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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage'

  11-01-2026 23:29 via slashdot.org
  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang "said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was 'the battle of narratives' over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists," reports Business Insider.
  Huang did acknowledge that "it's too simplistic" to entirely dismiss either side (on a recent episode of the "No Priors" podcast). But "I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fi
  
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• How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth's Atmosphere?

  11-01-2026 22:29 via science.slashdot.org
  "The clock is ticking" on the Hubble Space Telescope,writes the space news site Daily Galaxy, citing estimates from the unofficial "Hubble Reentry Tracker" site (which uses orbital data from the site space-track.org, created by tech integrator SAIC):While Hubble was initially launched into low Earth orbit at an altitude of around 360 miles, it has since descended to approximately 326 miles, and it continues to fall... "The solar flux levels are currently longer in duration and more elevated than
  
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• Walmart Announces Drone Delivery, Integration with Google's AI Chatbot Gemini

  11-01-2026 21:29 via tech.slashdot.org
  Alphabet-owned Wing "is expanding its drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S.," reports Axios:[T]he future is already here if you live in Dallas — where some Walmart customers order delivery by Wing three times a week. By the end of 2026, some 40 million Americans, or about 12 percent of the U.S. population, will be able to take advantage of the convenience, the companies claim... Once the items are picked and packed in a small cardboard basket, they are
  
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• Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over 'Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories'

  11-01-2026 20:29 via linux.slashdot.org
  Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details:Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure and has no plans to chan
  
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• Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach

  11-01-2026 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
  If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more.
  The company added that the "data is available for sale on the dark web an
  
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• China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation

  11-01-2026 17:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation," writes CleanTechnica, "and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough."The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat and convert it into electricity. Each unit is reported to be rated at roughly 15 MW, with public statements describing configurations tot
  
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• That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to Computing History

  11-01-2026 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, the closet where it was found, and even its handwritten label.
  The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the closet where it was found also contained "old cords from unknown sources and mountains of papers that had been dump
  
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• Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End 'Enshittification'

  11-01-2026 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the "enshittification" of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be "the beginning of the end for enshittification" in a new article for the Guardian — "our chance to make tech good again".There is only one reason the world isn't bursting with wildly profitable products and projects that disenshittify the US's defective products: its (former) trading partners were bullied into passing an "anti-
  
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• C# (and C) Grew in Popularity in 2025, Says TIOBE

  11-01-2026 09:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  For a quarter century, the TIOBE Index has attempted to rank the popularity of programming languages by the number of search engine results they bring up — and this week they had an announcement.
  Over the last year the language showing the largest increase in its share of TIOBE's results was C#.
  TIOBE founder/CEO Paul Jansen looks back at how C++ evolved:From a language-design perspective, C# has often been an early adopter of new trends among mainstream languages. At the same time, it suc
  
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• Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days

  11-01-2026 06:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  "We will make the new ð algorithm...open source in 7 days," Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is "including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users," and "This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed."
  Some context from Engadget:Musk has been making promises of open-sourcing the algorithm since his takeover of Twitter, and in 2023 published the code for the site's "
  
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• Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math

  11-01-2026 03:34 via science.slashdot.org
  An R&D lab under America's Energy Department annnounced this week that "Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges."Phys.org publishes the announcement from Sandia National Lab:
  In a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Sandia National Laboratories computational neuroscientists Brad Theilman and Brad Aimone describe a novel algor
  
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