On Monday morning the moderation team for the Rust programming language “resigned effective immediately,” reports The New Stack:
The resignation was tendered via a pull request on GitHub, wherein team member Andrew Gallant wrote that the team resigne…
The Seattle Times reports:
The litany of manufacturing defects on the 787 Dreamliner is expanding as Boeing engineers take apart planes and discover new or more widespread issues, a Federal Aviation Administration internal memo indicates. The FAA memo…
Three years ago Strella Biotechnology launched to “try to reduce waste in the U.S. food system — a problem that by some estimates creates as much emissions as 33 million passenger vehicles,” reports the Washington Post. Alternate URL here and her…
MIT’s Technology Review shares data from a Facebook-run tool called CrowdTangle. It shows that by 2018 in the nation of Myanmar (population: 53 million), ” All the engagement had instead gone to fake news and clickbait websites.
“In a country where F…
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: This week Marvel released an epic three-minute trailer hyping December’s releases of Spider-Man: No Way Home. “It comes after the initial trailer, which focused on the movie’s multiversal villains, broke Yo…
America’s push to manufacturer more products domestically gets an in-depth look from CNET — including a new Intel chip factory outside of Phoenix.
CNET calls it a fork in the road “after squandering its lead because of a half decade of problems…
Friday Rockstar Games issued an update in the Announcements section of the company’s web site “regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as part of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition.” (See Sla…
CNN reports on researcher Michael Worobey, “who specializes in tracing the genetic evolution of viruses,” who has now found “considerable evidence that the virus arose in an animal, and did not start circulating until the end of 2019.”
One case espec…
Recently Australian developer Geoffrey Huntley announced they’d created a 20-terabyte archive of all NFTs on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.
But one NFT startup company now says they tried downloading the archive — and discovered most of it…
“An Australian company is part of an international effort to recycle dangerous space junk into rocket fuel — in space,” reports the Guardian.
Slashdot reader votsalo shared their report (which also looks at some of the other companies working o…
