email. "As a second unique feature, we explicitly asked people whether they thought their memories are reliable -- so how confident are they about their response?" To do this, they recruited hundreds of volunteers over a series of four experiments to complete a task: They would look at certain letters and then be asked to recall one highlighted letter right after. However, the scientists used letters that were sometimes reversed in orientation, so the volunteers had to remember whether their selection was mirrored or not. They also focused on the volunteers who were highly confident about their choices during the task. Overall, the participants regularly misremembered the letters, but in a specific way. People were generally good at remembering when a typical letter was shown, with their inaccuracy rates hovering around 10%. But they were substantially worse at remembering a mirrored letter, with inaccuracy rates up to 40% in some experiments. And, interestingly enough, their memory got worse the longer they had to wait before recalling it. When they were asked to recall what they saw a half second later, for instance, they were wrong less than 20% of the time, but when they were asked three seconds later, the rate rose as high as 30%. According to Otten, the findings -- [68]published Wednesday in PLOS One -- indicate that our memory starts being shaped almost immediately by our preconceptions. People expect to see a regular letter, and don't get easily fooled into misremembering a mirrored letter. But when the unexpected happens, we might often still default to our missed prediction. This bias doesn't seem to kick in instantaneously, though, since people's short-term memory was better when they had to be especially quick on their feet. "It is only when memory becomes less reliable through the passage of a tiny bit of time, or the addition of extra visual information, that internal expectations about the world start playing a role," Otten said. apply tags__________ 170699282 story [69]The Internet [70]Museum Puts Decades-Old Cobalt RaQ Back On the Internet [71](serialport.org) [72]25 Posted by [73]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:45PM from the what-year-is-it dept. New submitter [74]aphexx writes: A computer museum has revived and rebuilt a Cobalt RaQ 3 server appliance from the Y2K days of the internet. It's now online and accessible -- complete with an ancient CGI guestbook at [75]http://raq.serialport.org/. There were thousands upon thousands of Cobalt RaQs and Qubes scattered across the globe in the 2000s, and I remember they were especially popular with ISPs. Judging from the guestbook comments, it looks like I'm not the only one that remembers their impact. Cobalt was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002 for a cool $2 billion, but discontinued the product line the following year. apply tags__________ 170699226 story [76]Businesses [77]Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games To Acquire Gaming Company Scopely For $4.9 Billion [78](reuters.com) [79]16 Posted by [80]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:02PM from the all-part-of-the-plan dept. Savvy Games Group, wholly owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), has [81]agreed to acquire Scopely, a maker of mobile games based in Culver City, California, for $4.9 billion, the companies said on Wednesday. Reuters reports: Scopely, founded in 2011, will become an autonomous operation under the Savvy umbrella, they said in a statement, noting the deal will "strengthen Savvy's global position" and enable Scopely to accelerate growth. Last year, state news agency SPA said Savvy would [82]invest 142 billion riyals ($37.85 billion) in initiatives aimed at making the kingdom a global hub for gaming. apply tags__________ 170698976 story [83]IBM [84]New Models of IBM Model F Keyboard Mark II Incoming [85](theregister.com) [86]25 Posted by [87]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:20PM from the blast-from-the-past dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: What's even harder-core than the IBM Model M? The Model F, the keyboard that launched alongside the IBM PC in 1981. After a 2017 relaunch, [88]new models with the original layout are here. The [89]project, which back in 2017 relaunched a modern keyboard inspired by a compact space-saver version of IBM's classic Model F, is launching its second generation of brand-new premium input devices, and this time, various layouts will be available. [...] Enter the [90]New Model F Keyboards project. "Ellipse" [91]launched it in 2017 and attracted over $300,000 worth of orders, even at $399 each. Aside from the not-inconsiderable price, what put the author off was the layout. Space-saving and reduced-footprint keyboards are very popular among serious keyboard collectors, and the project chose two space-saver layouts from IBM's [92]4704 terminal, dubbed the Kishsaver after the collector who described it. The [93]F77 layout has a numeric keypad, but no function keys; the even smaller [94]F62 layout omits the keypad, or as the cool kids call it, it's a TKL layout, which we are informed stands for [95]tenkeyless, presumably because it has 15 fewer keys. Which is why the FOSS desk's bank account would tremble in fear if it were not an inanimate table in a database somewhere, because the Model F project has [96]announced a new range, including full-size and compact 104-key layouts and most appealing to this large and heavy-handed vulture, a replica of the 122-key IBM [97]Battleship, one of which we've been hunting for over a decade. The project occasionally has [98]refurbished original IBM units. Now, though, a brand-new one is a $420 [99]option. If that isn't exclusive enough, your correspondent also working on a model with [100]beam springs, the mechanism from 1970s IBM business products. The first [101]model of the brand new beam spring units is a mere $579. apply tags__________ 170698912 story [102]Businesses [103]Cisco Systems Pulls Out of Russia, Destroys Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment [104](gagadget.com) [105]52 Posted by [106]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:40PM from the no-plan-of-returning dept. Cisco Systems has [107]left the Russian market, destroying tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment and components in the process. This is due to the fact that the developer of network equipment has no plans to resume operations in the country. Gagadget reports: Cisco Systems announced it would cease sales in the Russian market in March 2022. Three months later, the company refused to renew its licenses. In addition, at the same time, the American manufacturer announced its withdrawal from Russia and Belarus. As it became known, Cisco Systems decided to physically destroy spare parts, product demonstrations, equipment and even furniture. The value of the destroyed stock is estimated at [$23.42 million]. The company has also disposed of fixed assets worth [$12,600]. By the end of 2022, Cisco Systems had reduced its workforce by a factor of 12 to five employees. The company terminated contracts with the rest in mid-2022, paying them a total of [$2.4 million]. The TASS Russian News Agency [108]first reported the news. apply tags__________ 170698868 story [109]Books [110]Amazon To Close Book Depository Online Shop [111](theguardian.com) [112]21 Posted by [113]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:02PM from the abandoning-its-roots dept. The online shop Book Depository is [114]due to close at the end of April, vendors and publishing partners have been told. This comes after the bookseller's parent company Amazon announced it had decided to "eliminate" a number of positions across its Devices and Books businesses. The Guardian reports: The Gloucester-based bookseller was founded in 2004 by Stuart Felton and Andrew Crawford, a former Amazon employee, with the mantra of "selling 'less of more' rather than'more of less'". It aimed to sell 6m titles covering a wide variety of genres and topics, as opposed to focusing solely on bestsellers. While originally a rival to Amazon, it was acquired by the retail giant in 2011, causing some in the publishing industry to worry about the tightening of the American company's "stranglehold" on the UK book trade. According to the trade magazine [115]the Bookseller, an email sent out to vendors and publishing partners explained that Book Depository will be closing, and that the last date customers will be able to place orders is 26 April. "Over the coming weeks we will complete a winding down of the business, including discontinuing our listings as a marketplace seller and closing our website," Andy Chart, head of vendor management, wrote. "I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you, from everyone at Book Depository and our book-loving customers, for your supportive partnership over the years in helping us to make printed books more accessible to readers around the world," he concluded. apply tags__________ 170698860 story [116]Security [117]Open Garage Doors Anywhere In the World By Exploiting This 'Smart' Device [118](arstechnica.com) [119]63 Posted by [120]BeauHD on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:24PM from the PSA dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A market-leading garage door controller is so riddled with severe security and privacy vulnerabilities that the researcher who discovered them, Sam Sabetan, is advising anyone using one to immediately disconnect it until they are fixed. Each $80 device, used to open and close garage doors and control home security alarms and smart power plugs, [121]employs the same easy-to-find universal password to communicate with Nexx servers. The controllers also broadcast the unencrypted email address, device ID, first name, and last initial corresponding to each one, along with the message required to open or shut a door or turn on or off a smart plug or schedule such a command for a later time. The result: Anyone with a moderate technical background can search Nexx servers for a given email address, device ID, or name and then issue commands to the associated controller. (Nexx controllers for home security alarms are susceptible to a similar class of vulnerabilities.) Commands allow a door to be opened, a device connected to a smart plug to be turned off, or an alarm to be disarmed. Worse still, over the past three months, personnel for Texas-based Nexx haven't responded to multiple private messages warning of the vulnerabilities. "Nexx has consistently ignored communication attempts from myself, the Department of Homeland Security, and the media," Sabetan wrote in a [122]post published on Tuesday. "Device owners should immediately unplug all Nexx devices and create support tickets with the company requesting them to remediate the issue." Sabetan estimates that more than 40,000 devices, located in residential and commercial properties, are impacted, and more than 20,000 individuals have active Nexx accounts. apply tags__________ 170698246 story [123]Google [124]Google Says Its AI Supercomputer is Faster, Greener Than Nvidia A100 Chip [125](reuters.com) [126]25 Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:20PM from the claims-made dept. Alphabet's Google released new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems are [127]both faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia. From a report: Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. It uses those chips for more than 90% of the company's work on artificial intelligence training, the process of feeding data through models to make them useful at tasks such as responding to queries with human-like text or generating images. The Google TPU is now in its fourth generation. Google on Tuesday published [128]a scientific paper detailing how it has strung more than 4,000 of the chips together into a supercomputer using its own custom-developed optical switches to help connect individual machines. Improving these connections has become a key point of competition among companies that build AI supercomputers because so-called large language models that power technologies like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT have exploded in size, meaning they are far too large to store on a single chip. The models must instead be split across thousands of chips, which must then work together for weeks or more to train the model. Google's PaLM model - its largest publicly disclosed language model to date - was trained by splitting it across two of the 4,000-chip supercomputers over 50 days. apply tags__________ 170698188 story [129]Android [130]Google Will Require That Android Apps Let You Delete Your Account and Data [131](engadget.com) [132]35 Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:42PM from the moving-forward dept. Google wants to make it as easy to scrub an app account as it is to create one. The company has announced that Android apps on the Play Store will soon have to [133]let you delete an account and its data both inside the app and on the web. Developers will also have to wipe data for an account when users ask to delete the account entirely. From a report: The move is meant to "better educate" users on the control they have over their data, and to foster trust in both apps and the Play Store at large. It also provides more flexibility. You can delete certain data (such as your uploaded content) without having to completely erase your account, Google says. The web requirement also ensures that you won't have to reinstall an app just to purge your info. The policy is taking effect in stages. Creators have until December 7th to answer questions about data deletion in their app's safety form. Store listings will start showing the changes in early 2024. Developers can file for an extension until May 31st of next year. apply tags__________ 170697938 story [134]United States [135]US-Backed VCs Are Funding China's Answer To OpenAI [136](theinformation.com) [137]32 Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:03PM from the closer-look dept. A boom in artificial intelligence startup funding sparked by OpenAI has spilled over to China, the world's second-biggest venture capital market. Now American institutional investors are [138]indirectly financing a rash of Chinese AI startups aspiring to be China's answer to OpenAI. From a report: The American investors, including U.S. endowments, back key Chinese VC firms such as Sequoia Capital China, Matrix Partners China, Qiming Venture Partners and Hillhouse Capital Management that are striking local AI startup deals, which haven't been previously reported. U.S. government officials have grown increasingly wary of such investments in Chinese AI as well as semiconductors because they could aid a geopolitical rival. For instance, Sequoia China, the Chinese affiliate of the Silicon Valley VC stalwart, recently made a U.S.-dollar investment in a brand-new AI venture created by Yang Zhilin, a young assistant professor at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, which is sometimes described as China's equivalent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. Yang, who got his doctorate from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, in 2019, is considered one of China's top AI researchers. He previously co-founded another startup Sequoia China backed, Recurrent AI, which develops tools for salespeople, according to the company's website. Matrix and Qiming, meanwhile, recently funded another Beijing-based AI startup, Frontis, which has compared its product to ChatGPT. It was founded in 2021 by Zhou Bowen, a Tsinghua professor who once led JD.com's AI research lab, according to the company's website. The deal gave the startup a paper valuation of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars, the company said. apply tags__________ 170697642 story [139]AI [140]India Opts Against AI Regulation [141]23 Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:20PM from the taking-a-stand dept. India [142]does not plan to regulate the growth of AI within the South Asian market, identifying the sector as a "significant and strategic" area for the nation. This stance arrives at a time when numerous voices are [143]calling for increased scrutiny of the rapidly advancing technology. From a report: The Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a long written response on Wednesday that it has assessed the ethical concerns and risks of bias and discrimination associated with AI. The ministry said it's implementing necessary policies and infrastructure measures to cultivate a robust AI sector in the country, but does not intend to introduce legislation to regulate its growth. The expansion of AI will have a "kinetic effect" on entrepreneurship and business development in India, the ministry asserted. "AI is a kinetic enabler of the digital economy and innovation ecosystem. Government is harnessing the potential of AI to provide personalized and interactive citizen-centric services through digital public platforms." apply tags__________ 170697546 story [144]Technology [145]South Africa Fights To Keep Phone Networks Up as Lights Go Out [146](reuters.com) [147]110 Posted by msmash on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:55PM from the tough-luck dept. An anonymous reader [148]shares a report: On a recent Friday morning north of Johannesburg, the head of South Africa's largest telecoms company surveyed the arsenal of backup systems keeping just one of his 15,000 network towers online amid the worst power cuts on record. A diesel generator. Solar panels. A bank of expensive backup batteries, theft-proofed within a block of concrete. "Our costs have gone through the roof," lamented Sitho Mdlalose, managing director of Vodacom South Africa. As the national power grid crumbles, leaving Africa's most advanced economy in the dark for up to 10 hours a day, mobile operators including Vodacom, MTN and majority state-owned Telkom are scrambling to ensure their networks stay up and running. They're spending millions to install solar panels, batteries and are even trialling wind turbines, while targeting deals with independent power producers to supplement struggling state utility Eskom's increasingly unreliable output, three company executives told Reuters. At stake: essential voice and data services in a nation where landlines are rare but nearly 80% of residents have access to mobile internet. Overall, the power crisis and logistical constraints are expected to erase 2 percentage points from economic growth this year, according to the South African Reserve Bank governor. Mary-Jane Mphahlele, an attorney who also runs a small travel agency in the city of Polokwane, experiences that lost economic activity every time the power is cut. "New clients can't call me ... That means no money is going to come into my business," the 29-year-old said. "It's hell." As they battle to simply mitigate the worsening crisis, telecommunications companies have seen operating costs balloon. Vodacom and MTN executives told Reuters they're having to divert capital away from much needed network upgrades and 5G rollouts. Meanwhile, they said government regulations are blocking potential solutions, such as sharing backup power infrastructure with their competitors, and revealed they're lobbying authorities to help ease the pain. apply tags__________ [149]« Newer [150]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [151]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. Do you agree that AI development should be temporarily halted? (*) Yes ( ) No (BUTTON) vote now [152]Read the 39 comments | 4135 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. Do you agree that AI development should be temporarily halted? 0 Percentage of others that also voted for: * [153]view results * Or * * [154]view more [155]Read the 39 comments | 4135 voted Most Discussed * 247 comments [156]Bob Lee, Creator of Cash App and Former CTO of Square, Stabbed To Death * 177 comments [157]Microsoft and Jeff Bezos Tap Excel, Not Python Or R, To Teach Kids Data Science * 174 comments [158]American Teens Aren't Excited About Virtual Reality * 110 comments [159]South Africa Fights To Keep Phone Networks Up as Lights Go Out * 91 comments [160]Jamie Dimon Says Banking Crisis Not Over and Will Cause 'Repercussions For Years' Hot Comments * [161]Re:It's very obvious why... (5 points, Insightful) by scamper_22 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:11PM attached to [162]South Africa Fights To Keep Phone Networks Up as Lights Go Out * [163]Hope they got to have some fun at least (5 points, Funny) by Malays2 bowman on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:07PM attached to [164]Cisco Systems Pulls Out of Russia, Destroys Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment * [165]a single router (5 points, Funny) by awwshit on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:48PM attached to [166]Cisco Systems Pulls Out of Russia, Destroys Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment * [167]Never have anyone else control your home (5 points, Insightful) by Opportunist on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:29PM attached to [168]Open Garage Doors Anywhere In the World By Exploiting This 'Smart' Device * [169]Re:Longevity of such a system (5 points, Informative) by Rei on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:15AM attached to [170]Australia Is Quitting Coal In Record Time Thanks To Tesla [171]This Day on Slashdot 2016 [172]PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law 1095 comments 2014 [173]How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion 1037 comments 2005 [174]No More BitKeeper Linux 958 comments 2004 [175]U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n 1103 comments 2003 [176]The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey 998 comments [177]Sourceforge Top Downloads * [178]TrueType core fonts 2.2B downloads * [179]Notepad++ Plugin Mgr 1.5B downloads * [180]VLC media player 899M downloads * [181]eMule 686M downloads * [182]MinGW 631M downloads Powered By [183]sf [184]Slashdot * [185]Today * [186]Wednesday * [187]Tuesday * [188]Monday * [189]Sunday * [190]Saturday * [191]Friday * [192]Thursday * [193]Submit Story "Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure * [194]FAQ * [195]Story Archive * [196]Hall of Fame * [197]Advertising * [198]Terms * [199]Privacy Statement * [200]About * [201]Feedback * [202]Mobile View * [203]Blog * * (BUTTON) Icon Do Not Sell My Personal Information Trademarks property of their respective owners. Comments owned by the poster. Copyright © 2023 SlashdotMedia. All Rights Reserved. × [204]Close [205]Close [206]Slashdot [njs.gif?253] Working... References Visible links: 1. https://m.slashdot.org/ 2. https://slashdot.org/ 3. https://slashdot.org/search.pl 4. https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain 5. https://slashdot.org/ 6. https://slashdot.org/ 7. https://slashdot.org/recent 8. https://slashdot.org/popular 9. https://slashdot.org/polls 10. https://slashdot.org/software/ 11. https://www.slashdotstore.com/ 12. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 13. https://slashdot.org/jobs 14. https://slashdot.org/submission 15. https://slashdot.org/my/login 16. https://slashdot.org/my/newuser 17. https://devices.slashdot.org/ 18. https://build.slashdot.org/ 19. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/ 20. https://technology.slashdot.org/ 21. https://slashdot.org/?fhfilter=opensource 22. https://science.slashdot.org/ 23. https://yro.slashdot.org/ 24. https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain 25. https://www.facebook.com/slashdot 26. https://www.linkedin.com/company/slashdot 27. https://twitter.com/slashdot 28. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsW36751Gy-EAbHQwe9WBNw 29. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot 30. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 31. http://m.slashdot.org/ 32. https://slashdot.org/my/mailpassword 33. https://slashdot.org/ 34. https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/GitHub Importer/ 35. https://sourceforge.net/p/import_project/github/ 36. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 37. https://slashdot.org/jobs-2 38. https://slashdot.org/ 39. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=business 40. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/06/0529243/many-workers-willing-to-take-a-pay-cut-to-work-remotely-survey-finds 41. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remote-work-jobs-2023-robert-half/ 42. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/06/0529243/many-workers-willing-to-take-a-pay-cut-to-work-remotely-survey-finds#comments 43. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 44. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remote-work-jobs-2023-robert-half/ 45. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-state-of-remote-work-5-trends-to-know-for-2023-301751351.html 46. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=earth 47. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2219249/norwegian-seafloor-holds-clues-to-antarctic-melting 48. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65192825 49. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2219249/norwegian-seafloor-holds-clues-to-antarctic-melting#comments 50. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 51. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65192825 52. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05876-1 53. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=australia 54. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2214201/australia-is-quitting-coal-in-record-time-thanks-to-tesla 55. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla-tsla-elon-musk-are-helping-australia-quit-coal-power 56. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2214201/australia-is-quitting-coal-in-record-time-thanks-to-tesla#comments 57. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 58. https://twitter.com/mcannonbrookes/status/839762954887180289 59. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/840032197637685249 60. https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/05/11/2324230/teslas-giant-battery-in-australia-reduced-grid-service-cost-by-90-percent 61. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-04/how-tesla-tsla-elon-musk-are-helping-australia-quit-coal-power 62. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=science 63. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/226237/false-memories-can-form-within-seconds-study-finds 64. https://gizmodo.com/false-memories-can-form-within-seconds-study-finds-1850303900 65. https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/226237/false-memories-can-form-within-seconds-study-finds#comments 66. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 67. https://gizmodo.com/false-memories-can-form-within-seconds-study-finds-1850303900 68. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283257 69. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=internet 70. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2142204/museum-puts-decades-old-cobalt-raq-back-on-the-internet 71. http://raq.serialport.org/ 72. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2142204/museum-puts-decades-old-cobalt-raq-back-on-the-internet#comments 73. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 74. https://slashdot.org/~aphexx 75. http://raq.serialport.org/ 76. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=business 77. https://games.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2132241/saudi-arabias-savvy-games-to-acquire-gaming-company-scopely-for-49-billion 78. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/savvy-games-acquire-gaming-company-scopely-49-bln-2023-04-05/ 79. https://games.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2132241/saudi-arabias-savvy-games-to-acquire-gaming-company-scopely-for-49-billion#comments 80. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 81. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/savvy-games-acquire-gaming-company-scopely-49-bln-2023-04-05/ 82. https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/09/29/164208/saudi-arabia-to-invest-37-billion-in-gaming 83. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ibm 84. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2039244/new-models-of-ibm-model-f-keyboard-mark-ii-incoming 85. https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/03/new_model_f_keyboards/ 86. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2039244/new-models-of-ibm-model-f-keyboard-mark-ii-incoming#comments 87. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 88. https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/03/new_model_f_keyboards/ 89. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ 90. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/about/ 91. https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/64q5fg/buying_brand_new_model_f_keyboards_project_major/ 92. http://kishy.ca/?cat=68 93. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/f77-model-f-keyboard/ 94. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/f62-model-f-keyboard-kishsaver/ 95. https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/what-is-tkl-keyboard/ 96. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/brand-new-model-f-major-launch-full-size-and-other-models-march-april-2023-update/ 97. https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_122-key_terminal_keyboards 98. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/original-ibm-model-f-122-key-keyboard/ 99. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/classic-style-f122-model-f-keyboard/ 100. https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Beam_Spring_Keyboards 101. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-round-1-keyboard/ 102. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=business 103. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2031212/cisco-systems-pulls-out-of-russia-destroys-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-equipment 104. https://gagadget.com/en/business/232400-cisco-systems-pulled-out-of-russia-and-destroyed-2342m-worth-of-equipment/ 105. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2031212/cisco-systems-pulls-out-of-russia-destroys-millions-of-dollars-worth-of-equipment#comments 106. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 107. https://gagadget.com/en/business/232400-cisco-systems-pulled-out-of-russia-and-destroyed-2342m-worth-of-equipment/ 108. https://tass.ru/ekonomika/17451425 109. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=books 110. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2025232/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop 111. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop 112. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2025232/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop#comments 113. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 114. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop 115. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/book-depository-to-close?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning Briefing 116. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=security 117. https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2022251/open-garage-doors-anywhere-in-the-world-by-exploiting-this-smart-device 118. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/open-garage-doors-anywhere-in-the-world-by-exploiting-this-smart-device/ 119. https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/2022251/open-garage-doors-anywhere-in-the-world-by-exploiting-this-smart-device#comments 120. https://twitter.com/BeauHD 121. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/open-garage-doors-anywhere-in-the-world-by-exploiting-this-smart-device/ 122. https://medium.com/@samsabetan/the-uninvited-guest-idors-garage-doors-and-stolen-secrets-e4b49e02dadc 123. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=google 124. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1848255/google-says-its-ai-supercomputer-is-faster-greener-than-nvidia-a100-chip 125. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-its-ai-supercomputer-is-faster-greener-than-nvidia-2023-04-05/ 126. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1848255/google-says-its-ai-supercomputer-is-faster-greener-than-nvidia-a100-chip#comments 127. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-its-ai-supercomputer-is-faster-greener-than-nvidia-2023-04-05/ 128. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433 129. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=android 130. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1841255/google-will-require-that-android-apps-let-you-delete-your-account-and-data 131. https://www.engadget.com/google-will-require-that-android-apps-let-you-delete-your-account-and-data-170618841.html 132. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1841255/google-will-require-that-android-apps-let-you-delete-your-account-and-data#comments 133. https://www.engadget.com/google-will-require-that-android-apps-let-you-delete-your-account-and-data-170618841.html 134. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=usa 135. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/182255/us-backed-vcs-are-funding-chinas-answer-to-openai 136. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sequoia-and-other-u-s-backed-vcs-are-funding-chinas-answer-to-openai 137. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/182255/us-backed-vcs-are-funding-chinas-answer-to-openai#comments 138. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sequoia-and-other-u-s-backed-vcs-are-funding-chinas-answer-to-openai 139. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ai 140. https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1713213/india-opts-against-ai-regulation 141. https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1713213/india-opts-against-ai-regulation#comments 142. https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/india-opts-against-ai-regulation/ 143. https://slashdot.org/story/23/03/29/1339220/ai-leaders-urge-labs-to-halt-training-models-more-powerful-than-chatgpt-4 144. https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=technology 145. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1656219/south-africa-fights-to-keep-phone-networks-up-as-lights-go-out 146. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/south-africa-fights-keep-phone-networks-up-lights-go-out-2023-04-05/ 147. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1656219/south-africa-fights-to-keep-phone-networks-up-as-lights-go-out#comments 148. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/south-africa-fights-keep-phone-networks-up-lights-go-out-2023-04-05/ 149. https://slashdot.org/ 150. https://slashdot.org/?page=1 151. http://deals.slashdot.org/ 152. https://slashdot.org/poll/3240/recently-an-open-letter-signed-by-tech-leaders-researchers-proposes-delaying-ai-development-do-you-agree-that-ai-development-should-be-temporarily-halted 153. https://slashdot.org/poll/3240/recently-an-open-letter-signed-by-tech-leaders-researchers-proposes-delaying-ai-development-do-you-agree-that-ai-development-should-be-temporarily-halted 154. https://slashdot.org/polls 155. https://slashdot.org/poll/3240/recently-an-open-letter-signed-by-tech-leaders-researchers-proposes-delaying-ai-development-do-you-agree-that-ai-development-should-be-temporarily-halted 156. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1449254/bob-lee-creator-of-cash-app-and-former-cto-of-square-stabbed-to-death?sbsrc=md 157. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/0410232/microsoft-and-jeff-bezos-tap-excel-not-python-or-r-to-teach-kids-data-science?sbsrc=md 158. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/04/1914215/american-teens-arent-excited-about-virtual-reality?sbsrc=md 159. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/05/1656219/south-africa-fights-to-keep-phone-networks-up-as-lights-go-out?sbsrc=md 160. https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/04/1647256/jamie-dimon-says-banking-crisis-not-over-and-will-cause-repercussions-for-years?sbsrc=md 161. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23/04/05/1656219&cid=63428398&sbsrc=topcom 162. https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=23/04/05/1656219&sbsrc=topcom 163. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23/04/05/2031212&cid=63429126&sbsrc=topcom 164. https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=23/04/05/2031212&sbsrc=topcom 165. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23/04/05/2031212&cid=63428936&sbsrc=topcom 166. https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=23/04/05/2031212&sbsrc=topcom 167. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23/04/05/2022251&cid=63428616&sbsrc=topcom 168. https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=23/04/05/2022251&sbsrc=topcom 169. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23/04/05/2214201&cid=63429552&sbsrc=topcom 170. https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=23/04/05/2214201&sbsrc=topcom 171. https://slashdot.org/ 172. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/05/2329236/paypal-pulls-north-carolina-plan-after-transgender-bathroom-law?sbsrc=thisday 173. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/04/06/057213/how-the-internet-is-taking-away-americas-religion?sbsrc=thisday 174. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/04/06/140202/no-more-bitkeeper-linux?sbsrc=thisday 175. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/04/04/06/2048208/us-justice-department-prepares-assault-on-pr0n?sbsrc=thisday 176. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/03/04/05/2138238/the-clueless-newbies-linux-odyssey?sbsrc=thisday 177. https://slashdot.org/ 178. https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/?source=sd_slashbox 179. https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/?source=sd_slashbox 180. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/?source=sd_slashbox 181. https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/?source=sd_slashbox 182. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/?source=sd_slashbox 183. https://sourceforge.net/?source=sd_slashbox 184. https://slashdot.org/ 185. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230406&view=search 186. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230405&view=search 187. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230404&view=search 188. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230403&view=search 189. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230402&view=search 190. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230401&view=search 191. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230331&view=search 192. https://slashdot.org/?issue=20230330&view=search 193. https://slashdot.org/submit 194. https://slashdot.org/faq 195. https://slashdot.org/archive.pl 196. https://slashdot.org/hof.shtml 197. https://slashdotmedia.com/advertising-and-marketing-services/ 198. https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/ 199. https://slashdotmedia.com/privacy-statement/ 200. https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml 201. mailto:feedback@slashdot.org 202. https://slashdot.org/ 203. https://slashdot.org/blog 204. https://slashdot.org/ 205. https://slashdot.org/ 206. https://slashdot.org/ Hidden links: 208. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 209. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 210. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 211. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 212. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 213. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 214. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 215. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 216. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 217. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 218. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 219. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 220. https://slashdot.org/tag/ 221. https://slashdot.org/newsletter 222. https://slashdot.org/