Can This Company Use Earth's Heat to Suck Carbon from the Sky?

An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post: Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky — or "direct air capture," ...

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet

Álvaro Bernis / The Verge How we use the internet is changing fast, thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find inform...

Virologist Disputes WSJ Report on a Minority Opinion Suggesting Covid 'Lab Leak' Origin

Three long-time Slashdot readers all submitted this story — schwit1, sinij, and DevNull127. DevNull127 writes: Four U.S. agencies have concl...

Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is reportedly out at Twitter

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter product manager Esther Crawford no longer has a job at the company following yet another ...

Who Writes Linux and Open Source Software?

From an opinion piece in the Register: Aiven, an open source cloud data platform company, recently analyzed who's doing what with GitHub...

Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Podcast About Computer Science?

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: They say "always be learning" — but do podcasts actually help? I've been trying ...

America's CDC Warns of Increase in Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections

America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "has issued a health advisory to warn the public of an increase of a drug-resi...