looorg writes:Coding with the pope: Catholic school children are going to be tempted to learn to code with the Pope. Or the pope is going to tell them to learn to code, cause that is what God wants? One imagines it will be a bigger draw in catholic countries, not so much in the rest of the world. Unless the program is really good and can be used by heathens and heretics to.Apparently the Pope, or God or some other earthly minion picked Python. What does that tell us ...
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upstart writes:The company pumps out trash-tier AI content, then waits until it's called out publicly to quietly delete it and move onto the next trainwreck:
canopic jug writes:The Mozilla Corporation, known for applications like the Thunderbird e-mail client and the Firefox web browser, has issued a warning statement about some EU legislation sneaking its way through the back rooms. The text of the legislation is slated for approval in a non-public meeting in Brussels on November 8.
DannyB writes:Can humans reproduce in space? Mouse breakthrough on ISS a promising signThis is the first-ever study that shows mammals may be able to thrive in space.
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canopic jug writes:Google has rolled out plans to drop the Ogg Theora video codec from its Chrome web browser starting M123. The removal of that open standard for video will trickle down through Chromium and its derivatives.
hubie writes:A carbon tax based on the purpose of using goods and services would be fairer and more likely to deliver climate justice, say ecological economists: