On January 16th, 2025 with 85 comments
Sweden has begun constructing a long-term storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, making it only the second country after Finland to build such a...
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On January 21st, 2024 with 181 comments
In 2003, Hans Reiser answered questions from Slashdot's readers...
Today Wikipedia describes Hans Reiser as "a computer programmer, entrepreneur, and...
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On September 28th, 2022 with 93 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Buhlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model...
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On November 13th, 2019 with 50 comments
pacopico writes: GitHub's CEO Nat Friedman traveled to Svalbard in October to stash Linux, Android, and 6,000 other open-source projects in a...
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On August 19th, 2019 with 81 comments
Scott Hanselman: Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It stopped shipping in 2009 on DVD. I recently found a disk and was...
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On August 17th, 2018 with 99 comments
With the industry currently facing a very large surplus of NAND flash memory, analysts suggest we could see very significant price drops in SSD and even DRAM...
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On February 4th, 2018 with 295 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Complex magazine:
The future of physical music isn't looking good. According to Billboard, consumer electronics company Best Buy...
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On April 5th, 2017 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Norway's famous doomsday seed vault is getting a new neighbor. It's called the Arctic World Archive, and it...
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On March 20th, 2017 with 522 comments
Thomas Claburn, reporting for The Register: The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling of contempt against a chap who claimed he...
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On November 2nd, 2016 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd said it would buy Brocade Communications Systems Inc for $5.5 billion, pushing deeper...
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On October 25th, 2016 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: Researchers have discovered a method to use the Rowhammer RAM attack for rooting Android devices. For...
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On September 10th, 2016 with 98 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: A new malware family has infected over 70% of all Seagate Central NAS devices connected to the Internet. The malware,...
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On August 31st, 2016 with 47 comments
River Tam quotes a report from CSO Australia: Enterprise access management firm OneLogin has suffered an embarrassing breach tied to a single employee's...
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On August 2nd, 2016 with 209 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Yahoo News: Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has published its hard drive stats for Q2 2016. Yahoo News...
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On May 30th, 2016 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report issued by Softpedia on May 27: Microsoft and several other security researchers have detected the first ransomware...
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On May 17th, 2016 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Google Institute has developed an ultra-high resolution gigapixel Art Camera which can automatically recompose images into...
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On May 11th, 2016 with 117 comments
Samsung recently unveiled its EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, capable of storing more than 12 hours of 4K video footage, 33 hours of full HD recording, 55,200...
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On April 27th, 2016 with 81 comments
the_newsbeagle writes: More than 2.5 exabytes of data is created every day, and some experts estimate that 90% of all data in the world today was created in...
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On March 10th, 2016 with 86 comments
An anonymous reader writes: After over a decade of ownership of the product, Google announced just a few weeks ago that it will be closing the shutters for...
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On February 18th, 2016 with 61 comments
prisoninmate writes: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) builds are available for download in the form of Live and Installable ISO images for Desktop,...
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On November 10th, 2015 with 103 comments
AmiMoJo writes: In March 2016 Sony will finally end sales of its Betamax video tapes. The firm revealed on its website that it will also stop shipping the...
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On July 19th, 2015 with 75 comments
If you were browsing the site on Thursday, you may have noticed that we went static for a big chunk of the day. A few of you asked what the deal was, so here's...
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On May 14th, 2015 with 200 comments
kramer2718 writes: I am working on a project that requires uploading and storing of documents. Although the application will need to allow uploading of .docx,...
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On April 2nd, 2014 with 161 comments
jones_supa (887896) writes "Wanting to focus their efforts on their most important strategic initiatives and ensuring that the company is not spread too thin,...
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On March 20th, 2014 with 62 comments
kc123 writes "The UK government has announced plans to create the Alan Turing Institute intended to tackle problems in Big Data. The government will provide...
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On November 19th, 2013 with 135 comments
jones_supa writes "During the first day of the latest virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, Canonical developers finally plotted out the enabling of TRIM/DISCARD...
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On October 29th, 2013 with 230 comments
A year ago today, Superstorm Sandy struck the northeastern U.S.
The storm destroyed homes — in some cases entire
neighborhoods — and brought...
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On July 31st, 2013 with 274 comments
SmartAboutThings writes "A month ago, Microsoft was involved in a legal battle in the United Kingdom, when the court found that there was a conflict between...
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On July 23rd, 2013 with 122 comments
New submitter rogue_archivist writes "I'm an archivist at a mid-sized university archives, trying to develop a policy for archiving computer files...
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On May 7th, 2013 with 193 comments
First time accepted submitter anonymous writes "Ever thought it might be a good idea to store encrypted data in a QRCode video? Using this technique one could...
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