America’s federally-owned electric utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority, has spent billions of dollars with nothing to show for it, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
“Nearly 47 years after construction began on the Bellefonte Nuclear Power…
Slashdot reader AleRunner tipped us off to some excitement in the UK:
The British government said on Friday it may draft in the army to help deliver gas after shortages caused by a scarcity of truck drivers forced the closure of stations across the cou…
The cryptocurrency-ATM company Coinmover has over 100 machines in stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Washington state — and plans to have 1,250 machines in 18 states by the end of the year, reports the Boston Globe.
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Slashdot reader Striek writes: VoIP.ms, a Canadian VoIP provider [also serving the US], has been under a sustained, and presumably massive DDoS attack which started on the September 16th, 2021. The attack has been disruptive enough to be covered by maj…
Epik’s massive data breach is already affecting lives. Today the Washington Post describes a real estate agent in Pompano Beach who urged buyers on Facebook to move to “the most beautiful State.” His name and personal details “were found on invoices su…
“An international team of physicists have come up with a way to generate antimatter in the lab,” reports Popular Mechanics, theoretically “allowing them to recreate conditions that are similar to those near a neutron star.”
This setup, at Helmholtz-Zen…
On Monday RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wrote: Regular readers may remember recurring concerns over the instability of the island of La Palma, in the Canaries archipelago [population: 85,000]. Estimates of the threat ranged from 100 megadeaths (…
“Harassment and abuse are all too common on the modern internet,” writes the New York Times. “Yet it was supposed to be different in Germany.”
In 2017, the country enacted one of the world’s toughest laws against online hate speech. It requires Facebo…
While it’s been argued that Linux has four different “birthdays,” last Friday saw the 30th anniversary of Linux’s very, very first release — version 0.01.
That special first release “was never publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of …
Google used its “huge financial muscle” to illegally hurt competitors, the Competition Commission of India found after an antitrust investigation. But now Reuters says Google is suing the commission — for leaking the results of that investigation…
