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Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Technological interventions face huge financial or practical challenges, but there is another way

In 2019, my scientific research was nearly brought to an early end when my team and I published the bombastic statement that natural forest restoration was the “best climate change solution” available in a paper for the peer-reviewed journal Science.

I remember a colleague from the World Wildlife...

The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right? | Helen Pilcher

Today at 12:30 PM, via The Guardian

Project Hail Mary, Jurassic Park: from dino-mosquitoes to a spaceship’s roar, pointless mistakes on the scientific details make me wince

On the advice of my teenage son, I recently went to the cinema to see Project Hail Mary. The film has science in it. I am a science writer and so he was convinced I would like it.

Imagine my surprise partway through, however, when I found myself seething so...

UK Institute Is Hunting for Dangers Lurking in AI

Today at 11:01 AM, via New York Times

The government’s A.I. Security Institute, staffed by alumni from OpenAI and Google, is becoming a model for countries grappling with A.I.’s emerging risks.

‘Underminr’ CDN Vulnerability Hides Malicious Traffic Behind Trusted Domains

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Researchers say the vulnerability could impact roughly 88 million domains and can bypass DNS filtering and protective DNS controls, potentially enabling stealthy command-and-control communications and other evasive...

Tesla’s Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever

Today at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab “has been certified at 165 Wh/mi,” reports Electrek — which makes it “the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide margin.” The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which represents a certified rating — not a marketing claim...

Linus Torvalds on How AI is Impacting the Hunt for Linux Kernel Bugs

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Linus Torvalds spoke this week at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, reports ZDNet — and described how AI is impacting Linux kernel development:”In the last six months, we’ve seen a lot more commits,” Torvalds noted, estimating that “the last two releases, it’s been about 20% more commits than we had in the previous releases over many years…. The real change that...

Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA:A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president’s backing. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will...

AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes:AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool… Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, which is supposedly the carrot. The stick, however, is the removal of...

US Layoffs Haven’t Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

“The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post, “although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life… “A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs affected about 1.2% of employed people in March, a number that has been...

Air France, Airbus Guilty of Corporate Manslaughter In 2009 Air France 447 Crash

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC:Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer “solely and entirely responsible” for the incident, in which flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The...

Free Software Foundation’s Call for ‘LibreLocals’ Answered on Six Continents – With More Coming

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Free Software Foundation announced this week that “its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far.” (And new dates and locations are being added daily.)The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May...

Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”. Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace. “The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll…”Earlier this week, Google rolled...

Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.” That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to limit warming to the international goal set in 2015.”Researchers’ new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing...

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