Are We Getting Closer to the Year of the Linux Desktop?

Earlier this year TechRepublic argued that while 2021 wasn't the year of the Linux desktop, "there was no denying the continued dom...

GitHub Restores Account of Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries

What happened after a developer intentionally corrupted two of their libraries which collectively had more than 20 million weekly downloads ...

To Study Navigation, Researchers Taught Six Goldfish How to Drive

Long-time Slashdot reader cusco shares a fish story from the Guardian. Apparently Israeli researchers created a robotic car and taught six f...

AT&T, Dish, and T-Mobile spend billions on more 5G spectrum

Photo by George Frey/AFP via Getty Images AT&T, Dish, and T-Mobile dropped billions of dollars in a Federal Communications Commission...

$1.7 Billion in Student Loan Debt Cancelled for 66,000 Borrowers

Quartz reports: For years, the student loan servicing company Navient allegedly encouraged student loan borrowers to enter costly long-term ...

After Gates Allegations, Microsoft Opens a Review of Its Sexual Harassment Policies

Microsoft announced a review of its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies "after shareholders raised alarms about how Mi...

Giant Lasers Simulate Exoplanet Cores, Prove They're More Likely to Have Life

Slashdot reader vikingo9 writes, "By smashing a piece of iron to insanely high pressures, using a laser the size of a football stadium,...