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Heat Waves Grip 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 hours agoAn anonymous reader shares a report: Punishing heat waves gripped three continents on Tuesday, breaking records in cities around the Northern Hemisphere less than two weeks after the Earth recorded ...
Ukraine Turning To AI To Prioritize 700 Years of Landmine Removal - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoMattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen so many landmines deployed across the country that clearing them would take 700 years, say researchers ...
Microplastics Discovered In Human Penises For the First Time - Slashdot
Slashdot· 7 hours agoAn anonymous reader writes: Scientists have found microplastics in human penises for the first time, as concerns over the tiny particles' proliferation and potential health effects mount. Seven ...
EU Chat Control Law Proposes Scanning Your Messages - Even Encrypted Ones - Slashdot
Slashdot· 14 hours agoThe European Union is getting closer to passing new rules that would mandate the bulk scanning of digital messages -- including encrypted ones. On Thursday, EU governments will adopt a position ...
FedEx's Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network - Slashdot
Slashdot· 11 hours agoTwenty years ago, FedEx established its own police force. From a report: Forbes has learned the shipping and business services company is using AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car ...
Plan for New Accounting Rules on Software Costs Moves Forward - Slashdot
Slashdot· 12 hours agoU.S. companies may need to report cash amounts tied to their software expenditures, more of which would be moved off corporate balance sheets under a forthcoming proposal to update decades-old ...
Pornhub To Block Five More States Over Age Verification Laws - Slashdot
Slashdot· 9 hours agoPornhub plans to block access to its website in Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, and Nebraska in response to age verification laws designed to prevent children from accessing adult websites ...
In Memoriam: Dr. Ed Stone, Former NASA JPL Director and Voyager Project Scientist - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoSlashdot reader hackertourist shared this announcement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and project ...
AI Researcher Warns Data Science Could Face a Reproducibility Crisis - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoLong-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this warning from a long-time AI researcher arguing that data science "is due" for a reckoning over whether results can be reproduced ...
Britain's Universities in Existential Crisis? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 18 hours agoBritain's university sector, a key contributor to the country's economy and global standing, is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its very existence, according to an analysis by ...