If humankind detects a message from an advanced civilisation, “It would be a transformative event for humankind,” writes the Guardian, “one the world’s nations are surely prepared for.

“Or are they?”
“Look at the mess we made when Covid hit. We’d be ……

[Chris Gammell] moderated the KiCad 2022 End-of-Year Recap with several KiCad developers and librarians. They reviewed what’s been bubbling up in the nightly KiCad 6 builds, what we can expect …read more
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Slashdot reader guest reader shares some interesting research from the University of Missouri:

Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first ……

Listen to that nagging voice in your head (or from your family member). It could save your life, now or later….

“The first open source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived,” writes TechCrunch, “but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all.”

This week, Philip Wang, the developer responsible for reverse-engineering closed-sourced AI systems inc……

Remember when MIT researchers did fMRI brain scans measuring the blood flow through brains to determine which parts were engaged when programmers evaluated code? MIT now says that a new paper (by many of the same authors) delves even deeper:

Whereas t……

Say, you’re starting your electronics journey with a few projects in mind. You have an ESP8266 board like the Wemos D1, a LiIon battery, you want to build a small …read more
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We’re buying more things online, the Washington Post notes. But how we buy may be changing too:

For the first time in years, Google and Meta have grabbed less than half of the digital marketing money spent in the United States in 2022. Amazon, which t……

“Rapid chess” grants 15 minutes to each player for all moves (plus 10 seconds per move). “Blitz chess” grants each player three minutes (plus 2 seconds per move).

Now CNN reports that five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen “won both the World……

Phoronix checks systemd’s Git activity in 2022 (and compares it to previous years):
If measuring a open-source project’s progress by the commity activity per year, while not the most practical indicator, systemd had a very good year. In 2022 there were……