Have private conversations and delete them like they never happened, right from your Notes app….
Möbius String Robot Goes Round and Round
While it doesn’t look like a traditional robot, the hydrogel robot from [Zi Liang Wu] forms a möbius strip and can be activated by light. They also experimented with shaping …read more
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America Takes Its Biggest Step Yet to End Coal Mining
The Washington Post reports that America took “one of its biggest steps yet to keep fossil fuels in the ground,” announcing Thursday that it will end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, “which produces nearly half the coal in the United States…….
A Tiny Tuner For The Low Power Ham
Something that all radio amateurs encounter sooner or later is the subject of impedance matching. If you’d like to make sure all that power is transferred from your transmitter into …read more
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Robot Dogs Armed With AI-aimed Rifles Undergo US Marines Special Ops Evaluation
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shared this report from Ars Technica:
The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic “dogs” developed by Ghost Robotics, with the potential t……
M1 Development Board from Scraps
Apple is fairly notorious for building devices that are difficult to repair, but with the right tools it’s often not completely impossible to circumvent some of their barriers. As they …read more
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Why a ‘Frozen’ Distribution Linux Kernel Isn’t the Safest Choice for Security
Jeremy Allison — Sam (Slashdot reader #8,157) is a Distinguished Engineer at Rocky Linux creator CIQ. This week he published a blog post responding to promises of Linux distros “carefully selecting only the most polished and pristine open source ……
Hack Your Own Adventure Story with Yarn Spinner
We are big fans of programmed texts for education. You know, the kind where you answer a question and go to a new page based on your answer. But they …read more
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Are AI-Generated Search Results Still Protected by Section 230?
Starting this week millions will see AI-generated answers in Google’s search results by default. But the announcement Tuesday at Google’s annual developer conference suggests a future that’s “not without its risks, both to users and to Google itself,” ……
How an ‘Unprecedented’ Google Cloud Event Wiped Out a Major Customer’s Account
Ars Technica looks at what happened after Google’s answer to Amazon’s cloud service “accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason…”
“[A]ccording to UniSuper’s incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services ……