SpaceX Unveils Sweeping Starship V3 Upgrades
SpaceX has detailed major Starship V3 upgrades ahead of a launch targeted as early as May 19. The changes are meant to move Starship closer to its core goals: rapid reuse, Starlink deployment, orbital refueling, and eventually Moon and Mars missions. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Teslarati: Here is an explicit, broken-down list of the key changes, first start … ⌘ Read more
Many people started to become distrustful of big tech in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. I began feeling pessimistic back in 2016, when AlphaGo beat master Go player Lee Sedol four games to one. Something about that event has soured me on the future of technology ever since.
Open Source Developer Brings Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME
Microsoft released the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” in 2016, adding an optional Linux environment into every operating system since Windows 10. But now an open source developer has brought Linux to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, reports the blog It’s FOSS, “with Linux kernel 6.19 running alongside the Windows 9x ker … ⌘ Read more
Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster - But Loses Satellite
SpaceNews reports:
Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable “off-nominal” orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate… AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satell … ⌘ Read more
Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 “is running out of power,” reports NPR:
The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishe … ⌘ Read more
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won’t Survive Another 50 Years
Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million “Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics”. He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theo … ⌘ Read more
Is the Iran War Driving a Surge of Interest in Electric Cars?
In October and through November, America’s EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. “But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter.
“One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is hig … ⌘ Read more
Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial
NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of “personalized messenger RNA vaccines” which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. “The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence.”
Patients still have s … ⌘ Read more
Motorola Sues Social Media Platforms and Creators in India
“Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators,” reports TechCrunch, “over posts it alleges are defamatory…”
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as bro … ⌘ Read more
HP Will Discontinue ‘HP Anyware’ Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:
HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
“Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029,” a href=”https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life”>according … ⌘ Read more
Disney Creates Its Own IMAX for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ After Losing Screens to ‘Dune: Part 3’
Ahead of December’s release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled “Infinity Vision,” reports Kotaku, which they describe as “a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one.” (Though those prices appear to be estimat … ⌘ Read more
Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got “superfloppy” formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those w … ⌘ Read more
Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews
Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.
And there’s been other changes, reports Entrepreneur:
In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headline … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS
As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release. The Linux 7.0 milestone comes due to Linus Torvalds’ preference of bumping the major version number after hitting X.19 as opposed to any single major change, but in any event there are a lot of great improvements and changes to find with this new kernel version. Linux 7.0 is also what’s powering the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release… ⌘ Read more
We cleaned up the forest today with the scouts at absolute dream weather. Blue sky, no clouds, 19°C sunshine. In the morning it was still quite chilly and windy, though. We didn’t find anything spectacular, maybe a rubber dinghy, three car tires and a broken ratchet strap are the most outstanding things to me apart from all the general rubbish, cigarettes, glass, wet wipes, etc. Still, a very fun activity. In the end we had bockwurst, grilled cheese and lye buns on the camp fire.
I then went for a quick stroll with my mate. It’s crazy how quickly the clouds moved in, 30-45 minutes tops. There will be rain in an hour. And the coming days only reach half the temps. I’m glad I took advantage of the great spring day. Haven’t seen Azabache yet and with the rain on deck, the odds are against him and me.
TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel
TUXEDO Computers’ laptops received some heat in the past from upstream Linux kernel developers over their out-of-tree kernel drivers but fortunately that situation has been improving. The Uniwill driver premiered in the Linux 6.19 kernel with that OEM manufacturing many of the TUXEDO Computers laptop models. That Uniwill x86 platform driver enabled more functionality for TUXEDO hardware in the mainline kernel and has continued improvi … ⌘ Read more
ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0
Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver… ⌘ Read more
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I called it quits a bit earlier and enjoyed the sunny 19°C blue sky in nature. I just sat an entire hour on a bench (12) near a habitat (07) and enjoyed the sun rays and singing birds around me. When I returned, the batteries were almost drained. The sunset finished them off, so that I could not record Azabache’s concert shortly after. However, I saw that amazing bird this morning and got him on film. Enjoy!
AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs
With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver. For these Southern Islands and Sea Islands graphics cards it means much better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improved functionality in using this modern AMDGPU kernel graphics driver on Linux. One of the exceptions has been the GCN 1.1 APUs like Kaveri still defaulting to the older R … ⌘ Read more
Python Blood Could Hold the Secret To Healthy Weight Loss
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: CU Boulder researchers are reporting that they have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The findings were published in the journal Natural Metabolism on March 19, 2026.
Pythons can … ⌘ Read more
Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% In March
Valve’s March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share – more than double macOS’s 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support
Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions… ⌘ Read more
Trivy Supply Chain Attack Spreads, Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages
“We have removed all malicious artifacts from the affected registries and channels,” Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury posted today, noting that all the latest Trivy releases “now point to a safe version.” But “On March 19, we observed that a threat actor used a compromised credential…”
And … ⌘ Read more
SUSE’s Agama Installer Sees Architectural Revamp
The modern Agama OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE is out with its first new release since November. With the time since the prior release, SUSE engineers have been making key improvements to Agama and enhancing its architecture to more align with their original vision for it… ⌘ Read more
Chuck Norris Dies At 86
Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86.
He became Internet phenomenon after “Chuck Norris Facts” went viral online with such wildly hyperbolic statements as, “Chuck Norris had a staring contest w … ⌘ Read more
As OpenClaw Enthusiasm Grips China, Kids and Retirees Alike Raise ‘Lobsters’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started raising a “lobster,” hoping that the AI agent he has been training can help organize his specialized industry knowledge better than chatbots like DeepSeek. “OpenClaw can actually help you accomplish many pra … ⌘ Read more
Opera GX Web Browser Comes To Linux
BrianFagioli writes: Opera GX has officially landed on Linux, bringing its gamer-focused browser experience to Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE-based systems. The browser includes GX Control for limiting RAM and network usage, a Hot Tabs Killer to shut down resource-heavy tabs, and built-in sidebar integrations for Discord and Twitch. Opera says this is not just a one-off port, but a long-term effo … ⌘ Read more
China Is Helping Drive Cuba’s Solar Boom
AleRunner writes: “China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades,” reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that “China’s decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis … ⌘ Read more
EU Cloud Lobby Asks Regulator To Block VMware From Terminating Partner Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal … ⌘ Read more
Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says
Cloudflare’s CEO predicts AI-driven bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027, as AI agents generate vastly more web requests than people. “If a human were doing a task – let’s say you were shopping for a digital camera – and you might go to five websites. Your agent or the bot that’s doing that will often go to 1 … ⌘ Read more
4Chan Mocks $700K Fine For UK Online Safety Breaches
The UK regulator Ofcom fined 4chan nearly $700,000 (520,000 pounds) for failing to implement age checks and address illegal content risks under the Online Safety Act, but the platform mocked the penalty and signaled it won’t pay. A lawyer representing the company responded with an AI-generated cartoon image of a hamster, writing in a follow-up post on X: “In the only coun … ⌘ Read more
Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta
For the second time in the past month, an AI agent went rogue at Meta – this time giving an engineer incorrect advice that briefly exposed sensitive data. The Verge reports: A Meta engineer was using an internal AI agent, which Clayton described as “similar in nature to OpenClaw within a secure development environment,” to analyze a technical question another employee pos … ⌘ Read more
Of course, the battery went flat when I saw the deer. During the change they escaped into the woods. Still a super lovely stroll. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-03-19/
Rapper Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Over Use of Police Raid Footage In His Music Videos
Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman, famous for his 2000 hit “Because I Got High”, has won a defamation lawsuit that seven Ohio police offers filed against him. A jury found he did not defame the officers in music videos he made about a 2022 po … ⌘ Read more
Google Details New 24-Hour Process To Sideload Unverified Android Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is planning big changes for Android in 2026 aimed at combating malware across the entire device ecosystem. Starting in September, Google will begin restricting application sideloading with its developer verification program, but not everyone is on board. Android Ecosy … ⌘ Read more
Meta Backtracks, Will Keep Horizon Worlds VR Support ‘For Existing Games’
Meta is partially reversing its decision to drop VR support for Horizon Worlds, keeping VR access for existing Unity-based games while shifting future development to a new flatscreen-focused Horizon Engine. UploadVR reports: If you somehow missed it, on Tuesday Meta officially announced that its Horizon Worlds “metaverse” platform … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral
OpenAI announced it’s acquiring developer tooling startup Astral to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant, which has over 2 million weekly users and has seen a three-fold increase in user growth since the start of the year. CNBC reports: “Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that radically change what it … ⌘ Read more
Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices
Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, “pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs,” reports the Financial Times. From the report: In January Walmart obtained a U.S. patent for a “system and method for dynamically and auto … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Considers Legal Action Over $50 Billion Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Last month, Amazon and OpenAI signed several agreements, includi … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Exploit DarkSword Steals Data In Minutes With No Trace
BrianFagioli writes: A new iOS exploit chain called DarkSword shows how attackers can break into certain iPhones, grab sensitive data like messages, credentials, and even crypto wallets, and then disappear without leaving obvious traces. It targets older iOS 18 builds using Safari and WebGPU flaws to escape Apple’s sandbox, which is pretty wild on its … ⌘ Read more
Pardoned Nikola Fraudster Is Raising Funds For AI-Powered Planes He Claims Will Reshape Aviation
Trevor Milton, the pardoned founder of Nikola, is seeking $1 billion for AI-powered autonomous planes through a new venture called SyberJet. The Tech Buzz reports: “Autonomous planes will be 10 times harder than Nikola ever was,” Milton told the Wall Street Journal in a rare interview … ⌘ Read more
To whoever is operating this “xt” client, there might be a misconfiguration. My feed is often, but not always, pulled twice within a few seconds:
2026-03-14T15:31:02+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:31:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:41:19+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:41:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:51:04+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:01:25+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:01:27+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:11:51+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:11:54+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:21:53+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:32:19+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:32:22+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:52:28+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:52:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
Maybe this is caused by a development and a production setup, no idea. Since this client is sending the If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match request header, I’m good with that, though. Looking forward to discover a new feed hopefully soon. :-)
EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration
EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements… ⌘ Read more
AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code
Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it’s not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE’s KWin… ⌘ Read more
Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs
Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)… ⌘ Read more
Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds
A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year, while 7% said they’ve never seen a movie in a theater at all. “The findings reflected a domestic box office still fighting to regain its footing since the COVID-19 pandemic, when ticket sales collapsed 81% in 2020 due to theater … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it’s past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel. ⌘ Read more
New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has dropped a proposal that would have allowed limited commercial robotaxi deployments outside New York City, citing a lack of support among state legislators. “The move is a blow to Waymo and other robotaxi companies who saw New York, and especially New York City, as a potential goldmine,” reports The Verge. From the report: The plan, wh … ⌘ Read more
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As ‘Type A’ Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes
NASA has officially classified Boeing Starliner’s 2024 crewed flight as a “Type A” mishap, acknowledging serious technical failures and leadership shortcomings that nearly left astronauts unable to safely return. Administrator Jared Isaacman released (PDF) a 311-page internal report citing flawed decision-m … ⌘ Read more
Newborn Chicks Connect Sounds With Shapes Just Like Humans, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world, and for at least a century, scientists have considered it a clue to the origin of language, theorizing that maybe our ancestors b … ⌘ Read more