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The People Who Won't Give Up Floppy Disks - Slashdot
Slashdot· 12 hours agoSlashdot reader quonset writes: The last floppy disk was manufactured in 2011. Despite no new supplies being available for over a decade, there are still people, and organizations ...
Former Boeing Quality Inspector Turns Whistleblower, Says Plane Parts Had Serious Defects - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 hours agoThursday the BBC reported: Plane bodies made by Boeing's largest supplier regularly left the factory with serious defects, according to a former quality inspector at the firm. Santiago Paredes ...
G5 Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued For First Time Since 2003 - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoLongtime Slashdot reader davidwr shares a report from Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC): On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Severe ...
The World's Largest Vaccuum to Suck Climate Pollution From the Air Just Began Operating - Slashdot
Slashdot· 6 hours agoAn anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The "world's largest" plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on ...
Red Hat (and CIQ) Offer Extend Support for RHEL 7 (and CentOS 7) - Slashdot
Slashdot· 10 hours agoThis week, The Register reported: If you are still running RHEL 7, which is now approaching a decade old, there's good news. Red Hat is offering four more years of support for RHEL 7.9, which ...
RHEL (and Rocky and Alma Linux) 9.4 Released - Plus AI Offerings - Slashdot
Slashdot· 11 hours agoRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 has been released. But also released is Rocky Linux 9.4, reports 9to5Linux: Rocky Linux 9.4 also adds openSUSE's KIWI next-generation appliance builder as a new ...
Google Employees Question Execs Over 'Decline in Morale' After Blowout Earnings - Slashdot
Slashdot· 8 hours ago"But at an all-hands meeting last week with CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruth Porat, employees were more focused on why that performance isn't translating into higher pay, and how long the company's ...
Neuralink's First Implant Partly Detached From Patient's Brain - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoAncient Slashdot reader jd shares a report from The Guardian: Neuralink's first attempt at implanting its chip in a human being's skull hit an unexpected setback after the ...
Could Stem Cells One Day Cure Diabetes? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 13 hours agoBrian Shelton's type 1 diabetes was treated with an infusion of insulin-producing pancreas cells (grown from stem cells). In 2021, the New York Times reported: Now his body automatically controls ...
'Hunt For Gollum' Short on YouTube Survives New Peter Jackson Movie Announcement - Slashdot
Slashdot· 16 hours agoThursday CNN reported: The Oscar-winning team behind the nearly $6 billion blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies is reuniting to produce two new films. The first of the ...