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The World's Tallest Chip Defies the Limits of Computing: Goodbye To Moore's Law?(2025-11-04 20:00:07)

Longtime Slashdot reader dbialac shares a report from EL PAIS: For decades, the progress of electronics has followed a simple rule: smaller is better. Since the 1960s, each new generation of chips has packed more transistors into less space, fulfilling the famous Moore's Law. Formulated by Intel co-...
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Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers(2025-11-04 15:00:14)

Three employees at cybersecurity companies spent years moonlighting as criminal hackers, launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the country, US prosecutors alleged in court filings. From a report: Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident r...
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Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84(2025-11-04 10:00:06)

Dick Cheney, who served four Republican presidents and became one of the most powerful and controversial vice presidents in American history as an architect of the post-9/11 war on terror, died at 84. His family said he died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney ...
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Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels(2025-11-04 05:00:04)

Australia's new "solar sharer" program will give households in NSW, south-east Queensland, and South Australia at least three hours of free solar power each day starting in 2026 -- even for those without rooftop panels. Other areas will potentially follow in 2027. The Guardian reports: The governmen...
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Antarctic Glacier Saw the Fastest Retreat In Modern History(2025-11-04 00:00:07)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study -- and the way it retreated could have big implications for global sea level rise. The Hektoria Glacier, roughly the si...
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