Despite a world economy that slowed significantly because of COVID-19, the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record last year, putting the goal of slowing the rise of global temperatures “way off track,” according to the …
Argon Fluoride Laser Could Lead To Practical Fusion Reactors
The US Naval Research Laboratory (AFL) is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology. New Atlas reports: The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is designed to have the shortest laser wave…
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports
An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game’s buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either. Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports …
CPU Benchmarks: Pre-Release Intel Alder Lake Chip Beats Apple’s M1 Max
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The reign of Apple’s M1 SoC at the top of the Geekbench speed benchmarks may soon be over with the impending arrival of Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake mobile processors. Hardware site Wccftech appears…
‘Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy’
Owen Jones, a British newspaper columnist and activist for the Labour Party, writes in an opinion piece for The Guardian: The aftermath of the horrific killing of Conservative MP David Amess should have been a moment for politicians and the public to u…
It’s Windows XP’s 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It
Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows. BleepingComputer reports: Windows XP was released on October 25, 200…
The FBI’s Internal Guide For Getting Data From AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A newly obtained document written by the FBI lays out in unusually granular detail how it and other law enforcement agencies can obtain location information of phones from telecommunication companie…
Meet Starlab: Private Space Station Planned To Fly In 2027
Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin announced today (Oct. 21) that they plan to get a free-flying private space station up and running in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 2027. Space.com reports: The outpost, called Starlab, is envisioned to be a tour…
Trump’s TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It’s Built On
ISayWeOnlyToBePolite writes: The new social network founded by former President Trump may violate the terms of use of the software on which it is based. On Wednesday night, after Trump revealed the TRUTH social app, Twitter users began to note that the…
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard To Sell Vinyl
“Vinyl was nearly at death’s door not that long ago. After CDs came out, the predictions of vinyl’s demise were an every day occurrence,” writes Slashdot reader smooth wombat. “And for a time it looked like the vinyl record, something which had been ar…