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Consumers Aren't Flocking to Microsoft's AI Tool 'Copilot' - Microsoft Copilot "isn't doing as well as the company would like," reports XDA-Dev... - https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/27/1925219/consumers-arent-flocking-to-microsofts-ai-tool-copilot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes - Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder Far be from us to suggest Microsoft ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/classic_outlook_cpu_spike/

This inside-out design solves most of the rotary engine’s problems - Enlarge / On the left, LiqudPiston's High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle engin... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983309 #departmentofdefense #liquidpiston #rotaryengine #generator #cars #uavs

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way - Home Labs and bare bones test rigs matter and Broadcom’s back in the game VMware has resu... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/vmware_free_esxi_returns/

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it - Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries - Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ #machinelearning #biz⁢ #ddos #ai

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day - ‘It's just pure incompetence’ confesses penguin emperor Linux kernel development boss Lin... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/linux_6_14_day_late/

DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code - It might need polishing, but a useful find for any budding cybercrooks out there DeepSeek... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/deepseek_malware_code/

Reverse-Engineering the Polynomial Constants in the Pentium’s FPU - Die photo of the Intel Pentium processor with the floating point constant ROM high... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/05/reverse-engineering-the-polynomial-constants-in-the-pentiums-fpu/ #reverseengineering #polynomial #pentium

How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it - This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsl... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1110705/measuring-vaccine-hesitancy/ #biotechnologyandhealth #thecheckup #app

Trump says he’ll delay TikTok ban, but the platform must be sold - Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

... - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347202/trump-tiktok-ban-delay-us-acquisition

VLC Tops 6 Billion Downloads, Previews AI-Generated Subtitles - VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/09/1310205/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #opensource

Runway-to-Space No More, Reaction Engines Cease Trading - It’s not often that the passing of a medium sized company on an industrial estate ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/runway-to-space-no-more-reaction-engines-cease-trading/ #reactionengines #spaceplane #sabre #news

[Kerry Wong] Talks (and Talks) About a 300 MHz Oscilloscope - There aren’t many people who could do an hour-long video reviewing an oscilloscope... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/29/kerry-wong-talks-and-talks-about-a-300-mhz-oscilloscope/ #oscilloscope #reviews

Tech Life's look back at the year - We look back at the high and lows of another fascinating twelve months in tech - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5wn9

The Twisted History of Ethernet on Twisted Pair Wiring - We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. Bu... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/30/the-twisted-history-of-ethernet-on-twisted-pair-wiring/ #theserialport #networkhacks #10base-t #ethernet #history #10base2 #5base2 #3com

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth - This was a triumph There is good news for Sun botherers: the Parker Solar Probe appears t... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/27/parker_solar_probe_sends_a/

'World's First' Grid-Scale Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Announced In the US - Longtime Slashdot reader timeOday shares a report from CNN: If all goes to plan, V... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/12/19/0010222/worlds-first-grid-scale-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-announced-in-the-us?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #power

Saving an Electron Microscope from the Trash - Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the pers... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/13/saving-an-electron-microscope-from-the-trash/ #scanningelectronmicroscope #repairhacks #repair #jeol

PlayStation 5 transformed into a laptop for $2,750 — Chinese modders made Sony's console more portable with a 17.3-inch 4K display weighing over 9 pounds - Want a portable PS5? The BBook AI laptop carries a PS5 fitt... - https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/playstation-5-transformed-into-a-laptop-for-usd2-750-chinese-modders-made-sonys-console-more-portable-with-a-17-3-inch-4k-display-weighing-over-9-pounds #consolegaming #videogames