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UK Signs Scaled-Back Scientific Collaboration With China
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1355205/uk-signs-scaled-back-scientific-collaboration-with-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UK Signs Scaled-Back Scientific Collaboration With China
The UK and China today signed a new bilateral agreement on scientific collaboration [non-paywalled source], narrowing the scope of their partnership to exclude sensitive technologies. Lord Patrick Vallance, Britain's science and technology minister, met his Chinese counterpart Chen Jiachang in Beiji...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
UK Signs Scaled-Back Scientific Collaboration With China
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/1355205/uk-signs-scaled-back-scientific-collaboration-with-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UK Secondary Schools Pivoting From Narrowly Focused CS Curriculum To AI Literacy
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0125233/uk-secondary-schools-pivoting-from-narrowly-focused-cs-curriculum-to-ai-literacy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
UK Secondary Schools Pivoting From Narrowly Focused CS Curriculum To AI Literacy
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: The UK Department for Education is "replacing its narrowly focused computer science GCSE with a broader, future-facing computing GCSE [General Certificate of Secondary Education] and exploring a new qualification in data science and AI for 16-18-year-olds." Th...
news.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
UK Secondary Schools Pivoting From Narrowly Focused CS Curriculum To AI Literacy
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0125233/uk-secondary-schools-pivoting-from-narrowly-focused-cs-curriculum-to-ai-literacy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0119210/chinas-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds
China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, "adding evidence to the hope that the world's biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule," reports the Guardian. From the report: Rapid increases in the deployment of solar and wind power...
news.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
China's CO2 Emissions Have Been Flat Or Falling For Past 18 Months, Analysis Finds
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/0119210/chinas-co2-emissions-have-been-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/238215/saudi-arabias-dystopian-futuristic-city-project-is-crashing-and-burning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: It appears that Neom -- Saudi Arabia's hugely expensive, architecturally bizarre urban development project -- is floundering and close to collapse. A new report from the Financial Times cites high-level sources within the project to paint a picture o...
news.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/238215/saudi-arabias-dystopian-futuristic-city-project-is-crashing-and-burning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2320251/a-jailed-hacking-kingpin-reveals-all-about-cybercrime-gang?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang
Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an exclusive BBC interview with Vyacheslav "Tank" Penchukov, once a top-tier cyber-crime boss behind Jabber Zeus, IcedID, and major ransomware campaigns. His story traces the evolution of modern cybercrime from early bank-theft malware to today's lucrative ra...
it.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2320251/a-jailed-hacking-kingpin-reveals-all-about-cybercrime-gang?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
EU Eyes Banning Huawei, ZTE Corp From Mobile Networks of Member Countries
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2257257/eu-eyes-banning-huawei-zte-corp-from-mobile-networks-of-member-countries?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
EU Eyes Banning Huawei, ZTE Corp From Mobile Networks of Member Countries
The European Commission is considering turning its non-binding 2020 guidance on "high-risk vendors" into a legal requirement that would effectively force EU member states to phase out Huawei and ZTE from mobile and fixed-line networks. Bloomberg reports: Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen wa...
mobile.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
EU Eyes Banning Huawei, ZTE Corp From Mobile Networks of Member Countries
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2257257/eu-eyes-banning-huawei-zte-corp-from-mobile-networks-of-member-countries?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Linux Kernel Looks To 'Bite the Bullet' In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2250251/the-linux-kernel-looks-to-bite-the-bullet-in-enabling-microsoft-c-extensions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Linux Kernel Looks To 'Bite the Bullet' In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
Linux kernel developers are moving toward enabling Microsoft C Extensions (-fms-extensions) by default in Linux 6.19, with Linus Torvalds signaling no objection. While some dislike relying on Microsoft-style behavior, the patches in kbuild-next suggest the project is ready to "bite the bullet" and a...
developers.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Linux Kernel Looks To 'Bite the Bullet' In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2250251/the-linux-kernel-looks-to-bite-the-bullet-in-enabling-microsoft-c-extensions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Critics Call Proposed Changes To Landmark EU Privacy Law 'Death By a Thousand Cuts'
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2237230/critics-call-proposed-changes-to-landmark-eu-privacy-law-death-by-a-thousand-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Critics Call Proposed Changes To Landmark EU Privacy Law 'Death By a Thousand Cuts'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation. The changes proposed by the Europea...
yro.slashdot.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Critics Call Proposed Changes To Landmark EU Privacy Law 'Death By a Thousand Cuts'
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2237230/critics-call-proposed-changes-to-landmark-eu-privacy-law-death-by-a-thousand-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1611252/tim-berners-lee-says-ai-will-not-destroy-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media's corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts...
tech.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1611252/tim-berners-lee-says-ai-will-not-destroy-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1414217/subsea-cable-investment-set-to-double-as-tech-giants-accelerate-ai-buildout?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overal...
tech.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1414217/subsea-cable-investment-set-to-double-as-tech-giants-accelerate-ai-buildout?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1334256/microsoft-bets-on-influencers-to-close-the-gap-with-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The co...
slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1334256/microsoft-bets-on-influencers-to-close-the-gap-with-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1328225/visa-and-mastercard-near-deal-with-merchants-that-would-change-rewards-landscape?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and ...
slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/1328225/visa-and-mastercard-near-deal-with-merchants-that-would-change-rewards-landscape?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0215252/whats-the-best-ways-for-humans-to-explore-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?
Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who's researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:
In space, as on Earth, industrial stru...
science.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What's the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0215252/whats-the-best-ways-for-humans-to-explore-space?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0648228/nvidia-connects-ai-gpus-to-early-quantum-processors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
"Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer..." argues investment site The Motley Fool, "by linking today's fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors..."
NVIDIA's new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — o...
hardware.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0648228/nvidia-connects-ai-gpus-to-early-quantum-processors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0552217/rust-foundation-announces-maintainers-fund-to-ensure-continuity-and-support-long-term-roles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to "shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work" that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative "to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust programming la...
developers.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Rust Foundation Announces 'Maintainers Fund' to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0552217/rust-foundation-announces-maintainers-fund-to-ensure-continuity-and-support-long-term-roles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0357222/nonprofit-releases-thousands-of-rare-american-music-recordings-online?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great...
entertainment.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0357222/nonprofit-releases-thousands-of-rare-american-music-recordings-online?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/0133240/what-happens-when-humans-start-writing-for-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility.
"In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI."
"I write about artificial i...
news.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
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Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2353232/apple-explores-new-satellite-features-for-future-iphones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there's now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages.
But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint:
As per Bloomberg's Mark Gu...
apple.slashdot.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2353232/apple-explores-new-satellite-features-for-future-iphones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2017240/python-foundation-donations-surge-after-rejecting-grant---but-sponsorships-still-needed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
After the Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million grant because it restricted DEI activity, "a flood of new donations followed," according to a new report. By Friday they'd raised over $157,000, including 295 new Supporting Members paying an annual $99 membership fee, says PSF executive...
developers.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/2017240/python-foundation-donations-surge-after-rejecting-grant---but-sponsorships-still-needed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/1845207/blue-origin-livestreams-attempt-to-launch-unique-escapade-mission-to-mars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
Blue Origin is livestreaming the launch of its New Glenn rocketreports CNN, "where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago." By observing two Mars locations simultaneously, this mission can measure how Mars responds to space weather in real...
science.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ''EscaPADE' Mission to Mars
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/1845207/blue-origin-livestreams-attempt-to-launch-unique-escapade-mission-to-mars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/189220/ai-slop-in-court-filings-lawyers-keep-citing-fake-ai-hallucinated-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
"According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for AI blunders," reports the New York Times:
Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 case called Brasher ...
yro.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/189220/ai-slop-in-court-filings-lawyers-keep-citing-fake-ai-hallucinated-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being reco...
tech.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0528258/lost-unix-v4-possibly-recovered-on-a-forgotten-bell-labs-tape-from-1973?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0610228/neurodiverse-professionals-25-more-satisfied-with-ai-tools-and-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
Neurodiverse professionals may see unique benefits from artificial intelligence tools and agents, research suggests. With AI agent creation booming in 2025, people with conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia and more report a more level playing...
it.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0610228/neurodiverse-professionals-25-more-satisfied-with-ai-tools-and-agents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0232234/rust-is-coming-to-debians-apt-package-manager?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
A maintainer of Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT) "has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026," reports the blog It's FOSS.
The integration targets critical areas like parsing .deb, .ar, and tar files plus HTTP signature verification using Sequoia. [APT m...
linux.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0232234/rust-is-coming-to-debians-apt-package-manager?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2342231/hilarious-unused-audio-from-2003-baseball-game-rediscovered-by-video-game-history-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
After popular arcade games like Mortal Kombat and Spy Hunter, Midway Games jumped into the home console market, and in 2003 launched their baseball game franchise "MLB Slugfest" for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube. But at times it was almost a parody of baseball, including announcers filling the long hours...
games.slashdot.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hilarious Unused Audio From 2003 Baseball Game Rediscovered by Video Game History Foundation
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/2342231/hilarious-unused-audio-from-2003-baseball-game-rediscovered-by-video-game-history-foundation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed