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Science/Tech

Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

Saturday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake

Manoel Dixon had just finished dinner one night last May when a phone dinged nearby with a Facebook message.

Dixon, 26, was at his family’s hunting camp near their northern Quebec home town of Waswanipi. They knew the fellow hunter who was messaging Dixon’s father, but...

Country diary: Look up! Tonight’s the night to see Jupiter at its brightest | Nigel Brown

Saturday at 07:30 AM, via The Guardian

Ynys Môn (Anglesey): The wolf moon is spectacular enough, but look east and you’ll see a celestial titan the size of a pinprick

As unmissable as new year’s fireworks, the wolf moon held the heavens for the first few nights of January, casting an unearthly radiance over everything, night almost as bright as day. Now, as that moon wanes, prepare to be wowed by a true planetary A-lister:...

AI Is Intensifying a ‘Collapse’ of Trust Online, Experts Say

Saturday at 04:02 AM, via Slashdot

Experts interviewed by NBC News warn that the rapid spread of AI-generated images and videos is accelerating an online trust breakdown, especially during fast-moving news events where context is scarce. From the report: President Donald Trump’s Venezuela operation almost immediately spurred the spread of AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos across social media. On Wednesday, after...

Intel Is ‘Going Big Time Into 14A,’ Says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Saturday at 03:25 AM, via Slashdot

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company is “going big time” into its 14A (1.4nm-class) process, signaling confidence in yields and hinting at at least one external foundry customer. Tom’s Hardware reports: Intel’s 14A is expected to be production-ready in 2027, with early versions of process design kit (PDK) coming to external customers early this year. To that end, it is good to hear Intel’s...

Microsoft May Soon Allow IT Admins To Uninstall Copilot

Saturday at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

Microsoft is testing a new Windows policy that lets IT administrators uninstall Microsoft Copilot from managed devices. The change rolls out via Windows Insider builds and works through standard management tools like Intune and SCCM. BleepingComputer reports: The new policy will apply to devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the Microsoft Copilot app...

Google: Don’t Make ‘Bite-Sized’ Content For LLMs If You Care About Search Rank

Saturday at 02:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to superstition. An increasingly popular approach geared toward LLMs called “content chunking” may fall into that category. In the latest installment of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast,...

CES Worst In Show Awards Call Out the Tech Making Things Worse

Saturday at 01:20 AM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader chicksdaddy writes: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, isn’t just about shiny new gadgets. As AP reports, this year brought back the fifth annual Worst in Show anti-awards, calling out the most harmful, wasteful, invasive, and unfixable tech at the Las Vegas show. The coalition behind the awards — including Repair.org, iFixit, EFF, PIRG, Secure Repairs, and others —...

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver

Saturday at 00:40 AM, via Slashdot

Valve has added the NTSYNC kernel driver to the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, laying the groundwork for improved Windows game synchronization performance via Wine and Proton. Phoronix reports: For gearing up for that future Proton NTSYNC support, SteamOS 3.7.20 enables the NTSYNC kernel driver and loads the module by default. Most Linux distributions are at least already building the NTSYNC kernel...

Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

Saturday at 00:02 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2 million-euro fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued that filtering its global 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver would be “impossible” without hurting overall performance. AGCOM disagreed, noting that Cloudflare...

Microsoft Windows Media Player Stops Serving Up CD Album Info

Friday at 23:25 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service. Readers of a certain vintage will remember inserting a CD into their PC and watching Windows Media Player populate with track listings and album artwork. No more. Sometime before Christmas, the metadata...

Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo

Friday at 22:59 PM, via Wired

Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.

Identity and Ideology in the School Boardroom

Friday at 22:41 PM, via Slashdot

The abstract of a paper on NBER: School boards have statutory authority over most elementary and secondary education policies, but receive little attention compared to other actors in education systems. A fundamental challenge to understanding the importance of boards is the absence of data on the policy goals of board members — i.e., their ideologies — forcing researchers to conduct tests...

The Golden Age of Vaccine Development

Friday at 22:01 PM, via Slashdot

Microbiology had its golden age in the late nineteenth century, when researchers identified the bacterial causes of tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, and a dozen other diseases in rapid succession. Antibiotics had theirs in the mid-twentieth century. Both booms eventually slowed. Vaccine development, by contrast, appears to be speeding up — and the most productive era may still lie ahead, Works...

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