canopic jug writes:Author and developer Scott Chacon has reflected that twenty years, as of April 7, Linus Torvalds made the first commit to Git, the free and open source distributed version control system which he was building at the time. Linus has long since passed the baton onward. As a developer tool, Git is known for its quirks and idiosyncrasies as much as its ability to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
JoeMerchant writes:The following are top facial recognition companies packaging technology to simplify identity verification for businesses, consumers and government: Cognitec, Sensory, iProov, HyperVerge, Clarifai, Amazon Rekognition, there are many others. They use one or a combination of traditional algorithms, deep learning, optical and infrared sensors, 3D scans, other technology and of course hybrids of the many approaches.Mother Jones is known for long political stories, this one is based on a successful facial recognition company, Clearview, and how they got their technology widely deployed (and highly remunerated) in a short time, and the underlying political ideology that drove the developers in their mission:
canopic jug writes:The Overpopulation Project has an English translation of Frank Gotmark's short essay which explores the idea that Homo sapiens is an invasive specie. The essay was originally published on March 30 in Svenska Dagbladet and has been very slightly modified.
Earth Had Saturn-Like Rings 466 Million Years Ago, New Study Suggestsupstart writes:The temporary structure likely consisted of debris from a broken-up asteroid:
aliks writes:Slashdot also featured this story, via bleepingcomputer.com summary. The original story is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/31/analyzing-open-source-bootloaders-finding-vulnerabilities-faster-with-ai/At first I thought this would be an advert for Microsoft Copilot tacked onto a tale of security hounds doing their stuff with vulnerabilities in GRUB2, but it does seem that AI saved some time for the investigators, and the article is worth a read.Here is my summary:
upstart writes:Dawn Aerospace aims to make transporting things to space - whether supplies to the ISS or pharmaceuticals for testing - cheaper, faster and greener:
canopic jug writes:Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer have co-authored an essay about the essential nature of data integrity in the future of the WWW. (There is an alternative link to the essay published in the Communications of the ACM hosted at the ACM's digital library.)The ability to verify the origin of data and that it has remained unchanged and unmanipulated is becoming increasingly important. Basically they call for a verifiable chain of trust for data production and usage.
Hyper writes:On May 9 2012 Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, aka 'The Two Guys from Andromeda', started a kickstarter campaign to make a new Space Adventure in the style of the Sierra Space Quest series. In April 2024 the kickstarter completed with a successful release of the game on Steam and as the promised DRM version to kickstarter backers. This is good news for anyone looking for the nostalgia from old PC point and click gaming. Kudos to the Two Guys team for bringing this project to fruition.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
There appears to have been a problem with the update of the Poll. Some made comments before the Poll appeared on the front pages - or so it seems. How they accessed it I do not know. The Poll released at the programmed time but comments that had already been made seem to have been lost. I am investigating the cause.My apologies to anyone who had already made a comment. All I can do is ask that you make your comments again. We have not seen the problem before so if anyone can provide additional information that might help in identifying the cause it would be most useful. Did you access the Poll via the front page? If not, can you explain how you did access it please? Which browser are you using? Did anything appear 'different' to when you usually access the site?[Addendum: The poll displayed on my front page has reverted to the previous poll again. If anyone else has seen the same please confirm in a reply to this Meta.] After a minute or so it returned to displaying the correct Poll.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
kolie writes:https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/intel-and-tsmc-are-reportedly-launching-a-joint-chipmaking-venture/In a significant move, Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are reportedly teaming up to create a joint chipmaking venture. This collaboration aims to enhance semiconductor production capabilities and foster innovation in the semiconductor industry. The joint venture is poised to have a substantial impact on the global tech market.
aliks writes:According to journalism.co.uk an Ethics Box added to a news article aims to explain the editorial thinking behind key decisions on the news story.The aim being to counter increasing mistrust amongst youth who are skeptical of journalism in general.