For 32 years a human named Andy Chanley has been a radio announcer (now working afternoon’s at Southern California’s 88.5 KCSN), Reuters reports. But now….
“I may be a robot, but I still love to rock,” says the robot DJ named ANDY, derived from Arti…
“Security researchers analyzed nine popular WiFi routers and found a total of 226 potential vulnerabilities in them,” reports Bleeping Computer, “even when running the latest firmware.”
Slashdot reader joshuark shared their report:
The tested routers a…
Long-time Slashdot reader mtaht writes:
Comcast fully deployed bufferbloat fixes across their entire network over the past year, demonstrating 90% improvements in working latency and jitter — which is described in this article by by Comcast Vice…
“Cryptocurrency was down by as much as 20% Saturday, hitting its lowest point in months,” reports MarketWatch:
Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, was down 18% at $46,571.84 at about 7 a.m. ET, according to data from CoinDesk. It temp…
“I used to be able to understand 99% of the dialogue in Hollywood films,” writes professional film blogger Ben Pearson. “But over the past 10 years or so, I’ve noticed that percentage has dropped significantly — and it’s not due to hearing loss o…
“The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning,” reports Space.com, “continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.”
On Friday (Dec. 3) at around 3 a.m. EST (0800 GMT), a …
“The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the first-ever detection of neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerla…
While the Omicron mutation might “impact” the effectiveness of our current vaccines, they’re “super unlikely” to render them useless, according to Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health.
And USA Today reports that vaccine …
“The thought of combining a printer (the bane of office workers) with the bacterium E. coli (the scourge of romaine lettuce) may seem an odd, if not unpleasant, collaboration,” writes the New York Times.
“But scientists have recently melded the virtu…
ZDNet reports:
By and large, the public cloud runs on Linux. Most users, even Microsoft Azure customers, run Linux on the cloud. In the case of market giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud provider will let you run many Linux distros or their own…
